{"id":2894,"date":"2026-06-09T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:07:35","slug":"oaknorth-funds-two-new-cinch-self-storage-sites-in-leeds-bedford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/oaknorth-funds-two-new-cinch-self-storage-sites-in-leeds-bedford\/","title":{"rendered":"OakNorth Funds Two New Cinch Self Storage Sites in Leeds, Bedford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2895 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cinch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"124\" \/>Digital bank OakNorth has provided an \u00a311.7m loan to independent operator Cinch Self Storage to fund two new developments in Leeds and Bedford, adding more than 120,000 sq ft of lettable space to its portfolio. The Leeds site involves converting a brownfield location in a market with limited storage supply, while the Bedford project extends an existing facility with additional units and office space.<\/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;\">Cinch, founded in 2018, has grown from a single site in Bicester to 27 locations nationwide. The loan represents a continued lending relationship between OakNorth and Cinch, reflecting ongoing investment activity in the UK self-storage development pipeline.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #f97033; color: #ffffff; padding: 8px 14px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px; line-height: 1.2;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/yorkshire\/news\/2155542-self-storage-provider-to-develop-two-more-sites-following-11.7m-loan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the Full Article<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/span>: The Business Desk.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital bank OakNorth has provided an \u00a311.7m loan to independent operator Cinch Self Storage to fund two new developments in Leeds and Bedford, adding more than 120,000 sq ft of lettable space to its portfolio. The Leeds site involves converting a brownfield location in a market with limited storage supply, while the Bedford project extends an existing facility with additional units and office space. Cinch, founded in 2018, has grown from a single site in Bicester to 27 locations nationwide. The loan represents a continued lending relationship between OakNorth and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,6,22],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894"}],"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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}