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There has been a Bromley local authority since 1867 when the parish of Bromley was made a local government district, governed by an elected local board. [3] Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894, which saw the board replaced by an urban district council. [4]
The ODPM proposed in 2006, as part of other transfers of powers to the Greater London Authority, to give it a waste function.The Mayor of London has made repeated attempts to bring the different waste authorities together, to form a single waste authority in London similar to the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority which deals with waste from all households in Greater Manchester.
After the completion of an extensive programme of refurbishment works, which included the creation of new public areas, a council chamber and a mayoral suite as well as external landscaping, [12] the council moved into Churchill Court in December 2024. [13] It has said that it intends to rent out any surplus space in its new headquarters. [14]
The split of powers and functions meant that the Greater London Council was responsible for "wide area" services such as fire, ambulance, flood prevention, and refuse disposal; with the London borough councils responsible for "personal" services such as social care, libraries, cemeteries and refuse collection.
The borough is also home to an extensive libraries service, containing 14 branches, [31] currently operated by Greenwich Leisure Limited under their trademark Better on behalf of Bromley council. The Beckenham Comedy Cabaret, [ 32 ] a monthly comedy cabaret event, hosted and run by Jody Kamali, has been running in the heart of Beckenham since ...
Although recycling is required right across the UK, recycling rules differ depending on the local council. Some local councils have implemented a one-box system for separating household waste, whereas others have provided many more boxes, and this recyclable waste is often collected at different times from standard landfill waste collections.
The council was subsequently enlarged to seven aldermen and twenty-one councillors. In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and its former area transferred to Greater London from Kent. Its former area was combined with that of other districts to form the present-day London Borough of Bromley.
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