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Reigate's empty shops including Barclays and Natwest and what is ... (Surrey Live)

Here SurreyLive lists four major properties within Reigate which still remain unused and have been placed on the market. From banks to army training centres, ...

Sign up to our weekly newsletter to get more news from the town direct to your inbox. However, a larger, and so far unidentified, organic company is interested in the premises with the current owner now weighing up a sale or opening up. Since 2012 we have seen the way in which people use [the] Natwest Reigate branch change dramatically, with 89 per cent of customers already banking in other ways locally.” On the ground floor is an open plan bar area with a rear garden perfect for the summer while there is a two-bedroom flat on the first floor. Royal Bank of Scotland, which own Natwest, pointed to changing consumer habits as the main reason for shutting down. Also on Rightmove is 85 Bell Street, better known to people as the premises of cocktail bar Joules. A three to four-bedroom house also comes along with a purchase of the site. On the While once used for the reserves the site has since gone on sale on Rightmove’s commercial website with 30,492 square feet of land available for offers in excess of £3,500,000. Nearly half of the customers had been using nearby branches, with another Barclays in neighbouring In a leaflet notifying residents about the closure, Reigate is not usually the first place you think of when someone mentions unused decrepit and derelict buildings.

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Barclays bank building in Somerset town could become a house (Somerset Live)

Earlier on this month, developments have been observed at the now abandoned site, with planning being validated for a "conversion of vacant retail space ( ...

Changes to the front of the property are proposed to be minimal, with the major works happening to the interior and the rear of the site. residential apartment, with minor alterations to insert a rooflight and high-level windows." It goes on to state that the principal facade of the building will remain unchanged, "thus maintaining the street scene and context of the nearby listed buildings", but that the conversion "will improve the appearance of the rear of the property though minor alterations of the external envelope." "The property comprises a three–storey, mid-terraced building with a series of single and two-storey add-ons to the rear which provides servicing space for the mainretail unit fronting The Parade." However, according to the design and access statement on the planning application, the "proposed application relates to the conversion of a vault serving the ground floor retail unit, which was previously occupied by Barclays Bank but is now left vacant. The property was previously up with Greenslade Taylor Hunt, advertised as a "former Bank With Open Plan Banking Hall, Offices And Safe At Ground Floor Level With Staff Amenities On Part Of The First Floor."

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