Plans for a high-tech information 'street hub' in Oswestry have been rejected because the council believes that having it would harm the town's conservation area - which includes a Wetherspoons pub.
A Shropshire Council committee was split between those who saw the BT Street Hubs as necessary for technological progress and those who thought the proposal to replace a battered phone box in Willow Street would be too much for the area to take.
Council officers, proposing that the plan be thrown out, said the hub would be 2.960 metres high by 1.236 metres wide and 0.350 metres deep. Councillor Mike Isherwood said the hub could bring benefits to the town including public Wi-Fi and secure USB ports for rapid device charging. He said in his opinion the benefits to the public of replacing a"hideous old phone box" would outweigh the harms to the conservation area and he supported them. Others disagreed, saying the hub would make the conservation area even worse.
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