243 Colombo Street
14 council reports since June 2019, 12 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 (72m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 5 Shelley Street (95m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street (168m)
- Former MED Substation and Setting, 259 Milton Street (239m)
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, 219 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Southey Reserve, 335 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 354 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Jacksons Creek, 356 m to the edge
- Cadogan Reserve, 381 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
- MobileZone- iPad & iPhone Repair | MacBook & Computer Repair in Christchurch NZ, 7 m away · Phone shops
- Brothers Mediterranean Restaurant, 13 m away · Fast food
- Purple Patch Handcrafts Inc, 15 m away · 2 Dollar Shop
- Starfish Swimwear, 15 m away · Clothing
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 Sydenham, 8 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 99 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 209 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 346 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 483 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 12 on record
What’s on record
- Pavement - General, 4 Jun 2026
Trip and fall hazard, cable cover well below the level of the footpath.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 26 Jan 2025 Tags on wall of 243 Colombo Street facing the footpath.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 29 Oct 2024 Green and black paint tags on wall facing the footpath at 243 Colombo Street.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 29 Oct 2024 KAEPE black paint tag (plus sticky tags galore) on metal lamp pole by 243 Colombo Street.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 29 Oct 2024 Silver paint tag on Salvation Army’s sign post at the corner of Southampton and Colombo Streets, facing the footpath.
Graffiti somewhere else, 5 Aug 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 5 Aug 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 5 Aug 2024
Damaged Street Sign, 18 Dec 2023 Sign is leaning into on street parking area. Not obvious when pulling in to park and it hits the side mirror of cars.
- Pavement - Damaged, 29 Sept 2022
Graffiti, 18 Jun 2022 Black paint tag on wall corner facing the footpath opposite the Salvation Army on Colombo Street.
Graffiti, 18 Jun 2022 Anti vax misinformation sticky tag on metal lamp pole opposite Southampton Street needs removal.
Graffiti, 13 Apr 2021Graffiti, 9 Jun 2019
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
14 council reports on record since June 2019, most often graffiti (4), graffiti somewhere else (3), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Bradford Park, 219 m to its edge, 3 ha.