Garmoyle Road Community Garden

Oh, Liverpool City Council. You cheeky scamps. Who do you think you’re fooling?
I don’t know what happened to the houses of 27 and 29 Garmoyle Road, but at some point long before I was born they were torn down. Chances are a serial killer lived there. Their replacement was a patch of tangled weeds and stunted trees that grew uncontrolled for years before some bright spark at the council realised they could pretty up the area by cutting back some of the plantlife and sticking up a new fence with a fancy name. Voila! The Garmoyle Road Community Garden was born.
Planning permission to erect two new houses here was recently denied (Thank you Freedom of Information Act) meaning there’s nothing stopping you from sitting in this tiny rectangle of greenery and peer at pedestrians who, in turn, are peering back at you, wondering what the hell you’re doing sat in a fenced-​off patch of wasteground.