786 Colombo Street, Christchurch Central City
12 reports on record since October 2018 · 10 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
Photographed here 10 on record
Reported here
Hazard — vehicle — I would like to complain about cars for sale parked over the footpath on Colombo St at the Chinese lunar festival at Victoria Park tonight,
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Pavement - Damaged — Footpath dug up and not protected properly.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset — Yellow and silver paint tags on anonymous padlocked asset opposite 786 Colombo Street facing.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset — Blue paint tag on anonymous padlocked asset opposite 786 Colombo Street.
Animal - Deceased — 
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset — - Graffiti —
- Graffiti —
Graffiti — Roading/Streets —
Work side not cleaned up after 1 week and fences still in place for no reason
Also reported 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 green nearby
- Victoria Square — 57 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Edmonds Band Rotunda — 129 m to the edge · Botanic
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve — 181 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cathedral Square — 284 m to the edge · Botanic
- Godley Statue Reserve — 318 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Turanga Library — 249 m away · Library · Cathedral Square, Christchurch
- Aldersgate — 267 m away · Car park
- Armagh St — 302 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Waka on Avon — 43 m away · Attractions
- Ko Tāne — 59 m away · Attractions
- The Victoria — 102 m away · Bars & pubs
- Cafe 1851 — 106 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Kilmore Street Town Hall — 185 m away · route 1, route 29, route 95
- Kilmore St near Manchester St — 191 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 — 93 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 153 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 250 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 279 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 282 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
- Bowker Fountain / Unveiled 26 February 1931 — 22 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 — 29 m away ·
THIS FOUNTAIN WAS DONATED TO THE CITY BY HENRY LAYTON BOWKER AN EARLY SETTLER / 1840 - 192
· 2018 - The Market Hall Stood on This Site From 1852 to 1870 — 35 m away ·
THE MARKET HALL STOOD ON THIS SITE FROM 1852 TO 1870 ... (partial text)
· 2009
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 — Bowker Fountain and Setting
29 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
33 m away · located to ±1 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting
64 m away · located to ±3 m · the place’s own record →
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) · · National Library of New ZealandIn 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) · · National Library of New ZealandAfter 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) · · National Library of New ZealandThe 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) · · National Library of New ZealandThe 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) · · National Library of New ZealandThe 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) · · National Library of New ZealandBy 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) · · National Library of New ZealandMrs 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) · · National Library of New ZealandThe 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) · · National Library of New ZealandWhat was here — Captain James Cook Statue and Setting
78 m away · 89 Armagh Street · located to ±2 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Colombo Street Bridge and Setting
87 m away · located to ±24 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
12 council reports on record since October 2018 — most often graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (3), graffiti (3), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it — Bowker Fountain and Setting, K2 Telephone Box and Setting.
Victoria Square — 57 m to its edge, 2 ha.