Vans need a home.
Caravans need one more.
Two things happened at once: the number of vans on UK roads went up year after year, and the amount of secure land for vehicles went down. The result is quiet demand for exactly the kind of space most people don’t think of as commercial.
A drive, a compound, a spare corner of a yard, a row of lock-ups, any of them can earn.
What earns without any fuss.
Overnight and long-stay vehicle parking. Caravan and boat storage. Locked-away secure storage for a trade van and its contents. None of these need any building work, they need somewhere with access, a surface and a boundary.
What decides the price.
Security first, a fence, a gate, a light or a camera moves the price meaningfully. Then location relative to a built-up area. Then whether the vehicle can be dropped off and collected outside your hours.
How we run it.
Simple monthly arrangements, deposit, payments through Estavelle. If you don’t want to manage keys or gates directly, we build that into the arrangement.
What we’d most likely put in a Passport for a site like this.
Overnight & long-stay vehicle parking
Simplest route; monthly rent, minimal admin.
Green
Caravan & boat storage
Seasonal demand, dependable customers, gate control.
Green
Secure van & trade storage
Higher rent for lockable, well-lit, well-fenced space.
Green
These are the routes we would most likely look at for a site like this. What ends up in your Passport depends on your access, your permissions and what demand is actually doing near you, and sometimes the honest answer is none of them.
Why a second income is worth more than it looks
A yard, a building or a paddock does not care what the weather did or what prices are doing. That is the useful part. An extra few thousand from the crop and an extra few thousand from a storage let are the same figure on paper and not the same thing at all, because one of them still arrives in a bad year.