Residents and conservationists of Brighton and Hove are complaining about the cabinets that BT want to install for their fibre broadband network.
The high speed fibre broadband cabinets are larger that standard street-side cabinets and measure 1.8m in height with some of them due to replace the existing street-side cabinets although his is not the case in all locations.
Some of the applications in Brighton and Hove have already been approved but there is still a further 51 locations where the permission has yet to be granted and the six conservation societies/groups are saying that the planning permission should be put on hold as the plans have not been consulted about enough.
The six groups who have joined together include: The Regency Society, The Montpelier Clifton Hill Society, Kemp Town Society, Brighton Society, The Kingscliffe Society and The Regency Square Society.
It doesn’t appear that the groups are against having the new fibre broadband network installed but they want to make sure that the locations of the new cabinets are chosen wisely and not just put in the most convenient places that BT consider that may not work in with the aesthetics of the look of the city.