A deadline has been set for the public to object to BT plans to wipe out a large number of payphones in Angus.
Consultation notices were placed on 80 phone boxes in the Angus area in August and people have until November 21 to make an objection to the removal of a box.
Figures from BT revealed that 36 of the boxes that are being considered for closure hadn’t made a call in the past year and 51 made fewer than five calls.
People are also being given the chance to adopt a phone box for £1.
This would mean that the phone box would see a new lease of life as something completely different.
In other areas phone boxes have been used to house defibrillators or used as a book exchange.
Angus Council will respond to the BT consultation by November 28, but objections from the public are due in at least a week in advance of this date.
The most well used phone box out of BT’s proposed closure list is Glenmoy Terrace in Forfar, which made 581 calls in the last year.
This is followed by Tarfside in Brechin (388 calls), Brougham Square in Montrose (261 calls), Lyninghills in Forfar (241 calls), Cairnie Street in Arbroath (166 calls) and Great Michael Road in Arbroath (137 calls).
All the other under-threat phone boxes made fewer than 100 calls in the past 12 months.
People who want to object to a phone box being removed are asked to contact Kate Cowey on 01307 473259 or by email on CoweyKJ@angus.gov.uk
If all the removals go-ahead, it would leave about 3,300 operational phone boxes in Scotland.
