429 Madras Street
6 council reports since March 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 472 Madras Street, 19 reports on file.
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
- Moa Reserve, 262 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Barbadoes Cemetery, 386 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Garden City Dentist, 71 m away · Dentists
- Bealey Avenue Motel, 79 m away · Hotels
- Bealey Ave Motel, 80 m away · Motels
- The Studios (Bealey Quarter), 104 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bealey Ave near Madras St, 92 m away · route 44
- Bealey Ave near Madras St, 122 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 256 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 471 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 open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Saint Albans ran about $514 a week, $36 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak, 2
- Street Cleaning, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Flooding, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Street Cleaning, 2 Sept 2025 Please clean this cycleway. It is hazardous as it is constantly filled with gravel and I have put in multiple requests to remedy this. Pleas
Dumped Rubbish, 30 Jun 2025 Large children’s paddling pool
Water Leak, 17 May 2025 I’m not sure if it’s a leak but there’s a lot of water and no obvious source.
Water Leak, 16 Jun 2024 Water has been leaking for several weeks at this location. Not draining at all.
- Graffiti, 11 Jul 2023
- Flooding, 18 Mar 2023
Elsewhere on Madras Street
- 472 Madras Street, 19 reports
- 441 Madras Street, 19 reports
- 433 Madras Street, 19 reports
- 423 Madras Street, 17 reports
- 459 Madras Street, 10 reports
- 419 Madras Street, 10 reports
- 552 Madras Street, 9 reports
- 546A Madras Street, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Madras Street in 35 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Innes 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.
Madras Street, the whole record → · Everything about Saint Albans → · 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
6 council reports on record since March 2023, most often water leak (2), street cleaning (1), graffiti (1).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Moa Reserve, 262 m to its edge.



