A secure yard is
the most useful thing you own.
Builders, landscapers, plant-hire firms and removals companies in the North East spend a lot of time looking for secure yards and hardstanding. They rarely find them advertised because the good ones don’t stay available.
If you have space with a fence, a gate, a surface and access, you’re holding something in short supply.
The market you’re in.
Secure yard asking rents across the North East run in a remarkably wide band, roughly £14,000 to £57,000 per acre per year depending on location, condition and use.
83% of the industrial space available in the North East is second-hand. The new stuff hasn’t been built, and secure open storage particularly has almost no new pipeline. That’s the gap your yard sits in.
What matters most.
Access hours, security, drainage and neighbours. Not whether the surface is perfect, well-drained hardcore works for a lot of uses. Not whether it looks impressive on a brochure, the customers we’re matching aren’t brochure customers.
The Passport captures each of these and puts them next to what a specific type of tenant will actually pay for.
How we make it work.
Most yards start in the Green lane, ready to earn now, no permission questions, low or no setup. We find a suitable customer, agree terms, take a deposit, run the payment. You keep control of access and get paid monthly.
Where the yard supports a bigger route (a self-storage container park, a dedicated operator), the Passport flags it as one of the three routes and we take the next step only if you want to.
83%
of available industrial space in the North East is second-hand. The new supply isn’t coming, and open, secure yards particularly rarely stay available.
Knight Frank LOGIC / North East industrial market
What we’d most likely put in a Passport for a site like this.
Secure vehicle & plant storage
Vans, tippers, plant, trailers. Fenced, gated, minimal setup.
Green
Contractor compound
Materials plus welfare cabin, week-on / week-off pattern.
Green
Container self-storage yard
Higher setup but higher yield. We only progress with proven demand.
Amber
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.