Lloyds Banking Group has announced it will close over 50 branches across the UK in the next nine months.
From July through to January 2025, 53 Lloyds Banking Group locations will shut their doors for the last time, including 22 Halifax, 21 Lloyds and 10 Bank of Scotland branches.
The decision is due to the ever-increasing number of customers who use its mobile banking service popularity and dwindling visitors to banks.
It confirmed 19 million people are now using the banking groups’ apps and the use of the 53 branches plummeted by an average of 51% (and up to 72%) in the last five years.
Once all previously announced closures are complete, Lloyds Banking Group will have 1,010 branches, including 495 Lloyds Bank, 392 Halifax and 123 Bank of Scotland locations.
Below is the complete list of Lloyds Banking Group closures, followed by the date they will shut:
List of bank branch closures
Halifax: 22 branches
Wales:
- 5 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 1DE, 29/07/2024
- 14 Canon Street, Aberdare. CF44 7AP, 29/07/2024
- 4 Cross Street, Abergavenny, NP7 5EH , 05/08/2024
- 10 Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, SA61 2LR, 08/08/2024
England:
- 73 York Road, York, YO24 4LL, 15/01/2025
- 26 Bondgate Within, Alnwick, NE66 1TD, 15/01/2025
- 3/3A High Street, Andover, SP10 1LJ, 25/07/2024
- 20 High Street, Biggleswade, SG18 0JL, 31/07/2024
- 10 High Street, Cosham, PO6 3BZ, 01/07/2024
- 38 The Parade, Exmouth, EX8 1RF, 07/08/2024
- 3 The Bridge, Frome, BA11 1AR, 02/07/2024
- 53 High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DS, 14/01/2025
- 186 High Road, Loughton, IG10 1DW, 19/08/2024
- 4/8 Longfield Centre, Prestwich, M25 1AY, 05/09/2024
- 31 High Street, Redhill, RH1 1RG, 22/08/2024
- 1 King Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1HE, 26/06/2024
- 30/34 High Street, Sheffield, S1 2GE, 09/07/2024
- 84 North Street, Sudbury, CO10 1RF, 12/08/2024
- 61 Main Street Garforth, LS25 1AF, 02/07/2024
- 49 Market Place, Wetherby, LS22 6LN, 13/01/2025
- 67 Baxtergate Whitby England, YO21 1HB, 14/01/2025
- 88 High Street Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DE, 21/08/2024
Lloyds: 21 branches
Wales:
- 14 High Street, Cardigan, SA43 1JW, 27/06/2024
England:
- 445 Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury, NW9 9DX, 03/07/2024
- 55 Market Place, Wetherby, LS22 6LN, 13/01/2025
- 6 Chesterton Place, Chester Road, Newquay, TR7 2RU, 04/12/2024
- 8 Ock Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AP, 24/07/2024
- Church Street, Malpas, SY14 8NX, 20/08/2024
- 50 High Street Ross-on-Wye, HR9 5HJ, 02/12/2024
- 75 Cheap Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BD, 16/01/2025
- 13 St Thomas Centre, Exeter, EX4 1DF, 05/08/2024
- 210 Commercial Road London, E1 2JR, 06/08/2024
- 24 Bondgate Within, Alnwick, NE66 1TD, 15/01/2025
- 2 Silver Street, Ilminster, TA19 0DL, 14/08/2024
- 125 High Street, Marlborough SN8 1LU, 25/11/2024
- 13-14 Cornmarket, Thame, OX9 2BN 02/12/2024
- Unit 3, 20 Market Place, Wokingham, RG40 1AP, 08/07/2024
- 63-67 Newland Avenue, Hull, HU5 3BG, 14/01/2025
- 44 St Peters Avenue, Cleethorpes, DN35 8HL, 05/12/2024
- 40 The Square Market Harborough, LE16 7PA, 04/12/2024
- 4 Three Tuns Parade, Stafford Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 6BA, 11/09/2024
- 139-141 Barnsley Road, South Elmsall, WF9 2AA, 16/01/2025
- 7 Church Street, Clitheroe, BB7 2DD, 07/08/2024
Bank of Scotland (10 branches, all in Scotland)
- 29 Low Street, Banff, AB45 1AU, 30/07/2024
- Main Street, Bridge of Weir, PA11 3ED, 01/07/2024
- 21 East Church Street, Buckie AB56 1EX, 01/08/2024
- 5 The Square, Ellon, AB41 9JB, 10/09/2024
- 23 Bloomgate, Lanark, ML11 9EZ, 13/08/2024
- 9 Abbeygreen, Lesmahagow, ML11 0HD, 12/08/2024
- 26 John Wood Street, Port Glasgow, PA14 5HX 10/09/2024
- 1 High Street, Renfrew PA4 8QJ, 04/07/2024
- 13 Common Green, Strathaven, ML10 6AQ, 03/12/2024
- Civic Realm Leisure Centre, 27 Cowglen Road Pollok, G53 6EW, 03/07/2024
As is standard when a banking group announces closures, LINK has recommended banking hubs to be placed in Keynsham, Wetherby, Whitby, Sherborne, Alnwick, Hull and South Elmsall.
Those hubs, operated by Post Office staff, offer basic banking services including withdrawals and deposits, and any other banking transactions.
Following the recommendations, the banking group will introduce 28 ‘community bankers’, which offer customers a place to get financial support, but no transactions can take place.
The community bankers will be added to cover Lloyds closures in Abingdon, Cardigan, Clitheroe, Ilminster, Malpas, Marlborough, Market Harborough, Newquay Chester Rd, Ross-on-Wye and Thame.
For Halifax customers, they will appear in Aberdare, Abergavenny, Aberystwyth, Andover, Biggleswade, Exmouth, Haverfordwest, Loughton, Midsomer Norton, Redhill, Saffron Walden and Sudbury.
Bank of Scotland customers can use the community banker services in Banff, Buckie, Ellon, Lanark Bloomgate, Lesmahagow and Strathaven.
The closures follow Lloyds’ move in January to ditch mobile banking vans, which offered basic transactions like withdrawals and deposits to take place.
But, the bank has sought to reassure customers of their options.
Alternatives will be near closed bank branches
A Lloyds Banking Group spokesperson said: “Most of our customers now choose our mobile app or online banking as the main way to manage their money. Alongside online options, customers can also bank with us over the phone, at the Post Office, in a Banking Hub or by speaking to a community banker.”
“All of the branch locations announced for closure have alternative options for accessing cash nearby, such as a Post Office or free-to-use ATM. 28 new community bankers will be introduced, in addition to those already helping communities, to provide targeted banking support where a branch is closing.
“As with all proposed closures, these plans have been through LINK’s independent cash-access assessment, where a number of enhancements have been recommended. All closures have been made in line with FCA guidance.”
The bank offered some solace for employees at the branches which face closure, as it confirmed that “all colleagues who work at these branches will be offered a role at another branch or in another part of our business.”
