In response to a query from Cllr Stephen Fenton, BT have confirmed that plans to remove a number of phone boxes from west York have been put on hold.

Councillors had been advised that the phone boxes, which are now a target for vandalism, would be removed in February.

In an e-mail to Cllr Fenton on 15 April, BT gave the following update:

“It is in our system to be removed now as agreed by local authority that they had no objections, but due to Covid-19 all the contractor work has come to a standstill at the moment so nothing is coming out of the ground currently and due to the lockdown I don’t have any timings that I could share with you other than hopefully later this year when all things go back to normal.”