PEOPLE are being consulted over plans to remove three public phone boxes from south Warwickshire.
The proposed kiosks are Manor Road in Stratford, Preston-on-Stour and Coventry Street in Southam.
The removal will include the phone box and the equipment. If the phone box is listed, the telephony will be removed, and the kiosk will be locked.
The consultation is open until Friday April 10.
Residents can visit www.stratford.gov.uk/consultation-performance/bt-payphone-removal.cfm to have their say on their local callbox or the overall proposal.
BT indicates that overall use of payphones has declined by over 90 per cent in the last decade and the need to provide payphones for use in emergency situations is diminishing all the time, with at least 98 per cent of the UK either having 3G or 4G coverage.
As long as there is network coverage, it’s now possible to call the emergency services, even when there is no credit or no coverage from a mobile provider. Phone boxes are not being removed where there is no network coverage, in accident blackspots, and a number of other locations which meet criteria.
Communities may be able to ‘adopt’ phone boxes to turn into something completely different.
Thousands of boxes have been reinvented as cafes, mini-libraries, and defibrillator sites.
Communities can adopt most red boxes for just £1.
