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The major bank is closing almost 100 of its branches across the UK

Almost 100 Santander branches are set to close from June as the bank makes sweeping changes to its services due to the increase in digital banking.

The 95 closures – including two in Greater Manchester – will put 750 jobs at risk of redundancy and will begin in June.

Spanish-owned Santander with be left with 349 branches in the UK – including 290 full-service sites and five so-called work cafes – after all of the changes take place.

As well as announcing the closures in March, the firm also confirmed it will be cutting hours across 36 of its sites and making 18 branches counter-free as part of an overhaul that will impact more than a third of its 444-strong network.

The overhaul follows the closure of 111 branches in 2021 – around a fifth of its network at the time – as part of its last major network review.

Customers increasingly switching to online banking has been cited as the cause of the changes, with digital transactions at the bank increasing by 63% since 2019 and branch transactions going down by 61%.

A Santander UK spokesman said: “As customer behaviour changes, we are ensuring that our branches remain fit for the future.

“Our new combination of full-service branches, alongside work cafes, counter-free branches and reduced hours branches, aims to provide the right balance between digital banking and face-to-face money management and guidance.

“Closing a branch is always a very difficult decision and we spend a great deal of time assessing where and when we do this and how to minimise the impact it may have on our customers.”

The proposed closures will see 71 Santander branches shut in England, 10 in Scotland, seven in Wales, and seven in Northern Ireland.

Among those closing will be the branches on Flixton Road in Urmston and on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury.

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Full list of Santander branch closures

• Aberdare June 24
• Arbroath June 17
• Armagh July 1
• Blackwood June 23
• Blyth August 5
• Bognor Regis July 14
• Borehamwood July 1
• Brecon June 25
• Brixton August 11
• Caernarfon July 7
• Camborne July 7
• Canvey Island August 5
• Clacton June 16
• Cleveleys June 23
• Colne July 14
• Colwyn Bay July 24
• Crowborough July 23
• Croydon June 16
• Cumbernauld July 7
• Didsbury July 8
• Downpatrick August 6
• Dungannon June 23
• Edgware Road London, August 12
• Eltham June 23
• Exmouth July 15
• Falmouth July 21
• Farnham July 29
• Felixstowe July 16
• Finchley August 6
• Fleet June 30
• Formby August 11
• Gateshead June 16
• Glasgow St Vincent St, June 24
• Glasgow The Avenue, Newton Mearns, June 23
• Greenford June 24
• Hackney July 15
• Hawick July 24
• Herne Bay July 8
• Hertford July 29
• Holloway July 14
• Holywell August 13
• Honiton July 14
• Kidderminster June 18
• Kilburn June 17
• Kirkby July 22
• Launceston June 16
• Louth June 17
• Magherafelt June 24
• Malvern July 2
• Market Harborough July 1
• Musselburgh June 30
• New Milton July 28
• Peterhead June 16
• Plympton August 14
• Portadown June 30
• Pudsey July 28
• Rawtenstall July 15
• Ross-On-Wye July 30
• Ruislip July 7
• Rustington August 5
• Saltcoats July 21
• Seaford July 14
• Shaftesbury July 23
• Sidcup August 11
• St Austell July 8
• St Neots July 30
• Stokesley July 31
• Strabane July 23
• Surrey Quays London, November 10
• Swadlincote June 30
• Tenterden July 7
• Torquay June 17
• Tottenham July 8
• Whitley Bay August 6
• Willerby August 13
• Wimborne August 4
• Wishaw July 22
• Bexhill (date TBA)
• Billericay (date TBA)
• Dover (date TBA)
• Droitwich (date TBA)
• Dunstable (date TBA)
• East Grinstead (date TBA)
• Holyhead (date TBA)
• Ilkley (date TBA)
• Larne (date TBA)
• Lytham St Annes (date TBA)
• Maldon (date TBA)
• Morley (date TBA)
• North Walsham (date TBA)
• Redcar (date TBA)
• Saffron Walden (date TBA)
• Turriff (date TBA)
• Uckfield (date TBA)
• Urmston (date TBA)

From June 30, the majority of Santander’s reduced-hours branches will be open just three days a week, either Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9.30am to 3pm, or Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9.30am to 3pm and Saturdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm.

Eighteen sites will become counter-free branches from June 16, but they will also be manned by staff to offer face-to-face support, with an average of eight workers in these branches.

The group said it will recruit 95 new community bankers in the locations where it is shutting branches and hopes to redeploy some of the affected workers into these jobs.

New community bankers will visit local communities on a weekly basis, based in centres such as libraries and community halls.

For a full interactive map of branches closing, including closure dates, see here.