Storage Near Yeerongpilly
For 4105 addresses on both sides of Fairfield Road. Six kilometres from your street to ours, one motorway exit in between, no tolls. About 8 minutes on a quiet run and around 15 once Friday afternoon traffic is on the Ipswich Motorway.
Storage Land is at 675 Beaufighter Ave, Archerfield. A private 20ft container is $349 a month. A vehicle, boat, caravan or trailer bay is $250 a month. Month to month, no bond, no lock-in, and 24/7 gated access is included rather than sold to you as an extra.
Check availability from Yeerongpilly - from $349/mo
Yeerongpilly is being rebuilt, and rebuilt suburbs run out of storage first
Yeerongpilly is small. The suburb covers 1.9 square kilometres and at the 2021 census held 2,033 people in 882 private dwellings. It is also, right now, one of the most heavily redeveloped pockets on the southside.
The old Queensland Government research complex on Fairfield Road, last known as the Animal Research Institute, occupied its site from 1909 until 2011. That 14 hectares is now Yeerongpilly Green, a joint venture between Consolidated Properties Group, CVS Lane Capital Partners and Economic Development Queensland with a masterplan of up to 1,200 homes. Read that number against the 882 dwellings the suburb had in 2021. The project is not adding to Yeerongpilly. It is doubling it.
The retail is already trading as YG Riverside Village at 21 Queens Way, with a Woolworths, a BWS and a Priceline. In November 2025 a development application was approved for Gloriette, a 25-storey tower of 181 apartments at 30 Bedivere Street. More parcels went to market in January 2026.
None of that comes with a shed. The 2021 dwelling split for Yeerongpilly was 50.1% separate houses, 27.7% semi-detached and townhouses, and 21.1% flats and apartments. That is a far heavier attached-housing share than the surrounding suburbs, and every new stage pushes it further. A King Arthur Terraces townhouse has a double garage that holds two cars, or one car and everything else you own. Not both.
41.3% of Yeerongpilly households rent, and the median age is 34. That is a suburb that moves. People arrive between leases, downsize into a new apartment with a settlement gap, or take a townhouse while they work out what is next. All three create the same problem at the same time: more possessions than floor.
The flood question, answered properly
If you live in Yeerongpilly you already know this suburb has a record, and you are entitled to a straight answer rather than a marketing one.
Brisbane City Council publishes its adopted historic flood extents as open data, and anyone can check them. Measured against the Yeerongpilly suburb boundary, the mapped January 1974 extent covers roughly 64% of the suburb's land area, January 2011 roughly 54%, and February 2022 roughly 40%. Those figures include the river surface, the golf course and the low industrial land, so they are not a count of flooded homes. They still tell you the shape of the problem.
The shape is this. Yeerongpilly floods in two pockets, not everywhere. There is the low western ground toward Oxley Creek and Moolabin Creek, where Moolabin Crescent, Allawah Street, Pulle Street, Mooney Street, Chale Street, Ortive Street and Palomar Road all sit substantially inside the mapped 2011 extent, and Allawah and Moolabin sit almost entirely inside the 2022 one. Then there are the river flats along Fairfield Road, King Arthur Terrace and Godiva Avenue, running past the Brisbane Golf Club.
The central and eastern ridge did not flood in either event. Wilkie Street, Park Road, Livingstone Street, Green Street, Crichton Street, Nathan Terrace, Grosvenor Street, Tees Street and Wingarra Street show zero mapped inundation in 2011 and zero in 2022. Two houses four streets apart in Yeerongpilly can have completely different flood histories, which is why a suburb-level answer is useless to you. Check your own address on Council's Flood Awareness map.
What that means for storage is practical, and it is the reason a chunk of our Yeerongpilly customers are here at all. There is the pre-emptive job, which is getting the things that cannot be replaced off a ground floor before the wet season rather than during it. And there is the after job, which is emptying a house so it can dry out and be repaired, at a point when you are already dealing with insurers and trades and do not want the contents of a home sitting in a driveway.
Where our own yard sits, since it is only fair we answer the same question. 675 Beaufighter Ave is outside Council's mapped extents for both the January 2011 and February 2022 floods. It is inside the mapped January 1974 extent, and it sits within Brisbane River flood planning area 5 under City Plan 2014. It is not in a creek or overland flow flood planning area. We are not going to tell you the site cannot flood, because 1974 says otherwise. We will tell you it stayed dry through the two events this generation actually remembers, and you can verify all of that on the same Council maps you would use for your own house.
Who in Yeerongpilly actually rents from us
Yeerongpilly Green and the townhouse belt
Apartments and terraces off Queens Way, Bedivere Street and Ortive Street come with a car space and a store cage, and the cage is generally about the size of a wardrobe. It handles the Christmas decorations. It does not handle a road bike, a surfboard, four boxes of books and the furniture that did not fit. A 20ft container is roughly 14 square metres of floor at 2.4 metres high, which is about a single-car garage, and it costs less per month than most people expect a second car space to.
