Traditional London Phonebox- VICTORY!

I have some great news! As I was in the West End yesterday attending a couple of press days I decided to pop past my old friend the traditional phonebox and check in to see if there had been any change. To my great relief the phonebox has not only been cleaned, but the broken windows have also been replaced. Intriguingly when I got home and checked my email I FINALLY had a response awaiting me from Camden council. As if by coincidence the ‘public realm officer’ who emailed also went to inspect the phonebox yesterday and had emailed to say that she had followed up my complaint and all looked to be okay. Interestingly the message I received said "Camden Council are not contracted to keep phone boxes clean. This is the responsibility of such utilities companies, in this case BT". Annoyingly I haven’t had time to contact BT about this yet, so I’m very confused as to who cleaned it up! Whilst I am over the moon that the phonebox does not only no longer pose a hazard to the environment but has also been restored- part of me still wants to know why it was not done sooner and why BT and Camden Council do not work more responsibly together. Surely BT would have noticed months ago that no one was using the phone (due to not being able to get inside) so you’d think they would have sent an engineer to have a look and see if there was a problem with it. At the same time Camden Council who seem quite happy to clean around the phonebox must have noticed the problem so I wonder why they didn’t just bite the bullet and clean it themselves or at least notify BT directly – months ago. I am not trying to blame anyone as for me it isn’t about that I just find it very frustrating that no one wants to take responsibility for keeping something on our streets clean and functional unless they are pointed out to do so.

Traditional London phonebox left to go to ruin- Update

Yesterday I was in the West End area so thought I'd pop back to the phonebox in question to see if there were any signs of it having been cleaned up in the past two weeks.
Oh what a surprise it wasn't. The council still haven't replied to my complaint. Don't think they have a leg to stand on as they cannot argue that no one has been in the area to sweep the streets or empty rubbish in the past two weeks as this would be shameful for such a central London tourist spot. So this leads me to believe that Camden council staff clean around it but don't bother to touch it. Why? Perhaps I should contact BT and see what they think...
If anyone wants to take a look for themselves head towards St. Giles Street, WC2H and you can't miss it!
Don't know what happened to my previous complaint... perhaps it didn't send as I just complained again and got a reference number: 5615537. Fingers crossed I hear something!!

Traditional London phonebox left to go to ruin, WC2H

As I was out and about on Tuesday I was walking behind Tottenham Court Road bus station and saw this phone box and was rather outraged. There are so few traditional phone boxes left in London that I was baffled to see it treated with such disrespect by Londoners, but also by Camden Council... I mean hello what are rubbish and street collectors doing? It really wound me up as not only is it unsightly, but you can't actually use it for obvious reasons and there are probably vermin having a party in there. I just thought it was really sad. However my spirits were lifted slightly when several passersby saw that I was taking a photo of it and were commented that they were just as disgusted by it as I was and am- think I might make a point of going back to it to see if it's been cleaned up... if only I worked near there! Hmmm... this could get very interesting...