HSBC has announced that dozens of its branches across the UK are set to close their doors in 2022. 

Three branches from Sussex are on the list with the Uckfield, East Grinstead, and Burgess Hill branches being axed this summer.

The East Grinstead HSBC will be the first of the Sussex branches to go on August 2, 2022.

This is followed by the Uckfield branch on August 11, while Burgess Hill will stay open for slightly longer before closing on September 13.

The move, which could hit around 400 workers across the 69 branches set to close, is the latest in a flurry of closure announcements by the UK’s biggest banks.

In January last year, HSBC announced 82 previous closures.

It comes as the bank has made a move to focus more on online banking due to changes in modern banking habits, with fewer than 50 per cent of customers using physical branches.

Jackie Uhi, head of HSBC UK’s branch network, said: “The way people bank is changing – something the pandemic has accelerated. 

“Our branches continue to support people with their more complex banking needs, but the way we can do this has also evolved, with the addition of banking hubs, community pop ups and continued use of the Post Office network.

“Rather than a one-size-fits-all branch approach, it’s an approach built around the way different customers are choosing to bank in different areas.”

Full list of HSBC bank branches closing in 2022

July:

City of London – July 19

Westfield Stratford City – July 19

New Bond Street – July 19

Cambridge Hills Road – July 21

Moorgate – July 21

Angel Islington – July 21

Gloucester Road – July 26

Monmouth – July 26

Perth – July 26

Hammersmith – July 28

Merry Hill – July 28

Woking – July 28

August:

East Grinstead – August 2

Peckham – August 2

Farnham – August 2

Beaconsfield – August 4

Street – August 4

Lymington – August 4

Sidcup – August 9

Thame – August 9

Hoddesdon – August 9

Birmingham, Harborne – August 11

Londonderry – August 11

Uckfield – August 11

Leyland – August 16

Omagh – August 16

Borehamwood & Elstree – August 16

Golders Green – August 18

Stowmarket – August 18

Eltham – August 18

Wellingborough – August 23

Amersham-on-the-Hill – August 23

Bishop Auckland – August 23

Ashby-de-la-Zouch – August 25

Woodbridge – August 25

Thornbury – August 25

September:

New Malden – September 1

Hartlepool – September 1

Keynsham – September 1

Pinner – September 6

Dewsbury – September 6

Barking – September 6

Newmarket – September 8

Billericay – September 8

Beckenham – September 8

Sidmouth – September 13

Burgess Hill – September 13

Daventry – September 13

Nottingham, West Bridgford – September 15

Ellesmere Port – September 15

Strood – September 15

St Annes-on-Sea – September 20

Ringwood – September 20

Pontefract – September 20

Ilkeston – September 22

Petersfield – September 22

Whitehaven – September 22

Hampstead High Street – September 27

Inverness – September 27

Wandsworth – September 27

Manchester, Didsbury – September 29

Bristol, Whiteladies Road – September 29

Shirley – September 29

October:

Herne Bay – October 4

Manchester, Trafford Park – October 4

Cardiff, Canton – October 4

Falmouth – October 6

Bootle – October 6