Furniture retailer Habitat is continuing with a programme of store closures as part of its plans to revive its fortunes.

The retailer’s Bromley shop is the latest to close in an ongoing review that the retailer is conducting of its store portfolio.

Habitat closed stores in Hammersmith and Kensington High Street last month to take space in the Westfield London scheme, which will open on October 30.

The closures are part of the retailer’s portfolio rationalisation, which it revealed in November last year.

Then Habitat UK country manager Ruth Dangerfield – who quit the company in June – admitted that there would be more closures. During its financial year to March last year, Habitat closed stores in Southampton, Batley in West Yorkshire, and Bluewater and Tunbridge Wells in Kent after posting a pre-tax loss of£10.9 million.

In May, Habitat announced that its franchise partner in the Republic of Ireland had closed both of its stores because of a “severe downturn in sales”.

The company suffered another hit in June with the departure of chief executive Jens Nordahl.

Habitat has opened a series of new format stores in Cambridge, on Finchley Road in north London, Barton square in Manchester and Cheltenham. It said the new model has proved more successful and that it will roll this out across its portfolio, starting with Westfield London.

In a statement, the retailer said that it will “continue to review its portfolio”, but would not comment on specific plans for the future.

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