Homebase was sold to new owner Wesfarmers by Home Retail Group for £340million in 2016.
The UK high street DIY giant have been facing tough conditions since the sale, with their most recent quarterly sales falling 13.8 per cent.
Wesfarmers, an Australian retail conglomerate, also own Bunnings – and this is what many of the disappearing Homebase stores will become.
Nine branches have already made the change over, and seven more are set to stop trading as Homebase. Express.co.uk has contacted Homebase for a comment.
Bunnings St.Albans, the first to open earlier this year, stocks more than 30,000 different home and garden lines. There is a 19,000 sq ft garden centre, a dedicated DIY workshop area and an indoor children’s playground and café in the store.
Since the first Bunnings, Homebase stores have gradually been replaced by the new chain over the course of the year.
Nine shops already trade as Bunnings, while seven more are set to make the change.
This is the full list of Homebase stores set to close, and that have already gone, across the UK:
Homebase stores closing and reopening as Bunnings
- Basingstoke
- Bicester
- Chichester
- Walthamstow
- Hanworth
- Newmarket
- High Wycombe
Homebase stores already closed and now open as Bunnings
- Harlow – reopened 1 November 2017
- Worle – reopened 25 October 2017
- Basildon – reopened 10 October 2017
- Sittingbourne – reopened 27 September 2017
- Broadstairs – reopened 12 September 2017
- Milton Keynes – reopened 29 June 2017
- Hemel Hempstead – reopened 18 June 2017
- St Albans Hatfield Road – reopened 12 April 2017
- St Albans Griffiths Way – reopened 2 February 2017
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