Student storage in Leeds

Usual size

10ft (80 sq ft) — or share a 20ft

The summer gap

Roughly late June to mid September

Sharing

Split one unit between housemates

To register

No deposit, no card details, no credit check

Where

Holbeck, Leeds — about a mile from the centre

Opening

autumn 2026

Why Leeds students need summer storage

Most Leeds student tenancies run about 11 months, ending in late June or early July, with the next one starting in September. That leaves a gap where your things have nowhere to be. The usual options are all bad: pay rent through a summer you are not there, drive everything to your parents' and back, or bin a working desk and a decent mattress and buy them again in autumn.

A container over the summer costs less than the extra rent, and far less than replacing the furniture. If you are an international student it is the difference between a summer at home and a summer of shipping costs.

Cheap student storage: share a unit with housemates

This is the bit most people miss. A 10ft container is about 80 sq ft — comfortably a room's worth of belongings, and often two rooms' if you are sensible about stacking. A 20ft is about 160 sq ft, which is a whole shared house.

Access runs through the app rather than one shared key, which is what makes sharing actually work — nobody has to be the person who holds the padlock key all summer. Tell us at sign-up who needs access.

Getting here from Hyde Park, Headingley and Woodhouse

The site is in Holbeck, about a mile south-west of the centre, just off the M621 at Junction 2. From the north-side student areas you come through or around the centre and over the river.

• Hyde Park and Woodhouse — through the centre, about 3 miles.
• Headingley — through the centre or round the ring road, about 3 miles.
• City centre flats (LS1, LS2) — straight down Water Lane or Whitehall Road, about a mile.
• Burley and Kirkstall — about 3 miles via the ring road or the centre.

Worth being straight about: this is a drive-up yard, so you need a vehicle for moving day — a mate with a car, a parent, a man-with-a-van, or a small hire van shared between the house. It is not a walk-and-carry site, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.

What can you store in a student storage unit?

Fine: beds and mattresses, desks and chairs, boxes of books and clothes, kitchen equipment, bikes, sports kit, TVs and monitors in their boxes, and anything else you would rather not replace in September.

Not fine: food of any kind, anything damp, anything flammable, and anything you legally cannot store. The containers are wind- and watertight but unheated, so also think twice about instruments with wooden bodies — a guitar is better off at home.

Packing for a summer in a container

1. Everything completely dry before it goes in — a damp towel in a sealed box for ten weeks is a lost box.
2. Clothes in bags inside boxes, not bin bags alone — bags tear and slump.
3. Mattress upright against a side wall in a breathable cover, not flat on the floor.
4. Boxes on pallets or battens rather than straight onto the steel floor.
5. Label the side facing the doors. In September nobody remembers what is in box four.
6. Bike upright and locked, even inside the unit — good habit, costs nothing.

Student storage questions

Qube opens in autumn 2026, so we cannot cover summer 2026. Register your interest — free, no card details — and you will have rates and the opening date first, with founding-member terms held for you.