Full list of UK high street closures confirmed in 2025, from Co-op to WH Smith

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, because WH Smith has only announced one more closure at present. This follows ten others in the past two years, and they’re also planning a big expansion sometime in the future, so it’s not a definitively bad picture for the stationary salesmen.

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

• Winton, Bournemouth (February 15)

Homebase

Homebase had some trouble late last year, going into administration and putting 74 of its stores up for sale. Luckily, though, new buyers were able to save 70 branches across the country, leaving just four on the cutting room floor, without confirmed closure dates.

The Homebase stores closing are:

• Derry/Londonderry (no specified date)
• Inverurie (no specified date)
• Omagh (no specified date)
• Glenrothes, Fife (no specified date)

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 Co-op has listed 19 branches which will say goodbye within the next six months. Three of these Co-ops 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.