617 Madras Street
4 council reports since September 2016, 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
- St Albans Park, 22 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 101 pieces
- Berwick Reserve, 306 m to the edge
- Packe Reserve, 419 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- English Park, 435 m to the edge · Sports ground · 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
- Nouveau Canine Design, 297 m away · Pet Grooming
- Pho Sai Thai, 300 m away · Fast food
- Cranford Cottages and Motel, 362 m away · Motels
- Ambrose Heal, 378 m away · Furniture
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barbadoes St near Edward Ave, 280 m away · route 44, route 100
- Edgeware Rd near Madras St, 287 m away · route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 413 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 423 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 469 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- St Albans Park / Pavilion / 2018, 146 m away ·
St Albans Park / Pavilion / 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 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 4 Aug 2025 Keep left sign and pedestrian refuge barrier hit by car
Road Signage, 30 May 2025 Keep left sign on pedestrian sanctuary has been hit and dislodged and safety barrier damaged
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Jan 2025 Graffiti on signage center island
Graffiti, 7 Sept 2016
Graffiti on enable cabinet sa628
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
4 council reports on record since September 2016, most often road signage (2), graffiti somewhere else (1), graffiti (1).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St Albans Park, 22 m to its edge, 6 ha.