221 Colombo Street
13 council reports since August 2019, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 468 Colombo Street, 71 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 6 Shelley Street (81m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 5 Shelley Street (98m)
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
- Bradford Park, 201 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Southey Reserve, 257 m to the edge
- Jacksons Creek, 431 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 454 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Cadogan Reserve, 463 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Woolworths Colombo Street, 25 m away · Supermarkets
- Tyres 2 Go, 51 m away · Car repair
- Brown Derby Dairy, 59 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Essie Summers Retirement Village, 62 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Devon St, 19 m away · route 1
- Colombo St near Southampton St, 85 m away · route 1
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 22 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 200 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 273 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 303 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 434 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.
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 9 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 11 Oct 2025 Graffiti on traffic control
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Apr 2025 Outside Woolworths Supermarket near Shelley St
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 25 Aug 2024 In this case the glass also at the back of the bus stop as been scratched The bus stop is situated right in front of Essie Summers??
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Feb 2024 Dumped rubbish in Woolworths car park to remove & overgrown trees that require trimming back
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Feb 2024 Overloaded rubbish bin at Woolworths Sydenham
Hazard, vehicle, 28 Feb 2024 Overgrown vegetation in Woolworths car park to trim back & dead vegetation to remove trees to trim & signage covered with vegetation
- Graffiti, 4 Nov 2023
- Graffiti, 22 May 2023
- Graffiti, 1 Dec 2022
- Graffiti, 1 Dec 2022
Graffiti, 18 Jun 2022 Gray and pink paint tags on base of advertising sign on the footpath outside Countdown.
Graffiti, 10 Jul 2020Graffiti, 6 Aug 2019
Tag on power transformer box within Countdown boundary
Elsewhere on Colombo Street
- 468 Colombo Street, 71 reports
- 300 Colombo Street, 66 reports
- 303 Colombo Street, 64 reports
- 504 Colombo Street, 56 reports
- 340 Colombo Street, 52 reports
- 406 Colombo Street, 37 reports
- 500 Colombo Street, 36 reports
- 420 Colombo Street, 36 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colombo Street in 200 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 35 seriously hurt.
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 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
13 council reports on record since August 2019, most often graffiti (7), dumped rubbish (3), hazard, vehicle (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Bradford Park, 201 m to its edge, 3 ha.