Lancing, West Sussex — split between the hill village of North Lancing and a close-packed post-war seafront grid, with Lancing College’s chapel rising above the valley between them. We collect from your BN15 door, load and seal everything into your own wooden container, and store it inland at our alarmed Ashington warehouse, from £21 a week for storage and insurance, no deposit; we quote collection separately, upfront.
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Weekly storage prices for Lancing — insurance included, no deposit.
We’ll show exactly how full your container is — no rounding up.
The coastal grid south of the railway line went up fast after the war — bungalows, flats and small-plot terraces built for a seaside footprint rather than a delivery lorry, with barely room for two cars outside, let alone a van and a trailer. Climb the hill into North Lancing and the lanes around the old parish church narrow further still, laid out long before anyone owned a car at all. Rather than ask you to solve either problem, our crew simply parks wherever the road allows and does the rest of the carry by hand, wrapping and boxing on the spot, then assembling and closing up your own wooden container on the BN15 doorstep, sealed before it moves an inch. The full process, first call to redelivery, is set out on how it works.
That inland trip runs about 10 miles, up the A27 and then the A283/A24, and ends at our Ashington warehouse, where your container is logged, kept dry behind alarms and cameras, and insured for the whole stay. Pricing stays simple — £21 a week per container, no deposit — and if you’re unsure how many you’ll need, the size guide and prices pages lay it out before you commit.
Your own private wooden container is built and sealed right on the doorstep in Lancing — hill lane or seafront grid — before it travels inland to our alarmed Ashington warehouse. It's a fully managed, fully insured service, storage from £21 a week, with collection quoted separately upfront.
Up a tight North Lancing lane or outside a flat on the coastal grid, the process is the same: your own wooden container gets built and sealed right there, then driven inland to Ashington. Yours alone, it’s stored behind alarms well back from the coast, where damp salt air never reaches the timber or anything packed inside it.
Learn moreThe weekly rate never moves once it’s set, however long a Sompting-bound wait or a house-to-flat downsize actually takes. Book the container and keep it booked for as many months as the timetable needs — there’s no cut-off date pushing you to decide sooner.
Learn moreBilled strictly week by week, this option stops the moment you’re back in — no matter whether the gap was a North Lancing cottage renovation running late, a tenancy handover on the grid, or a chain that fell out of step.
Learn moreSpace is tight for anyone trading near the station or out on Lancing Business Park, so stock, tools and paperwork go into a container instead of the shopfront — freeing up the square footage a single unit can’t spare.
Learn moreYou don’t lift, measure or squeeze anything into a van — the crew clears sofas, wardrobes and family pieces from a coastal bungalow or a hill cottage near North Lancing, blanket-wrapping each item as it comes out the door.
Learn moreThe crew blanket-wraps your furniture for safe transit and does all the loading. They move through the property at a steady pace, flat near Widewater, bungalow on the grid or cottage by the church alike, and lock the container down before pulling away. Packing your own boxes is standard; we can pack for you as a paid extra.
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Lancing splits cleanly into two. North Lancing is the older settlement, up the hill around the 12th-century, Grade I-listed church of St James the Less, a parish with Saxon origins; the coastal grid below it sits on land that was still market gardens into the 1940s and was mostly built up between 1945 and 1970. Between the two, Lancing College’s chapel — begun in 1868, its upper section consecrated in 1911, vaulting rising 90 feet, and the largest rose window in England at 32 feet across — is the one landmark visible from most of the valley, whichever half of town you’re standing in. Out toward the shingle, Widewater Lagoon, a rare brackish stretch of water behind the beach once home to the now probably-extinct Ivell’s sea anemone, marks the western edge of the seafront, and the Art Deco terminal of Brighton City Airport — still widely known as Shoreham Airport, though it sits inside Lancing parish itself — anchors the town’s northern, A27 side.
None of that housing stock was built with storage in mind. The post-war coastal grid favoured a small footprint over a garage or a loft — flats and bungalows squeezed onto plots meant for a modest seaside home, not a family’s accumulated furniture — while older North Lancing cottages up near the church often trade a garage for a steep, narrow staircase instead. Moving out of a larger family home into one of those coastal flats, waiting out a chain that’s stalled, or clearing a hill cottage mid-renovation all end up needing the same thing: somewhere to put everything that isn’t a shed at the bottom of a garden.
