Somebody told you to sort the overflow. Maybe it was the fit-out contractors starting in two weeks, maybe it was a lease running out, but either way you’re the one standing in a half-packed office deciding what stays, what goes into storage, and what you genuinely cannot judge on the spot. You don’t have room to get this wrong, and nobody’s given you the authority to just wing it.
If you’re mid-relocation and the fit-out clock has already started, skip to what to do with the boxes you can’t decide on yet.
If you’re weighing what to keep against what to bin under a deadline, go straight to the worked example.
If a courier or removals firm is doing your drop-off for you, jump to the access section.
If you just want to know whether this is even the right kind of storage for an office move, start here.
Is this the right storage for an office move?
Yes, if what you’re dealing with is office overflow rather than personal belongings: filing cabinets, desks and chairs earmarked for a later phase, IT kit waiting to be redeployed, and boxes of paperwork nobody’s had time to sort properly. This isn’t personal storage, and it isn’t a general comparison of storage options. It’s built for one specific, time-pressured job: holding an office’s contents safely while a relocation, downsize or fit-out plays out around it.
Why Leatherhead’s office parks and Junction 9 matter here
How close, exactly, are the business parks to Junction 9?
Several of Leatherhead’s business parks sit within a few minutes of M25 Junction 9, and this is a checkable geographic fact, not a marketing line. The distance does vary depending on which park you’re in, so here’s the honest range rather than a claim that every site is on the junction’s doorstep:
| Business park | Approximate distance to Junction 9 |
|---|---|
| Mole Business Park (Randalls Road) | A few minutes’ drive |
| Regent Park (Kingston Road) | A few minutes’ drive |
| Silverglade Business Park | Around a mile |
| ARC Leatherhead / Leatherhead Office Park | Around two and a half miles |
If your office sits at the closer end of that range, dropping off overflow barely dents your working day. If you’re further out, it’s still close enough that a decision doesn’t turn into a logistics project of its own.
What “sort the overflow” actually means under a deadline
The honest version of the task is this: some things obviously don’t fit on the new floor and can go straight into storage. Others can’t be judged today at all, filing cabinets that might still be inside a statutory retention period, furniture pencilled in for “phase two,” equipment nobody’s confirmed is surplus yet. Deciding those on the spot, under pressure, is how things end up binned that shouldn’t have been, or left in a corridor because nobody had time to deal with them properly.
The Randalls Road Downsize: a worked example
This is an illustrative example, not a named client, but it’s the shape of what we see: a 40-person professional-services tenant on a Mole Business Park-style office, a few minutes from Junction 9, downsizing to a smaller floor during a lease renewal. The office manager was told to sort the overflow with two weeks’ notice before the fit-out contractors started.
What got kept, stored and logged
Some of it was easy: old furniture for phase two, IT equipment awaiting redeployment. Both went into a short-notice business unit close to the office, with a basic log of what went in and roughly how much, so there was a record if anyone asked later.
The document boxes that couldn’t be decided on the day
The harder call was the client paperwork. Some of it looked like it might still sit inside a retention period, and the office manager wasn’t a records specialist and had no business making that call under time pressure. Rather than shredding anything ambiguous, the undecided boxes went into storage alongside the furniture, logged the same way. That gave the office something to point to afterwards, “it’s stored, not destroyed, here’s when and what,” instead of a same-day judgement nobody could stand behind. To be clear: this is a general illustration, not records-retention advice, so check your own organisation’s retention obligations with a qualified adviser. It’s also where a document storage unit built specifically for paperwork, kept clean, dry and secure, tends to do a better job than a general storage box shoved among the furniture.
What happens on the day: the access reality
Can a courier or removals firm drop off on our behalf?
Only with someone from your business there too. Wigwam Self Storage Leatherhead, like every Wigwam site, is unmanned, so if a courier or removals contractor is doing the drop-off instead of you, a company representative needs to be physically present to let them in and confirm what’s gone into the unit. Access itself runs 6am to 10pm, seven days, not round the clock, so this needs to be planned into your two-week timeline now, not discovered on moving day.
Ready to lock in a unit before the fit-out clock runs out? Get a quote for business storage at Leatherhead and book it in while you’ve still got room to plan the drop-off properly.
What Wigwam’s team can (and can’t) help you decide
The team at Wigwam can help with sizing the right unit, checking availability, explaining access and smart entry, and getting your booking sorted. What they won’t do is discuss your business plans or give you legal, insurance, tax or records-retention advice. That’s not a gap in service. It’s a boundary you should know about upfront, so you’re not caught out later expecting an answer nobody’s qualified to give you. For the overflow itself, business storage is the unit type built for exactly this.
A note on cost, sizing and the existing Leatherhead guide
Cost depends on how much you’re storing and for how long, so the quickest way to a real figure is the quote tool, not a guess here. If it’s sizing rather than price you’re weighing up, our guide to storage in Leatherhead covers that alongside this page.
Is this the right time to book, or should you wait?
Your fit-out date and your lease end date aren’t going to move to suit storage availability, so the lower-risk path is booking ahead of the deadline rather than waiting until the week it lands. That way the decision about overflow gets made calmly, not in the last 48 hours.
If your fit-out date has already moved once, don’t wait for it to settle before you plan for storage. Get a quote now and adjust the booking later if you need to.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Wigwam sites are unmanned, so a company representative needs to be physically present for any courier, removals firm or third party dropping off or collecting on your behalf.
No. The team can help with sizing, availability and booking, but records-retention decisions are general information only, so check your own organisation’s obligations with a qualified adviser.
Availability varies, so the quickest way to a straight answer is the quote tool rather than a fixed promise here. It’ll tell you what’s available for your dates without a price commitment attached at this stage.
This depends on the current terms at the time of booking, so confirm it directly through the quote tool rather than assuming a figure here.
