Plans For a Shipping Container Self-Storage Business Has Been Approved in Melbourne, Derbyshire (England)

Plans for a shipping container self-storage business in Melbourne, which would not be an “Amazon depot”, have been approved. At a South Derbyshire District Council meeting on Tuesday night, councillors approved plans from MAE Trading to set up the self-storage business on a former agricultural site in Cockshut Lane on the western edge of the town. This was despite opposition from the Melbourne’s civic society, which dubbed the scheme “a bad case of urban creep”. Michael King, speaking during the meeting at the council’s Swadlincote headquarters, said: “The case against…