680 Colombo Street
6 council reports since September 2025, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Beaths Department Store (components), 201/690 Colombo Street (32m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 261F High Street (110m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 291F High Street (141m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 220F High Street (155m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, 225 High Street (178m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- City Mall, 45 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 92 m to the edge
- The Stewart Plaza, 128 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square, 251 m to the edge · Botanic
- Friendship Corner, 261 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Triangle, 98 m away · Car park
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 146 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 390 m away · Library
- Civic Offices, 453 m away · Council office
- Scales, 468 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Greenwood Roche, 8 m away · Business
- Decjuba, 12 m away · Clothing
- Barkers', 13 m away · Clothing
- Modern Man Barbershop, 16 m away · Hairdressers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bus Interchange (Intercity stop), 77 m away · route 3, route 8, route 80
- Bus Interchange (Platform B), 113 m away · route 1, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 44, route 91, route 92, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 188 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 236 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 238 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 249 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 274 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / the Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015, 150 m away ·
Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / The Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015 / (MÄori text and English translat
· 2015
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about $508 a week, $42 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Oct 2026 Graffiti found on our Colombo Street emergency exit Ballantynes department store
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30 Aug 2026 Red tagging, roller door and surround
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30 Jul 2026 Graffiti on roller door on fire exit Cashel St, and Colombo St entrance to Ballantynes dept store.
Dumped Rubbish, 2 Jul 2026 Abandon clothes and bedding
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25 Feb 2026 Graffiti on roller door of ballantynes Colombo st entrance
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 26 Sept 2025 Black paint tag on advertising sign by 680 Colombo Street.
Elsewhere on Colombo Street
- 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports
- 673 Colombo Street, 102 reports
- 781 Colombo Street, 55 reports
- 521 Colombo Street, 46 reports
- 722 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 569 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 527 Colombo Street, 41 reports
- 711 Colombo Street, 38 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colombo Street in 177 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 32 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Colombo Street, the whole record → · Everything about Christchurch Central City → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
6 council reports on record since September 2025, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (4), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Beaths Department Store (components), Triangle Reserve and Setting.
City Mall, 45 m to its edge.