Temporary jobcentres

Added dates the following temporary jobcentres were decommissioned: Bournemouth - 5 May 2021 (site decommissioned on 30 June 2025), Bradford - 11 August 2021 (site decommissioned on 16 May 2025) and Preston - 29 September 2021 (site decommissioned on 31 March 2025).

Added dates the following temporary jobcentres were decommissioned: Birmingham (South, Chatham, Colwyn Bay, Eastbourne, Fareham, Kidderminster, London Royal Albert Dock (Newham),London Woolwich, Solihull. Removed decommissioning date from Coventry, West Orchids Shopping Centre jobcentre as was added in error.

Temporary jobcentres list has been updated showing newly decommissioned sites.

Updated to include decommissioning of 5 temporary Jobcentre sites

Latest Temporary jobcentres that have been decommissioned: Aberdeen, Ayr, Cambridge, Halesowen, Horsham, Lancaster, Leamington Spa, London Ilford (Redbridge), London Peckham (Southwark), Norwich, Peterlee, Sittingbourne, Southport, St Albans, St Helens, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Waltham Cross and York.

Information added to show the Blackpool site was decommissioned on 28 February 2024.

Updated temporary jobcentres list. JCP offices have been decommissioned in: Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bolton, Leicester, London (Barnet), Redditch, Shrewsbury, Staines-upon-Thames and Warrington.

Added dates the following temporary jobcentres were decommissioned: Colchester, Hereford, Luton, Maidstone, Oldham Business Centre, Rochdale, Swansea.

Added dates the following temporary jobcentres were decommissioned: Canterbury, Darlington, Glasgow, Hull, Northampton, Wakefield Waterfront.

Updated the entry for Wolverhampton. The site is no longer being refurbished and is being retained.

Updated to say that the following sites have been decommissioned: Bury (Manchester), Gloucester, Leeds 123 Albion Street, London Ealing, London Uxbridge, Redruth, Worthing, Wrexham.

Updated list of temporary JCPs with those that have been decommissioned.

Updated list of temporary Jobcentres. The following temporary sites have been decommissioned: Barnsley, Basildon, Bedford, Bexleyheath, Blackburn, Coventry (Coventry Building Society Arena), Dudley, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Harlow, Kingston, London Croydon Borough, London Hammersmith, London Rushey Green (Lewisham), Newport, Sheffield, Southend, Stoke on Trent, Thornaby (Stockton-on-Tees).

Updated the list of temporary jobcentres. The following jobcentres have closed: Bracknell, Chelmsford, Derby (Barclays Business Centre), Derby (Derbion Shopping Centre), Exeter, Huddersfield, Kirkcaldy, London Walthamstow, Manchester (Stretford), Ramsgate, Rhyl, Scunthorpe, Southampton, West Bromwich.

Updated the list of temporary jobcentres. The following temporary jobcentres have closed: Birmingham, Greenwood Way; Bristol, Victoria Street; Bristol Knowle; Chester, Foregate Street.

Updated the list of temporary jobcentres. The following temporary jobcentres have closed: Bellshill, Cardiff, Chichester, Crawley, Folkestone, Hounslow, Liverpool Innovation Park, London Aldgate (Tower Hamlets), London Mitcham, London Wembley, Middlesbrough, Newton Abbot, North Shields, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Swinton.

Information added to show London Bromley site was decommissioned on 13 September 2021.

Added information to the table of temporary jobcentres: Burton upon Trent (site retained), Leicester (site retained), and Woking (site decommissioned).

New detail added to show which sites have been decommissioned in June 2023.

Jobcentre at Leeds HEM House, Kirkstall Road, was decommissioned on 19 May 2023.

Brighton Jobcentre and Hove Jobcentre moved into site. Liverpool Toxeth Jobcentre and Liverpool Jobcentre (Williamson Square) moved into site. Walsall 2a retained and merged with Unit 2b – Walsall Jobcentre (Bayard House) and moved into site. Wolverhampton site closed for refurbishment work. Once completed, site to be retained and become an established Jobcentre.

Added additional information to the table of temporary jobcentres, such as whether a site has been decommissioned.

Post codes for Blackburn, Eastbourne and Hounslow Jobcentres updated.

Bellshill Jobcentre postcode has been updated. Information at the top of the page has been updated to reflect the fact that all the temporary Jobcentre sites have now been opened or extended.

Updated postcode for these temporary JCPs: Aylesbury, Colchester, Halifax, Kingston, London Barnsbury (Islington), London Rushey Green (Lewisham), Newport, Northampton, Plymouth and Reading.

Added opening date for Dundee.

Added opening dates for jobcentres in Aberdeen and Kettering.

Added opening dates for jobcentres in Birmingham South, Brighton, Kirkcaldy, London Woolwich and Sunderland.

The following temporary jobcentres opened on 30 March 2022: Blackpool, Chatham, Edinburgh, Hull, Leicester, London Royal Albert Dock (Newham) and Newcastle.

