Revealed: BHS London shops closure dates

End of an era: BHS London stores will all close before the end of the month

15 August 2016

All of the London BHS branches will close on or before August 28, administrator Duff & Phelps said as it revealed the final expected closures timetable.

A number of the chain’s 163 shops have already closed since BHS entered administration in April, and the 88-year-old retailer brought the shutters down on its flagship Oxford Street store for the last time on Saturday.

Brixton-founded BHS collapsed with a £571 million pension deficit and left some 11,000 jobs at risk.

It failed 13 months after it was sold for £1 by Sir Philip Green to Retail Acquisitions, led by serial bankrupt Dominic Chappell.

Topshop tycoon Green was labelled the “unacceptable face of capitalism” in a report from MPs probing the failure.

He is working with the pensions regulator to achieve an outcome and trying to find jobs at his Arcadia empire for around 1000 people.

The expected dates of closure for the remaining London and home counties BHS shops are:

LOCATION	DATE
Bromley	20/08/2016
Watford	24/08/2016
Lakeside	24/08/2016
Chelmsford	24/08/2016
Croydon	24/08/2016
Lewisham	24/08/2016
West Ealing	24/08/2016
Surrey Quays	24/08/2016
Romford	28/08/2016
Harrow	28/08/2016
Walthamstow	28/08/2016
Uxbridge	28/08/2016
Bexleyheath	28/08/2016
Kingston	28/08/2016
Wood Green	28/08/2016

Claire Kober, leader of Haringey council urged retailers to look at opening on BHS sites, including the Wood Green branch in her borough.

Kover told the Evening Standard: "BHS represents everything that is wrong with the state of businesses today. But for every BHS there are new businesses coming up with new ideas... Haringey is a perfect place for people to make their ideas a reality and we are on hand to help them do so."

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