FORMER Beatle Pete Best is to have two streets named in his honour.

Drummer Pete, who left the band just before the Fab Four hit the big time, will be recognised with both “Pete Best Drive” and “Casbah Close”, both on Everton FC’s former Bellefield training ground in West Derby.

The move by the council follows a petition of more than 22,000 names calling on it to pay tribute to Pete, who hails from the area.

“Casbah Close” will be named in recognition of the cafe Pete’s mum Mona opened in Hayman’s Green, West Derby in 1959.

Pete, now 69, said he was “humbled” by the accolade, which follows the naming of streets in Kensington after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr 30 years ago.

He added: “Now everything is finalised, and Pete Best Drive and Casbah Close are actually happening I feel very humbled, very flattered and very honoured that the city, council and people of Liverpool have thought to honour me in such a fantastic way.”

Pete’s brother and manager Roag Best added it was a “pity our mother isn’t here to see it as without her none of it would have happened.”

Pete was born Randolph Peter Best in Madras, India in 1941 and moved to Liverpool at the age of three in 1945 as World War II drew to a close.

After his acrimonious sacking from The Beatles, just as they were on the cusp of fame, he worked in the civil service before starting his own band, the Pete Best Band, in 1988.

He released an album, Best of the Beatles, and is still drawing massive crowds around the world. His most recent gig in Brazil was attended by 30,000 people.

The Bellefield estate is to be built by construction firm Bellway Homes which bought the site from Everton FC for £8m.