290a Colombo Street
20 council reports since August 2022, 14 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 (181m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street (226m)
- King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Lamp and Drinking Fountain and Setting (240m)
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, 87 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Cadogan Reserve, 210 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Jacksons Creek, 238 m to the edge
- Bradford Park, 370 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Hastings Reserve, 447 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
- Ken's Mart, 14 m away · Supermarkets
- Totally Gluten Free Bakery, 14 m away · Bakeries
- The Funky Pumpkin, 19 m away · Fruit & veg
- BurgerFuel, 21 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Walton St, 65 m away · route 1, route 44
- Colombo St near Hastings St W, 110 m away · route 1, route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 57 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 80 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 209 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, 147 m away
- This Fountain Was Moved and Resited by the City Council, 238 m away ·
THIS FOUNTAIN WAS MOVED AND RESITED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF TH
· 2009
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 14 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti somewhere else, 7 Jan 2025
Graffiti somewhere else, 6 Jan 2025
Graffiti somewhere else, 3 Aug 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 3 Aug 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 3 Aug 2024
Vandalism - General, 21 Feb 2024 Broken windows of local businesses to replace
Pavement - Damaged, 21 Feb 2024 Pothole in berm to level fill & seal
Pavement - Damaged, 21 Feb 2024 Missing berm to replace level fill & seal
Graffiti, 19 Feb 2024- Hazard, vehicle, 6 Sept 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 2 Aug 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 2 Aug 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 2 Aug 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 2 Aug 2023
- Pavement - General, 29 Sept 2022
Litter, 4 Sept 2022 No public rubbish bins here to put rubbish in
Hazard, vehicle, 4 Sept 2022 Damaged parking barriers
Pavement - General, 4 Sept 2022 Dumped metal rubbish?
Pavement - Damaged, 4 Sept 2022 Exposed water pipes due to erosion Weeds along fence line
Rubbish and Bins - General, 30 Aug 2022 Requires a new bin lid
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
20 council reports on record since August 2022, most often pavement - damaged (6), graffiti somewhere else (5), pavement - general (2).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Former MED Substation and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Sydenham Park, 87 m to its edge, 5 ha.











