The new Bexley Urban District Council established offices in an early 19th century building on the south side of the Broadway in Bexleyheath known as Oak House in 1903.

[2] The new council only used Erith Town Hall briefly as it chose to demolish Oak House in 1979 to make way for purpose-built Civic Offices which opened on the same site on the south side of the Broadway in 1980.

[1] The facility at Watling Street, which was designed in the style of a pagoda and built as the head office of the Woolwich Building Society at a cost of £10.5 million,[3] was officially opened by Princess Anne in 1989.

[5] Meanwhile, Bexley London Borough Council was seeking new facilities to replace its aging Civic Offices on the south side of the Broadway.

[9] Some 1,300 council staff, who were previously based in four separate locations in the borough,[10] moved into the new Bexley Civic Offices in May 2014.