BT plans to remove phone box from Burnham-on-Sea

One of the last remaining phone boxes in Burnham-on-Sea

One of the last remaining phone boxes in a Somerset town could be removed.

BT is carrying out a public consultation on Burnham-on-Sea's kiosk in Princess Street, which is near the town's library.

The company said it was not used enough for it to continue on running.

The kiosk box has been vandalised and the receiver is missing from the phone.

The phone box on Princess Street

BT said 98% of the adult population now used a mobile phone and there had been a huge decline in the usage of payphones across the UK.

However, one resident said: "Mobile phones do run out of charge, and then what are you going to do?

"I still like phone boxes."

Another resident said: "I never use it.

"But around our way there's a phone box people are using as a free library.

"It just has books in it. So, keep the phone box but it has an exchange of books for local people."

Any comments on the removal of the Princess Street kiosk should be emailed to the planning department at North Somerset Council.

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