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Search the Public Notice PortalA large chunk of a landmark Hereford bank will be “mothballed or made fallow” under newly unveiled refit plans.
Dating from the 1920s, the Classical three-storey Lloyds Bank building at 8 High Town is grade II listed, meaning even internal changes to it require listed building consent from Herefordshire Council.
And while the bank proposes no substantial works on either the building’s exterior or its upper floors in its application (number 222635 ), accompanying plans show much of the building will be made vacant.
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Current staff facilities on the first floor “are to be mothballed / made fallow” – but to “improve accessibility for all”, they are being relocated to part of the ground floor, where a new accessible toilet will also be installed.
Much of the rest of the first floor is also marked as “mothballed”, with a further four meeting rooms to the front of the building “to be fallowed” and their equipment removed.
Only one first-floor room will be retained as a “proposed hybrid working office”, the plans show.
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Meanwhile the basement, used extensively for document storage, is also marked as “mothballed”, with only the boiler room remaining in use.
No changes are planned to the second floor or attic, believed to be already vacant.
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Proposed changes to the main ground floor public area include replacing existing open meeting areas with new meeting “pods” and booths, adding two new customer counters and a “knowledge bar”, and turning a meeting room into a “colleague well-being room”.
The self-service area accessed separately to the right of the main ground floor will get new “MFDs” (multi-function devices) to replace the existing ATMs.
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But according to the plans, the “24-hour lobby [is] not open out of hours due to high levels of abuse”.
The ground floor area was last redesigned quite recently, in 2022.
Comments on the current proposal can be made until December 3, though the council says it intends to determine it by November 20.
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