Keighley phone booths to be replaced with digital ad boards and Wi-Fi hubs
The BT Street Hubs would replace traditional phone booths
A SERIES of town centre phone booths will be replaced with monoliths that provide “the modern answer to the demands of a digitally connected society.”
A number of planning applications for BT Street Hubs to be located in Keighley have been submitted to Bradford Council last week.
The changes would see phone boxes on Worth Way, Bow Street – outside the Airedale Shopping Centre, Low Street and Cooke Lane replaced with more modern technology.
The black monoliths include a phone, wifi hub, charging point and advertising screens. The company says the new structures will be “a slender more elegant form of development when compared to the existing payphone units.”
It follows the replacement of numerous phone booths in Bradford city centre in recent years.
The applications say: “Being connected is fundamental to the success in our modern world and Street Hub provides a cost-free way for communities to get online and take advantage of available opportunities.
“The BT Street Hubs provide a network service to the immediate area without the requirement for harsh, utilitarian street additions (e.g. Telecommunication Masts) while simultaneously acting as an advertisement, interactive tourist information hub, air quality monitoring hub with emergency services.”
Decisions on the applications are expected next month.