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One part of Plymouth has become a banking desert along with 29 UK areas


One part of Plymouth has become a “banking desert”, along with 29 other areas across the UK. Plymouth Moor View is the only area in the South West that does not have a single branch open.

The number of UK bank branches to close their doors in the past nine years has passed 6,000 today, according to Which?
The consumer group said the milestone highlights the impact this “avalanche” of closures has had on high streets and the need to provide replacement services for millions of people who rely on them.




The wave of closures means that 34 parliamentary constituency areas either have no branch of any bank left now, or will lose their last bank before the end of this year.

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That will leave no banks left to serve a population of 94,000 in Moor View, 121,000 people in Mid Bedfordshire, 117,000 in Dagenham and Rainham, and 117,000 in Erith and Thamesmead.

In total, more than three million people will have no bank anywhere near where they live by the end of the year. You can find out whether you live in a banking desert using our interactive map.

Which? said that eight Barclays branches were shutting their doors on Friday, taking the total by the end of the day on May 17 to 6,005.

This equated to over 60% of the bank branch network since Which? began tracking closures in 2015.



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