Festival Gardens
Festival Gardens
Cultivated to become the UK’s first garden festival site, back in 1984, The International Festival Garden concept was originally designed to wow green-fingered enthusiasts from all over the world.
To this day, the site is still a beautiful place, one that is soon set to reach its full potential as a new 22-arcre waterfront residential community – An inclusive, thriving, sustainable new neighbourhood for South Liverpool, with a strong identity surrounded by a stunning landscape.
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Land can accommodate up to 1,500 units and supporting community facilities -
Waterfront site just three miles from Liverpool City Centre
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A unique development opportunity surrounded by oriental gardens
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A beautiful site in the heart of a historic Liverpool landmark
The Liverpool Festival Gardens site, which lies just 3 miles to the south of the city centre, is split into three distinct zones:
Development Zone – 28 acres incorporating the former ‘Pleasure Island’ dome, plaza and waterfront bund
The Gardens – 25 acres of Oriental Gardens set around a sizeable landscaped mound with large surface car park remaining from Festival Gardens
Southern Grasslands – 37 acres of former Festival Gardens land that has self-seeded
The Development Zone, part of which was a former landfill site, once formed part of the International Garden Festival celebrations launched by Queen Elizabeth II in 1984.
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Festival Gardens provide scenic surroundings to the development area -
CGI Artist Impression of what the Festival Gardens development could look like -
Unique 22-acre opportunity for residential development
In November 2023, Liverpool’s Festival Gardens development zone reached a further major milestone in its transformational journey, with the work to remediate the land being completed, following a two-year excavation programme.
Liverpool City Council is now seeking to appoint a multidisciplinary consultant team to assist them in creating a development brief for the residential led development of the disused land. You can find out more about this opportunity HERE.
Festival Gardens has the potential to be an exemplar development driven by best practice, creativity and innovation in design and sustainability, minimising whole life-cycle costs and carbon emissions, and being resilient to climate change.
Latest Festival Gardens news
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Milestone moment as search for Festival Gardens developer to begin
Liverpool City Council is set to seek a development partner to help transform a prime waterfront spot into Liverpool’s newest residential community.
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Expert team appointed to shape new Festival Gardens neighbourhood
Liverpool City Council has appointed a multi-disciplinary team of placemaking experts to help create a new neighbourhood next to the city’s Festival Gardens.
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New plan to define the next chapter of Liverpool’s world-famous waterfront now given go-ahead
Liverpool’s world-famous waterfront is to be the subject of an ambitious new masterplan to ensure its continued growth as a global destination and major economic engine.
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Liverpool opens biggest green space in 21st century
As part of the £50m remediation of the former Festival Gardens site, Liverpool City Council today opens its biggest new green space in decades.
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LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL SET TO SEEK DEVELOPER FOR FESTIVAL GARDENS SITE
Liverpool City Council is set to approve a procurement exercise to attract a developer for one of the major development sites in the north of England.
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Liverpool’s Festival Gardens Development Plows Ahead
Remediation work at the 23-acre former gardens site is permitted to start now, after the council applied to discharge planning conditions to prepare the site for the delivery of up to 1,500 homes.
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Liverpool plans 2020 start on Festival Gardens remediation
Liverpool City Council has set out a timetable to transform a former landfill site that once formed part of the International Garden Festival celebrations in 1984 into a ‘green community.