# 750 Colombo Street, Christchurch Central City

11 reports on record since December 2022 · 8 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/750-colombo-street

## What gets reported here
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 3
- [Hazard — vehicle](https://www.chch.live/problems/abandoned-vehicles) — 2
- [Poles and Signage - General](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage) — 1
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 1
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 1
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 1

## Reported here
- [Damaged Street Light](https://www.chch.live/report/8851530) — 2 Sept 2026
- [General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8777244) — 20 Aug 2026
- [Hazard — vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/7007813) — 8 Oct 2025
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/6622023) — 18 Jul 2025
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5468370) — 26 Nov 2024
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/report/5345599) — 31 Oct 2024
- [Hazard — vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/5334685) — 29 Oct 2024
- [Poles and Signage - General](https://www.chch.live/report/4647715) — 11 May 2024
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/3121873) — 1 Mar 2023
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/2943976) — 4 Jan 2023

## Photographed here (8 on record)
- [Damaged Street Light](https://www.chch.live/report/8851530) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/08851530/public/1_n4ml1q8esnfn.jpg
- [General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8777244) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/08777244/public/1_kwgtc9zvs7c.jpg
- [Hazard — vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/7007813) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/07007813/public/1_i7l92k2ojrfm.jpg
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/6622023) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/06622023/public/1_s4j28mfb84cb.jpg
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5468370) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05468370/public/1_lmsrcnzghigf.jpg
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/report/5345599) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05345599/public/1_vb8qj1zagxca.jpg
- [Hazard — vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/5334685) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05334685/public/1_qbamzcqelxcj.jpg
- [Poles and Signage - General](https://www.chch.live/report/4647715) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04647715/public/1_481aarsrhmi.jpg

[More photographs on the Christchurch Central City wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=christchurch-central-city)

## Also reported on Colombo Street
- [794 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/794-colombo-street) — 159 reports
- [673 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/673-colombo-street) — 102 reports
- [781 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/781-colombo-street) — 55 reports
- [521 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/521-colombo-street) — 46 reports
- [722 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/722-colombo-street) — 45 reports
- [569 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/569-colombo-street) — 45 reports
- [527 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/527-colombo-street) — 41 reports
- [711 Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/711-colombo-street) — 38 reports
- [Colombo Street, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/colombo-street)

## On the doorstep
- [Crowne Plaza Christchurch](https://www.chch.live/business/crowne-plaza-christchurch-christchurch-central-city) — 27 m away · Hotels
- [Market Place Restaurant and Bar](https://www.chch.live/business/market-place-restaurant-and-bar-christchurch-central-city) — 30 m away · Restaurants
- [Social Wine Bar](https://www.chch.live/business/social-wine-bar-christchurch-central-city) — 30 m away · Bars & pubs
- [Cafe 1851](https://www.chch.live/business/cafe-1851-christchurch-central-city) — 36 m away · Cafés

*Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.*

## The bus nearby
- Manchester St Super Stop — 297 m away · [route 1](https://www.chch.live/buses/1), [route 5](https://www.chch.live/buses/5), [route 7](https://www.chch.live/buses/7), [route 8](https://www.chch.live/buses/8), [route 27](https://www.chch.live/buses/27), [route 29](https://www.chch.live/buses/29), [route 44](https://www.chch.live/buses/44), [route 86](https://www.chch.live/buses/86), [route 91](https://www.chch.live/buses/91), [route 92](https://www.chch.live/buses/92), [route 95](https://www.chch.live/buses/95)
- Kilmore St near Manchester St — 302 m away · [route 1](https://www.chch.live/buses/1), [route 27](https://www.chch.live/buses/27), [route 29](https://www.chch.live/buses/29), [route 95](https://www.chch.live/buses/95)

*The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.*

## The remembered names nearby
- [Victoria Square](https://www.chch.live/plaque/64778-victoria-square) — 68 m away — “VICTORIA SQUARE (detailed history plaque – text partially unreadable)” · 2009
- [Victoria Square plaque](https://www.chch.live/plaque/307405-victoria-square) — 72 m away — “(historical medallion ‘VICTORIA SQUARE’ – long text partly legible)” · 2018
- [Christchurch City Council / Victoria Square Redevelopment](https://www.chch.live/plaque/307404-victoria-square) — 80 m away — “CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL / VICTORIA SQUARE REDEVELOPMENT / FOR / PARKS AND RECREATION DEP…” · 2018

*The plaque pins come from the register — a recorded spot, not a surveyed one. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).*

## 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 crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=colombo-street&suburb=christchurch-central-city)

## 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 →](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city#s-living).

