{"id":66218,"date":"2025-08-14T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:06:10","slug":"two-objections-over-plan-to-turn-van-morrisons-childhood-home-in-belfast-into-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66218\/","title":{"rendered":"Two objections over plan to turn Van Morrison\u2019s childhood home in Belfast into museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Parking issues and increased footfall are cited as concerns\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Van Morrison's childhood home on Hyndford Street. Inset: The music legend himself\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inset template.png\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Van Morrison&#8217;s childhood home on Hyndford Street. Inset: The music legend himself<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Plans to turn Van Morrison\u2019s childhood home into a museum could adversely impact what is a residential area, it has been claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The music legend grew up at 125 Hyndford Street in east Belfast. A plaque adorns the wall, and tourists and taxi tours frequently stop by for a picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parking issues and increased footfall are cited as concerns Van Morrison&#8217;s childhood home on Hyndford Street. Inset: The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1334,19846,96,34880,128,56,54,55,34879],"class_list":["post-66218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-belfast","tag-east-belfast-news","tag-entertainment","tag-john-mulgrew","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-morrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}