Malone Park is a private avenue in

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. It forms a conservation area.Department of the Environment NI, Planning
District Proposals: Outer Belfast Malone Park Conservation Area
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and have large grounds surrounding them. There is a gate lodge at each end of the avenue. The Lisburn Road end is inaccessible to vehicular traffic as is the Balmoral Avenue gate. Traffic can only enter from the

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entrance. The avenue is lined by

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with grass verges outside every house. Malone Park has been called Belfast's most exclusive street.Nicholas McKenna is told he must pay £2m in Malone Park house purchase dispute
(10 Sept 2012) BBC News, Northern Ireland At the height of the property bubble in 2007, a Ballymena businessman agreed on £3.5 million for a six-bedroom Victorian property on Malone Park, making it the most expensive residence on the local market at the time.Man ‘agreed to lend house seller £1.35m’
(8 March 2012) Newsletter, Belfast

Former residents

* Lady Edith Stewart Dixon *

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*David Wilson Smyth,

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In popular culture

Gareth Russell's young adult novel ''Popular'' was set in the fictional Mount Olivet Grammar School, with the main character living in Malone Park.Penguin Teen Australia
Read the first chapter of Gareth Russell's wickedly funny and utterly glamorous novel, Popular!
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