Honest, simple pricing — from just £21 a week for storage and insurance, with collection and redelivery quoted separately upfront, in Lancing, 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 QuoteLoad a steel container yourself on Lancing Business Park, key in your pocket for however many months the rental runs — that’s the standing option here, and it’s a genuine one. Ours is a phone call instead: tell the crew what’s moving and they build a private wooden container on your BN15 doorstep, seal it in front of you, then do the driving inland to Ashington themselves. Nothing to hire, nothing to load, nothing to keep track of.
| Wolves — managed storage | A self-storage unit | |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden container vs steel unit | You don’t touch a steel box on Lancing Business Park under this option — the crew turns up, builds a wooden container beside your belongings, and seals it there and then; no padlock, no key to remember. | The business park units work the traditional way: you load the steel container yourself and hold the key for as long as the rental lasts. |
| Who drives & lifts | No box passes through your hands on any job here — the crew lifts and carries everything itself, hill cottage or coastal-grid flat alike, once you’ve pointed out what’s going. | Renting a unit on the business park means one job stays yours throughout: getting every box and item there yourself, trip by trip. |
| Parking on collection day | North Lancing’s hill lanes rarely leave room for a van outside the door, so we don’t try — it parks close by and the crew carries everything the last stretch on foot, same as it would for a tight spot on the coastal grid. | Finding somewhere a hired van can legally sit near the business park, then getting it there, is squarely your problem to solve. |
| Getting your things back | One phone call, a day’s notice, and that’s it — the sealed container is back on your doorstep. | Getting it home from the business park means booking a slot, collecting a van, loading the unit yourself, then driving the whole trip in reverse. |
| Deposit | No deposit features anywhere in a Wolves quote, booking or invoice — not once, not ever. | A padlock key on the business park doesn’t usually get handed over until a deposit’s been paid up front. |
| Insurance while moving | From the moment the crew lifts the first item at your door, it’s covered — and stays covered right through to hand-back. | A steel unit’s insurance typically waits until the doors are locked shut; everything before that, including the loading, is uninsured. |
| What you pay | One container, one storage figure: £21 for the week, no deposit — collection is a separate figure, quoted upfront. | The business park’s advertised rent is only the opening number — add fuel, your time, and however many trips the job takes, and the real total climbs well past it. |
How many containers a Lancing job needs comes down to what’s actually inside the property, not its postcode. Use the table below to find your nearest match — a hill cottage near St James the Less and a coastal-grid flat can land on very different numbers — and the crew will lock in the exact count once they’re on site loading.
| 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 |
Billing always tracks what the crew actually seals into the container, table estimate or not. A steep North Lancing lane, or a shared driveway on the grid, might add time to the packing — but it won’t add a container that isn’t genuinely needed, and it won’t take one away either. Table prices cover storage and insurance; collection & redelivery are quoted separately, upfront.
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There’s no gap in the insurance to think about. It’s already active before a single item is lifted at your door, it holds through every week the container sits behind alarms and cameras at Ashington, and it doesn’t drop until everything is back with you, hill or grid.
One family crew, unchanged since 2016, holds LAPADA accreditation for antiques and heirlooms and a Checkatrade listing that’s stayed clean the whole time — and after a decade they know North Lancing’s lanes and the coastal grid’s tight driveways well enough that neither one holds the job up.
One flat figure covers the storage: £21 a week for a container, insurance included, with no deposit taken before we start — collection and redelivery are quoted separately. Even weeks longer in store than you first planned, and the number on the invoice still doesn’t budge.
You never drive anywhere for this: the crew comes to your BN15 address for collection and comes back again for redelivery, covering the same roughly 10-mile stretch up the A27 and A283/A24 to Ashington each time, whether that’s the hill above St James the Less or a flat down on the grid.
A stalled chain, a renovation on a hill cottage, a downsize out of a coastal bungalow, or stock that won’t fit in a shopfront near the station — short-term storage, long-term storage, furniture storage and business storage each answer a different one of those, though the collection, packing and sealing work identically for all four.
North Lancing up the hill, the grid down by the front, Sompting toward Worthing and Coombes to the north all fall on one round for us, with no surcharge for the outlying stops. The areas we cover page maps the full reach, and the size guide will ballpark your container count before you ring.
Up the hill, North Lancing keeps its own pace — narrow lanes fold around St James the Less, the parish’s 12th-century church, and the cottages nearby predate the motor car by a long way. Getting a van right up to the door isn’t always possible; more often the crew parks on the wider stretch below and walks the short remaining distance carrying boxes rather than driving up, which changes nothing about how the container gets built and sealed once everyone’s inside.
