Full list of UK high street closures confirmed in 2025, from WH Smith to Homebase

If you’ve been into town recently, you know what’s up. You’ve seen the boarded up windows, you’ve noticed your usual haunts disappearing, you’ve benefited from an ‘everything must go – half off!’ sale once or twice. You can see that it’s a shop-ageddon out there on UK high streets, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down.

In 2023, we lost Wilko, and then in 2024 we got it back. Then we said goodbye to a bunch of Marks and Spencers, some Boots, a few Body Shops, and plenty more. In fact, some studies have estimated that Britain lost up to 37 shops a day in 2024. Although we all hoped that the new year would bring good news for our high streets, it’s looking like 2025 might just be more of the same.

It’s not all doom and gloom, but it’s useful to know exactly what’s coming and going so that you don’t plan an entire shopping day around a store which has closed its doors for the last time. Here’s an exhaustive list of all the big places shutting up shop this year across the country.

All the UK high street closures in 2025

WH Smith

There’s no need to panic buy your pens and cut-price hardbacks, even though WH Smith is shutting 17 stores this year and could sell all 500 of its high-street shops in the UK, it’s also planning a big expansion sometime in the future. So it’s not a definitively bad picture for the stationary salespeople.

For now, though, here are the branches confirmed to be closing.

• Bournemouth Old Christchurch Road, Dorset (January 18)
• Luton, Bedfordshire (January 18)
• March, Cambridgeshire (January 25)
• Basingstoke, Hampshire (February 1)
• Newtown, Powys (February 15)
• Winton branch in Bournemouth, Dorset (February 15)
• Rhyl, Denbighshire (February 15)
• Bolton, Greater Manchester (February)
• Accrington, Lancashire (March 15)
• Halstead, Essex (April)
• Halesowen, West Midlands (April)
• Diss, Norfolk (April)
• Newport, Isle of Wight (April)
• Haverhill, Suffolk (April 26)
• Stockton, County Durham (May)
• Oldham, Greater Manchester (May)
• Orpington, Greater London (no specified date)

Homebase

Homebase had some trouble late last year, going into administration and putting loads of its stores up for sale. Luckily, though, new buyers were able to save 70 branches across the country, while some were sold to Sainsbury’s and B&Q. Thirteen Homebase sites will close before the end of January. 

The Homebase stores closing are:

• Bradford
• Broadstairs
• Cheltenham
• Colchester Stanway
• Coventry
• Derby Chaddesden
• Gloucester
• Hull Hessle
• London Streatham Vale
• Oban
• Oldbury
• Romford
• Wolverhampton

Find out more here.

Wetherspoons

No Wetherspoon pubs have been officially confirmed as closing, but several are either for sale or ‘under offer’. Here are those. 

• The Ivor Davies, Cardiff (for sale)
• The Quay, Poole (for sale)
• Sir Daniel Arms, Swindon (under offer)

Find out more here.

NatWest

NatWest Group – which also features NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank – has shut over 1,400 high street branches in the past decade. In January it also revealed that dozens more will close, as 54 NatWest branches will close between now and the end of June. Here are the bank branches slated for closure. 

• Accrington, June 5
• Aintree Black Bull, May 14
• Allenton, May 13
• Alfreton & Clay Cross, June 2
• Basford, May 21
• Beverley, June 25
• Bishop Auckland, April 29
• Bridlington, June 11
• Cannock, May 12
• Chapel Allerton, April 30
• Chingford, TBC
• Cleveleys, April 28
• Cross Gates, June 10
• Dewsbury, April 28
• Eanam, May 12
• Ellesmere Port Town Centre, June 4
• Hazel Grove, June 19
• Heaton Chapel, June 3
• Hollinwood, May 7
• Farnworth, May 15
• Garstang, June 26
• Goole, May 14
• Keighley, June 16
• Leek, June 16
• Leyland, May 15
• Long Eaton, May 29
• Longton, June 5
• Louth, May 28
• Manchester Portland Street, June 11
• Mansfield, June 26
• Market Drayton (TBC)
• Mexborough, June 3
• Middleton, April 30
• Morley, May 8
• Nantwich, June 19
• Newark, June 17
• Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, May 1
• Rawtenstall, May 29
• Rochdale, June 10
• Sheffield, May 7
• Stafford Greengate, June 25
• Annes-on-Sea, June 24
• Stockton on Tees, June 4
• Trafford Park, May 20
• Urmston, May 13
• Uttoxeter, June 2
• Wallasey, May 21
• Washington, June 17
• West Bridgford, June 24
• Widnes, May 8
• Willerby and Kirk Ella, April 29
• Wilmslow, May 20
• Windermere, May 1
• Worksop, June 18

Find out more here.

Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland)

Lloyds Banking Group includes Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland – and it’s closing 136 branches across the UK between now and March 2026. Here’s the full list of closures.

Lloyds Bank closures

• Biggleswade
• Bishop Auckland
• Blandford
• Bolton Farnworth
• Bridgnorth
• Brigg
• Bristol Bishopsworth
• Bristol Clifton
• Bristol Patchway
• Bromsgrove
• Bury
• Cardiff Whitchurch
• Caterham
• Chard
• Coventry Foleshill
• Dorchester
• Dunstable 
• East Grinstead
• Falmouth 
• Feltham
• Ferndown
• Fulham
• Glossop
• Godalming
• Herne Bay
• Hexham
• Hornchurch Station Lane
• Houghton le Spring
• Hucknall
• Kidderminster
• Launceston
• Leeds Crossgates
• Leominster
• Leyland
• Liverpool Breck Rd 
• Loughton
• Louth
• Ludlow
• Manchester Moston
• Manchester Newton Heath
• Margate
• Pembroke Dock
• Peterlee Yoden Way
• Plymstock
• Pontardawe
• Pontyclun
• Prudhoe
• Rayleigh
• Seaton
• Sheffield Woodhouse
• Shipston–on–Stour
• Sleaford
• Southall
• Southsea
• Stoke–on–Trent 
• Thornbury Avon
• Tooting
• Tunstall 
• Walthamstow
• Welwyn Garden City
• Wymondham 

Halifax branch closures

• Balham
• Bangor
• Barrow in Furness
• Bexleyheath
• Birmingham Bearwood
• Blackpool Lytham Road
• Bolton
• Brentwood
• Bromsgrove
• Cannon Street
• Carmarthen
• Castleford 
• Cirencester
• Clapham Junction
• Crewe
• Derby East St
• Eltham
• Epsom 
• Erdington 
• Felixstowe
• Fleetwood 
• Folkestone 
• Fulham
• Gainsborough
• Hayes
• Hexham
• Horsforth 
• Hove 
• Huntingdon
• Kingsbury
• Kingswood
• Launceston
• Leek
• Letchworth 
• London Strand
• Long Eaton
• Mold 
• Nelson 
• Northwich 
• Omagh
• Peterlee 
• Pontypridd 
• Rayleigh 
• Rhyl 
• Richmond (Surrey) 
• Sittingbourne 
• Skegness 
• Sleaford 
• Southport 
• St Annes 
• St Austell 
• Stevenage Queensway
• Telford 
• Walkden 
• Wallasey 
• Waltham Cross
• Welwyn Garden City 
• Wickford 
• Wilmslow 
• Winton 
• Woolwich 

Bank of Scotland branch closures

• Alexandria 
• Annan 
• Barrhead 
• Bishopbriggs 
• Edinburgh Corstorphine West 
• Edinburgh Wester Hailes 
• Helensburgh
• Kirkintilloch
• Moffat
• Peebles 
• Pitlochry 
• Sanquhar
• Thornhill
• Uddingston

Sainsbury’s cafés

The supermarket chain is shutting all remaining in-store cafés, as well as patisserie, pizza and hot food counters, cutting a total of 3,000 jobs. Here are all the Sainsbury’s branches losing their café. 

