Category: Development News

Largely empty office buildings with no long-term future, in a part of town that “lacks amenities tenants now expect” are set to be turned into a large self-storage unit and distribution buildings. The Genesis Business Park in Sheerwater, Woking, will be demolished to make way for a series of new units developers hope will turn the underused asset into a busy block – as the wider regeneration of the town presses ahead. Permission was granted by Woking Borough Council’s planning committee last week as it heard how the existing building…

Cinch Self Storage, a leading provider of flexible storage solutions across the UK, is pleased to announce the opening of its new facility in Bedford. The Bedford site launches with 10,000 sq ft of lettable space, with plans to expand to 50,000 sq ft in late 2025. Strategically located on the A421, the Bedford facility is designed to support a mix of domestic and business customers. The Bedford facility will offer extended opening hours for ease of access and top-of-the-line security, including individually alarmed units. Enterprise units are provided with…

Work is well underway on the city’s latest self-storage facility. Framework has gone up at the Fenton site in what would pretty much wrap up developments on the former Diamond Gimson works. The company shut the King Street factory – which manufactured products serving the home tableware market – back in 1999. The factory was later cleared and over the years has been redeveloped. Across the stretch, on Alan Alfred Avenue, there is a KFC, with a Costa and service station later added where the factory once sat. Now the…

Ince Digital Ltd has put forward an application to site up to 312 shipping containers on land at Halton Road which had been identified as a possible location for 89 new properties. The site is located next to the Halton Court housing development, which consists of 119 properties developed by Magenta Living and Onward Homes. The location for proposed self-storage units is located on the southern side of Halton Road and are currently unoccupied following the demolition of the former Paramount Foods building. The area was cleared in 2017 and…

Cuboid, a spin-out of leading property giant FI Real Estate Management (FIREM), has launched in 23 locations in its first year of trading, offering 150,000 sq ft of container storage space across the UK. Cuboid launched in 2023, following an assessment of FIREM’s land holdings, which found a viable opportunity to offer communities with self-storage options, without the need to purchase further land. The company has now set its sights on becoming the UK’s largest container-based self-storage provider with three more sites set to launch before the end of 2024. FIREM…

A major new container development has been proposed for a site next to the new York Street Train Station in Belfast as part of a move to bring the EasyStorage franchise to Northern Ireland. A planning application to install up to 432 storage containers on the site between the York Street Interchange and the city’s docks is currently being considered by Belfast City Council. While the application is in the name of Ballymena-based Finish Line Storage Ltd, The Irish News understands the site is being lined up as the first…

A growing South West company has opened its first indoor self-storage facility in Tewkesbury. Container Team has opened the new facility next door to its container self-storage facility which has been successfully running since 2016. There has also been investment in new vehicles to enable increased sales and operations capacity for the Team Refrigeration side of the business. First established in 2002, Container Team employs over 25 staff under the management of new managing director Ricky Williams, who took over running the business last year, from its base in Weston-super-Mare.…

A storage unit operator is expanding with a £30.2 million loan. STOREX Self Storage is opening sites in Surrey and Brent following backing from digital bank OakNorth. Bosses say the bases in Sunbury and Cricklewood will deliver nearly 2,500 units of varying sizes and add to existing sites in Brentford, Watford and Loughton. Jay Patel, associate director at global investment manager EQT Exeter, which oversees STOREX Self Storage, said: “Our mission when we launched STOREX was to offer consumers and businesses a digital and sustainable storage solution. “OakNorth demonstrated an…