It includes the Palm Bay estate, built in the 1930s with wide avenues and detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, garages and gardens.

The shopping area of Cliftonville is called Northdown Road and includes a number of main banks and building societies, larger corporate concerns including Costa and Tesco, a number of family run specialist shops including an award-winning art gallery, a post office, several pubs and bars, many unique and upmarket coffee shops and cafes, three churches and a number of estate and letting agents as well as an award-winning media company all along its two-mile length.

The Oval Lawns comprises over 4 acres of public amenity space owned and managed by not-for-profit GRASS Cliftonville CIC.

This year the social enterprise will be hosting over 25 Summer Sunday community events, 4 outdoor cinemas, and will welcome over 15,000 visitors through the gates.

The famous Winter Gardens theatre was built in 1911 in a neo-Grecian style, designed by the Borough Surveyor, Mr E A Borg .

His widow has confirmed[7] that he found inspiration for, and wrote significant sections of The Waste Land in the Grade II-listed Nayland Rock promenade shelter.

[8] The spirit of early 20th century Cliftonville was caught by John Betjeman in his poem "Margate Pier".