Competitors

4 local yards · 2 national chains · 10 weekly checks · last check today

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Store-It Wales, Sitemap URL set failed today: sitemap https://storeitwales.co.uk/sitemap.xml: request failed: fetch failed

Tracked64 local, 2 national

Company number confirmed0 of 6the rest are skipped by the register checks

Not crawled0 of 60 on Stora or Storeganise, by hand only

Publish availability1 of 6counted sold-out sizes, never an occupancy percentage

Why some of these cannot be filled

Stora and Storeganise host Loc It Up itself and are Vault's direct commercial rival, so their storefronts are never crawled; register checks still run, because Companies House is an official API rather than their server. A company number is only ever confirmed by a person, never resolved from a name. Turnover is not collected for a local yard at all: companies this size file under s.444 with no profit and loss account, so it reads "Not filed (s.444)", never Unknown and never zero.

Company numbers found, awaiting your confirmation

Found by hand on the public register. Vault will not accept any of these on its own: attaching the wrong company's accounts to a rival is worse than having none.

Big Yellow03625199Strong match
BIG YELLOW GROUP PLC. The listed parent that publishes the results the revenue figures come from.
Nine similarly named self storage SPVs share the Bagshot address, and THE BIG YELLOW HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED (03932245) is both a separate live company and a former name of the PLC itself.
Check the source first
Lockspot Self Storage10614965Strong match
LOCKSPOT LTD.. Their own terms page states "registered in England and Wales under company number 10614965".
Not LOCKSPOT MANAGEMENT LTD (11352989) on the same business park, which is a data processing company.
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Safestore04726380Strong match
SAFESTORE HOLDINGS PLC. The listed parent that publishes the annual report the revenue figures come from.
SAFESTORE LIMITED (05512707) is the operating company, if you would rather track that entity.
Check the source first
Store-It Wales02910548Strong match
ANGLETOP LIMITED. Their footer reads "trading name of Angletop Ltd Company Registration No. 2910548", and Angletop's registered office on the register is the Store-It Wales yard on Abergelly Road, Fforestfach.
STORE-IT (WALES) LIMITED (04978057) is the obvious name match and has been dissolved since 2010. The number also needs its leading zero.
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Swansea Container Storage16270701Needs a check
SENTINEL L1 SECURITY LIMITED. Their site footer reads "Sentinel Security L1 Ltd T/A Swansea Container Storage", and this is the only company on the register containing both "sentinel" and "L1".
The registered office is a Cardiff house, the SIC code is 64991 which is a finance code rather than storage, and the registered name has the words in a different order. Worth ringing 07974000450 to ask which entity invoices, before accepting.
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Six deep profiles plus the catchment sweep is the shape this was designed for. The local market has around 42 operators, and the sweep is what catches the rest.

Name

Kind

Local yards are watched for prices, availability and the register. They get no news: Google News returned zero items for every local operator tested.

Website

Leave blank if they have no site. Without one there is nothing to check for prices or new locations.

Storefront platform

Set this when you know it. It decides which checks are safe to run.

Companies House, confirmed by a person

Type the number in and check it on the register yourself. Vault will not look a company up from a name, because names do not resolve: searching for Loc It Up returns a dissolved company and an unrelated Hampshire one. With no confirmed number the register checks skip with the reason NO_COMPANY_NUMBER, which is honest. A wrong number silently attributes another company's filings, charges and directors to this competitor.

Company number

8 characters, for example 03263867 or SC123456. Shorter numbers are zero padded.

Registered name, exactly as the register shows it

Captured now, so a later rename shows up as a change rather than passing unnoticed.

I opened this company on the Companies House register and it is this competitor.Recorded against your name and today's date, and shown on the competitor page.

Distance from our gate (miles)

Leave blank if you have not measured it. Blank reads as Unknown and keeps them out of every distance bounded comparison, which is better than a guess weighting a yard 14 miles away like one on the doorstep.

How that distance was measured

For example: SA5 4EE to SA5 4SP, road miles, measured 8 Aug 2026.

Postcode

Used for the planning ring and for news location terms.

Google place ID

Only the place_id is stored. Review text, ratings and counts are never stored: the Maps terms name that as prohibited scraping.

Do not fetch this competitor's siteTick this when robots.txt disallows us or somebody has asked us to stop. Register checks are unaffected: Companies House is an official API, not their server.

Notes

Local yards

Prices, availability and the register. No news.

