Lloyds to close Sheffield office home to 650 workers in September - this is why
Lloyds Banking Group is to close its Sheffield office in September, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.
The financial giant announced in late 2024 that its Sheffield site, which at the time was the base for around 700 workers, would be closing in 2026.
It has now been confirmed the closure of the Furnival Court site will be happening in September, with the 650 employees based there either using the company’s Leeds office around 40 miles away or working from home.
The change is part of a wider building modernisation programme being embarked on by Lloyds.
Lloyds moved thousands of staff to ‘the most energy-efficient office building in Yorkshire’ in 2024 as the company took five-and-a-half floors of a newly-built site at Wellington Place and left its previous site at Lovell Park.
Lloyds also reopened its landmark Halifax office in December 2025 after a two-year £116m refurbishment project to transform the building for its 3,500 staff in the town.
Its Trinity Road building had been closed since early 2023 while work has been taking place, with staff using another office in the town which will now be closed and is already up for sale.
When asked about the situation with the Sheffield site by The Yorkshire Post this week, Lloyds Banking Group’s chief financial officer William Chalmers said: “I won’t comment specifically on the Sheffield office.
"But it is safe to say that making sure we modernise the property estate and secure the best environment for all of our colleagues to work in is an absolutely key objective for the group.
"We have spent an awful lot of time and indeed money on modernising the estate in Leeds, in Edinburgh, in Bristol, in London and we’ve just completed some work in Halifax. We’re completing some work as we speak in Cardiff.
"There is a very extensive programme of modernisation and investment in our colleagues’ sites right the way through the country.
"It is incredibly important for us to secure a successful organisation going forward where colleagues feel motivated and incentivised to come into the office.”
Key features of the Leeds office that Lloyds has moved to include an all-electric reversible air source heat pump system and air-cooled chillers to triple-glazed windows and a 7,500 sq ft solar panel farm.
When the group moved into the office in 2024, chief executive Charlie Nunn said: “This is one of the most energy-efficient office buildings in the region and great example of what’s possible across the UK.
“Considerable thought and care has gone into the entire site, in order to create a biodiverse environment which is a brilliant place to visit, work and enjoy.
"This long-term, sustainable investment in Yorkshire’s infrastructure will support our colleagues, customers and communities, now and for the future.”
Though Lloyds has not confirmed any plans for the Sheffield site following the closure, the company announced in 2024 that it intended to redevelop its decommissioned offices and data centres into social housing.
It said at the time that plans were progressing to “finalise additional sites that could also be developed by housing partners as social housing in the coming years.”