Welcome to New Regent Street
New Regent Street is a pedestrian mall in the centre of Christchurch city.
Built as a private development in the early 1930s with 40 shops in Spanish Mission architectural style. It is one of the city's major tourist attractions.
Providing a number of individually owned shops and eateries located in original buildings that have been restored to various levels. The Intent was to develop New Regent Street in keeping with its architectural character.
All the buildings in the street are listed as Category I heritage items by Heritage New Zealand, along with the entire street being a historic area listing.
The street was made into a pedestrian mall in 1994 in preparation for the introduction of the Christchurch heritage tram, which began operation in February 1995.
You can sit down enjoy a drink or food of your choice whilst trams pass just in front of you, this experience is one of a kind and well worth adding to your lunch calendar.
Providing a number of individually owned shops and eateries located in original buildings that have been restored to various levels. The Intent was to develop New Regent Street in keeping with its architectural character.
All the buildings in the street are listed as Category I heritage items by Heritage New Zealand, along with the entire street being a historic area listing.
The street was made into a pedestrian mall in 1994 in preparation for the introduction of the Christchurch heritage tram, which began operation in February 1995.
You can sit down enjoy a drink or food of your choice whilst trams pass just in front of you, this experience is one of a kind and well worth adding to your lunch calendar.
In amongst all this history and heritage there is an exciting range of quirky businesses within the boutique shops. From gourmet fudge and cookies to a whisky bar, cafes, restaurants, groovy glasses and a diamond jeweller.
New Regent Street is all about pleasure taking time to indulge yourself enjoying a favourite coffee at the same time taking in the historical period features, meeting friends for drinks or eating at a restaurant of choice.
History Of The Street
Arthur Stacey, the main force behind the creation of New Regent Street for Christchurch
Newspaper 1930's
Originally it was asked for the street to be named Regent Street, however the Christchurch City Council declined the request on the grounds that a street of that name already existed in Sydenham, as a result it was named New Regent Street instead.
New Regent Street is named after London's Regent Street, which was london's first planned street, and built between 1814 and 1825.
One of the streets features was a lighting system consisting of around 400 lamps.
When these lamps were first turned on in after the street was finished in late 1932, hundreds of people walked down the 100 metre St.