Added opening dates for jobcentres in Aylesbury, Colwyn Bay, Eastbourne, Harrow, Hounslow, London Clapham (Lambeth), London Cooks Road (Newham), London Tooting (Streatham) and Nottingham. Corrected the postcode for London Uxbridge jobcentre.

Temporary offices in London Edmonton (Enfield) and London Queen’s Park (Brent Wembley) opened on 16 March 2022.

Temporary jobcentres at West Orchards Shopping Centre, Coventry and 11-15 North Bridge, Edinburgh opened on 9 March 2022.

The temporary jobcentre in Newport opened on 2 March 2022.

Temporary jobcentres in Ayr, Bellshill, Chester, Fareham, Solihull and Sutton in Ashfield opened on 23 February 2022. Corrected addresses for temporary jobcentres in Ashford, Banbury, Bedford, Bexleyheath, Birmingham (South), Bolton, Bournemouth, Bracknell, Burnley, Bury (Manchester), Chesterfield, Chichester, Crawley, Darlington, Derby, Dudley, Gateshead, Halifax, Harlow, Hereford, Ipswich, Keighley, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London Aldgate (Tower Hamlets), London Barnet, London Barnsbury (Islington), London Croydon Borough, London Marylebone, London Mitcham, London Uxbridge, London Waltham Forest, London Wandsworth, Manchester (Stretford), Oldham, Peterlee, Ramsgate, Redditch, Redruth, Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Southend, Stoke on Trent and Walsall.

Added that London Rushey Green jobcentre opened on 16 February 2022.

Added opening date of 9 February 2022 for Inverness, London Ilford (Redbridge) and Sittingbourne jobcentres.

Added opening dates for Blackburn, Warrington and York offices.

Added the opening dates for Horsham, Kidderminster, Newton Abbot, Staines upon Thames and Wakefield jobcentres.

Added opening dates to the list of temporary jobcentres.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Aylesbury, Birmingham (King's Norton), London Cooks Road and London Tooting. Corrected the address for the temporary jobcentre in Kirkcaldy.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Brighton, Chatham, Coventry, Edinburgh Waverley Bridge, Newcastle, and Sunderland. Corrected addresses for temporary jobcentres in Barnsley and Kirkcaldy.

Added locations of new temporary jobcentres in Colwyn Bay and London Royal Albert Dock. Corrected the postcode for the temporary jobcentre in Hull.

Barnstaple and Leith removed from list because these offices are no longer opening.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Blackpool, Harrow, Kirkcaldy and London Queen's Park.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Chingford, Leicester (Crown House) and Solihull.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Blackburn, London Rushey Green and Warrington. Corrected addresses of temporary jobcentres in Hastings, Lincoln and London Clapham.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Hounslow, London Ilford, Macclesfield, Slough and Sutton in Ashfield. Corrected the postcode for the temporary jobcentre in Eastbourne.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Ayr, Edinburgh, Fareham, Halesowen, Hastings, Horsham, London Clapham, London Edmonton, London Peckham, Norwich, Nottingham. Removed temporary jobcentre in Forest Hill.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Barnstaple, Bradford, Eastbourne, London Woolwich, Newport, Sittingbourne, Staines upon Thames and Waltham Cross.

Added location of new temporary jobcentre in Kidderminster. Corrected the addresses for the temporary jobcentres in Bath and Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre, Birmingham.

Added location of new temporary jobcentre in Edinburgh. Corrected the address for the temporary jobcentre in Nuneaton.

Added locations of new sites in Rochdale and Wigan. Corrected addresses for sites in Cannock, Chelmsford, Sheffield, Southampton. Stevenage and Wolverhampton.

Added addresses for temporary jobcentres in Luton, Liverpool Bootle, Nuneaton, Birmingham, Lincoln, Dundee, Oldham and Redditch.

Added addresses for temporary jobcentres in Colchester, Darlington, Dudley, Lancaster, central Manchester, Newton Abbot, St Albans, Southport and Telford.

Corrected addresses for Coventry and Derby offices.

Corrected addresses for Barnsley, Bristol Knowle, Exeter and London Edmonton offices.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Cannock, Hereford, Inverness, London Hackney, Maidstone, Peterlee, Portsmouth, Romford, St Helens.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Basingstoke, Bath, Blyth, Bristol (Knowle), Cambridge, Glasgow, Leamington Spa, Stevenage, Wrexham, York.

Added locations of temporary jobcentres in Barnsley, Canterbury, Dewsbury, Kettering, London Barnsbury (Islington), London Bromley, London Kentish Town, London Southwark, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Preston, Rhyl, Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Wakefield Waterfront, Widnes, Worthing.

Added locations of new temporary jobcentres in Aberdeen, Bristol, Chelmsford, Leicester, London Edmonton, London Uxbridge, Ramsgate, Redruth, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Swansea, Swindon, Torquay, West Bromwich.

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