Anywhere across Chichester (PO19), a crew arrives at your door, loads your belongings into a private sealed container, and drives it inland to our alarmed Ashington warehouse — ready for redelivery whenever you give 24 hours’ notice, priced from £21 a week for storage and insurance, no deposit needed — collection is quoted separately.
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Weekly storage prices for Chichester — insurance included, no deposit.
We’ll show exactly how full your container is — no rounding up.
The Roman grid at the heart of Chichester hasn’t shifted in two thousand years — four streets still converge on the Market Cross, inside walls old enough to remember the legions who built them. That makes a stroll to the Cathedral lovely, and a hired van’s parking search miserable. We remove that problem by sending our own crew to your door instead, anywhere in PO19, where they start packing immediately and have your container sealed before a parking space near North, South, East or West Street ever becomes your worry.
That sealed container then heads inland, roughly 23 miles up the A27, to sit dry and alarmed inside our Ashington warehouse — a drive made by our crew in our van, never by you. The stages are broken down on our how-it-works guide, with the actual numbers living on our pricing table.
Your own sealed wooden container gets built and packed right on your Chichester doorstep - inside the Pallants or beyond the walls, wherever van parking becomes impossible. Our crew loads, seals and drives it roughly 23 miles to our alarmed Ashington warehouse, fully managed and insured throughout, storage from £21 a week with collection quoted separately.
Everything goes into one purpose-built wooden container assembled where you live, even on the narrow Pallants streets a full-size van struggles to enter, before the crew drives it to our alarmed Ashington warehouse for safekeeping.
Learn moreWhether a Chichester chain drags on for months or a listed-building job overruns by a season, the weekly rate stays flat and there’s nothing forcing you to commit to a finish date in advance.
Learn morePay only for the weeks you actually need, whether that’s covering a gap between university terms, a quick refit or a house sale running behind schedule — there’s no minimum contract to commit to.
Learn moreShops and offices around North Street and the Cross regularly ask us to take stock, paperwork or seasonal displays off their hands between busy periods, clearing floor space that’s always at a premium inside the walls.
Learn moreAntiques and case furniture cleared from a Pallants townhouse are wrapped in blankets and handled to LAPADA-accredited standards from the first lift to the last — you’re not asked to move a thing.
Learn moreSkip the van hire, and skip trying to squeeze a van down a pedestrianised Chichester street — the crew arrives ready to wrap your furniture in blankets, load everything and seal the container before leaving your doorstep in one visit.
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Chichester is West Sussex’s only city, and its cathedral carries a genuinely unusual claim: the bell tower stands entirely separate from the main building, the last detached medieval cathedral bell tower left standing in the country. The Pallants — North, South, East and West — hold the city’s Georgian townhouses inside the walls, a conservation area dense enough that original door and window openings are often narrower than anything built after 1900. Large stretches of North, South, East and West Street are pedestrianised for parts of the day, so a full-size collection vehicle often can’t get anywhere near a Pallants doorstep — which is exactly the gap a door-to-door service is built to close.
Two genuine local demand drivers sit either side of that walled centre. The University of Chichester’s Bishop Otter campus is inside the city itself, so halls empty out each summer and fill again every autumn. The student population moves belongings in and out every term. A few miles south, Birdham’s marina on Chichester Harbour holds well over a thousand boats — we don’t touch hulls or rigging, but sails, cushions, ropes and deck gear collected from an owner’s home and dried off over winter is squarely our kind of job.
Honest, simple pricing — from just £21 a week for storage and insurance, with collection and redelivery quoted separately upfront, in Chichester, fully insured, with no deposit. Need more room? We simply add another container, so you only pay for the space you use.
