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To: TSB
Protect banking services in North East Fife
TSB are the latest bank threatening to remove branches, and jobs, from local communities. The systematic erosion of banking services in North East Fife needs to stop and TSB needs to guarantee that no TSB branches will close in the constituency in this round of cuts.
Why is this important?
North East Fife has had to put up with the systematic erosion of services by private companies, notably bank and post office branches, in recent years. This has got to stop.
TSB has announced that 164 more of their branches will close with 900 jobs going with them. With only 3 TSB branches left in North East Fife - in Anstruther, Cupar and St Andrews, we cannot lose these services.
In choosing to leave towns, companies like the TSB are only looking at the effects on their corporate balances and are completely ignoring the people who will be affected by these cuts - particularly their own, hardworking staff.
Companies like the TSB, and RBS before them, need to understand the importance of their services, but also their presence, in these communities.
Any decision to remove physical services and branches from North East Fife will have a detrimental effect on the people who live in the area and use these services. More long term, any withdrawal from these communities will also add large, vacant premises to the High Streets. In the aftermath of Covid and Brexit our High Streets will need support to recover and thrive. Abandoning them now will not aid these recovery efforts.
Banking services must be secured in North East Fife, not eroded any further.
