The full list of New Look stores closing this year

The newest will shut doorways for the ultimate time on September 17 and is predicated in Scarborough.

The North Yorkshire location in Brunswick Centre, Scarborough, will shut for good in just some weeks.

One other of the shop’s Excessive Avenue bases shut in August, primarily based in Wales, which brings the full variety of closures within the UK this yr up to now to 13, with one other 26 in Eire. New Look states on-line that’s has 338 shops within the UK.

The primary retailer to get the chop in 2025 was New Look’s Wickford department in Essex, which closed on January 24 after 15 years of buying and selling. Thus far nothing has changed that retailer.

Different outlets which have shut over the course of this yr embrace Loughborough, in addition to branches in St Austell, Cornwall, and Workforce Valley Retail World, Gateshead.

The excessive avenue model has already restructured its UK retailer property twice previously six years, and has nearly halved its Excessive Avenue presence in that point – lowering from the 600 shops it held in 2018.

It’s believed the closures had been prompted by the rise in employment prices introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in October 2024, which noticed an announcement of hikes on Nationwide Insurance coverage.

A New Look spokesperson mentioned: “Our retailer property is a crucial a part of our enterprise, alongside our best-in-class web site and app.

“It’s this omni-channel strategy which permits us to greatest serve our 10 million prospects, nonetheless, they like to buy.

“We’ve got lately invested over £3 million in our shops in Larger Manchester to trial new omni-channel initiatives to enhance buyer expertise. Utilizing the learnings from these trials, we are actually upgrading an additional 17 shops throughout the nation.

‘We additionally proceed to put money into our thriving on-line platform, which has resulted in a robust on-line gross sales efficiency, with volumes considerably outpacing final yr and an improved on-line margin.”