Lloyds Bank and Halifax to close 48 branches – see the full list
LLOYDS Bank and Halifax will close 48 branches in England and Wales.
Halifax is preparing to shut down seven sites, while Lloyds will close 41, with the closures to begin in January next year
Lloyds Banking Group, which owns both brands, said fewer customers are using the branches marked for closure.
The company said customers will be able to withdraw cash within a third of a mile from all the sites that are set to close down.
178 workers will be affected and they will be offered voluntary redundancy or a different job within the business.
Lloyds Banking Group has already closed 56 banks this year and is in the process of shutting a further 44 before the end of November.
The latest closures, which will be completed by April 2022, bring the total to 148 since the beginning of this year.
That will leave 738 Lloyds Bank branches, 553 Halifax branches, and 184 Bank of Scotland branches.
There are no Bank of Scotland branch closures as part of today’s announcement.
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Vim Maru, retail director for Lloyds Banking Group, said: “Like many other businesses, we’ve seen people using our branches less frequently in recent years, and this decline is continuing.
"Our branches remain a fundamental part of how we serve our customers but we need to ensure the size of our branch network reflects the number of customers wanting to use them."
Lloyds said it is trialling a Community Banker scheme, where a banker visits a location such as a library to provide support and advice to customers in areas without a high street branch.
The closures come as online banking has become more popular with consumers.
Lloyds and Halifax aren't the only banks shrinking their physical presence on the high street.
Virgin Money announced last month that it will close 31 branches as it "adapts to changing consumer demand".
Santander shuttered 111 sites before August this year, leaving it with 425 banks nationwide.
Marks & Spencer wound up all of its banks and current accounts in July.
At the beginning of the year, HSBC announced it would close 82 branches in 2021.
In September 2020, TSB revealed plans to shut 164 branches, with the loss of more than 900 jobs.
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Which Lloyds and Halifax branches are closing?
These are the branches that are being shut down and the date they are scheduled to close:
- Lloyds Amesbury - 28/02/2022
- Lloyds Atherton - 02/03/2022
- Lloyds Attleborough - 16/03/2022
- Lloyds Balham - 22/02/2022
- Lloyds Berkhamsted - 09/03/2022
- Lloyds Birmingham Cotteridge - 02/03/2022
- Lloyds Birmingham Springfield - 16/02/2022
- Halifax Bristol Whiteladies 01/02/2022
- Lloyds Brockworth - 07/03/2022
- Lloyds Cambridge Cattle Market - 24/02/2022
- Halifax Christchurch - 01/02/2022
- Lloyds Coleford - 15/03/2022
- Halifax Consett - 03/03/2022
- Lloyds Crewkerne - 07/03/2022
- Lloyds Darwen - 08/02/2022
- Lloyds Dorking - 17/03/2022
- Lloyds Earlestown - 10/03/2022
- Halifax East Grinstead - 14/03/2022
- Lloyds Garston - 03/02/2022
- Lloyds Great Bridge - 17/02/2022
- Lloyds Harpenden - 23/02/2022
- Lloyds Hatfield - 01/03/2022
- Lloyds Hull Holderness Road - 10/02/2022
- Lloyds Kings Cross - 03/02/2022
- Lloyds Kirkby-in-Ashfield - 07/02/2022
- Lloyds Leagrave - 15/02/2022
- Lloyds Leatherhead - 15/03/2022
- Lloyds Maldon - 15/02/2022
- Lloyds Melksham - 15/02/2022
- Lloyds Muswell Hill - 31/01/2022
- Lloyds New Malden - 14/02/2022
- Lloyds Oxted - 07/03/2022
- Lloyds Penarth - 09/02/2022
- Lloyds Ponteland - 09/02/2022
- Halifax Portsmouth North End - 22/02/2022
- Lloyds Portsmouth North End - 2`1/02/2022
- Lloyds Prescot - 28/02/2022
- Lloyds Runcorn - 01/03/2022
- Lloyds Seaford - 17/03/2022
- Halifax Sevenoaks - 24/02/2022
- Lloyds Southampton Hythe - 07/02/2022
- Lloyds St Marys Isle of Scilly - 25/04/2022
- Lloyds Sydenham - 21/02/2022
- Halifax - Tewkesbury - 02/02/2022
- Lloyds Tutbury - 14/03/2022
- Lloyds Windsor - 08/03/2022
- Lloyds Worthing George V Ave - 02/02/2022
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