254 Colombo Street
4 council reports since January 2021, 3 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 (120m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 5 Shelley Street (139m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street (140m)
- Former MED Substation and Setting, 259 Milton Street (200m)
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, 230 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 300 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Jacksons Creek, 313 m to the edge
- Cadogan Reserve, 332 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Southey Reserve, 379 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
- KFC, 12 m away · Fast food
- KFC Colombo Street, 16 m away · Fast food
- Jumbo Food Centre, 21 m away · Fast food
- Xpresso, 30 m away · Cafés
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, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 45 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 161 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 394 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 498 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Mar 2026 ANTS white paint tag on steel lid of rubbish bin at 254 Colombo Street.
- Roading/Streets, 21 Dec 2021
GJT 346 operating mobile phone while driving one minute ago cnr Milton colombo
Graffiti, 13 Apr 2021
Graffiti, 14 Jan 2021 drive thru walls
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 Heathcote 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
4 council reports on record since January 2021, most often graffiti (2), roading/streets (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Bradford Park, 230 m to its edge, 3 ha.