Down on the flat, the grid between the railway and the seafront tightens in its own way — short terraces, bungalows and blocks of flats put up quickly between 1945 and 1970, most with a driveway sized for one car and nothing spare for a removals lorry. It’s where the bulk of our Lancing collections happen, and the crew is well used to threading a Saturday-morning round of parked cars and wheelie bins.
Toward Sompting, the border is more a road-name distinction than anything you’d notice on the ground, and we collect on both sides of it the same way. Whichever side of that line the address falls, your belongings go into the same private wooden container — antiques and fragile pieces get the LAPADA-trained wrapping they need as standard — priced at a flat £21 a week with no deposit before the crew takes it inland.
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.
Seafront-flat downsizes, hill-cottage renovations, stalled chains, heirlooms needing real care — Lancing brings us all of it, and it all goes the same way: collected, sealed, stored dry inland at £21 a week, with the collection quoted separately.
Not everything from a house with a garden and garage fits behind the smaller door of a grid flat, and that’s fine — whatever’s left over comes into store with us, kept safe for as long as it takes to decide what happens to it next.
A container gets sealed the day your old address empties, and it stays sealed for exactly as long as the gap between exchange and completion runs. Weekly billing, nothing owed once the keys to the new place are actually in your hand — however a Lancing chain happens to fall out of step.
Building work doesn’t wait for furniture to find somewhere else to be, whether the address is a period cottage by St James the Less or a 1950s bungalow out on the grid. Clear a single room or the whole house into store, and everything comes back once the last coat of paint is down.
Family pieces handed down through generations in North Lancing, or built up slowly in a long-settled coastal home, get the LAPADA-accredited treatment as standard: padded, wrapped and logged individually before anything is loaded, so nothing travels the way ordinary house-clearance stock would.
Wherever the address sits in BN15 — a lane climbing into North Lancing, a flat on the seafront grid — the crew collects from the door and seals the container before it leaves. From there it’s a run of about 10 miles up the A27 and A283/A24 to the alarmed, CCTV-watched warehouse at Ashington, West Sussex (RH20 3JT), where it stays until you want it back.
Nothing about BN15 requires a trip to a unit — not from the hill lanes of North Lancing, not from the seafront grid, not from the fringes toward Sompting and Coombes. Share a postcode, and that’s the only input needed: the crew handles the collection, the loading, the seal, the ten-odd miles inland to Ashington, and eventually the drive back to your door.
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Three things happen on the day, in this order: the crew wraps your furniture in blankets and carries everything out at your BN15 address, whether that’s a hill cottage or a coastal-grid flat, then loads it into your own wooden container, built and closed up on the doorstep before anything moves off the property. The warehouse at Ashington takes it in from there and looks after it — alarmed, dry, out of the weather — until the day you call it back, when the same container returns to your door.
£21 a week, one container, no deposit, and insurance included — hands-on packing is an optional add-on, and collection and redelivery are priced separately, neither folded into that figure. Give us a rough idea of what’s moving out of your property and a fixed weekly price comes back within a day.
Every part of BN15 is on our patch — North Lancing up around St James the Less, the coastal grid, and out to where Lancing meets Sompting. Tight lanes and one-car driveways are routine here; where the van can’t reach the door, the crew closes the gap on foot, and nothing about the service changes.
Two genuinely different systems, not variations on one idea. A Lancing Business Park unit is steel, and it’s yours to load, lock and keep a key for — any trip to add or remove something is a trip you make yourself. What we build is wooden, packed and sealed by the crew on your own doorstep, with no key ever changing hands; it travels to Ashington and comes back to you on request, not the other way round.
Furniture, boxed items, antiques, business stock, paperwork — if it fits in a container, it’s covered, and covering it is the crew’s job, not yours. You pack your own boxes; the crew blanket-wrap each piece and do all the loading into the container themselves, on the spot, at your door — and if you’d rather not pack, we can pack for you as an optional extra.
It is, and cover starts earlier than most people expect — the moment the crew lifts the first item at your door, not once it’s safely inside the warehouse. That same cover runs continuously through the drive to Ashington, the weeks in storage, and the trip back.
Give the crew a day’s notice, and the sealed container is back at your Lancing address exactly as it left — no rush, no scramble. Behind that is week-by-week billing with no minimum stay attached, so speed on the way back is never held up by a leftover contract term.
About 10 miles, up the A27 and then the A283/A24 — that’s the run from Lancing to the Ashington warehouse where every container sits once it leaves your street. It’s a short enough hop that one crew handles both the pickup and the drop-back without the miles ever being a factor — while keeping us off Lancing Business Park and out of the local unit race entirely.
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