JohnLloyds Banking Group has announced closure of another 55 branches and in Leeds these are Harehills on 8 January 2025 and Armley on 8 September 2025.
It means that Lloyds Banking Group will have shut 292 branches in the two years between January 2024 and December 2025, as part of a wider corporate overhaul designed to cut costs and push customers towards digital banking.
Lloyds said that transactions in the 55 branches had fallen by 55% over the past five years, while use of its mobile banking app had grown.
Leeds City Council’s Neighbourhood Centres Co-ordinator, Peter Mudge, is investigating the possibility of Harehills qualifying for a baing hub.
He said: “In an article in West Leeds Dispatch (here), they have confirmed they will keep the one in Armley open till a banking hub is built, but I am still trying to find out what the situation is in the fast approaching closure of the one in Harehills – containing the second largest number of shops in the city.”
Banking hubs are a shared space, similar to a traditional bank branch, but available to everyone.
Any local shopkeepers interested in helping ensure a banking hub is available in Harehills, comtact peter.mudge@leeds.gov.uk.
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