KEIGHLEY Town Council have agreed to sell East Morton’s former public telephone box for £1.
Councillors were responding to a “tentative interest” from East Morton Village Society to take over the box, which the town council had previously bought from BT.
The Village Society recently piloted running a mini-library from the phone box and this proved a success.
They approached the council in advance of a meeting in October, when they plan to discuss whether make the library scheme permanent.
The council’s allotments committee, which has responsibility for the box, heard at its last meeting that four Perspex panes in the box were currently missing. The damage is believed to have come as a result of the increased use.
The town council agreed that the town clerk could dispose of the box for the nominal value of £1 subject to the Village Society’s agreement.
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