Overview
- Closures span Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Barclays, NatWest and Santander, with dates from 3 to 28 November.
- Updated lists name specific sites such as Bristol Bishopsworth, Sheffield Woodhouse, Manchester Newton Heath, NatWest Garstang and Barclays Northampton Wellingborough Road.
- Lloyds Banking Group says more than 21 million customers now use its apps, offers Post Office, Banking Hubs and PayPoint access, and will offer affected staff roles elsewhere.
- Which? counts 6,443 bank and building society branch closures since 2015, with the annual rate slowing from a 2023 peak.
- Parliamentary analysis links the decline to changing consumer behaviour and ATM economics, warning of heavier impacts on elderly, digitally excluded and low-income people and on cash-handling small businesses.