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A former discount food supermarket in Telford is set to become a new self-storage hub, after Sure Store announced plans to move into the town. Sure Store, a trading moniker of Manchester-based Flexiss Group, is set to move into an empty unit on Telford’s Rampart Way retail park. The building is the former home of the “Telford Food Share Project”, a food-sharing style operation which offered discounts on food which was deemed surplus by major supermarkets. It closed in 2022. The company is the sixth-largest self-storage operator in the UK,…

Vanguard Self Storage has received planning permission to convert a vacant office in Maidenhead into a new branch – its tenth in England. The 50,000 sq ft office building on Norreys Drive will be converted into a 660-unit self-storage facility offering 40,000 sq ft of net lettable space across three floors. In line with Vanguard’s other premises, the Maidenhead store is set to feature a historical centrepiece as a focal point for the site. A de Havilland Vampire aircraft, currently being restored, will be displayed in the triple-height atrium –…

A part-retrospective application for the installation of the units with associated landscaping, external lighting, parking and signage – on Lords Fold – came before the planning committee on Tuesday. According to a report to the committee, the site comprises an area of hardstanding measuring approximately 65m in length and 25m in width, bounded by a paladin security fence and accessed via double-gates. It said: “The site is set up as a self-storage facility that is seeking consent by this application. There was previously an industrial unit on the site, but…

Plans for a new lock-up storage facility for residents and businesses near the River Lune have been given the go-ahead. The plans for 474 storage units in 21 blocks in a former builder’s merchants yard on New Quay Road in Lancaster were given planning permission on Monday. Proposals include a security building, boundary fencing and creation of access roads/parking. The units would be accessible to customers 24 hours a day. The Lancaster City Council planning regulatory committee voted to grant planning permission, by 10 votes to one, with three councillors…

A 51,000 sq ft scheme on a 6.4-acre site previously occupied by Travis Perkins has been given planning permission by the city council. The development forms part of WUKPG’s aim to amass a £150m portfolio of self-storage assets by 2030. Two more projects in Horwich and Northwich are also in the works. On New Quay Road in Lancaster, WUKPG plans to build 475 drive-up units ranging from 50 sq ft to 300 sq ft on the site of a former builders’ merchant it acquired for £1.1m in 2023. The scheme…

Self-storage units continue to fill up space in Gloucestershire with plans revealed for a new 1,950 sq m store in Cheltenham. They propose turning the former Huws Gray/Buildbase in Chosen Road into a site that will attract up to 15 customers a day. The site has sat empty since the building merchants relocated to Eastern Avenue in Gloucester in February. UK Storage Company has now applied to remove a condition from the building that will allow it to open a branch there. It already owns and manages 29 sites across…