• Fosse Park, Leicestershire
• Pontypridd, South Wales
• Rustington, West Sussex
• Scarborough, North Yorkshire
• Penzance, Cornwall
• Denton, Greater Manchester
• Wrexham, North Wales
• Longwater, Norwich, Norfolk
• Ely, Cambridgeshire
• Pontllanfraith, South Wales
• Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire
• Nantwich, Cheshire
• Pinhoe Road, Exeter, Devon
• Pepper Hill - Northfleet, Kent
• Marshall Lake, Solihull, West Midlands
• Rhyl, North Wales
• Lincoln, Lincolnshire
• Bridgemead, Swindon, Wiltshire
• Larkfield, Aylesford, Kent
• Whitchurch Bargates, Shropshire
• Sedlescombe Road, Hastings, East Sussex
• Barnstaple, Devon
• Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
• Kings Lynn Hardwick, Norfolk
• Truro, Cornwall
• Warren Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk
• Godalming, Surrey
• Hereford, Herefordshire
• Chichester, West Sussex
• Bognor Regis, West Sussex
• Newport, South Wales
• Talbot Heath, Dorset
• Rugby, Warwickshire
• Cannock, Staffordshire
• Leek, Staffordshire
• Winterstoke Road, Bristol
• Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater Manchester
• Morecambe, Lancashire
• Darlington, County Durham
• Monks Cross, Huntington, North Yorkshire
• Marsh Mills, Plymouth, Devon
• Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex
• Durham, County Durham
• Bamber Bridge, Lancashire
• Weedon Road, Northampton, East Midlands
• Hempstead Valley, Kent
• Hedge End, Hampshire
• Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• Thanet Westwood Cross, Kent
• Stanway, Colchester, Essex
• Castle Point, Essex
• Isle of Wight
• Keighley, West Yorkshire
• Swadlincote, Derbyshire
• Leicester North, East Midlands
• Wakefield Marsh Way, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
• Torquay, Devon
• Waterlooville, Hampshire
• Macclesfield, Cheshire
• Harrogate, North Yorkshire
• Cheadle, Greater Manchester

Find out more here.

The Entertainer

Since the death of Toys R’ Us (GBNF), the Entertainer has been working overtime to provide the children of Britain with birthday and Christmas presents, and things are generally going well. However, it has announced that one shop will be shuttered this year.

The Entertainer store closing will be:

• Cameron Toll shopping centre, Edinburgh (January 4)

Monki

Owned by H&M, Monki only even made it to the UK’s streets in 2012, and it’s already waving them goodbye. It currently has seven stores across the country, all of which will close, although H&M has suggested that a ‘limited number’ will become Weekday stores, another of its subsidiaries, but hasn’t said which ones or when.

The full list of Monkis closing is as follows:

• Newcastle (January 2)
• Manchester (January 17)
• Glasgow (no specified date)
• Sheffield (no specified date)
• Birmingham (no specified date)
• Bristol (no specified date)
• London (no specified date)

Millets

Outdoor retailer Millets has announced that six of its 100 UK stores will be closing in the near future. However, four will become Go Outdoors instead, so you’ll still be able gear up whenever you need to.

Here are the Millets locations due to become Go Outdoors:

• Lowestoft (no specified date)
• Douglas (no specified date)
• York (no specified date)
• Grimsby (no specified date)

And here are the Millets closing for good:

• Burgess Hill, West Sussex (January 2025)

​​Co-op

In the biggest round of closures yet announced for this year, the The Central England Co-operative has listed 19 branches which will say goodbye within the next six months. Three of these Co-ops (which are not Co-op supermarket chain) will become B&M home stores, but it is yet to be announced which.

Here are the Co-ops due to close, or be converted, soon:

• Barnby Dun, High Street, South Yorkshire (no specified date)
• Broughton, High St, Northamptonshire (no specified date)
• Croft, Pochin Street, Leicestershire (no specified date)
• Desborough, Hill Top, Braybrooke Road, Northamptonshire (no specified date)
• Dudley, Overfield Road, West Midlands (no specified date)
• Eastwood, Nottingham Road, Nottinghamshire (no specified date)
• Enderby, Mill Lane, Leicestershire (no specified date)
• Kingstanding, Hawthorn Road, West Midlands (no specified date)
• Leicester, Evington Rd, Leicestershire (no specified date)
• Leicester, Narborough Rd, Leicestershire (no specified date)
• Narborough, Station Road, Leicestershire (no specified date)
• Peterborough, Mayors Walk, Cambridgeshire (no specified date)
• Sprowston, Chartwell Road, Norfolk (no specified date)
• Stafford, Baswich Lane, Staffordshire (no specified date)
• Wigston, Blaby Road, Leicestershire (no specified date)
• Yardley, Stoney Lane, West Midlands (no specified date)
• Cromer, Middlebrook Way, Norfolk (no specified date)
• Erdington, High Street, West Midlands (no specified date)
• Shepshed, Hallcroft, Leicestershire (no specified date)

Shoe Zone

Shoe Zone’s fate currently hangs in the balance, although its bosses have cautioned that things haven’t been going as well as they’d like them to, and they’re likely to need to cut back on both stores and staff. Nothing has been announced yet, but we’ll upload this page as and when news breaks about the future of the budget footwear retailer.