My thanks to a loyal reader for sending me the list of dates of the HMRC office closures:
The list of HMRC offices to shut, and their proposed closure dates:
Yorkshire and the Humber
Bradford
(Centenary Court) 2020-21, Bradford (The Interchange) 2019-20, Grimsby
(Imperial House) 2020-21, Harrogate (Victoria Avenue) 2016-17, Hull
(Cherry Court) 2020-21, Leeds (Munroe Court) 2019-20, Leeds (Castle
House) 2019-20, Leeds (Peter Bennett House) 2019-20, Leeds (Windsor
House) 2020-21, Sheffield (Concept House) 2010-21, Shipley (Accounts
Office) 2019-20, York (Swinson House) 2019-20.
North East of England
Middlesbrough
(Russell Street) 2018-19, Middlesbrough (Eustace House) 2019-20,
Peterlee (Emerald Court) 2020-21, Stockton-on-Tees (George Stephenson
House) 2020-21, Sunderland (Waterside House) 2019-20, Washington
(Waterview Park) 2024-25.
East Midlands
Derby(Northgate House)
2018-19, Leicester (Saxon House) 2020-21, Lincoln (Lawress Hall)
2020-21, Lincoln (Cromwell House) 2016-17, Chesterfield (Markham House)
2016-17, Nottingham (Castle Meadow) 2020-21 when the move will be made
into a new regional centre in Nottingham - possibly at Castle Meadow.
London, the South East and East of England
Bedford
2016-17, Brighton 2018-19, Cambridge 2018-19, Canterbury 2019-20,
Chatham 2016-17, Chelmsford 2016-17, Colchester 2016-17, Crawley
2017-18, Felixstowe 2016-17, Gravesend 2019-20, Harwich 2017-18, Ipswich
(Haven House) 2027-28, Ipswich (St Clare\'s House) 2023-24, London
(Berkeley House) 2016-17, London (Bush House) 2019-20, London (Capitol
House) 2020-21, London (Custom House) 2019-20, London (Dorset House)
2019-20, London (Euston) 2020-21, London (Ealing International House)
2020-21, London (Riverside House) 2017-21, Luton 2020-21, Maidstone
2020-21, Milton Keynes 2016-17, Norwich 2016-17, Oxford 2017-18,
Peterborough (Churchgate) 2020-21, Peterborough (Clifton House) 2017-18,
Portsmouth (Lynx House) 2025-26, Portsmouth (Wingfield House) 2018-19,
Reading 2024-25, Redhill 2018-19, Romford 2016-17, Southampton 2019-20,
Southend 2019-20, Staines (Forum House) 2017-18, Staines (Heliting
House) 2017-18, Surbiton 2017-18, Tilbury 2016-17, Uxbridge 2018-19,
Watford 2020-21, Wembley 2020-21, Woking 2017-18.
Northern Ireland
Newry
(Custom House) June 2016, Coleraine (Fern House) 2016-17, Craigavon
(Marlborough House) 2017-18, Enniskillen (Abbey House) 2017-18, Belfast
(Beaufort House) 2017-18, Belfast (Carne House) 2017-18, Belfast (Custom
House) 2017-18, Belfast (Dorchester House) 2017-18, Lisburn (Moira
House) 2019-20, Londonderry (Foyle House) 2020-21.
North West of England
Warrington
2018-19, Carlisle 2017-18, Workington 2018, Bolton 2019-20, Manchester
(four offices) 2019-20, Blackburn 2019-20, Blackpool transfer to the
Department for Work and Pensions, Preston (three offices) 2020-21 and
three to later transfer to the Department for Work and Pensions, Bootle
(four offices) 2018-19 and 2019-20, Liverpool one office 2018-19 and two
to later transfer to the Department for Work and Pensions, St Helens
2018-19.
Scotland
Aberdeen (Ruby House) 2020-21, Bathgate
(Pyramids Business Centre) 2019-20, Cumbernauld (Accounts Office)
2019-20, Dundee (Sidlaw House) due to transfer to DWP, Dundee
(Caledonian House) 2017-18, East Kilbride (Hawbank Stores), East
Kilbride (Plaza Tower) 2020-21, East Kilbride (Queensway House) 2025-26,
Edinburgh (Elgin House) 2019-20, Edinburgh (Grayfield House) 2019-20,
Edinburgh (Meldrum House) 2019-20, Glasgow (Cotton House) 2019-20,
Glasgow (Portcullis House) 2019-20, Inverness (River House) 2017-18,
Livingston (Barbara Ritchie House) 2019-20, Irvine and Glenrothes
offices are also both in the process of closing.
South West of England
Avonmouth
(Custom House) 2017-18, Bournemouth (Holland House) 2019-20, Bristol
(101 Victoria Street) 2017-18, Bristol (Crescent Centre) 2017-18, Exeter
(Longbrook House) 2020-21, Gloucester (Twyver House) 2017-18, Plymouth
(The Apex) 2016-17, Plymouth (Westpoint) 2016-17, Redruth (Piran House)
2018-19, Swindon (Wiltshire Court) 2017-18, Taunton (Michael Paul House)
2016-17.
Wales
Wrexham, Swansea, Porthmadog and the present
Cardiff base at Llanishen will close. An office in Merthyr is already
due to shut in 2016.
West Midlands
Birmingham (City Centre House)
2019-20, Birmingham (Norfolk House) 2019-20, Brierley Hill (Bridge
House) 2016-17, Brierley Hill (Merry Hill) will transfer to Department
for Work and Pensions, Coventry (Sherbourne House) 2019-20, Northampton
(Princess House) 2020-21, Northampton (Northgate House) 2016-17,
Solihull (Sapphire East) 2019-20, Solihull (Royal House) 2019-20,
Telford (Boyd House I and II, Abbey House and Matheson House) 2017-18,
Telford (Parkside Court) 2019-20, Walsall (Pattison House) 2016-17,
Wolverhampton (Crown House) 2019-20, Worcester (Council Buildings)
2019-20.
Source: HMRC
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