Bus stop camera tickets in Bromley rose from 1,351 to 4,992 in a year. The borough issued 104,201 penalty notices in 2025/26, and bus lane fines hit a nine-year low.
Bromley’s bus stop cameras issued 4,992 penalty notices in 2025/26, up from 1,351 the year before. During the year officers began moving eight cameras from schools to bus stops where drivers were not complying.
The figures are in the annual report on parking contractor APCOA, which goes to the council’s scrutiny committee on Tuesday 10 November.
104,201 tickets in a year
The borough issued 104,201 penalty charge notices in 2025/26. That is about 285 a day, and the third yearly fall in a row from the 2022/23 peak of 112,877.
| Type | 2024/25 | 2025/26 |
|---|---|---|
| Patrol officers | 80,371 | 76,332 |
| Box junctions and banned turns (camera) | 18,481 | 16,771 |
| Bus lanes (camera) | 6,154 | 5,097 |
| Bus stops (camera) | 1,351 | 4,992 |
| School zig-zags (camera) | 910 | 1,009 |
| Total | 107,267 | 104,201 |
The main text of the report gives 4,659 for bus stop tickets, but its table says 4,992. We have used the table, because its rows add up to the total.
Where the cameras are
At the end of 2025/26 the council was using:
- 15 cameras for box junctions and banned turns
- 10 cameras at bus stops
- 7 cameras on bus lanes
- 6 cameras staying outside schools once the eight have moved
The report does not name the locations or give a count for each one.
Bus lane tickets are at their lowest in nine years, down from 19,624 in 2017/18. Box junction and banned turn tickets peaked at 30,523 in 2022/23, the first full year after the council took over enforcement from the police in October 2021.
Mistakes and Blue Badges
The report says 704 tickets from 2025/26 were cancelled as patrol officer errors, a rate of 0.9 per cent. It says most of those errors are made by new staff.
APCOA checks an average of 6,000 Blue Badges a month. There were 90 prosecutions in 2025/26 over badge misuse, or over a failure to identify who was using a badge.
APCOA runs the £2.8m-a-year contract, which covers enforcement, car park management and cashless parking. The report rates its performance as good, with less than 1 per cent of the contract value lost to penalties for missed targets. Councils are not allowed to set targets for the number of tickets issued.
What it means for you
- Do not stop in a marked bus stop, even briefly. This is where camera enforcement has grown fastest.
- If you think a ticket is wrong, you can challenge it. The council’s cancelled tickets show that errors do happen.
- Charges are also going up. The council plans to raise permits by 26 per cent and parking charges by about 7 per cent from April 2027.
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