Dobbies to shut Huntingdon store as part of UK-wide restructuring plan

Garden centre business Dobbies has said it has plans to shut its Huntingdon store, as part of a UK-wide restructuring plan.

The plan will see it shut 11 larger sites and six Little Dobbies stores.

It said that 465 of its roughly 3,600 workers will be affected by the planned closures.

The following stores are planned to close:

Larger stores

-Altrincham, Greater Manchester

-Antrim, Northern Ireland

-Gloucester, Gloucestershire

-Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

-Harlestone Heath, Northamptonshire

-Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

-Inverness, Scotland

-King’s Lynn, Norfolk

-Pennine, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

-Reading, Berkshire

-Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Little Dobbies

-Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

-Chiswick, Greater London

-Clifton , Bristol

-Richmond, Greater London

-Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland

-Westbourne Grove, Greater London