NATIONAL preservation campaign Save Britain’s Heritage has applied to the Government to have Ringo Starr’s former Liverpool home listed to save it from the wrecking ball.

The organisation teamed up with the Merseyside Civic Society to try to thwart the demolition of the house, and condemned the council’s “callous disregard” for the city’s heritage.

The pressure groups wrote to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in a bid to list the childhood homes of the other Fab Four members, and also the historic Strawberry Fields gates.

William Palin, secretary of Save Britain’s Heritage, warned the council of repeating previous mistakes.

He said: “In 1973, Liverpool’s celebrated Cavern Club, birthplace of The Beatles, was demolished to make way for a ventilation shaft that was never built.

“It is astonishing and distressing that Liverpool council retains such a callous disregard for its cultural heritage.”

Marcus Binney, chairman of Save Britain’s Heritage, added: “The Liverpool sites associated with The Beatles, including their childhood homes, are clearly of the strongest interest to the British public as witnessed by the thousands of visitors to the Beatles homes owned by the National Trust.”