Overview

• Twenty-one branches are closing in September, including 17 Halifax sites and four Lloyds Bank locations.
• A further 24 closures are scheduled in October and 25 in November, bringing the seasonal total to 70.
• Halifax plans 37 closures across autumn and Lloyds Bank 29, with additional changes at Bank of Scotland and one Santander branch.
• London is set to lose 12 branches and the North West 11, with every English region plus parts of Scotland and Wales affected.
• Roughly 6,300 branches have closed since 2015 and 1,879 have shut or been announced since a 2022 impact-assessment agreement, while autumn closures have slowed from 223 in 2022 to 70 this year, with LINK banking hubs and free ATMs deployed to preserve access for vulnerable customers.