504 Colombo Street, Sydenham
56 reports on record since May 2017 · 39 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 468 Colombo Street — 71 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 39 on record
Reported here
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — multiple graffiti on bridge hand rails
Roads - General — Bridge railing damaged. Health & Safety. Colombo Street bridge ( near Moorhouse Ave). The "temporary fix" has failed. ( Most probably thrown
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Graffiti
Water Leak — On the western pedestrian walkway on the colombo train track is a water leak.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Multiple paint tags on Colombo Street overbridge on the top eastern rail. NB: see preceding reports for more tags at this site.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure —
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Envirowaste building
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Water Leak — Water leak on the bridge footpath, somehow!
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Multiple paint tags along top rail of Colombo Street overpass on the east side, from 1 Carlyle Street heading north.
Water Leak — Water seeping over the footpath at the south side of the Colombo Street overpass on the west side. Source hard to pinpoint!
Graffiti somewhere else — Entrance off cass st
Graffiti somewhere else — West side railings and pole of westside over bridge of Colombo st
Graffiti somewhere else — Back east corner of Harvey Norman building near over bridge
Graffiti somewhere else — Graffiti on east side raiings of Colombo over bridge
General Request — There appears to be a homeless camp that has been set up under the Colombo st bridge. It might be dangerous as they have to cross the railro
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Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Tags (not all photoed) along whole top rail of west side of Colombo Street overbridge footpath.
Road Signage — Road cones to collect
Graffiti — Railing over bridge Colombo st several parts of railing has graffiti along it
Graffiti — Over bridge near containers and more
Graffiti — Grey wall at grey business envirowaste
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Overgrown Vegetation — Overgrown vegetation More rubbish dumped at public seating due to rubbish not being collected & park tidied. Major graffiti on old train
Litter — Litter along the train line
Hazard — vehicle — Dumped takeaway rubbish in a public parking Location
Roads - General — Abandoned tyre
Vandalism - General — Eyesore vandalism
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Graffiti — White paint tag on top railing of Moorhouse Avenue overbridge. Suggest whole railing is checked.
Rubbish/Recycling — Is a rubbish facility consented for the central city? Strong odours, not a great look…
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Graffiti — multiple + +
Parks — Carlyle Reserve illegal dumping of tyres
Rubbish/Recycling —
Carlyle Street & Colombo Street corner next to park under overpass, major litter and dumping as seems homeless using area. Major health haz
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Covered in tags,near walls also tagged
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Dumped rubbish. Tyres. Car panel. Sofa
Roading/Streets —
Red turning arrow on the light shown on the right was not lit while the others were.
Also reported on Colombo Street
- 468 Colombo Street — 71 reports
- 300 Colombo Street — 66 reports
- 303 Colombo Street — 64 reports
- 340 Colombo Street — 52 reports
- 406 Colombo Street — 37 reports
- 500 Colombo Street — 36 reports
- 420 Colombo Street — 36 reports
- 418 Colombo Street — 33 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 green nearby
- Carlyle Reserve — 27 m to the edge
- Science Alive Reserve — 404 m to the edge
- Buchan Playground — 437 m to the edge
- Gasson Reserve — 460 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Drawing Room — 82 m away · Craft
- Extrastaff — 89 m away · Recruitment
- CityFitness — 106 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Crate Escape - Sydenham — 115 m away · Attractions
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Moorhouse Ave near Moorhouse Ave Slip S — 114 m away · route 140
- Moorhouse Slip Nth near Colombo St — 127 m away · route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham — 3 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 — 111 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham — 111 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham — 265 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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 was here — New City Hotel and Setting
197 m away · located to ±20 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward — the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
56 council reports on record since May 2017 — most often graffiti (24), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (7), graffiti somewhere else (5).
Sydenham, Christchurch — on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it — New City Hotel and Setting.
Carlyle Reserve — 27 m to its edge.











