The Palm House is at the centre of Sefton Park

The money will be spent on improvements and restoration of existing features at the Grade II listed Sefton Park.

The Aviary cafe will be refurbished to include a park ranger base and educational centre, and the Eros Fountain will undergo a major facelift.

The Victorian glasshouse, the Palm House, has already been restored with a �2.4m HLF grant and the bronze statue of Peter Pan also restored.

The park was designed by Edouard Andre, who designed the Tuileries Gardens in Paris.

The Peter Pan statue was restored last December

Other plans include repairing footpaths, restoring all statues and fountains.

The area received �200,000 two years ago which was used to set up a team of landscape architects, tree surgeons, ecologists, engineers and water feature experts to draw up plans to improve the 269-acre site.

Liverpool city council's executive member for environment and heritage, Councillor Berni Turner, said: "We have had our fingers crossed that the HLF would approve the grant. It's fantastic news to be given the green light!

"Sefton Park is one of the city's most popular green spaces and hundreds of thousands of people spend time there every year.

"These new plans will give the whole park a much-needed re-vamp and I'm positive that the improvements will attract even more visitors."