No deposit · collection & redelivery quoted upfront
Get Your QuoteNobody drives, lifts or wraps a thing when Wolves handles a Chichester collection: our crew turns up on the day, whether that’s a Pallants doorstep or a street beyond the walls, loads and seals the container right where you live, then drives away with it. Choosing a self-storage unit instead puts every one of those jobs back in your hands — sourcing a van, finding the unit, and squeezing a load past a pedestrianised street on your own.
| Wolves — managed storage | A self-storage unit | |
|---|---|---|
| Who drives & lifts | Point at what’s going and the crew lifts, carries and loads it — your hands never touch a box. | Sourcing a van and running the whole job yourself is standard practice. |
| Packing & wrapping | The crew brings protective blankets, wraps and loads your furniture, then seals the container before leaving your doorstep — packing your own cartons is standard, with our packers a paid upgrade. | Boxes and wrapping are down to you, sorted before the unit’s shutter even goes up. |
| Getting into the walled centre | If North, South, East or West Street is closed to traffic, we leave the vehicle nearby and finish the job carrying everything on foot. | Working out where a loading vehicle can even stop near a pedestrianised street is left entirely to you. |
| Getting your things back | One phone call brings the container back to your PO19 doorstep, usually the same day. | Hiring a van, driving to the unit and making the return trip falls to you all over again. |
| Deposit | Nothing is asked for upfront — no deposit, not ever. | Most units want cash in hand before they’ll hand over a key. |
| Insurance while moving | Insurance is live from the moment the first item leaves your home, not after everything’s already sitting in storage. | Most unit policies wait until the goods are already sitting inside before cover kicks in. |
| What you pay | One container, £21 a week, no deposit — that figure is the storage bill, with collection quoted upfront as its own separate charge. | Rent is just the starting figure — fuel, a van and the hours spent on two round trips get added afterwards. |
The same 250 cu ft box measures every Chichester home, whether that’s a flat tucked over the shops or a four-bedroom house out past the ring road — find the row closest to yours and the price follows.
| Your home | Containers you’ll need | From |
|---|---|---|
| A studio or a few rooms | usually one container, sometimes part-filled | from £21/week |
| A one-bedroom flat | one container | from £21/week |
| A two-bedroom home | about two containers | from £42/week |
| A three-bedroom home | about three containers | from £63/week |
| A larger house | four or more containers | from £79/week |
A converted flat above the Cross rarely needs more than one container; a full Pallants townhouse clearance across Chichester usually runs to three or four — either way, you’re only billed for what’s actually sealed and taken away. Table prices cover storage and insurance; collection & redelivery are quoted separately, upfront.
Local, managed and genuinely cared for — why local homes and businesses choose us.
Cover holds continuously for every day your container sits alarmed, dry and monitored by CCTV at Ashington. Reach back further and it was already active before that point, live from the moment the doors were sealed on a Pallants doorstep or a Summersdale drive, and it stays continuous all the way to delivery day back in Chichester.
Threading a van down the Chichester Pallants and through the pedestrian gates has always been handled by the same crew, never handed off to a subcontractor for the day. That crew works under LAPADA accreditation and Checkatrade verification, and has done since the company started in 2016.
£21 buys a week of Chichester storage with nothing to pay upfront and insurance folded in — packing your belongings is a paid extra if you want it rather than part of that price — useful if a university term ends sooner than a container’s booked, or a chain leaves a gap you didn’t plan for.
When a Chichester street won’t take a vehicle, the crew leaves it on the nearest legal spot and finishes the job on foot, boxes in hand — working out where to park, how far to walk and what route to take is entirely down to us.
A Pallants renovation, a stalled chain, a downsize out of the walls or a shop freeing up room near the Cross all lean on one system: business storage for stockroom overflow, furniture storage for a house clearance, short-term storage while a sale drags on, or long-term storage for however many months a project needs — one sealed container, different lengths of booking.
Ashington’s collection runs already pass close to Bognor Regis, Arundel and Midhurst most weeks, which keeps a separate trip off the bill for any of them; the wider spread we drive to is charted on a single areas we cover listing, and a rough container count is easiest to work out first on the size guide.
Housing inside the walls is almost entirely period stock: Georgian townhouses in the Pallants, cottages tucked behind them, and flats carved out above the shops on North, South, East and West Street. Move north past the walls and the picture changes fast — Summersdale’s leafy roads of 1930s-and-later semis, and Whyke’s Victorian and Edwardian terraces close to the college, most with on-street parking and no driveway to speak of.
Further out again, Graylingwell Park and Roussillon Park sit side by side on the sites of the old county asylum and Chichester Barracks respectively — a mix of converted period buildings and new-build houses with proper parking courts, a world away from a Pallants doorstep. Out toward the villages, Fishbourne, Tangmere, Boxgrove and Lavant keep their own historic cores, while Bosham’s waterside lanes are narrow enough that the road to the quay floods on a spring tide.
