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Riverside Drive is a road in South Liverpool that follows the River Mersey. It is bounded by Otterspool at one end and Sefton Street and the City Centre at the other. It passes through Riverside Gardens which is the area around what used to be the site of the International Garden Festival (1984).

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One of the biggest parts of the Riverside Drive area is the site of the International Garden Festival of 1984.

The Liverpool International Garden Festival site was the largest urban reclamation programme ever witnessed when the Gardens were originally commissioned in 1981. Attracting some £12.5m of Government funding in 1984 and bringing in some 3.2m visitors from UK and overseas, it became the first of five International Garden Festival sites created in the UK.

Langtree McClean have announced plans for a new development to be known as Festival Gardens. The brochure from their site is also available here.

and a fly through video simulation is also available

Carey Jones Architects also have some information

The development is not without its critics however and a public enquiry has been called. It is due to start on the 30th October and will last up to 3 weeks. Have a look on the news pages for further information.

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