Residents engage with council to help remove run-down phone boxes
Run-down phone boxes that blight the borough’s streets are set to be removed as the council teams up with residents to take on the phone companies that own them.
Phone boxes can attract anti-social behaviour such as graffiti, fly tipping and drug dealing.
As a result, the council intends to take tough action against the owners to get rid of them and is calling on people who live and work in Haringey who encounter the problem phone boxes to tell us which ones they want removed.
With most people owning a mobile phone, the traditional use of phone boxes has declined. However, anti-social behaviour in phone boxes has increased making residents feel unhappy and unsafe.
This is a great opportunity for resident and people who work in Haringey to have their say and use the power the council has to get rid of these eyesores.
Cllr Seema Chandwani, Cabinet Member for Tackling Inequality and Resident Services, said:
Run-down phone boxes are a scourge in the borough and we are not going to take it anymore.
It is crucial that we draw on the expertise of our local community - people who live and work in the borough who can tell us about the problem phone boxes that encourage anti-social behaviours and have them removed.
Rest assured we are ready to take the strongest possible action against the owners of these problem phone boxes, but we want to hear from residents about which ones they want removed.
We are committed to making residents lives better by making the borough’s streets cleaner, less cluttered and safer. This is one of many steps we are doing to achieve this, and we are ready to fight to make this happen.
Together we can take tough action and crackdown on problem phone boxes.
More information on how to get rid of problem phone boxes here.
Residents will be able to nominate the phone boxes they want removed from 24 April until 18 June 2023.
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