The UK’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps,  has intervened to try and save the childhood home of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr from being demolished. The house at 9 Madryn Street, in Liverpool’s Dingle area, was declared part of a mass demolition of ageing homes in the area by Liverpool Council who argued that they were ‘beyond economic repair.

Shapps has requested that the Council halt demolition proceedings to allow time for alternative proposals to be considered. English Heritage, the national conservation body, had applied for the house to be given protected status, a status afforded to the childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, which are now run by the National Trust as popular tourist attractions.

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