488 Colombo Street
4 council reports since February 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 468 Colombo Street, 71 reports on file.
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
- Carlyle Reserve, 83 m to the edge
- Buchan Playground, 307 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Science Alive Reserve, 417 m to the edge
- Gasson Reserve, 483 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
- Crate Escape - Sydenham, 17 m away · Attractions
- Bar on Colombo, 24 m away · Restaurants
- Allen & Yee Lawyers, 36 m away · Lawyers
- Extrastaff, 44 m away · Recruitment
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Cass St, 16 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Byron St, 92 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 242 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 243 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 243 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 337 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, 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
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
- General Request, 1
- Damaged Street Sign, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 12 Mar 2026 Black paint tag on planter box by 488 Colombo Street facing the footpath
Hazard, vehicle, 25 Jul 2025 Uber Eats Drivers blocking cycle lane.
Damaged Street Sign, 21 Jun 2024 Post loose.
General Request, 12 Feb 2024 Rubbish & weeds to clear from empty section
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 February 2024, most often hazard, vehicle (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1), general request (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Carlyle Reserve, 83 m to its edge.



