Find your nextself-storage sitebefore anyone else does.
Every UK facility mapped. Every planning portal watched. Any plot underwritten in one click. Operators, investors and suppliers use Storage Compass to spot the gap - and move first.
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Data freshness
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UK facilities mapped
0 operators tracked
Source: OSM + operator sites
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Live planning applications
Across 0 councils
Source: PlanIt API
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Approvals in last 12 months
Storage-keyword filtered
Source: PlanIt API
24h
Data refresh cadence
Automated ingest
Source: Scheduled jobs rolling out
How it works
From shutter to shovel, in four moves.
The same workflow operators, investors and suppliers run every week - now in one place, built on data refreshed every 24 hours.
- Step 01
Map every shutter
We crawl operator sites, OpenStreetMap and Companies House to plot every UK self-storage facility - from Big Yellow flagships to single-site container yards.
- facilities · - operators
- Step 02
Watch every council
Live ingest from 343 local planning portals via PlanIt - every new build, change of use and extension keyword-filtered for storage.
- live applications · 3-year history
- Step 03
Score the catchment
Drop a pin and we return drive-time population, income, renter share and a Supply Gap Score benchmarked against the UK 5 ft²-per-capita average.
ONS-backed · drive / transit / walk
- Step 04
Move first
Alerts the moment a competitor lodges, an approval flips, or a site that fits your buy-box hits the market.
Email + dashboard · regional alerts
See every new facility before the first brick is laid.
Every self-storage planning application in the UK - new builds, change of use, extensions - pulled from local planning registers and surfaced in one feed.
- Filter by date, decision status, application type, and operator.
- Set regional alerts - get notified the moment a status flips.
- Track any individual application and pin it to your watchlist.
Planning · Live
LiveDate range
Status
Type
Catchment overlayCatchment · Example readout
15 min drive · illustrative- Population in range
- 412,000
- Median household income
- £38,400+8% vs UK
- Existing facilities
- 11
- Storage ft² per 100k
- 48,200UK avg 56,400
- Renter share
- 34%High demand
Supply gap score
Undersupplied
Underwrite any UK plot in a single click.
Click anywhere on the map. Storage Compass returns the catchment population by drive/transit/walk time, average income, renter share, and a Supply Gap Score benchmarked to the UK average - flagged as undersupplied, balanced or saturated.
- Drive, transit and walking catchments at 15/30/45/60 minutes.
- ONS-backed demographics - income, age, renter vs. owner split.
- International context: UK vs US vs Europe sqft-per-capita.
Who it's for
Built for everyone moving the UK self-storage market.
Operators & developers
Find undersupplied catchments and hear about competitor sites while they're still a planning reference - not a ribbon-cutting.
Investors & lenders
Underwrite acquisitions on live demand data instead of a broker's pitch deck. Compare catchments and supply gaps in seconds.
Suppliers & contractors
Steel, fit-out, security, access control - see projects entering planning months before your competitors get the call.
Pricing
Browse free. Pay only for intelligence.
The map is free, forever. Credits are spent only when we run real intelligence - deep reports, catchment scores, live pricing scrapes.
Free
£0
Discovery only - explore the UK market
- Browse every UK facility on the map
- Public planning & council data
- 1 saved area watchlist
Starter
£49/mo
5,000 credits / month - brokers & single-site operators
- Deep facility reports
- Catchment & demand analysis
- Weekly planning alerts
- CSV export (up to 1,000 rows)
Pro
£79/mo
20,000 credits / month - scaling teams & investors
- Store X-ray: live price & availability reads
- Crime & security overlays
- Commercial land deal flow
- Real-time planning alerts
- Unlimited CSV export
Stop hunting. Start finding.
The UK self-storage opportunity is hiding in plain sight - hundreds of council portals, dozens of independent operators, a market still run on spreadsheets. Open the Compass and see all of it.
FREE TIER · NO CARD REQUIRED