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How green is Liverpool, really?

Image: Jake Greenhalgh.

Why we have plenty of parks but not enough trees

Wait long enough for a bus and all of a sudden, three will appear on the horizon. Similarly, while Liverpool hasn’t had a new city centre park since 2008’s Chavasse Park, now work is taking place on multiple. For one, there's going to be a public park on the site of the old Royal University Hospital building which has been billed as a far smaller Eden Project — appropriately, given it’s a collaboration between the standard-sized Eden Project, NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool and contractor BAM UK & Ireland. Another – ‘Pall Mall Gardens’ – is part of a £55M office development on the former Bixteth Street Gardens that will theoretically be completed by 2028. So far, so leafy. 

When we think of Liverpool, we might think of sweeping green spaces — the beauty of Sefton Park or Calderstones Park or even Croxteth Hall and Country Park. But how green is Liverpool, really? 

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