Tourists take
photographs outside the birthplace of Ringo Starr in Madryn Street,
Liverpool.
Liverpool
city council is destroying hundreds of sound Victorian homes at huge
cost in a 'misguided' slum clearance programme, say campaigners.
The little Victorian terraced house in which Ringo Starr
was born still stands – just. Empty, windows filled with steel sheeting
upon which are written tributes from all over the world, it was
exempted from a vast demolition plan after a visit from then housing minister, Grant Shapps, last June.
But walk a few doors along Madryn Street in Liverpool
and you feel like you are in a cemetery of what were once people's
homes – street after street, desolate, bricked or boarded up, but for
the few who remain, doggedly, despite being condemned. Teeming with life
six years ago, these are Liverpool's "Welsh streets", named after the
towns and villages which supplied those who built and lived in them in
the late 19th century. They are also the latest in line as the city
forges ahead with mass demolition of Victorian housing, despite a
dramatic recent U-turn in government thinking.
The Liverpool mayor's cabinet on Friday approved progress on what the council calls "exciting and ambitious plans...READ MORE... HERE.
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