Renovators on the character ridge
Around 17% of Yeerongpilly's land sits under Brisbane City Council's dwelling house character overlay, concentrated on the eastern ridge streets. Craigilea on Grosvenor Street, Revoncourt on Tees Street and Warra on Wingarra Street are heritage-listed. When you cannot knock a house down you extend it, lift it or work inside it, and every one of those jobs means the contents of the house have to live somewhere for three to six months. Builders would rather not work around a stacked front room, and a container in a locked yard is cheaper than the extra weeks a cluttered site costs you.
Boats, trailers and the things a townhouse body corporate will not have out front
Yeerongpilly's newer stock has tight streets and body corporate rules, and the older ridge streets are narrow with kerbside parking already under pressure. A boat on a trailer, a camper, a box trailer or a work ute parked out the front becomes somebody's complaint eventually. An open-air bay on sealed bitumen behind a gated fence is $250 a month, and the argument stops.
Households mid-move
With 41.3% of the suburb renting and a median age of 34, Yeerongpilly runs a lot of six and twelve month cycles. Settlement dates miss each other, a lease ends three weeks before the next one starts, a share house breaks up. Month to month with no bond and no lock-in exists for exactly this. You take a container for six weeks, you give 30 days notice, you are done.
Trades working the Rocklea and Archerfield corridor
A lot of Yeerongpilly tradies already spend their working day on the industrial side of the Ipswich Motorway. If your suppliers are in Rocklea and your jobs are across the southside, storing gear in Archerfield is not a detour. It is on the way, and it means the trailer is not on your street overnight.
What it costs
| Option | What you get | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 20ft container | About 14m² of floor, 2.4m high, roughly 33m³. Your padlock, sealed bitumen, drive-up | $349/mo |
| Vehicle, boat, caravan or trailer bay | Open-air bay on sealed bitumen inside the gated yard | $250/mo |
| Bay plus container together | The caravan outside, the gear locked up next to it | $599/mo |
40ft containers are available by enquiry. Month to month, no bond, no lock-in, 30 days notice to leave. 24/7 gated PIN access is included in those prices, not added to them.
Check availability from Yeerongpilly - from $349/mo
Getting here from Yeerongpilly
The motorway run, 6.0 km, 8 to 15 minutes
Pick up Fairfield Road, join the Ipswich Motorway westbound, stay on the M7 and take exit 23. That drops you onto Randolph Street in Rocklea. Continue about 500 metres, turn right onto Boundary Road, then it is a short run to Beaufighter Avenue and we are at 675. Two turns after you leave the motorway. No tolls anywhere on it. Measured on Google Maps it is 8 minutes off-peak and about 15 in weekday afternoon traffic, so treat 8 as the best case rather than the promise.
From the ridge and the Station Road side
If you are up around Wilkie, Park Road or Nathan Terrace you will drop down to Fairfield Road first, then it is the same run. Yeerongpilly station sits in the middle of this, so if you are collecting a hire trailer or a ute and starting from the station end you are on the same road either way.
If you are bringing something big
The yard is sealed bitumen throughout and takes a full-size delivery vehicle. A pantech, a tilt tray or a tandem trailer with plant on it all turn comfortably. There are no height restrictions, no lifts, no corridors, no trolleys and no ticketed gate. Containers sit at ground level on timber blocks, so you back up to the door and load straight in.
There is already a storage yard in Yeerongpilly. Here is the honest comparison.
Kennards Self Storage operates at 757 Fairfield Road, inside the suburb. If you live on Godiva Avenue it is closer to you than we are by about six kilometres, and pretending otherwise would insult you.
So the only question worth answering is what you get for the extra few minutes. What you get is a whole private shipping container rather than a room inside a shared building, at $349 a month flat. You drive to your own door on sealed bitumen, unlock your own padlock and load directly out of the boot or off the trailer. Nothing goes down a corridor, into a lift, or onto a trolley. The gate takes your PIN at any hour without booking, and there is no staffed office you need to be there during.
And here is when the closer yard is the better call. If you want a small locker for a dozen boxes, an indoor facility will beat us on price, because our smallest unit is a whole container. If you need genuine climate control, we are not it. Our containers are ventilated, they are not air conditioned, and there is no power inside them. Documents that legally need archive conditions, fine art, wine and anything temperature sensitive belong indoors somewhere else. We would rather tell you that now than take a month's rent and have you find out.
What you are actually renting
A 20ft shipping container on a sealed bitumen hardstand, elevated on timber blocks, at ground level. You hold the only key. The yard is fully fenced and gated with more than 30 cameras on site, and access runs 24/7 on a PIN. There are no shared corridors and no stairs anywhere on the site.
