As the winter season arrives it is advisable for commercial businesses and all other business premises to meditate on the wellbeing of the smoking employees and customers during the winter period, allocating smoking shelters for your business premises is the best solution.

Shelter Store has a number of shelters available to suit various shelter requirements. We can advise on the best possible solution for all our customers. We believe in providing highly efficient and cost effective solutions for every client, and endeavour to treat every client as an individual and cater to their specific needs. If you are considering getting a smoking shelter get in touch with Shelter Store to discuss you specific needs.

General Advice & Guideline for Smoking Shelters:

• Seek planning permission and local planning guidelines.
•  Smoking shelter need to comply national and local smoking legislation.
• You will be required to provide a litter bin and maintain its use at all times.
• Benches can also be included with a smoking shelter, adding a touch of comfort for the users.
• 50% or more of its sides should be permanently open. (It is illegal to provide even temporary cover for these permanently open sides, as this will allow rapid dispersal of cigarette fumes.)
• You should consider noise control. (If it is close or next to residential homes or public space were noise could be seen as an disturbance, it will not pass planning permission)

Smoking shelters have become a popular solution for meeting smokers’ needs at work places since the new legislation on public smoking.  The shelters provide a convenient place to smoke while being protected from the elements. Enclosed smoking shelters provide the perfect solution to accommodate smokers and non-smokers alike.

Up until Christmas Bike Dock Solutions will give away a range of Bike Storage products. This week they are going for something a little different. The prize they will be giving away this week is the bike perch worth £105.00! Each Bike Perch is made bespoke by our in house team of joiners at our Shoreditch workshop. Each Bike Perch may look different in appearance as they are complete one off pieces.

View the full Bike Storage Giveaway blog here along with how to enter!

As one of the UKs leading Bollards suppliers we thought what better way to get into the Christmas spirit by giving away a Christmas Hamper this week. The contents of this chic hamper have been carefully selected to ensure they all perfectly complement each other - both in taste and presentation! The Verduijn’s Pesto & Parmesan Wafers are a real favourite of ours and goes particularly well with the Las Montanas Chardonnay.

 

It is very common to envision bollards as rigid posts that can be arranged in a line to close a road or path to vehicles above a certain width or to separate traffic from pedestrians. But if we start looking very closely at them, you start to see a certain beauty in bollards. Whether it’s how they are aligned, the shape, design or style, bollards can be interesting pieces of street furniture because of various reasons.

Some have acquired beauty and character, attributed by both natural and unnatural elements.

A bollard can be interesting due to wear and tear; it might have gradually aged or be worn out in an unusual way due to various elements as it stands on street, pavement or roadside. Some have may have been designed in unusual, custom, or bespoke way from industry standards.

Others, as shown here some may have so art applied; like the Mona Lisa bollard, some may have graffiti and others may be aligned in an unusual manner or sequence. Whatever the reason when you start looking at bollards closely you can’t help but see this beautiful side to them.

Previously (pre-1969; ad bus shelters) bus shelters were very functional pieces of street furniture, manufactured exclusively by local councils. Some were iron-and-glass edifices covered in peeling municipal green paint; others were made of brick; some in rural areas even had thatched roofs. Then in the year mentioned earlier, 1969; billboard advertising companies, sort to use bus shelters as advertising outlets. The advertising idea was categorically simple; the billboard advertising companies would supply bus shelters to local authorities for nothing, in return for the right to display advertising on them. In the early 1970s, Adshel began installing their first shelters in Leeds, which till today are still numbered ‘0001’. The ads now universally recognized as ‘Adshels’, whether they enhance bus shelters or other waiting shelters in supermarkets and motorway service stations.

Bus-shelter ads really started to boom in the 1980s, consequently leading to the improvement and development of bus shelter design, they had to be presentable and they had to accommodate the ads in various way and various placements, especially in the urban city areas where travelling by bus was becoming more popular and the advertising industry was booming. Today, with the ever-rising oil prices, the ever-worsening traffic, more and more people forced to choose the bus as their primary transportation. Bus stops are becoming indispensable in the daily schedule of many city commuters. As life is changing, we have to, and the rightfully so the department for transport will see to improve bus stops and bus shelters as well. In fact, in London, the last piece of bus shelter history that had remained in public use; a wooden bus shelter was removed from Tolworth with fears for pedestrian safety, by Transport for London.

It’s very clear that bus shelters and waiting shelters are more than functional pieces of street furniture nowadays. They are more than just ‘shelters’; they are applied with ads and information which is not just for the people who are using them, but also those passing by. Bus Shelters have to adhere to safety laws, styles and designs specifications depending on where they are and what they are used for. The future of the bus shelter is also very bright, they are plenty of bus shelters which now house extraordinary technological features many are concepts but some are already in function and part of urban city street furniture.

As the UK's leading Street Furniture specialist we thought what better way to build up to CHRISTMAS than to give away some Christmas presents! Remember, we will give away a range of prizes every week up until Christmas.

This week we will be giving away two his and hers Fulton Umbrellas to one luck winner! Much like our Bus Shelters these high quality British made Umbrellas will keep you dry whatever the weather!

Our sister company Bike Dock Solutions, specialists in cycle storage, is offering a Wiggins Rack as part of their free weekly competition. Click here to enter the Cycle Storage Give Away. Be quick though, the competition closes this week.

As the UK’s leading Street Furniture specialist we thought what better way to build up to CHRISTMAS than to give away some Christmas presents! We will give away a range of prizes every week up until Christmas. 

