Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group, which also includes Halifax branches, has announced more branch closures across Cambridgeshire.

The Lloyds branch in March and Barclays in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, are among the locations identified in the latest round of 60 closures across the country.  

Both branches will close in the autumn, with Lloyds in March close its High Street premises on October 18.  

Barclays at Addenbrooke’s will close a month earlier, on September 15.

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Before this latest round of closures was announced, Halifax customers who use the St Neots branch were made aware its doors will close for good today.  

The Hunts Post: Halifax in High Street, St Neots, will close today (June 6). Halifax in High Street, St Neots, will close today (June 6). (Image: Google Street View)

The National Federation of Sub Postmasters distributed a memo to the press yesterday (Monday) listing the nearest post offices where Halifax customers can now bank.  

It said: “[The closure] will doubtless be disappointing to Halifax’s customers in St Neots.  

“However, alternative banking provision is available to local residents at post office branches nearby.” 

The nearest Post Office branches where customers can also bank are: St Neots High Street, Eynesbury and Longsands.  

The memo added: “Each of these branches offers banking services - including deposits, free cash withdrawals and balance checks, as well as offering face-to-face access to government services, bill payment, foreign currency, travel insurance and, of course, postal services.  

“There are many free-to-use ATMs installed across the UK post office network also.”  

Halifax has also said a community banker will also visit the area. 

Elsewhere in the county, Lloyds in Bretton, Peterborough is closing on July 17 and a fortnight later the Chesterton Road, Cambridge Branch will be closing its doors for good on July 31.  

The Ely and Wisbech branches of Lloyds, Barclays and Halifax are set to remain open.  

Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group also includes the Bank of Scotland – but there are no branches in Cambridgeshire.  

To explain the reasoning behind the closures, the banks undertake a review for each branch.    

For Lloyds branches, the introduction at the top of each document says: “Like many other high street businesses, we’ve seen people using our branches less frequently in recent years as more customers choose to do most of their everyday banking online.  

“We’re responding to the way our customers use our branches.  

“We’ll continue to invest in our branch network, but we have to make sure our branches are where customers need and use them most.  

“As a result, we've made the difficult decision to close this branch due to customers using it less often.  

“In addition, the majority of customers are also using alternative ways to bank and we have another branch close by.” 

The analysis for Barclays at Addenbrooke’s Hospital revealed that 10 customers regularly use the branch as the only way to do their banking. 

For Lloyds customers who use the Bretton and March branches, it was revealed 86 per cent and 74 per cent respectively use other Lloyds branches, internet banking or the phone bank service.  

The Halifax in St Neots revealed this figure to be 75 per cent.  

In Bretton, 28 per cent of Lloyds customers use the Post Office. In March, this figure was 30 per cent.  

While 54 per cent of Lloyds customers in Bretton also use other Lloyds branches, this figure was more than 20 per cent less for bankers using market town branches set to close.