694 Colombo Street
5 council reports since May 2018, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports on file.
On the register here
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 291F High Street (22m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 261F High Street (94m)
- Former Beaths Department Store (components), 201/690 Colombo Street (97m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Chief Post Office, 1 Cathedral Square (146m)
- Cathedral Square and Setting (171m)
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
- The Stewart Plaza, 4 m to the edge
- City Mall, 29 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 76 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square, 125 m to the edge · Botanic
- Godley Statue Reserve, 165 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, 48 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 264 m away · Library
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 268 m away · Car park
- Civic Offices, 411 m away · Council office
- Scales, 478 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Macpac, 11 m away · Outdoor gear
- KFC, 28 m away · Fast food
- Christchurch City Hotel, 29 m away · Hotels
- The One Restaurant & Bar, 31 m away · Hotels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St near Colombo St, 91 m away · route 8
- Hereford St near Colombo St, 99 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 208 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 228 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 229 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, 253 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, 167 m away ·
Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / The Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015 / (MÄori text and English translat
· 2015 - Citizens’ War Memorial / Originally Dedicated on 9 June 1937, 198 m away ·
Citizens’ War Memorial / Originally dedicated on 9 June 1937 / Damaged by the Canterbury E
· 2023 - The Combined Services / [service Crests] / Navy, 203 m away ·
THE COMBINED SERVICES / [service crests] / NAVY / NEW ZEALAND ARMY / AIR FORCE / MERCHANT
· 2023
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 19 Jun 2026 Overflowing manhole
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 9 May 2024 Purple paint tags on 2 Contact gas assets by 699 Colombo Street.
- Graffiti, 12 Jun 2023
Graffiti, 24 Apr 2021Roading/Streets, 7 May 2018
Broken glass in motorcycle parking bays - risk of damage to tyres.
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
5 council reports on record since May 2018, most often graffiti (2), sewer - leak / blockage (1), roading/streets (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Triangle Reserve and Setting, Triangle Reserve and Setting.
The Stewart Plaza, 4 m to its edge.


