162 Montreal Street
4 council reports since May 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 3/193 Montreal Street, 30 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former W. Williamson Construction Company, 181 Montreal Street (175m)
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
- Braddon Reserve, 453 m to the edge
- Carlyle Reserve, 480 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- SV Speciality Vehicles, 17 m away · Car dealers
- Fred's Cafe & Bar, 60 m away · Cafés
- Farmers, 72 m away · Department stores
- Stevens, 77 m away · Houseware
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Moorhouse Ave near Montreal St, 96 m away · route 140
- Moorhouse Ave near Orbell St, 128 m away · route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 26 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 26 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 263 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 443 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 443 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Sydenham ran about $518 a week, $32 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
Water General, 5 Feb 2026 Our water is very heavily chlorinated and tastes worse than pool water. It’s undrinkable. Blackwells 164 Montreal st.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 15 May 2025 Black paint tag on metal lamp pole by 162 Moorhouse Avenue.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 15 May 2025 Black and blue paint tags on metal lamp pole near the corner of 162 Moorhouse Avenue and Montreal Street.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 4 May 2025
Elsewhere on Montreal Street
- 3/193 Montreal Street, 30 reports
- 46 Montreal Street, 29 reports
- 97 Montreal Street, 17 reports
- 107 Montreal Street, 17 reports
- 1 Montreal Street, 16 reports
- 118 Montreal Street, 13 reports
- 106 Montreal Street, 13 reports
- 39 Montreal Street, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Montreal Street in 75 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central 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.
Montreal Street, the whole record → · Everything about Sydenham → · 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 May 2025, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (3), water general (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Montreal Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Commercial Building and Setting, Former W. Williamson Construction Company.
Braddon Reserve, 453 m to its edge.



