Through our playground equipment and outdoor fitness equipment divisions Broxap designs and installs inclusive and accessible facilities. The original site for the business was on a hill on Clare Street, Harriseahead, not far from its current Newcastle premises.

Broxap has over 30 years’ experience of designing, manufacturing and suppling litter bins and recycling bins. Products from Broxap include cycle shelters, shelters for schools, bollards, planters, benches and seats, litter bins, canopies and covered walkways.We utilise a wide variety of materials for our outdoor furniture, from cast iron, stainless steel and concrete, to recycled plastic, timber and polyurethane, offering a range that encompasses traditional and contemporary styles. In fact, we’re so confident in their performance we offer a market-leading 12-year anti perforation warranty; 12-year galvanised steel base warranty and a two-year parts and labour guarantee. Our specialisms lie in seating and benches, security bollards, litter and recycling bins to manage and segregate waste, planters to enhance the surroundings, canopies to keep pedestrians dry, cycle parking for sustainable travel options, and outdoor exercise and play equipment to provide imaginative or physical recreation; all these areas I feel make Broxap the UK’s single source supplier for external, environmentally enhancing products,” John emphasizes.

John's father Sydney Lee founded the business on November 1, 1946, on a hillside at Harriseahead after leaving the Merchant Navy. Our range of litter bins comes in a variety of shapes, including traditional square and round litter bins as well hexagonal and slimline versions of our most popular products.Plus, we are (to our knowledge) the only business in our industry that has the facilities to produce as many different types of materials, finishes and operations as we do, all in-house from a single base. John left school at 15 and joined the family business before studying a City and Guilds qualification at Stoke-on-Trent College. The extensive range which includes litter bins, benches, bollards, cycle parking and more, has been installed throughout the UK in a broad array of environments. As a company Broxap has been operating for over 70 years, we have successfully accumulated an extensive portfolio in the design, supply and manufacture of canopies, walkways, shelters, street furniture, litterbins, cycle parking, sports equipment, play equipment, cloakroom and changing equipment. Broxap Barn is approximately an hour from the Northumberland National Park, Lake District, Hadrian’s Wall and the Dales.

Broxap benches and seats are available in a variety of materials including cast iron, concrete, timber and stainless steel.All bins also come with a 10 year guarantee on litter bins, as well as providing a refurbishment litter bin programmes.