The first present we will be giving away is a 6 foot Cashmere Bristle Mixed Artificial CHRISTMAS TREE worth £300.00. 

The Addition Metal Bike Store is an all metal bike shed providing secure outdoor storage of up to 3 adult cycles and additional bike equipment. It offers excellent bike security and an ideal additional store, for general cycling equipment.

This model is exceptionally secure and fitted with a robust 3 point locking system, for extra security. It is built from our thick, galvanised and weatherproof steel panels with an integral metal floor and convenient large double door access, which you can have for left or right door opening.  The Additional Metal bike store can stores up to 3 adult cycles with versatile storage space for other accessories. This shelter has proved to be very successful and high in demand, evidence that it is one of the best and most secure bike storage and docking solutions.

The East-end of London was the main focus of the Olympic Zone, with the Lower Lea Valley near Stratford being host to the 80,000-seater Olympic Stadium this also came with the Olympic Park Village, which promises a provision of 5,000 homes following the conversion of the Olympic Village after the games.

Some of the increases in transport networks, which the target market; ‘young working home owners’ will find attractive are as follows:

• 45% capacity of Jubilee line
• Channel Tunnel Shuttle link from Stratford to Kings Cross  
• Extensions to the DLR
• £1bn improvement to London East line.

This will accommodate the economic infrastructure of the area allowing easy access to the London’s City and West End, Canary Wharf and most of the Greater London areas, which will be integral to meeting the demand and increase of new high priced properties.

The development into the East-end of London will also increase in the profile of London during the period of the Games, and after the Games. The Olympic village will also play a vital part in this increase, as it will be in itself a historic tourist attraction during and after the games. The revenue gained from tourism is hoped to offset any losses made by the LOCOG.

Theoretically speaking the idea should work, as the planning for the new homes and new home owners in the area also includes good transports links, new schools including roads. However the cost of housing may increase as a result of the regeneration of the area, possibly forcing local poorer families out of their homes. The increase in housing prices in the area may also be a problem, the prices may be too high and the number of new home buyers very low.

The much anticipated and wanted town centre redevelopment in Hadleigh has faced further delays due to concerns over the proposed new traffic layout, causing frustration amongst residents. Despite being announced in 2010, this project hangs in the balance awaiting further surveys and decisions to be made about the much debated traffic layout proposal. The Echo explains further view story here.

Shelter Store was approached early July to design, build and install a lengthy stainless steel tunnel shelter to be used outside the Olympics Volley Ball Arena on the Horses Parade. The deadline was tight with only a 2 week manufacturing window.

Their design team worked through the night to finalise a 10m Long Shelter which had to be installed onto a temporary timber plinth for the games. For none experts, this is no simple task! Shelter Store are happy to report that the shelter was built and installed on time and ready for the Olympic games. Check out the photo of the shelter after the installation before the crowds flooded into London for the games.

From speaking with Shelter Store they were very proud, as a young London based company, to be approached and awarded this contract and are full believers that this will build a platform to continue their growth.

This Olympic project is another demonstration of the design capability and build quality on offer at Shelter Store whom only started trading in Summer 2010, but already have major clients to accompany the London 2012 Olympics. Clients include most of the London Borough Councils, NHS and major construction firms such as Sir Robert McAlpine and Carillion to name just two.

This growing, young and vibrant company seems to be unfazed by the economic client and continue to go from strength to strength having recently launched in the Middle East, exporting British made solutions.

- Written by an Enthusiastic Blogger, August 2012

During a catch up with some friends, the hot topic was theft and robbery. Given the current economic state there has been a huge increase in burglary/theft on commercial properties it seems. One of my friends works for a carpentry business and had their workshop broken into and a company Van stolen. We agreed that you can never stop thieves who want to find an opportunity but what we can do is place obstacles literally to deter them.

Since the smoking ban it’s been very hard for a lot of smokers to smoke anywhere comfortably or with privacy.

We at Shelter Store have established ourselves as a market leader in the UK. Following on from our UK success we have now also launched Shelter Store Direct. Shelter Store Direct is the international arm of Shelter Store UK . We can now provide our fantastic service and vast experience of design, manufacturing and supply of our impressive product range internationally!

Here at Shelter Store we offer a wide range of planters to choose from. They come in different shapes and sizes and also available in different colours and materials. They are very strong and suitably weighted so even in bad weather they will stay firmly in place.

With the increase of people turning to cycling as a means of transportation, suitable storage for the bikes and their equipment is also in higher demand. People are not just deciding to keep fit and healthy but also trying to make a huge financial saving. In recent months the cost of running a vehicle has soared, leaving a lot of individuals not being able to afford using their vehicles as much. Major reasons for this are the recent rises in fuel prices as well as insurance premiums. We

Shelter Store already has a wide range of Bus Shelters available, designed to accommodate people and keep them dry and safe. Traditional or modern designs, we will find a shelter that complements any environment or location setting. It was only recently that we launched our fantastic range of Stainless Steel Bus Shelters and now we are pleased to announce another exciting range…

Popularity of Coal Bunkers is increasing both for commercial use and for personal use. It can be said that trends are migrating from traditionally designed coal bunkers to the increasingly convenient and user friendly modern plastic alternatives.

Street furniture specialist Shelter Store sold more than 3,500 pairs of tyre socks in less than 48 hours alongside their sister-company Rock Salt Mine. The two companies also sold around 500 bags of rock salt in the same 48 hours.