{"id":2567,"date":"2025-05-15T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:16:50","slug":"outdoor-containers-would-be-available-for-storage-at-former-police-station-in-alloa-clackmannanshire-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/outdoor-containers-would-be-available-for-storage-at-former-police-station-in-alloa-clackmannanshire-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Containers Would be Available for Storage at Former Police Station in Alloa, Clackmannanshire [Scotland]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2568 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Alloah-Station-Storage-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Clackmannanshire Council has received an application from SRA Ventures Limited, who had also purchased the old cop house on Mar Place.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">They had previously sought permission to change the use from the police station into a self-storage facility.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now, an additional proposal has been lodged to add 20 outdoor containers to the rear of the property for residents to use.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A planning statement read: \u201cThe proposed storage units would be installed on an existing hardstand area in the rear corner of the site that would otherwise be unused and superfluous to the self-storage facility.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is both reasonable and practical for the leftover hardstand space to be adapted to provide a commercial use serving the needs of the local community.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Additionally, a two metre high automatic entrance gate has also been included in the plans to provide safety.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This ties into the full main planning application, which is yet to be decided on.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The full proposal can be found by searching 25\/00082\/FULL into the council\u2019s planning portal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alloaadvertiser.com\/news\/25166800.former-alloa-police-station-house-20-storage-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clackmannanshire Council has received an application from SRA Ventures Limited, who had also purchased the old cop house on Mar Place. They had previously sought permission to change the use from the police station into a self-storage facility. Now, an additional proposal has been lodged to add 20 outdoor containers to the rear of the property for residents to use. A planning statement read: \u201cThe proposed storage units would be installed on an existing hardstand area in the rear corner of the site that would otherwise be unused and superfluous&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}