‘Ugly’ phone boxes that blight UK streets should be removed, says thinktank

The report found that more than half of phone boxes are likely to be ‘blighting’ the UK’s streets. Photograph: Supplied

The new Labour government should remove “ugly” modern phone kiosks that are blighting high streets and attracting litter and graffiti, a leading thinktank has said.

A report by Create Streets, founded by the government adviser Nicholas Boys Smith, says there is little need for phone boxes any more and that they do not feature much on the streets of Paris or New York.