Overview
- Sixteen named locations are scheduled to close on set dates in January, with media publishing the full list for affected towns.
- The closures are part of a wider plan to shutter about 40 additional Lloyds sites and 15 Halifax branches by the end of 2026.
- Lloyds cites more than 21 million app users as evidence of changing customer behaviour driving the network reduction.
- Customers are steered to remaining Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches, shared banking hubs, Post Office counters and cash deposits at over 30,000 PayPoint locations.
- Which? reports more than 6,600 UK bank and building society branches have closed since 2015, and Post Office counters offer only basic services such as withdrawals, deposits and balance checks.