How many bus lane Penalty Charge Notices London Borough of Bromley issues, from which cameras — from data released under Freedom of Information (ref SDJCJXB689).
25,474
PCNs issued in 3 years2021/22–2023/24
6,154
PCNs in 2023/24across 9 cameras
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Bus lane PCNs issued per year
Bromley's cameras issued 25,474 penalties over these three financial years, and the direction is steeply down: 9,912 in 2021/22 and 9,408 in 2022/23, then 6,154 in 2023/24 — a third fewer in the last year than the first. The council's figures run further than this page does. It reported 4,979 penalties for 2024/25 as well, but the per-camera breakdown it supplied for that year adds up to 5,088, so its own two answers disagree by 109 and neither is published here; 2025/26 stops part-way through the year in the council's extract. This page covers the three years where every camera's figures add exactly to the council's stated total.
Which cameras issue the most fines
Camera-enforced bus lane locations ranked by PCNs issued in 2023/24. The last column is the 3-year total.
Bromley runs nine bus lane cameras and named every one of them, then supplied a month-by-month count for each. One site dominates: the High Street camera in Bromley town centre issued 9,388 penalties over these three years, more than a third of the borough's total and nearly three times the next busiest. Mitchell Way follows on 5,472, then Cray Avenue in Orpington on 3,289. At the quiet end, Crystal Palace Park Road managed 329 in three years and has since been switched off altogether — the council moved enforcement to Anerley Road in March 2025, and that lane page says so. Two of the nine sit on stretches of Penge High Street that we do not hold as separate lane pages, so they appear here without a link. We hold ten Bromley lane pages in all, and the three the council's camera list does not name — Beckenham Lane, Jail Lane and London Road — now say on their pages that Bromley's own list omits them.
Challenges & appeals — do they work?
Bromley supplied challenge and appeal figures by year, but only the first year has been transcribed from the response so far, so there is no trend to report. In 2021/22 the council received 1,648 informal challenges and accepted 232 of them, a little over one in seven. A further 343 drivers went on to make formal representations, of which 52 were accepted, and 22 took the case to the independent adjudicator at London Tribunals, who allowed 3. See our guide to appealing a bus lane PCN for the grounds that win.
The fine itself
A bus lane PCN from London Borough of Bromley is £160, reduced to £80 if paid within 14 days. It is a civil penalty — there are no licence points. £160, halved to £80 if paid within 14 days — the London rate set for all boroughs, as already carried on the ten Bromley lane pages. The FOI response did not restate it.
What the council does not hold or publish
Income from these penalties. The council gave an income figure for each year, but it cannot be squared with the council's own count of penalties paid at the discounted rate, so none of it is published here. Bromley reported 6,681 penalties paid at the discounted £80 rate in 2021/22 — which on its own comes to £534,480 — against total income of £136,005.47 for the same year. The same roughly fourfold gap appears in all five years the council supplied. In one of them the arithmetic is impossible outright: 6,535 penalties are recorded as paid at the discounted rate in 2023/24 against 6,154 issued. Two of the council's own series cannot both be right, and a clarification asking it to reconcile them has gone back.
Income net of operating costs. The council gave a gross figure for penalties under contravention code 34J but holds no figure net of what the enforcement costs to run.
Enforcement start dates. The response named the nine camera sites but gave no date on which enforcement began at any of them.
The bus lanes behind these cameras
Each of these locations has a full page with operating hours, permitted vehicles and the governing traffic order: