For the last few years, I've been growling under my breath at old historical buildings in my city being torn down for new developments. Plymouth is a very old port which has the Mayflower Steps, the Royal Citadel and the old Elizabethan Barbican and I really do belive that you should keep and maintain historical buildings and try to maintain some air of Olde England about. Especially as the oldest part of Plymouth, the Barbican, is now the place to go for a subway, coffee or for drinks on a night out.

Admittedly, my homecity was bombed severally during WWII - second worst to London apparently, so a lot of the old city which American visitors now come to see in homage to the Pilgrim Fathers has now gone. Post-war, there were a number of quick builds which didn't really have any thought put into it's architecture, but they did make brutal statements to observers, including the local civic centre, which now the council wants to pull down and gave the go ahead for demolition last week.

Only now they can't.
As offficially English Heritage has granted this building Grade II status, which made me chortle so hard when I read this first thing in the day, that I fell off the bed.

And before you ask I swear on all I hold dear, that I didn't petition the English Heritage...
But I wish I did now! Not for the extra tax - just for the laugh!