Book the Churchfields Road tip in Beckenham online; it is open daily. Waldo Road reopens on Monday 23 November, booking only and no garden waste. Hours and links.

Bromley residents have one full-service tip open at the moment: Churchfields Road in Beckenham. It is open seven days a week, and you must book a slot before you go. The borough’s main site, Waldo Road in Bromley, has been shut since February 2025 and reopens on Monday 23 November, also by booking only. Until then, a weekend-only site on Baths Road takes bulky items, but only by appointment.

Overview

  • Churchfields Road, Beckenham BR3 4QY: Monday to Friday 7am to 5.30pm, Saturday 7.30am to 4pm, Sunday 8am to 1pm. Bank holidays 8am to 4pm.
  • Booking required. One booking per household per day, and two per week.
  • Waldo Road in Bromley reopens on Monday 23 November, booking only and no garden waste. Its hours and booking link are not out yet.
  • Christmas: Churchfields is closed 25 and 26 December and 1 January.

Updated 9 November: the council has confirmed that Waldo Road reopens on Monday 23 November, by booking only, on a smaller footprint at first and without garden waste. The booking system and opening hours are still to be published. The Baths Road weekend site closes when Waldo Road reopens (London Borough of Bromley, 9 November 2026).

Updated 6 November: we rechecked the council’s Waldo Road page and news releases this morning, and there is still no reopening date; the page says only that the site “is reopening in November”. The council has also listed serious defects at the depot on the same site in its risk register; the register does not say they affect the reopening.

Churchfields Road Reuse and Recycling Centre

These are the council’s published hours for Churchfields Road:

Day Opening hours
Monday to Friday 7am to 5.30pm
Saturday 7.30am to 4pm
Sunday 8am to 1pm
Good Friday and bank holidays 8am to 4pm
25 and 26 December, 1 January Closed

The site closes at the times stated. Book your slot online first.

Christmas 2026 closure days to plan around: Churchfields shuts on Friday 25 December, Saturday 26 December and Friday 1 January 2027. The council’s page gives these as fixed dates. It does not say whether Monday 28 December, this year’s substitute Boxing Day bank holiday, runs bank holiday hours. If you plan to go that day, check the booking system for slots.

The rules at Churchfields

  • Bromley residents only. Staff will ask for ID showing your address, such as a council tax bill, utility bill or driving licence. Without it you are charged £3.
  • Cars, bikes and people on foot are allowed. Cyclists use the walkway. Commercial and signwritten vehicles are not permitted.
  • DIY waste is limited. Each household may bring up to 100 litres, which fits in two 50-litre bags, or one large item up to 200cm by 75cm by 70cm, free on each of up to four visits in a four-week period. Carpets, plasterboard, soil and turf, and some wood and flooring carry limits and charges.
  • Not accepted: asbestos, car parts, commercial waste, fire extinguishers, gas canisters, hazardous or liquid waste, and tyres.

Vans, pick-ups and hire vehicles

Tippers, Luton vans and anything over 3.5 tonnes gross weight are turned away. Vans, pick-ups, vehicles more than 2m tall, minibuses, campervans and cars with no side or rear windows may be let in, but the driver may have to sign a declaration that the waste is household waste from their own home. Hire vans up to 2m tall are allowed if you bring proof of hire (vehicle restrictions).

Waldo Road: reopening on 23 November

Waldo Road closed to residents on Monday 3 February 2025 for depot upgrade works (council open letter). The council said on 20 August 2026 that it will reopen in November, “anticipated to be in the middle of the month”, with the exact date “announced nearer the time”. A booking system will run when it opens. The council says the centre will reopen “in a slightly reconfigured way” because a paper storage hangar is being moved (London Borough of Bromley, 20 August 2026). On 9 November the council confirmed the date: Monday 23 November. It will take most of what it took before except garden waste, it will run on “a slightly smaller footprint” while depot work continues, and Veolia still manages it. Booking details “will be publicised shortly” (London Borough of Bromley, 9 November 2026); our report on the reopening has the detail. The full story of the delay is in our report Waldo Road tip reopens in November.

Opening hours for the reopened site have not been published.

Baths Road weekend site, until Waldo Road reopens

The temporary weekend Reuse and Recycling Centre is reached from Baths Road, Bromley BR2 9RB. It is open by booking only, on Saturdays from 8.30am to 3pm and Sundays from 8.30am to midday (London Borough of Bromley). It takes mattresses, furniture, sofas and other upholstered items, scrap metal, and large and small electricals. It does not take DIY or construction waste, dry recycling, garden waste, oil, paint or clothes. You cannot arrive on foot or by bike.

The council says the Baths Road arrangement stops when Waldo Road reopens on 23 November, so the weekend of 21 and 22 November is the last one it is due to open.

Garden waste: Norman Park is the last weekend site

Only one of the council’s weekend green garden waste sites is still open: Norman Park, Hook Farm Road (off Bromley Common), on Saturdays from 11am to 4pm until 28 November. That leaves four Saturdays: 7, 14, 21 and 28 November. It takes bagged garden waste only, and you need ID showing your address, such as a council tax bill or driving licence. Builders’ sacks are refused because they are too heavy to lift, and the site does not take soil, rubble, tree trunks or large branches.

The other four weekend sites, at Green Street Green, St Paul’s Cray, Biggin Hill and Beckenham, closed for the winter on 24 and 25 October. After 28 November, garden waste goes to Churchfields Road, or into a green wheelie bin if you pay the council £80 a year for garden waste collection.

Last January the council reopened these sites for one weekend of free Christmas tree drop-offs. Details, and last Christmas’s revised bin days, are on our Christmas bin collections page.

Still to be confirmed

  • Waldo Road’s booking link and opening hours. The date is confirmed as 23 November; the booking details were “to be publicised shortly” as of 9 November.
  • Christmas 2026 hours at Churchfields and Waldo Road, including Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and Monday 28 December. We will check the council’s pages in early December.

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