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A former mill site can be used by a self-storage business after the latest in a series of plans for the land were approved. Ackroyds textile mill stood on Factory Street, off Tong Street, until it was badly damaged by a huge blaze in 2011. The five-storey building was demolished the following year, and the site has remained empty ever since. Now a planning application to repurpose the vacant site with multiple storage units has been approved by Bradford Council. The plans had been submitted by Twenty4 Secure Storage, which…

Plans to create a new self-storage business in Kirkcaldy have been given the go-ahead by Fife Council. Keepsafe Self Storage has secured planning permission to develop an empty site on the corner of Hendry Road and Hayfield Industrial Estate, and it will see around 125 storage containers installed. A subsidiary of Perth-based Castlecroft Group, the company specialises in external self-storage units for both business and personal customers and eyed up a move to the Lang Toun after successful launches in Dundee, Perth and Dunfermline. Keepsafe was the first to pioneer…

  Hundreds of shipping containers stacked two high can be sited at an industrial site on a narrow road in Blunsdon, despite the objections of neighbours and the parish council. Gibbs Surfacing Ltd, which owns and operates the concrete batching plant, where the ingredients needed for new concrete and road surfaces are mixed, at 21 Turnpike Road in Blunsdon has been given permission to change the use of its site to a large-scale storage business. The company will be allowed to bring in 250 shipping containers which will be stacked…

George Richards Farms have applied to site 18 containers, with the continued use of two more, on land at Higher Trefullock Farm, Summercourt, in order to diversify into a self-storage business. The application states that the “progressive family business includes well-established traditional cattle, sheep and arable enterprises. For reasons of continued viability and succession planning, the family are now looking to further diversify the holding”. Each existing container, and each proposed container, will be 20ft long x 8ft wide x 8.6ft high with a dark green finish. The containers at…

Self storage company Big Yellow said it had been granted planning permission for a 68,400 sq ft store in London’s Kentish Town after winning an appeal for the development. Construction was expected to start in the early part of next year, with the store to open in 2026, the company said on Tuesday. “This will be the first purpose-built self-storage centre in the London Borough of Camden which has a population of approximately 220,000. Acquiring sites and securing planning in densely populated inner London is formidably difficult and so it…

Flexiss Group, the Cheshire-based independent self-storage and flexi-space provider, has expanded through the opening of three new storage facilities across its SureStore and The Self Storage Company brands, and the acquisition of Scott Storage in Lincoln, for an undisclosed sum. SureStore Gloucester, a former cinema, developed in partnership with investment firm Seneca Partners, demonstrates an expansion into new territory as the first SureStore site to branch out to the west of the country to solidify dominance as one of the UK’s most prevalent self-storage groups, said Flexiss. The state-of-the-art facility…

Redsun Projects has completed the first phase of a 70,000 sq ft development at the Croft Retail Park in Bromborough in Wirral. Located next to the A41 New Chester Road, the scheme is a mixed-use development. The first phase, which has taken 10 months to build, includes a 24,000 sq ft Lok’nStore self-storage facility and four trade counter units. Lok’nStore has acquired its unit from Redsun and the developer is in discussions with a single occupier to take a lease of all four of the trade counter units. Caddick Construction…

StorageMart will be opening a new branch on the A259 within the next few months. The self-storage company has taken over the building that was once home to Hove Car Spares in Wellington Road, Portslade. The site has been redeveloped since the closure of the previous business and is almost ready for customers to use. According to StorageMart, the branch will have video surveillance and access control systems, with a range of unit sizes available to suit both families and businesses. Some of the large units will extend up to…