Down an inner city dirt track is a "beautiful slice of heaven" people don't want to leave.
You'd almost miss the turning even if you're walking down Derwent Road looking for it. Trees and bushes, still green in winter, crowd the path, which forks at a sign saying 'PRIVATE' in bold letters. It might warn off outsiders, but standing in the grass between two rows of three-storey houses where roughly 100 people live, you feel anything but unwelcome.
Michael Chesterman, 36, lives in a top floor flat with his wife, son and new dog on Derwent Square in Old Swan, which he described as a "fun, beautiful slice of heaven". Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, he told the ECHO: "In an urban area, it's hard to find a little patch of just this beautiful green space that goes back to the days of community, where it's all shared space, not your private, fenced-off garden.
