AN MP has accused the Nationwide building society of turning its back on the area’s customers.
MP for Greenwich and Woolwich Nick Raynsford was speaking after meeting Nationwide group distribution director Matthew Wyles.
The company is closing its Blackheath, Greenwich, Woolwich, Lewisham and Catford branches in May.
Mr Raynsford said: “How is a young mum reliant on public transport living in Woolwich, or a pensioner with no car living in Blackheath, expected to get to Bromley to visit a Nationwide branch?
“‘For Nationwide to turn its back on the entire inner-south east London area is shameful and a betrayal of the building society’s co-operative history and roots in mutual banking.”
Nationwide says the branches are economically unsustainable.
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