781 Colombo Street, Christchurch Central City
55 reports on record since May 2018 · 51 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 794 Colombo Street — 159 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
- Graffiti — 20
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 5
- Parks — 4
- Graffiti somewhere else — 4
- Facility - General Request — 3
- Rubbish/Recycling — 2
Photographed here 51 on record
Reported here
Hazard — vehicle — Car always parked here, it’s a footpath? Please move or ticket. Or is it a parking spot for all?
Litter — there's a pvc pipe in the Avon river by the corner of Cambridge terrace and Colombo st
Facility - General Request — Gardens around the town hall are full of weeds. It's shameful to let these gardens deteriorate outside our wonderful restored facility
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — graffiti on rallings of bridge and east side of bridge in by gardens
Facility - General Request — Light bulb in the pic is out for some time, can we please get it fixed? Thank you
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — east North side of bridge tag
General Request — 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — ET white paint tag on concrete bridge post by 781 Colombo Street.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Graffiti on eastern sid if bridge
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Bridge
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Pavement - Damaged — Hole in asphalt driveway/footpath dug out early one morning by citycare water needs repair. On leasehold land and now been unpatched coming
Pavement - Damaged — Square cut from asphalt for some sort of utility repair. Not yet replaced. (Maybe it's underway )
Dumped Rubbish — Road come dumped in river
Overgrown Vegetation — Not sure who's responsible for gardens around town hall but it's a shame that so much effort and money was put into repairing the building o
Poles and Signage - General — Hello, tripped over this pole end this morning! Next to the P5 Colombo street outside the town hall
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset — Blue paint tag on Contact gas asset by 791 Colombo Street
Facility - General Request — Brass railing by the Avon looking into the old convention centre has been cut off
Graffiti somewhere else — 
Graffiti somewhere else — Graffiti on pole ladder required
Graffiti somewhere else — Graffiti on Orion black box
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Cnr Columbo and Kilmore. Tech 5 building, Thai food building.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset — Blue paint tag on Rockgas asset by the Town Hall on Colombo Street.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art — Purple paint tag on parking sign by 781 Colombo Street.
Graffiti somewhere else — 
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art — Graffiti on Cook statue, and pink paint in Victoria square fountain.
- Graffiti —
- Graffiti —
- Pit and Equipment - General —
Graffiti — Central city team cannot remove this .
Parks — Queen Victoria is currently only lit from the rear. Perhaps some replacement light bulbs?
Graffiti — 
Graffiti — Graffiti on lamp post by footpath by Leighs Construction sign.
Graffiti — Graffiti on a QTC Box on Colombo St near Avon River on edge of Victoria Park
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Rubbish/Recycling — From windy weather
Graffiti — 
Wastewater/Stormwater — Stormwater sump filled to the top with dirt.
Graffiti — graffiti on sculpture base
- Roading/Streets —
30 km/h shared lane from Kilmore St to Hereford St with no signage for drivers. Please paint sharrows on the road and install signs warning
Parks — Lime Scooter and several road ones in the river
Parks — large weeds in roadside gardens that border Victoria Square on Colombo St
Graffiti — 
Graffiti — a lot orfgraffiti 1 area public walkway
Parks —
Trip hazard brass insert to paving edges
Graffiti —
Graffiti on phone box Colombo st st Victoria sq
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Graffiti —
On seat to SE of drinking fountain near bowker fountain
Graffiti —
Traffic light control box
Graffiti —
On traffic control box
Rubbish/Recycling —
Three cones in fountain
Also reported on Colombo Street
- 794 Colombo Street — 159 reports
- 673 Colombo Street — 102 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
- 798 Colombo Street — 37 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 green nearby
- Victoria Square — you are in it · Botanic · 2 ha
- Edmonds Band Rotunda — 140 m to the edge · Botanic
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve — 217 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cathedral Square — 346 m to the edge · Botanic
- Victoria Triangles — 350 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Aldersgate — 269 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library — 312 m away · Library · Cathedral Square, Christchurch
- Armagh St — 314 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Ko Tāne — 46 m away · Attractions
- Waka on Avon — 63 m away · Attractions
- Christchurch Town Hall — 75 m away · Venues & events
- Abbot — 109 m away · Insurance
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Kilmore Street Town Hall — 136 m away · route 1, route 29, route 95
- Kilmore St near Manchester St — 155 m away · route 1, route 27, route 29, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 155 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 193 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 245 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 256 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 300 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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
- He Poupou Tohu Ahi-Kä o Ngäi Tahu — 52 m away ·
He poupou tohu ahi-kÄ o NgÄi Tahu / A mark of the long burning fires of NgÄi Tahu
· 2018 - Bowker Fountain / Unveiled 26 February 1931 — 73 m away ·
BOWKER FOUNTAIN / UNVEILED 26 FEBRUARY 1931 / REPAIRED AND RECONSTRUCTED / AFTER THE 2011
· 2018 - This Fountain Was Donated to the City by Henry Layton — 75 m away ·
THIS FOUNTAIN WAS DONATED TO THE CITY BY HENRY LAYTON BOWKER AN EARLY SETTLER / 1840 - 192
· 2018
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 was here — Colombo Street Bridge and Setting
28 m away · located to ±24 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — The Christchurch Town Hall and Setting
on this spot · located to ±79 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Bowker Fountain and Setting
74 m away · located to ±13 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — K2 Telephone Box and Setting
95 m away · located to ±1 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Captain James Cook Statue and Setting
101 m away · 89 Armagh Street · located to ±2 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward — the Papanui-Innes-Central community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
55 council reports on record since May 2018 — most often graffiti (20), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (5), parks (4).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it — Colombo Street Bridge and Setting, The Christchurch Town Hall and Setting.
Victoria Square — the address is inside it, 2 ha.