Poundland recieved a court approval it’s a major restructuring plan on Tuesday, August 26, after informing the judge that the plan would save it from entering administration.
The court was told that if the scheme had not been approved, the company would have run out of money by September 7, and just days following the approval 11 stores across the nation shut down permanently.
So far this year a total of 51 stores have closed, with more scheduled to.
A store in Irvine, Scotland is set to close on September 14 and Poundland have confirmed it will shut 16 more stores but the locations have not be disclosed yet.
It is believed that the closure dates for the 16 branches will be announced later in the year, when employees will be informed.
Stores that have already closed:
- Ammanford, Wales
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Bedston Moss, Merseyside
- Birmingham Fort Shopping Park, West Midlands
- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Brigg, North Lincolnshire
- Broxburn, Scotland
- Canterbury, Kent
- Cardiff, Wales
- Chiswick, Greater London
- Cookstown, Northern Ireland
- Cramlington, Northumberland
- Craigavon, Northern Ireland
- Coventry Hertford Street, West Midlands
- Dartmouth, Devon
- East Dulwich, Greater London
- Erdington, West Midlands
- Falmouth, Cornwall
- Horsham, West Sussex
- Hull Kingston retail park, East Yorkshire
- Hull St Andrew retail park, East Yorkshire
- Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Kimberley Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Kings Heath, West Midlands
- Leicester, Leicestershire
- Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire
- Newcastle Killingworth Centre, Tyne and Wear
- Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
- Omagh, Northern Ireland
- Peterborough Orton Gate shopping centre, Cambridgeshire
- Peterlee, County Durham
- Perth, Scotland
- Poole, Dorset
- Port Glasgow, Scotland
- Rainham, Kent
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Seaham, County Durham
- Sheldon, West Midlands
- Shepherd’s Bush, Greater London
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Southampton West Quay, Hampshire
- Southport, Merseyside
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- Sunderland Pallion retail park, Tyne and Wear
- Swiss Cottage, Greater London
- Taunton, Somerset
- Thornaby, North Yorkshire
- Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Wells, Somerset
- Whitechapel, Greater London
- Worcester, Worcestershire
Stores set to close September 14:
- Irvine, Scotland
*Poundland are yet to confirm the dates and locations of 16 more store closures.
