Eight North West TSB bank branches set for closure next year in restructuring plans

Banking group TSB has announced the closure of 82 branches throughout the UK next year, including eight in the North West.

The sites earmarked for closure are: Urmston (June); Chester (June); Chorlton, Manchester (October); Congleton (October); Warrington – Penketh (October); Leyland (November); St Annes-on-Sea (November); and Ormskirk (November).

Its cutbacks are part of a plan by new chief executive Debbie Crosbie to make £100m of cost cuts by 2022.

Around 370 jobs are expected to be affected by the closure programme.

The bank is repositioning itself following its IT crisis last year, which affected 1.9 million customers.

Robin Bulloch, customer banking director at TSB, said: “We will fully support customers through this transition.

“We realise this is difficult news for our branch partners and will do everything to support those affected to offer voluntary redundancies and redeploy as many people as we can to other roles.”

Once the closure programme is complete by the end of 2020, TSB will be left with 454 UK-wide branches.