282a Colombo Street
10 council reports since October 2019, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 468 Colombo Street, 71 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former MED Substation and Setting, 259 Milton Street (104m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street (121m)
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
- Sydenham Park, 146 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Bradford Park, 267 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Cadogan Reserve, 274 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Jacksons Creek, 286 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
- S. N. Market, 13 m away · Supermarkets
- The Spice Company, 16 m away · Delis
- Rayz Cutz, 17 m away · Hairdressers
- No Name Food Bar, 20 m away · Fast food
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, 2 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 110 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 481 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Sydenham Park plaque, 171 m away
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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 7 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 10 Sept 2026 Graffiti
Traffic Signals, 31 Jul 2026 traffic lights do not stay green long enough for Milton Street traffic between 0645 and 0715hrs. sometimes only allows 3 cars to cross and t
Poles and Signage - General, 21 Oct 2025 ATTS audible not operating. Used regularly by blind pedestrian high priority please.
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 9 Jul 2025 Roading Stormwater sump is damaged, might create trip hazard
Poles and Signage - General, 13 May 2025 ATTS audible or tactile not operating colombo with Huxley street east to west crossing on south side. Used by pedestrian with low vision
Graffiti somewhere else, 17 Aug 2024- Water Leak, 7 Sept 2023
- Road Signage, 16 Nov 2022
- Pavement - Damaged, 29 Sept 2022
Roading/Streets, 1 Oct 2019
It would be fabulous to have the green arrows reinstated at the east-west traffic lights on the Milton and Colombo St intersection. This wou
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
10 council reports on record since October 2019, most often poles and signage - general (2), water leak (1), traffic signals (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Former MED Substation and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Sydenham Park, 146 m to its edge, 5 ha.