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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]
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 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.
Another council in England has voted to introduce an annual fee for garden waste collections. Households in Chelmsford will next year have to pay £60 if they want their brown bins picked up.
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 ...
As part of a larger regeneration scheme to create a new Civic Centre, the council moved their offices to the old palace in 1982. [10] [11] The town hall was then used as the home of the Bromley College Business School until 2007. [12] [13] The building, which subsequently became vacant, was added to the Heritage at Risk Register in 2009. [14]
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.
Bromley and Biggin Hill is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election .