News

It is with a very heavy heart that we’re forced to announce Battersea Boot is closing.

THIS SUNDAY 26TH JANUARY WILL BE OUR LAST BOOT FOR SOME TIME

At present we’re told we’ll be closed for a year whilst the building works that have reduced our space and disrupted us since 2019 are finally completed.

We’ve been told by Harris Academy that we cannot continue to drive around the building site due to health and safety concerns. This decision makes no sense to us. When building work started in 2019 we were able to drive around the edge of the building site and have continued to do so safely for the last 5 years. We’re no closer to understanding or being given an explanation as to why we cannot continue to do so, so we have no choice but to accept their decision and close.

This is very fresh news, literally only confirmed today, and is utterly devastating for us. We know that our customers and wonderful community at Battersea will feel as heartbroken as we do.

Right now, we don’t know what we’ll do and cannot tell you any more. We’re being offered alternative sites, which we will obviously look into, and if we feel we can make them work we’ll perhaps relocate for the year before re-establishing Battersea again in 2026.

We wanted to get the news out straight away, and will be working on ways to stay in touch and communicate our plans moving forwards so please do check our website and socials next week.

For now, all we can say is we’ve fought every adversity thrown at us (and there have been many!) over the last 25 years, and we’ve always risen again. We’ll try to keep faith.

Tracey & all the BB family