Festival Gardens

igloo and Urban Splash are redeveloping Festival Gardens – one of Liverpool’s most iconic regeneration opportunities.

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Celebrating a site with historic legacy

Originally Jersey Beach, this stretch of wooded shoreline on the Mersey estuary later became an oil refinery and municipal waste site. Its rebirth came in 1984 as the setting for the UK’s only International Garden Festival, opened by Queen Elizabeth II and visited by more than 3.4 million people.

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In 2010, parts of the original gardens were restored as Festival Park, and Liverpool City Council, Homes England, and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority have since invested heavily in relandscaping and remediation – preparing the site for a bold new chapter.

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Renewing a thriving community  

Now, igloo and Urban Splash will transform the 27-acre site into a vibrant, sustainable, multigenerational neighbourhood – one that balances homes, green spaces, and community life for People, Place and Planet. With designs guided by the fabric of the local community while incorporating the igloo Footprint® methodology, the project is set to create a thriving community in the heart of the city that people truly want to live in.

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Festival Gardens will offer a rich mix of homes, tenures, and lifestyles, with up to 800 homes in total, including 440 in phase one.  

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The wider neighbourhood will be well connected and welcoming, with shared community spaces, green routes, landscaped areas and riverside amenities for the community.  

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