metroSTOR Safer Neighbourhoods, Cleaner World methodology delivers external storage infrastructure for the social housing sector. From waste and recycling to personal mobility devices, our product systems reduce fire risk and waste costs, while improving local environments and helping deliver sustainability targets.
With over 15,000 metroSTOR units in operation, we have gained a deep understanding of those challenges facing social housing providers, bringing more than a decade of successfully changing behaviours through effective design, communication and ongoing support.
Whatever we’ve learnt, we share; through consultancy services online, site assessment and CPD project alignment workshops, our team helps build the knowledge and understanding across stakeholders for successful project outcomes over the long term
Delivering effective recycling services to flats above shops (FLASH) has long posed a challenge for local authorities, with new national requirements fast approaching under Simpler Recycling. Join us to hear from Shelley Holmes, Local Authorities Advisor at ReLondon, as she shares the results of a two-year pilot project delivered in partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham, Islington & Waltham Forest. Shelley will be joined by Lucy Simler from LB Hackney, who will present findings from a 2024 pilot comparing open & access-controlled food waste enclosures at FLASH properties.
From April 2026, weekly food waste collections will become a legal requirement for all households in England, including purpose-built flats and communal housing. With just under a year to go, questions remain over how councils, housing providers and waste teams will deliver the necessary infrastructure, particularly in higher-density housing. Hear from experts at Islington and Southwark Councils as they share how their teams are approaching the challenge, from rolling out new services and securing funding, to engaging residents and planning around estate layouts.
Join us for this one-hour webinar exploring best practice in waste management design. Drawing on the expertise of guest speakers from Buro Happold, we will examine how to deliver functional, durable and visually coherent waste infrastructure from the outset, supporting design-led objectives while meeting the practical needs of residents, planners and contractors.
More INFOWe’re excited to be back at Housing 2025, the UK’s leading event uniting the entire housing sector to tackle critical issues and shape the future of safe, sustainable living – 24-26 June, Manchester Central. Our metroSTOR team can be found at Stand F40 and can’t wait to connect with housing professionals from across the country to showcase our latest innovations that help housing providers meet their safety, compliance, and estate improvement goals.
metroSTOR offers free CPD sessions to enhance your outdoor storage unit specifying skills and provide essential best practice guidance on the safe storage of waste and recycling bins.
more infoDale Court, a densely populated estate in Kingston upon Thames, was facing a severe waste management crisis. Fly tipping was a daily issue, bins were frequently misplaced and recycling was virtually non-existent. RB Kingston upon Thames decided to implement metroSTOR bin enclosures to bring order to the estate’s waste management system. The results at Dale Court have been transformative, with flytipping reduced by 80%.
READ MOREFrom early space-planning exercises through to detailed design, metroSTOR provides Specifiers with the tools to ensure that they achieve attractive and compliant storage solutions for both recycling and waste containers and cycles within the optimum footprint, on-time and on-budget.
The metroSTOR team is committed to helping our customers find the optimum storage solution for any and every project in this rapidly-evolving world, where we need to adapt quickly to meet the challenges facing the natural environment and even humanity itself.
We combine this commitment with many years of experience on the ground in some of the most challenging urban environments, developing a range of outdoor storage solutions that are not only robust and dependable but attractively styled.
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We love seeing a new organics cart enclosure hitting the streets. Know what we love more? Seeing others getting excited about it. metroSTOR recently installed a brand new F-Series Organics Cart Enclosure at Compost Power’s Williamsburg site. Featuring keypad access and a large aperture, the units fully comply with NYC’s containerization laws. Read more about the project here.