Box Containers

Local yard · 6.5 miles · boxcontainers.co.uk

Shopify

Published asking prices

6 prices

Container Monthly Rolling Rent Agreement, monthly£100.00 per monthVAT basis not stated8 Aug 2026
2x 10ft Container Rental Swansea // Weekly Rental Agreement/ £40 Per Week, weekly£40.00 per weekVAT basis not stated8 Aug 2026
Proline Ratchet Strap Lashing Tie Down Straps 25mm x 8m 800kg£16.99VAT basis not stated8 Aug 2026
Used 20ft Shipping Container for Sale, Wind & Watertight Storage Container£1,695.00VAT basis not stated8 Aug 2026
and 2 more on the competitor page

Availability

0 of 4 sizes shown as unavailable, first seen 8 Aug 2026, still true at the check on 8 Aug 2026.

An observed count off their own page. Not an occupancy figure, and never turned into a percentage.

Companies House

No company number confirmed, so the register checks skip with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Open this competitor and type the number in. Vault never resolves a name to a number, because names do not resolve.

Checks

No news check: Google News returns zero items for local yards.

Check	Last run	Status	What it said
Sitemap URL set	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026
Shopify price list	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026

Lockspot Self Storage

Local yard · 14 miles · lockspot.co.uk

Custom build

Published asking prices

No check is set up for this yet.

Availability

No check is set up for this yet.

Companies House

No company number confirmed, so the register checks skip with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Open this competitor and type the number in. Vault never resolves a name to a number, because names do not resolve.

Checks

No news check: Google News returns zero items for local yards.

Check	Last run	Status	What it said
Sitemap URL set	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026

Store-It Wales

Local yard · 4.2 miles · storeitwales.co.uk

Custom build

Published asking prices

No check is set up for this yet.

Availability

No check is set up for this yet.

Companies House

No company number confirmed, so the register checks skip with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Open this competitor and type the number in. Vault never resolves a name to a number, because names do not resolve.

Checks

No news check: Google News returns zero items for local yards.

Check	Last run	Status	What it said
Sitemap URL set	today	Failed	sitemap https://storeitwales.co.uk/sitemap.xml: request failed: fetch failed

Swansea Container Storage

Local yard · 2.6 miles · swanseacontainerstorage.co.uk

Custom build

Published asking prices

No check is set up for this yet.

Availability

No check is set up for this yet.

Companies House

No company number confirmed, so the register checks skip with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Open this competitor and type the number in. Vault never resolves a name to a number, because names do not resolve.

Checks

No news check: Google News returns zero items for local yards.

Check	Last run	Status	What it said
Sitemap URL set	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026

National chains

News and published results. Prices only where they publish them.

Big Yellow

National chain · distance Unknown · bigyellow.co.uk

Custom build

News

25 items mention them, 16 confirmed as this company. Last checked 8 Aug 2026.

Ryanair posts 34pc drop in Q1 pre-tax profits, Big Yellow Q1 revenues up 2pc - Sharecast.comSharecast.com, 20 Jul 2026unconfirmed
Contractor appointed to 60,000 sq ft Big Yellow Self Storage facility in Newcastle - Insider Media LtdInsider Media Ltd, 4 Aug 2026
Blackstone Considers Acquiring Big Yellow Self-Storage - Inside Self-StorageInside Self-Storage, 13 Oct 2025

Published results

Revenue: Not collected
Occupancy: Not collected

A chain above the small company threshold does file a profit and loss account, and the two listed operators publish revenue and occupancy in their results. Vault does not read accounts documents or annual reports, so these stay empty rather than estimated.

Companies House

No company number confirmed, so the register checks skip with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Open this competitor and type the number in. Vault never resolves a name to a number, because names do not resolve.

Checks

Check	Last run	Status	What it said
Sitemap URL set	today	Skipped	Does not apply here
News	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026

Safestore

National chain · distance Unknown · safestore.co.uk

Custom build

News

25 items mention them, 8 confirmed as this company. Last checked 8 Aug 2026.

Gunnebo Safe Storage launches new SafeStore Auto updates - Security Journal UKSecurity Journal UK, 15 Oct 2025
Hundreds of bottles of party drug GBL found in Big Yellow Self Storage and Safestore lockers - London Evening StandardLondon Evening Standard, 1 Aug 2023
Safestore returns to underlying earnings growth - Sharecast.comSharecast.com, 11 Jun 2026unconfirmed

Published results

Revenue: Not collected
Occupancy: Not collected

Companies House

No company number confirmed, so the register checks skip with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Open this competitor and type the number in. Vault never resolves a name to a number, because names do not resolve.

Checks

Check	Last run	Status	What it said
Sitemap URL set	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026
News	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026

Catchment sweep

1 not tied to one competitor

These watch the whole catchment rather than a named competitor, which is how a new operator is found before it has a name. Planning is the one with a real head start: the median Swansea decision takes 55 days, and the build takes months after that.

Check	Last run	Status	What it said
Planning applications	today	OK	Nothing changed since 8 Aug 2026