Santander UK is closing 44 branches— are your branches affected? | money news
Centro has announced plans to close 44 bank branches, putting around 300 jobs at risk.
The lender said its move is a continued response to the changing needs of its customers as more people bank online.
Less than a year has passed since the announcement of plans to close 95 sites.
Centro UK announced that its latest decision would reduce its number of full service branches to just 244.
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The company revealed a list of affected locations and closure dates:
Andover, Hampshire, 12 May
Banbridge, County Down, 19 May
Bangor, County Down, 29 April
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, 28 April
Bishop Auckland, County Durham, 5 May
Boston, Lincolnshire, April 28
Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, 12 May
Bridgwater, Somerset, 29 April
Cwmbran, Gwent, 13 May
Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 12 May
Evesham, Worcestershire, 28 April
Glengormley, County Antrim, 6 May
Golders Green, London, 13 May
Gosport, Hampshire, 5 May
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, 5 May
Heswall, Merseyside, 13 May
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 5 May
Kirkintilloch, Lanarkshire, 29 April
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, by the end of January 2027
Leyland, Lancashire, 6 May
Liskeard, Cornwall, 20 May
Macclesfield, Cheshire, 12 May
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 6 May
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 29 April
Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, 6 May
Mould, Clyde, 28 April
Newbury, Berkshire, 29 April
Newton Abbot, Devon, 19 May
Northallerton, North Yorkshire, 6 May
Ormskirk, Lancashire, by the end of January 2027
Pontefract, West Yorkshire, 5 May
Ramsgate, Kent, 28 April
Redditch, Worcestershire, 13 May
Ringwood, Hampshire, 6 May
Scunthorpe, South Humberside, 29 April
Shirley, West Midlands, 20 May
Stafford, Staffordshire, 19 May
Stranraer, Wigtownshire, 13 May
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, 12 May
Tonbridge, Kent, 29 April
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, 5 May
Whitehaven, Cumbria, by the end of January 2027
Wilmslow, Cheshire, by the end of January 2027
Woking, Surrey, 28 April
The bank group based in Spain announced that 96% of all transactions now occur through digital channels.
It reassured critics of widespread industry branch closures around access to banking and stressed that its community banker programme would help areas where entire branches are closing.
Its remaining network will also include 19 counter-free branches.
reduced-hour branches, six work cafes and 111 Sanchez residents.
Two-thirds of UK networks have disappeared over the past 10 years as the industry moved away from expensive branch services, but branch services have declined sharply since the financial crisis in 2008/9.
A spokesperson for Santander said, “We will continue to invest in our branch network – including full-service branches, counter-free branches, reduced-hours branches, Santander Locals and our increasingly popular work cafés – as well as our digital banking services, so we can be there to support our customers, however they choose to bank with us.”
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