THE public’s views are being sought on plans to remove 48 pay phone boxes across Waverley borough - including a dozen in the Farnham area.

Waverley Borough Council is carrying out a community consultation to find out what people think about BT’s plans to remove phone boxes across the borough.

BT proposes to remove these pay phones on the basis of low usage and the extent of mobile network coverage.

The list of threatened pay phones does not include the 10 listed red phone boxes in Waverley. However, the consultation will give communities an opportunity to adopt a traditional red phone box and make them a community asset.

Phone boxes in line to be axed in Farnham include the modern glass units by Farnham railway station in Tilford Road, which has been used 118 times in the last 12 months, and in The Chantrys, used 225 times.

Other, less-used, glass phone boxes threatened include Upper Hale Road (used nine times), Shortheath Road (six), Upper Way (four), Farnborough Road (34), Hale Road (four), Three Stiles Road (three), and The Street in Wrecclesham (three).

The only traditional red phone box BT proposes removing in the Farnham area is found at the junction of Boundstone Road and Gardeners Hill Road (erroneously identified in the consultation as Applelands Close) - used 53 times in the last 12 months.

Two further phone boxes, in Moreton Close, Churt and Beacon View Road, Elstead, are also in line to be removed having not been used a single time in the past 12 months.

Andrew Bolton, Waverley’s executive member for economic development, said: “We are committed to ensuring that BT retains phone boxes in our remote rural areas.

“Although most people now have mobile phones, our experience is that reception is still patchy in many parts of the borough.

“We would like to know whether residents support or object to the proposals so we can include their views in the councils response to BT.”

To take part in the consultation go to www.waver

ley.gov.uk/phonebox before Friday, December 16.