Telecoms giant BT has halted its roll-out of super-fast broadband in part of west London after being refused permission to install cabinets in the streets.
The firm said it had decided to pull its engineers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea after having 96 of its 108 applications for street cabinets rejected by the local council.
In a statement Kensington and Chelsea Council complained that the company was not prepared to reach a compromise on a number of issues to do with the borough’s historic streetscapes.
‘BT was seeking permission for 108 cabinets, many of them in sensitive locations. It would not compromise on the number, or on the design. It would not use sites that already had unused BT equipment and it would not consider putting the equipment underground or any other method,’ it said.
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