Bromley Bin Collection Days: What Goes Out When

Every week the London Borough of Bromley publishes more than anybody has time to read: planning applications, licensing notices, committee papers, inspection results, crime figures broken down by ward. We work through them and write up the parts that change something, in plain English, with a link to the source on every fact.

It matters here because Bromley is not one sort of place. The borough runs from the terraces of Penge and Anerley through Beckenham, Shortlands, Bromley town centre, Bickley and Chislehurst, out to Orpington and the Crays, and then keeps going into farmland at Downe, Cudham and Biggin Hill, which is how it ends up the largest borough in London by area. A scheme that barely registers in Sundridge Park can be the only subject of conversation in West Wickham or Petts Wood for a year. Alongside the news we look after the practical pages, the ones you look things up on rather than read.

The practical stuff

• Local Info: bin collection days, parking and council tax bands.
• News: what the borough’s records show, including planning applications ward by ward.
• What’s On: what is happening across the borough this week.