Valuation and Estates is a section of Property Division which provides professional property advice to the Council.
Council-owned land and premises
The Council owns a wide variety of land and premises which are used for its own purposes (civic buildings, schools, leisure centres, libraries, depots, day centres, parks etc) and also for investment purposes. We maintain a property register showing our ownership and we are developing a system to view our ownership online.
We do not keep records of privately owned property. For enquiries about property we don't own you should contact the
Land Registry (the Croydon office phone number is 020 8781 9100).
Estates management
The Council’s property investment portfolio is managed by its in-house Valuation and Estates section. The management work includes lettings, rent reviews, lease renewals and dealing with repairs. The portfolio includes the following shopping parades:
Chilham Way, Hayes
Chipperfield Road, St Paul’s Cray
Cotmandene Crescent, St Paul’s Cray
Court Road, Orpington
Edgehill, Chislehurst
Eldred Drive, Orpington
Fordwich Close, Orpington
Grovelands Road, St Paul’s Cray
Hazel Walk, Bromley
Leith Hill, St Paul’s Cray
Mountfield Way, St Mary Cray
Simpson’s Road, Bromley
Tillingbourne Green/Ranmore Path, St Paul’s Cray
The Valuation and Estates section also manages a wide range of commercial and community properties including a number of prominent buildings; examples include:
The Former Bromley Town Hall
Community House, South Street, Bromley
The Former St Mark’s School, 8 Masons Hill, Bromley
Egerton Lodge, Park Road, Bromley
28 Beckenham Road, Beckenham
The Walsingham Centre, St Paul’s Cray
The
Anerley Business Centre has recently been refurbished and rooms are available to let to small businesses at all inclusive rents from £325 per calendar month.
The section deals with the estate management of several farms in the Green Belt, as well as several grazing licences and other licences for the use of Council-owned land.
Valuations
The Valuation and Estates section undertakes valuations of land and buildings on behalf of the Council for a wide variety of purposes, including sales, purchases, lettings and rating. It also deals with major disposals of surplus property and sales of small areas of land.
Whilst the section does act for a number of other public bodies and housing associations (for example, Broomleigh Housing Association), it is not able to act for individual members of the public. Please note that the Council is not responsible for either Council Tax or Business Rate valuations. These are dealt with by the
Valuation Office Agency (the Bromley office phone number is 020 8315 2800). There is more information about
business rates appeals and other
business rates issues elsewhere on this site.
Land and property – availability lists
To search a database of commercial property currently being marketed by both the Council and through Agents look at
Bromley Commercial Property Database. Alternatively, for enquiries about the Council’s property, see contact details below.
Contact details:
Telephone: 020 8313 4424 or 020 8313 4481
Fax: 020 8313 4474
e-mail: estates@bromley.gov.uk