Bromley is the largest London borough by area and the least London-like at its edges. 15 clearances have landed in its postcodes — BR3 at Beckenham, BR1 in Bromley itself, BR7 at Chislehurst, BR2 and BR6 towards Orpington.
Suburb, then almost countryside
Beckenham and Bromley town are dense: Victorian and Edwardian terraces, a lot of them converted, plus postwar flats. Parking is controlled near the centres.
Chislehurst, Keston, West Wickham and the Orpington side are a different proposition entirely — detached houses on plots, garages, workshops, sheds, and gardens that have been kept by the same people for decades. The volume in those is rarely inside the house.
The far edge of the borough runs into Kent proper, and the housing there behaves like Kent rather than like London.
What the work is
Heavily probate. Bromley has a lot of long-occupancy households, and a large share of what we clear here is instructed after a bereavement by a family living somewhere else. We work from keys held by agents and solicitors, invoice the estate, and send photographs of every room at the end.
Sorting and disposal
Loads go through permitted transfer stations: Veolia on Baths Road, BR2 9RB, and Peter Norris at Station Approach, St Mary Cray, BR5 2NB.
Not the borough's reuse and recycling centre — those take residents' own household waste and refuse trade loads. Our waste carrier registration is CBDU419679 and the transfer notes come back from every load; executors ask for them regularly and are right to.