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Bromley: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

London Borough of Bromley: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000006.

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The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Bromley for 2026–27: £1,629.53 of a £2,140.04 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 1 opened (1 new provision), 2 closed (1 closure, 1 result of amalgamation/merger)

Kings London — closed; reason recorded: closure, 27 March 2026
Woodside Park School — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 31 May 2026
Wickham Park School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 19 June 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Bromley reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Bromley: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£202.0 million
Highways and transport services	£12.8 million
Children's social care	£88.1 million
Adult social care	£140.9 million
Public health	£19.4 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£35.2 million
Cultural and related services	£15.2 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£35.1 million
Planning and development services	£1.7 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£12.7 million
Other services	£10.1 million
Total service expenditure	£573.1 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Bromley in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 335,319 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 41 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £34,389 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £852 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 15.3% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 3.5% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £511,670 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 10.3 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 67.7 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 67.5 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 2.7 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 93.0% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 67.1 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 16,035 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

58 seats in 2026. Run by: Conservatives, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 35, Labour Party 8, Liberal Democrats 6, Reform UK 6, Chislehurst Matters 3.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 58 councillors, by ward

Chloe-Jane Ross (Liberal Democrats) — Beckenham Town & Copers Cope
Gita Bapat (Liberal Democrats) — Beckenham Town & Copers Cope
Steven Jefferies (Liberal Democrats) — Beckenham Town & Copers Cope
Colin Smith (Conservative and Unionist) — Bickley & Sundridge
Kate Lymer (Conservative and Unionist) — Bickley & Sundridge
Mark Brock (Conservative and Unionist) — Bickley & Sundridge
Steve James (Reform UK) — Biggin Hill
Tim Allitt (Reform UK) — Biggin Hill
Ian Payne (Conservative and Unionist) — Bromley Common & Holwood
Simon Innes (Conservative and Unionist) — Bromley Common & Holwood
Sunil Gupta (Conservative and Unionist) — Bromley Common & Holwood
Graeme Casey (Liberal Democrats) — Bromley Town
Julie Ireland (Liberal Democrats) — Bromley Town
Sam Webber (Liberal Democrats) — Bromley Town
Mike Botting (Conservative and Unionist) — Chelsfield
Sumeet Jalan (Conservative and Unionist) — Chelsfield
Alison Stammers (Chislehurst Matters) — Chislehurst
Mark Smith (Chislehurst Matters) — Chislehurst
Mike Jack (Chislehurst Matters) — Chislehurst
Jenny Coleman (Labour Party) — Clock House
Jeremy Adams (Labour Party) — Clock House
Josh King (Labour Party) — Clock House
Ruth McGregor (Labour Party) — Crystal Palace & Anerley
Ryan Thomson (Labour Party) — Crystal Palace & Anerley
Jonathan Andrews (Conservative and Unionist) — Darwin
Andy Dourmoush (Conservative and Unionist) — Farnborough & Crofton
Angela Page (Conservative and Unionist) — Farnborough & Crofton
Sheri Isa (Conservative and Unionist) — Farnborough & Crofton
Alexa Michael (Conservative and Unionist) — Hayes & Coney Hall
Diane Smith (Conservative and Unionist) — Hayes & Coney Hall
Josh Coldspring-White (Conservative and Unionist) — Hayes & Coney Hall
Chris Phillips (Conservative and Unionist) — Kelsey & Eden Park
Mark Amis (Conservative and Unionist) — Kelsey & Eden Park
Michael Doble (Conservative and Unionist) — Kelsey & Eden Park
Giles Cordwell (Conservative and Unionist) — Mottingham
Louise Sage (Reform UK) — Mottingham
Kim Botting (Conservative and Unionist) — Orpington
Pauline Tunnicliffe (Conservative and Unionist) — Orpington
Kathy Bance (Labour Party) — Penge & Cator
Kevin Kennedy-Brooks (Labour Party) — Penge & Cator
Simon Jeal (Labour Party) — Penge & Cator
George Barnes (Conservative and Unionist) — Petts Wood & Knoll
Simon Fawthrop (Conservative and Unionist) — Petts Wood & Knoll
Tony Owen (Conservative and Unionist) — Petts Wood & Knoll
Alwin Puthenpurakal (Conservative and Unionist) — Plaistow
Panos Papayannakos (Conservative and Unionist) — Plaistow
Adam Grant (Conservative and Unionist) — Shortlands & Park Langley
Gemma Turrell (Conservative and Unionist) — Shortlands & Park Langley
Serena Gupta (Conservative and Unionist) — Shortlands & Park Langley
Harry Stranger (Conservative and Unionist) — St Mary Cray
Shaun Slator (Conservative and Unionist) — St Mary Cray
Yvonne Bear (Conservative and Unionist) — St Mary Cray
Christopher Marlow (Reform UK) — St Paul's Cray
Dean Miller (Reform UK) — St Paul's Cray
Will Rawles (Reform UK) — St Paul's Cray
Christine Harris (Conservative and Unionist) — West Wickham
Daniel Burden (Conservative and Unionist) — West Wickham
Hannah Gray (Conservative and Unionist) — West Wickham

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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