HSBC closing 114 banks next year - see full list including three in North East

HSBC has announced that it will close over 100 bank branches across the UK from April 2023 as more customers make the move to online banking.

The bank confirmed that it has seen a major decline in the amount of customers using its physical banks since the pandemic, with some of the branches set to close serving fewer than 250 people a week. 114 branches will close next year between April and August, including one branch in Newcastle, one in North Tyneside and one in South Tyneside.

It follows more closures by HSBC in recent months, when the bank shut down its Bishop Auckland and Hartlepool branches in August and September respectively as two of the 69 branches closed by the bank across the UK this year. According to the HSBC website, next year's closures will leave just one physical branch remaining in Newcastle on Grey Street, and none in North or South Tyneside.

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Here are the three HSBC branches that will be impacted in the North East:

• The Whitley Bay branch is set to close on 2 May
• The South Shields branch will close on 13 June
• The Gosforth branch is due to close on 18 July

Jackie Uhi, HSBC UK’s managing director of UK distribution, said: "People are changing the way they bank and footfall in many branches is at an all-time low, with no signs of it returning. Banking remotely is becoming the norm for the vast majority of us.

"The decision to close a branch is never easy or taken lightly, especially if we are the last branch in an area, so we’ve invested heavily in our 'post-closure' strategy, including providing free tablet devices to selected branch customers who do not already have a device to bank digitally, alongside one-to-one coaching to help them migrate to digital banking."

The bank also closed 69 local branches this year (Newcastle Chronicle)

The full list of HSBC branches closing down is:

April

• Blandford Forum 18/04/2023
• Bristol Downend 25/04/2023
• Bexhill on Sea 18/04/2023
• Leominster 25/04/2023
• Abergavenny 18/04/2023
• Market Bosworth 25/04/2023
• Cromer 18/04/2023
• Alton 25/04/2023
• St Ives 18/04/2023
• Shaftesbury 25/04/2023
• St Austell 18/04/2023

May

• Wilmslow 02/05/2023
• Stamford 16/05/2023
• Whitley Bay 02/05/2023
• Whitby 16/05/2023
• Coleraine 02/05/2023
• Bridport 23/05/2023
• Bideford 02/05/2023
• Hove 23/05/2023
• Gainsborough 02/05/2023
• Fakenham 23/05/2023
• Launceston 02/05/2023
• Sudbury 23/05/2023
• Arnold 09/05/2023
• Liskeard 23/05/2023
• Didcot 09/05/2023
• Bristol Filton 30/05/2023
• Brecon 09/05/2023
• Dundee 30/05/2023
• Minehead 09/05/2023
• Waltham Cross 30/05/2023
• Dover 09/05/2023 11
• Hinckley Road 30/05/2023
• Halesowen 16/05/2023
• Market Harborough 30/05/2023
• Stroud 16/05/2023
• Stourport on Severn 30/05/2023
• Brighouse 16/05/2023

June

• Stirling 06/06/2023
• Twickenham 20/06/2023
• Pocklington 06/06/2023
• Ross on Wye 20/06/2023
• Chepstow 06/06/2023
• Hertford 20/06/2023
• Knutsford 06/06/2023
• Wells 20/06/2023
• Frome 06/06/2023
• Bicester 20/06/2023
• Portadown 06/06/2023
• Oakham 20/06/2023
• Penarth 13/06/2023
• New Milton 27/06/2023
• Ilkley 13/06/2023
• Lewes 27/06/2023
• South Shields 13/06/2023
• Pontypool 27/06/2023
• Skipton 13/06/2023
• Beccles 27/06/2023
• Honiton 13/06/2023
• St Neots 27/06/2023
• Sleaford 13/06/2023
• Wadebridge 27/06/2023

July

• Portishead 04/07/2023
• Horsforth 18/07/2023
• Droitwich 04/07/2023
• Gosforth 18/07/2023
• Leatherhead 04/07/2023
• Harpenden 18/07/2023
• Palmers Green 04/07/2023
• Bognor Regis 18/07/2023
• Coalville 04/07/2023
• Marlow 18/07/2023
• Park Gate Southampton 11/07/2023
• Christchurch 25/07/2023
• Wetherby 11/07/2023
• Seaford 25/07/2023
• Port Talbot 11/07/2023
• Blackwood 25/07/2023
• Kingswinford 11/07/2023
• Norwich Mile Cross 25/07/2023
• Long Eaton 11/07/2023
• Ripley 25/07/2023
• Bromborough 18/07/2023
• Tonbridge 25/07/2023

August

• Bristol Westbury on Trym 01/08/2023
• Bethnal Green 15/08/2023
• Ormskirk 01/08/2023
• Hornchurch 15/08/2023
• Putney 01/08/2023
• Colwyn Bay 15/08/2023
• Ashton under Lyne 01/08/2023
• Dorchester 22/08/2023
• Kenilworth 01/08/2023
• Morley 22/08/2023
• Reigate 08/08/2023
• Wymondham 22/08/2023
• North Finchley 08/08/2023
• Ryde 22/08/2023
• Cirencester 08/08/2023
• Windsor 22/08/2023
• Henley on Thames 08/08/2023
• Cardiff Rhyd y Penau 29/08/2023
• Denbigh 08/08/2023
• Leighton Buzzard 29/08/2023
• 122 Finchley Road 15/08/2023
• Eastwood 29/08/2023
• Chippenham 15/08/2023

Branches that will close with no set date

• Oxted
• Hythe
• Epworth
• Cowbridge
• Holsworthy
• Settle
• Tenby

Branch refurbishments planned for 2023

• Bournemouth Middlesbrough
• Liverpool Lord St Sheffield
• Bishopsgate Guildford
• Baker St Oxford
• Leicester Lincoln
• Walsall Telford
• Portsmouth Belfast
• Doncaster Harrow
• Southampton Cardiff Queen St
• Hull Peterborough

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