# 8 Ely Street, Christchurch Central City

1 report on record since September 2016 · 1 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/8-ely-street

## What gets reported here
- [Rubbish/Recycling](https://www.chch.live/problems/bins-recycling), 1

## Reported here
- [Rubbish/Recycling](https://www.chch.live/report/171431), 6 Sept 2016

## Photographed here (1 on record)
- [Rubbish/Recycling](https://www.chch.live/report/171431), https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/00171431/0

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

## Also reported on Ely Street
- [52A Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/52a-ely-street), 7 reports
- [46C Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/46c-ely-street), 6 reports
- [45 Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/45-ely-street), 6 reports
- [21 Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/21-ely-street), 6 reports
- [41 Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/41-ely-street), 5 reports
- [35 Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/35-ely-street), 5 reports
- [58B Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/58b-ely-street), 4 reports
- [33 Ely Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/33-ely-street), 4 reports
- [Ely Street, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/ely-street)

## From the air, then
- [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5241&lon=172.6448&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1960-1964](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5241&lon=172.6448&decade=1960_1964), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5241&lon=172.6448&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5241&lon=172.6448&decade=1975_1979), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

*Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.*

## On the doorstep
- [Coffee Cafe](https://www.chch.live/business/coffee-cafe-christchurch-central-city), 187 m away · Fast food
- [The Salisbury Hotel](https://www.chch.live/business/the-salisbury-hotel-christchurch-central-city), 194 m away · Hotels
- [Piko Whole Foods](https://www.chch.live/business/piko-whole-foods-christchurch-central-city), 253 m away · Dairies & convenience
- [The Herb Centre Cafe](https://www.chch.live/business/the-herb-centre-cafe-christchurch-central-city), 261 m away · Cafés

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

## The bus nearby
- [Bealey Ave near Madras St](https://www.chch.live/buses?stop=28811), 407 m away · [route 44](https://www.chch.live/buses/44)
- [Bealey Ave near Madras St](https://www.chch.live/buses?stop=28797), 412 m away · [route 44](https://www.chch.live/buses/44)

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

## The remembered names nearby
- [This Cairn / Marks the Site / of the / Brick Wharf](https://www.chch.live/plaque/310902-avon-riverbank-central-city), 147 m away, “THIS CAIRN / MARKS THE SITE / OF THE / BRICK WHARF / WHERE THE / EARLY SETTLER / LANDED 18…”
- [Barbadoes Cemetery plaque](https://www.chch.live/plaque/69497-barbadoes-cemetery), 185 m away · 2003
- [Plaque no. 310899](https://www.chch.live/plaque/310899-ground), 216 m away

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

## The rating valuation
- Capital value: $1,150,000, land $425,000, improvements $725,000 · 242 m² · ref 22690/11903 · roll last edited February 2026

A mass appraisal the council runs every three years to divide the rates bill, not a market price, and not a valuation of this house in particular.

## Enrolment zones this address sits inside

*Zones nest, a point is inside a primary, an intermediate and a secondary zone at once. The written scheme, not the polygon, decides.*
- [Christchurch East School](https://www.chch.live/school/3317-christchurch-east-school), Primary, years 1–8, in force from Jul 2024
- [Mairehau High School](https://www.chch.live/school/320-mairehau-high-school), Secondary, years 9–13, in force from Jan 2020
- [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), Composite, years 1–13, in force from Jan 2026

## Bin day (Mondays)

Bins go out Monday, by 6am.
- Green bin, Weekly
- Yellow bin, Fortnightly · Week Two
- Red bin, Fortnightly · Week Two

This address is on the council’s Week Two calendar, which of the red and yellow bins goes out alternates, and that alternation is not published as data, so the council’s collection calendar is the check.

## What the land record says

### [What the ground is](https://www.chch.live/ground)
- **Up to 100% chance of moderate-to-severe land damage**, [Liquefaction](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · Across 30 modelled earthquake scenarios: 48% average likelihood of moderate-to-severe land damage, 100% in the worst modelled scenario.
- **Liquefaction was mapped here after the February 2011 earthquake**, [Liquefied in February 2011](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · The survey recorded this as certain. Mapped from aerial imagery and site visits after the event, this is a record of what happened, not a model of what might.
- **Liquefaction was mapped here after the September 2010 earthquake**, [Liquefied in September 2010](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · The survey recorded this as certain. Mapped from aerial imagery and site visits after the event, this is a record of what happened, not a model of what might.
- **Technical category TC3**, [Foundation category](https://www.chch.live/technical-categories) · Moderate to significant land damage from liquefaction is possible in future significant earthquakes _Foundations: Site-specific geotechnical investigation and specific engineering foundation design required eg deep pile foundations, innovative ground strengthening, etc_

