NatWest is set to close 14 more branches in June 2026, pushing its total number of branch closures this year to 37. The bank's latest round includes sites from Aldershot to Welwyn Garden City, with the first of the June closures listed for Hemel Hempstead on June 1.
The timing matters because customers are looking at a bank that is still cutting back while trying to shift more everyday banking online. Fulham Broadway and Halifax are the last listed June closures, both scheduled for June 18, after 15 branches already closed earlier in the month, including Harlow, Brentwood, Barnet and Cheetham Hill.
The June list shows the scale of the change: Boston, Grays, Kirkby Lonsdale, Liverpool Street Station, Palmers Green, Pontefract, Attercliffe, South Shields and Southall are among the branches due to shut, alongside Aldershot, Fulham Broadway, Halifax, Hemel Hempstead and Welwyn Garden City. Taken with the earlier closures, the bank will have removed 37 branches from its network by the end of June.
NatWest said banking has changed dramatically in recent years and that there is more demand for mobile and online services. It also said it wants to make sure customers are fully informed and supported every step of the way. The bank plans to replace many branches with banking hubs, a move meant to preserve access to some in-person services as the footprint shrinks.
That pledge is where the picture becomes less tidy. Some closures are still scheduled well beyond June, including a branch in Evesham in late August 2026 and one on Regent Street in London in late September 2026. Two more, in Godalming and Sydenham, are due to close in late February 2027 unless banking hubs trigger a change in closure dates, leaving open how much access will really remain and where those replacement hubs will land.
For customers, the next deadline is immediate rather than theoretical: Hemel Hempstead is first on June 1, and the June run then continues until mid-month. By then, NatWest will have underlined how quickly its branch network is being pared back, even as it argues that banking hubs will soften the loss.
