79 Colombo Street
1 council report since September 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 101 Colombo Street, 6 reports on file.
On the register here
- The Malthouse and Setting, 69 Colombo Street (24m)
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
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 239 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Colombo Reserve, 298 m to the edge
- Waimea Reserve, 322 m to the edge
- Thorrington Reserve, 447 m to the edge · playground, 23 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- South Christchurch Library, 101 m away · Library
- Beckenham Service Centre, 112 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Canterbury Childrens Theatre, 15 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Malthouse Costumes, 23 m away · Rental
- She Chocolaterie, 44 m away · Sweets & snacks
- Opawa Farmers' Market, 83 m away · Markets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 15 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 34 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 67 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 104 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 187 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 open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Somerfield ran about $567 a week, $17 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak, 1
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 22 Sept 2025 Water seeping over the footpath by The Malthouse in Colombo Street (near 79).
Elsewhere on Colombo Street
- 101 Colombo Street, 6 reports
- 117 Colombo Street, 5 reports
- 113 Colombo Street, 4 reports
- 97 Colombo Street, 3 reports
- 81 Colombo Street, 2 reports
- 71 Colombo Street, 2 reports
- 105 Colombo Street, 2 reports
- 103 Colombo Street, 2 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Colombo Street, the whole record → · Everything about Somerfield → · 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
1 council report on record since September 2025, most often water leak (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, The Malthouse and Setting.
Ernle Clark Reserve, 239 m to its edge, 2 ha.