Lloyds Banking Group has revealed one other 45 branches are to be shut amid no signal the wave of closures throughout the trade is nearing completion.
Lloyds mentioned it was closing 22 Halifax branches, 19 Lloyds branches and 4 within the Bank of Scotland enterprise subsequent 12 months.
It takes the group complete to at the least 276 websites this 12 months and subsequent alone.
The announcement follows sizzling on the heels of rival NatWest, which lately introduced an extra 19 closures throughout its manufacturers.
The newest closures take the overall variety of excessive road branches shut throughout the sector to 623 to this point this 12 months, with Barclays main the best way with 185.
The wave of closures started as lenders – lots of them rescued by the taxpayer through the monetary crash of 2008 – moved to chop prices aggressively.
Banks say the closures are all linked to a collapse in demand for department companies as extra prospects use on-line companies as a substitute.
However, client teams and charities argue that many purchasers are nonetheless struggling to entry the companies they want.
That is regardless of preparations to make sure banking companies stay out there in communities which have misplaced their predominant branches.
The Lloyds Banking Group branches to be shut – and the proposed date of closure:
Halifax:
• Lymington – High Street – March 11
• Macclesfield – Chestergate – March 11
• Barnet – High Street – March 12
• Orpington – High Street – March 12
• Dereham – Church Street – March 14
• Stamford – High Street – March 14
• Barry – Holton Road – March 18
• Dartford – High Street – March 18
• Penrith – Middlegate – March 19
• Diss – Market Place – March 20
• Stafford – Greengate Street – April 8
• Whitehaven – King Street – April 9
• Ilford – High Street – April 15
• Morley – Windsor Court – April 16
• Daventry – High Street – April 17
• Herne Bay – Mortimer Street – April 17
• Borehamwood – Shenley Road – April 18
• Spalding – Bridge Street – April 18
• Bridgwater – Fore Street – April 23
• New Milton – Station Road – April 23
• Dagenham – Heathway – May 15
• Hessle – The Square – August 15
Lloyds:
• Orpington – High Street – March 13
• Dartford – High Street – March 13
• Macclesfield – Chestergate – March 19
• Spalding – Bridge Street – March 20
• Diss – Market Place – March 21
• Lymington – High Street – March 26
• Barnet – High Street – April 3
• Whitehaven – King Street – April 3
• Dereham – Church Street – April 4
• Barry – Holton Road – April 4
• Borehamwood – Shenley Road – April 11
• Bridgwater – Fore Street – April 22
• Daventry – High Street – April 30
• Stamford – High Street – November 13
• Stafford – Greengate Street – November 13
• Herne Bay – Mortimer Street – November 13
• Penrith – Middlegate – November 14
• Ilford – High Street – November 14
• Morley – Windsor Court – November 14
Bank of Scotland:
• Glasgow – Byres Road – March 21
• Tarbert – Harbour Street – April 29
• Bowmore – Shore Street – May 8
• Helensburgh – Shore Road – August 15
Source: information.sky.com”