None of that housing variety changes how we work. A Georgian townhouse, a Graylingwell apartment or a Boxgrove cottage all get the same crew, the same doorstep loading, and the same sealed container carried well away from the centre to our Ashington warehouse — nothing left behind in a garage or a boxroom while you decide what’s next.
We had a big move with everything going into a mix of long term and short term storage. Jack was very responsive and helpful answering my many questions as we got ready for the move, and the four guys on moving day were super efficient and friendly. They have their own storage facility too, which is reassuring and just makes everything more straightforward.
We handle the heavy lifting, literally — here’s how storing with us works.
A Georgian townhouse inside the walls, a marina-side downsize, a city-centre flat with nowhere to leave a van — Chichester’s jobs come with access problems, and one insured container answers them at £21 a week, collection quoted separately.
Halls and shared houses empty out every summer. We collect from the room or house, seal it into a container, and bring it all back for the new term.
Moving out of a Georgian house within the walls into somewhere smaller means fewer rooms, not fewer belongings — whatever doesn’t fit is collected and kept safe until you’ve settled into the next place.
Clearing a room down to bare walls ahead of building work is far less stressful once its contents are already sealed inside a container and driven off, away from the dust, the trades and the mess.
Sails, cushions, ropes and deck kit collected from your home, not the marina, and kept dry inland until the boat goes back in the water each spring.
Chichester is roughly 23 miles up the A27 from our Ashington base - a proper run, and one of the longer ones we make regularly. We're upfront about it rather than pretending we're round the corner. What that distance buys you is a crew that does the driving: we collect at your PO19 door, load and seal your container on the spot, then carry it inland to Ashington to store.
We collect right across the PO19 postcode area, Chichester itself and the surrounding villages — there’s no self-storage unit to drive to. Just share your postcode when you enquire, and our family team loads, seals and stores your belongings, then redelivers back to your Chichester door on 24 hours’ notice.
Thinking about self storage in Chichester? Start here — how managed storage really works, what it costs, and how we protect your things while they’re in our care.
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The questions West Sussex customers ask us most.
Yes. PO19 is core ground for us, and coverage extends into PO18 and PO20 as well, taking in a Pallants townhouse just as readily as Fishbourne, Bosham, Tangmere, Boxgrove or Lavant. The process doesn’t change with the postcode — we turn up, load, seal and drive the container to Ashington, then return it whenever you’re ready.
£21 per container, per week for storage, with no deposit and no hidden fees. Hands-on packing is an optional add-on; the collection run and bringing everything back later are billed apart from that figure, priced in advance by volume and distance. A quote reaches you inside 24 hours of asking.
None of those three, strictly: what you get is a private wooden container, 250 cu ft, cared for by us alone from the day it’s sealed to the day it’s opened again. There’s no steel shipping box turning up empty for you to fill, and no self-storage unit with a key handed over — nowhere for you to go and check on things yourself.
No depot sits inside Chichester itself — the nearest base we operate from is the alarmed Ashington warehouse, some 23 miles away on the A27, and we’d rather tell you that outright than let you assume otherwise. It changes nothing on your end: the same team handling your pickup also brings everything home again, with both journeys already factored into the quote.
Yes — Bishop Otter campus sits right in the city, with halls clearing out each summer before filling again in autumn. We collect from student accommodation, keep everything sealed and dry at Ashington for the break, and have it back in time for the new academic year, saving a trip home on the train.
We collect the soft gear — sails, cushions, ropes, covers and deck kit — from an owner’s home, not the marina itself, and dry it off in our alarmed warehouse until the boat’s back in the water. We don’t store hulls, masts or rigging; salt air is quick to damage fabric and metal left in a garage over winter, which is exactly why we take it inland instead.
Point out the pieces you’re keeping close by, and everything else gets wrapped, packed and sealed into whatever number of containers the clearance needs — a full Pallants townhouse usually fills two or three. You won’t lift a finger, and because there’s no minimum booking length, the sorting-out can take whatever time it needs.
Each container holds a fixed 250 cu ft (5ft × 7ft × 8.6ft) — close to a one-bedroom flat’s worth of belongings. A studio above the shops rarely needs more than one; a bigger household usually stretches to two or three, with further containers brought in whenever the job calls for them.
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