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Central ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/central) — the [Papanui-Innes-Central community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/papanui-innes-central) 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](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## What was here — Commercial Building and Setting, Former Cook and Ross
*46 m away · 201/779 Colombo Street · located to ±13 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/45)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
- Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/7383

## What was here — Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting
*96 m away · located to ±3 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/238)*
- In July 1900 a memorial committee chaired by H. F. Wigram met in the city council chambers to decide how Canterbury’s fiftieth jubilee should be marked, weighing proposals that included completing the north transept of ChristChurch Cathedral and a jubilee home for incurable and chronic cases, before resolving to ballot members on the twenty-four schemes put forward. — THE JUBILEE MEMORIAL (Star, 24 July 1900) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19000724.2.59), 1900-07-24T00:00:00.000Z
- In August 1900 the committee adopted a scheme by the mayor, William Reece: a stone obelisk surmounted by a seated bronze figure of Queen Victoria, its base carrying bas-relief groups for the pioneers, the province’s industries and the sending forth of soldiers to South Africa, with a bronze tablet recording the foundation of the province. — THE JUBILEE MEMORIAL (Star, 10 August 1900) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19000810.2.62), 1900-08-10T00:00:00.000Z
- After Queen Victoria’s death in January 1901 the committee decided the memorial would be a statue of the late Queen, and ordered it from England while subscriptions stood at about £816 of the £2,000 estimated cost. — JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 23 February 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010223.2.84), 1901-02-23T00:00:00.000Z
- The public subscribed slowly: by April 1901 the committee was still about £600 short of the £2,000 estimate, the Ashburton Borough Council’s circulated list had gathered under twenty shillings, and a subscription list at the Farmers’ Co-operative Association had drawn a single shilling. — JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 13 April 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010413.2.85), 1901-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
- The Duke of Cornwall and York laid the memorial’s foundation stone on 22 June 1901 during the royal visit to Christchurch — the only ceremony that day — with mayor A. E. G. Rhodes handing him the trowel. — THE ROYAL VISIT. ENTRY INTO CHRISTCHURCH. (Evening Post, 24 June 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19010624.2.3), 1901-06-24T00:00:00.000Z
- The memorial also stood as the province’s South African war memorial: its estimated cost covered the Queen’s statue and “the memorial to our soldiers who have fallen in South Africa”, and it was to carry the names of the Canterbury men who fell. — JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 13 April 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010413.2.85), 1901-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
- By April 1903 the statue was in position in Victoria Square, and the committee decided not to wait for the contingent panels still expected from England about 10 June, planning the unveiling before 24 May. — Canterbury Jubilee Memorial. (Colonist, 22 April 1903) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19030422.2.18.2), 1903-04-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Mrs Wigram, wife of mayor H. F. Wigram, unveiled the memorial in Victoria Square on Empire Day, 25 May 1903, before a large crowd; the statue faces Victoria Street from a high pedestal above a grassed mound. — EMPIRE DAY. (Star, 25 May 1903) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19030525.2.45), 1903-05-25T00:00:00.000Z
- The subscription appeal ran in the Star week after week through March 1901, the committee publishing its running total — £911, then £939, £960, £1,007, £1,024, £1,032, £1,047 — as it inched toward the £2,000 estimate. — JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 02 March 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010302.2.85), 1901-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Written: [The Queen on the square](https://www.chch.live/article/the-queen-on-the-square)

## What was here — K2 Telephone Box and Setting
*109 m away · located to ±1 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/243)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## What was here — Theatre Royal Façade, Dome, Staircase and Setting
*121 m away · 145 Gloucester Street · located to ±24 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/87)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
- Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/1936

## What was here — Bowker Fountain and Setting
*139 m away · located to ±13 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/242)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## The green nearby
- [Victoria Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1066-victoria-square) — 62 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- [Cathedral Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1431-cathedral-square) — 144 m to the edge · Botanic
- [Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1068-canterbury-provincial-council-reserve) — 175 m to the edge · Botanic
- [Godley Statue Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1084-godley-statue-reserve) — 188 m to the edge · Botanic
- [Edmonds Band Rotunda](https://www.chch.live/park/1767-edmonds-band-rotunda) — 192 m to the edge · Botanic

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.*

## The civic shelf nearby
- [Turanga Library](https://www.chch.live/facility/library-56) — 110 m away · Library · Cathedral Square, Christchurch
- [Aldersgate](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-32) — 315 m away · Car park
- [Armagh St](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-34) — 326 m away · Car park
- [Triangle](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-33) — 401 m away · Car park
- [Civic Offices](https://www.chch.live/facility/council-office-8) — 500 m away · Council office

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-491-christchurch-central-city) — 47 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-506-christchurch-central-city) — 142 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-504-christchurch-central-city) — 226 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-522-christchurch-central-city) — 232 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-505-christchurch-central-city) — 233 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 750 Colombo Street?**

11 council reports on record since December 2022 — most often graffiti (3), hazard — vehicle (2), poles and signage - general (1).

**Which suburb is 750 Colombo Street in?**

Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on [Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/colombo-street).

**What stood at 750 Colombo Street before?**

The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it — [Commercial Building and Setting, Former Cook and Ross](https://www.chch.live/place/45), [Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/238).

**What is the nearest park to 750 Colombo Street?**

[Victoria Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1066-victoria-square) — 62 m to its edge, 2 ha.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=christchurch-central-city&address=750-colombo-street · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Christchurch%20Central%20City&street=colombo-street
