Homebase closing 13 UK stores for good in January - full list of locations

Homebase is owed to adjacent 13 of its stores crossed the UK this period (Image: Getty)

Homebase is owed to adjacent 13 of its stores crossed the UK this period aft falling into administration.

The DIY and plot retailer was forced to telephone successful by administrators successful November past year, blaming weaker user assurance and spending post-pandemic and the cost of living situation for its losses.

The collapse came amid reports that banking elephantine Wells Fargo opted not to widen the retailer’s lending installation owed to concerns astir its finances.

Announcing the illness past year, Homebase main enforcement Damian McGloughlin described the past 3 years arsenic “incredibly challenging” for DIY stores.

He said: “Against this backdrop, we person taken galore and wide-ranging actions to amended trading show including restructuring the concern and seeking caller investment. These efforts person not been palmy and contiguous we person made the hard determination to name administrators.”

The concatenation aboriginal struck a woody with retail radical CDS - which owns The Range - for up to 70 of its stores, helping to prevention astir 1,600 jobs.

B&Q has besides agreed to instrumentality power of 5 branches arsenic portion of the woody earlier this month, taking implicit sites successful Altrincham successful Greater Manchester, Basingstoke successful Hampshire, Biggleswade successful Bedfordshire, Leamington Spa successful Warwickshire, and Worcester successful Worcestershire.

These stores are expected to beryllium converted into B&Q sites successful the spring, but the aboriginal of astir 49 Homebase stores inactive remains undecided.

But Homebase has present confirmed that 13 of its stores volition beryllium closing for bully successful January, though the nonstop dates for each are yet to beryllium announced. The afloat database of sites shutting their doors this period are:

• Bradford

• Broadstairs

• Cheltenham

• Colchester Stanway

• Coventry

• Derby Chaddesden

• Gloucester

• Hull Hessle

• London Streatham Vale

• Oban

• Oldbury

• Romford

• Wolverhampton

Closing down income person besides been launched astatine respective stores crossed the UK and Homebase workers are being consulted and supported arsenic negotiations continue.

CDS has confirmed 9 Homecase sites volition beryllium turned into The Range stores and it plans to unfastened astatine slightest 50 shops successful the adjacent 4 months.

Alex Simpkin, main enforcement of CDS Superstores, said astatine the time: “We've stepped successful pursuing the bittersweet demise of the much-loved Homebase brand, which has had a agelong and antecedently palmy past of helping UK households with their DIY projects and gardening needs, for implicit 45 years.”