### Water
- **This land flooded in 2011-2014**, [Has flooded before](https://www.chch.live/floods) · 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce
- **Inside the modelled 50-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 50 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Avon catchment · 50 Year
- **Inside the modelled 200-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 200 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Avon catchment · 200 Year · climate change modelled to 2123

### [Rules on this land](https://www.chch.live/rules)
- **Christchurch / Ōtautahi Clean Air Zone**, [Clean air zone](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Open fires and older woodburners are restricted here under the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. A burner installed before 2001 cannot be replaced like for like.
- **In the Christchurch Airshed**, [Gazetted airshed](https://www.chch.live/rules) · A gazetted airshed is the area the national air quality standard is measured over, the 24-hour PM10 average that this one is allowed to breach once a year. _Zone A_
- **In the Central City alcohol ban area**, [Alcohol ban area](https://www.chch.live/rules) · A public drinking ban: At all times, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

These are modelled boundaries, not findings on this house, for anything with money attached, the council’s LIM is the certified property file. [Request a LIM](https://ccc.govt.nz/consents-and-licences/property-information-and-lims/land-information-memorandum-lim) · [Natural Hazards Portal](https://www.naturalhazardsportal.govt.nz).

## The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Ely Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

[The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=ely-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, The Bricks Site, Cairn and Setting
*154 m away · 311 Oxford Terrace · located to ±35 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/44)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## What was here, Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting
*203 m away · located to ±198 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/293)*
- Barbadoes Street Cemetery's burial record runs in three Church of England registers: No. 1 from 9 April 1851 to 29 January 1870, No. 2 from 2 February 1870 to 3 September 1882, and No. 3 from 4 September 1882 into the 1970s., Barbadoes Street Cemetery : alphabetical list of burials (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26181), 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Each register entry records when the person was buried, their name and surname, age, sex, parents' or husband's name, rank or profession, place of residence, and who performed the ceremony., Barbadoes St Cemetery, Church of England, Register no. 1 (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26179), 1851-04-09T00:00:00Z
- The cemetery's ground was surveyed in nine historical plot plans, block by block — bordered by Barbadoes Street to the west and Cambridge Terrace to the south and east — and the plots are not consistently numbered; beside the lych-gate in block 3A, plot 780a is noted as apparently infant graves., Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 1B (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12871), 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z
- The plots were sold: a separate burial plots book keeps receipt numbers, purchasers' names, plot numbers and sizes, and amounts paid, and its later pages record deposits on part-purchased plots, the completed purchase, and when title was given., Barbadoes Street. Burial plots book (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26184), 1872-07-01T00:00:00Z
- By 1945 the cemetery sat inside a built-up city — a view across its headstones that year shows residential houses over the back fence — and by 1979 its graves and headstones were weathered, broken or fallen over; headstones still stood in the western portion in 2005., Barbadoes Street Cemetery headstones (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/glassplates/ccl-cs-119996), 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Written: [The cemetery the records kept](https://www.chch.live/article/the-cemetery-the-records-kept)

## The green nearby
- [Barbadoes Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/park/1341-barbadoes-cemetery), 83 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- [Cambridge Green](https://www.chch.live/park/1025-cambridge-green), 87 m to the edge
- [Moa Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1636-moa-reserve), 114 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- [Avon Riverbank Central City](https://www.chch.live/park/1868-avon-riverbank-central-city), 148 m to the edge · 6 ha
- [Fire Fighters Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/949-fire-fighters-reserve), 298 m to the edge

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

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-538-christchurch-central-city), 99 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-546-christchurch-central-city), 109 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-542-christchurch-central-city), 158 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-536-christchurch-central-city), 219 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-532-christchurch-central-city), 270 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 8 Ely Street?**

1 council report on record since September 2016, most often rubbish/recycling (1).

**What school is 8 Ely Street zoned for?**

[Christchurch East School](https://www.chch.live/school/3317-christchurch-east-school), [Mairehau High School](https://www.chch.live/school/320-mairehau-high-school) and [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), and inside the region-wide zone of Hagley Community College, Marian College, Middleton Grange School (Year 11-13), Christchurch Adventist School. Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary, and it is redrawn, sometimes at short notice. [These zones on the map →](https://www.chch.live/schools?at=-43.524147299282525,172.64475330851909)

**Which suburb is 8 Ely Street in?**

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

**What stood at 8 Ely Street before?**

The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, [The Bricks Site, Cairn and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/44), [Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/293).

**What is the nearest park to 8 Ely Street?**

[Barbadoes Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/park/1341-barbadoes-cemetery), 83 m to its edge, 3 ha.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=christchurch-central-city&address=8-ely-street · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Christchurch%20Central%20City&street=ely-street