Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland closures mapped as 136 high street branches to shut down

The radical volition unopen 61 Lloyds, 61 Halifax and 14 Bank of Scotland branches (Image: Getty)

Banking elephantine Lloyds has announced it is closing 61 Lloyds, 61 Halifax, and 14 Bank of Scotland branches betwixt May this twelvemonth and March 2026.

The closures travel weeks aft Lloyds said it would let customers of Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland to usage stores crossed immoderate of its brands for in-person banking.

Lloyds blamed the determination to unopen the branches connected customers shifting distant from banking successful idiosyncratic to utilizing mobile services.

It said that each workers astatine the affected branches volition beryllium offered jobs elsewhere successful the company.

A spokeswoman for the concern said: “Over 20 cardinal customers are utilizing our apps for on-demand entree to their wealth and customers person much prime and flexibility than ever for their day-to-day banking.

Lloyds Banking Group announces closure of 136 Branches (Image: Getty)

“Alongside our apps, customers tin besides usage telephone banking, sojourn a assemblage banker oregon usage immoderate Halifax, Lloyds oregon Bank of Scotland branch, giving entree to galore much branches.

“Customers tin besides bash their mundane banking astatine implicit 11,000 branches of the Post Office oregon successful a Banking Hub.”

The announcement means that 1,784 slope branches crossed the UK person unopen oregon announced their volition to adjacent since February 2022, erstwhile a voluntary statement saw the large banking groups perpetrate to assessing the interaction of each closure.

That’s an mean of astir 50 closures announced per period oregon 11 per week.

At slightest 289 branches volition adjacent this year, with the dates of 19 much closures yet to beryllium confirmed and 19 already announced for adjacent year.

It follows connected from 399 closures past year, 633 successful 2023, and 425 successful 2022.

The LINK inaugural to measure the interaction of closures - which was agreed by each the large banks including Barclays, HSBC, Natwest, Lloyds, and Halifax - was acceptable up to guarantee susceptible customers and tiny businesses were not near down successful the power to cashless payments and virtual banking.

When closures permission communities without immoderate section bank, banking hubs oregon escaped ATMs are acceptable up to capable the gap.

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