{"id":26252,"date":"2020-11-10T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26252"},"modified":"2020-11-10T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:32:29","slug":"barclays-are-leaving-the-marcham-road-homebase-could-be-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26252","title":{"rendered":"Barclays are leaving the Marcham Road &#8211; Homebase could be returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111000.jpg\" alt=\"Barclays Closing - Homebase Re-opening\" \/><br \/>\nBarclays have sent letters to customers of the Abingdon Marcham Road branch to say that the branch is closing on the 10th February 2021. They are closing other branches including those at Botley and Didcot. The Barclays at The Square in Abingdon must still have enough  visitors as it is kept open.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111001.jpg\" alt=\"Barclays Closing - Homebase Re-opening\" \/><br \/>\nThe main reasons, given by the bank, why the Abingdon Marcham Road is closing:<br \/>\n\u2022 Customer visits have gone down over the last 2 years<br \/>\n\u2022 82% of customers have other ways of banking, and this percent has increased<br \/>\n\u2022 57% of this branch&#8217;s customers have been using nearby branches<br \/>\n\u2022 29 customers use this branch exclusively for their banking<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111003.jpg\" alt=\"Barclays Closing - Homebase Re-opening\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Fairacres retail park, across the Marcham Road, a new planning application <a href=\"https:\/\/data.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/java\/support\/Main.jsp?MODULE=ApplicationDetails&amp;REF=P20\/V2809\/FUL#exactline\">P20\/V2809\/FUL<\/a> requests that the 3 remaining units (of the phase 2 development) will need an exterior garden centre. The application mentions Homebase. So if this goes ahead,\u00a0 in late 2021, it will mean Homebase are returning with a brand new store taking the last 3 new units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barclays have sent letters to customers of the Abingdon Marcham Road branch to say that the branch is closing on the 10th February 2021. They are closing other branches including those at Botley and Didcot. The Barclays at The Square in Abingdon must still have enough visitors as it is kept open. The main reasons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}