444 Madras Street
9 council reports since April 2022, 7 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, 310 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Barbadoes Cemetery, 411 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
- Canterbury House, 106 m away · Hostels
- Garden City Dentist, 131 m away · Dentists
- The Studios (Bealey Quarter), 133 m away · Motels
- Bealey Avenue Motel, 134 m away · Hotels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bealey Ave near Madras St, 143 m away · route 44
- Bealey Ave near Madras St, 182 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, 298 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 4 Feb 2026 448 Madras St: plastic tray dumped on verge
Litter, 17 Sept 2025 Road cone (id: WHITES), metal stand, sand bag dumped on the berm with no road works nearby
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 24 Feb 2025 Massive gutter blockage around 444 Madras Street. I couldn’t pinpoint the exact source.
Water Leak, 27 Sept 2024 Water appears to be backflowing from the gutter from about 444 Madras St back towards Bealey Avenue.
Poles and Signage - General, 21 Aug 2024 Real Estate signage not permitted on berm under District Plan
- Water Leak, 16 Aug 2024
Coming out from somewhere has been on going for years , starting to cause issues and potholes in the gutters
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Apr 2024 More rubbish dumped on same spot - alert sent before
- Pit and Equipment - General, 1 Nov 2023
Roading/Streets, 26 Apr 2022 Parked too close to driveway day & night for days, & impossible for see past until you get right onto the road
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
9 council reports on record since April 2022, most often water leak (2), dumped rubbish (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Moa Reserve, 310 m to its edge.