What it is not: heated, cooled or powered. It is a steel box with ventilation, which is the right answer for furniture, tools, stock, vehicles and household goods, and the wrong answer for anything that needs a stable temperature. Dangerous goods, fuel and anything that could be classed as hazardous are out.
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Real questions from Yeerongpilly customers
We are on the low side near Moolabin Crescent and we went under in 2011. I want the things we cannot replace out of the house before summer. Is a container the right answer?
For most of what people mean by irreplaceable, yes. Furniture, boxed photos and papers, tools, instruments, sporting gear and anything on a ground floor you would hate to lose all travel well in a container. Our yard at 675 Beaufighter Ave is outside Council's mapped extents for both the 2011 and 2022 floods, though it is inside the 1974 one, and we would rather you know both of those facts than just the flattering one.
Two things to be careful with. Anything that needs a stable temperature should not go in a shipping container in a Brisbane summer, so no wine, no artwork on canvas, no medications and nothing electronic that matters. And pack as though the container is a shed rather than a spare room, because there is no power inside it. Pallets or timber on the floor, a moisture absorber, and leave the doors of any fridge or chest propped open.
If you are doing this pre-emptively rather than in an emergency, take the container a few weeks before you need it. Everyone in the catchment has the same idea at the same time when a warning comes.
I have just moved into a townhouse at Yeerongpilly Green. The garage takes the car or the gear, not both. What actually fits in a 20ft container?
A 20ft is about 6 metres by 2.4 metres, so roughly 14 square metres of floor at 2.4 metres of height, or about 33 cubic metres. The easiest way to picture it is a single-car garage that you can stack to the ceiling.
In practice that swallows the entire contents of a two or three bedroom house with room to move, or it comfortably takes the overflow version of what you are describing: a surfboard or two, a road bike, a kayak, camping gear, a tool chest, off-season clothing, a few dozen boxes and the furniture that did not make it into the townhouse. At $349 a month it works out cheaper than most people's second car space, and it is a whole private container rather than a cage in a shared room.
Bring a couple of pallets or a sheet of ply if you are storing anything soft directly on the floor, and leave yourself a walkway down one side if you expect to be pulling things in and out.
We are lifting and extending a pre-1947 house on the ridge and the builder wants the place empty. How long do people usually take a container for, and can I get in during the job?
Character-overlay jobs in Yeerongpilly tend to run longer than owners expect, because you are working with the existing structure rather than starting again. Most of our renovation customers take a container for three to six months and a fair number roll past that. It is month to month with no lock-in and no bond, so you are never paying for time you did not need, and you give 30 days notice when the house is ready.
Access during the job is the part that matters more than people realise. You will remember halfway through that the door hardware, the light fittings or the box of tiles is in the container, and you will want it at 6am before the trades arrive. The gate takes your PIN at any hour, there is no booking system and no office hours to work around, and you drive up to your own door on sealed bitumen. That is a different experience from a multi-level facility with a lift and a loading bay you have to queue for.
Can I keep a boat on a trailer here and get to it early on a weekend without booking anything?
Yes. Boat, trailer, caravan, camper or work vehicle all go in an open-air bay on sealed bitumen inside the gated yard, at $250 a month. You enter with your PIN whenever you like, including at five in the morning on a Saturday, and there is nobody to notify.
The yard is flat sealed bitumen the whole way through, so reversing a trailer in and hitching up is straightforward rather than a three point turn on gravel. A lot of boat and caravan customers take a bay and a container together for $599 a month, which puts the boat outside and the safety gear, the awning, the fishing gear and the tools in a locked steel box a few metres away rather than back in the garage at home.
Kennards is on Fairfield Road, basically in my suburb. Why would I drive to Archerfield?
If a small unit close by is what you need, you should take it, and we will say so on the phone. That is a real answer, not a modest one.
The case for the extra few minutes is space and access. At $349 a month you get an entire private 20ft shipping container, not a partitioned room inside a shared building, and you drive right up to its door and load out of the boot. No corridor, no lift, no trolley, no waiting for a loading bay. The gate is PIN operated 24/7 with access included in the price rather than sold as an upgrade, and it is month to month with no bond and no lock-in. For anyone storing furniture, trade gear, stock or anything bulky, the difference in usable space per dollar is not close.
Where a facility in the suburb genuinely wins is small volumes and anything needing climate control. Ten boxes do not justify a whole container, and our containers are ventilated rather than air conditioned.
I am moving between rentals and the dates do not line up. Can I take a container for six weeks and then walk away?
Yes, and it is one of the most common things we do. There is no bond, no lock-in and no minimum term beyond the month you are in. You give 30 days notice and that is the end of it.
Yeerongpilly runs a lot of short cycles, with more than four in ten households renting, so the gap between one lease ending and the next starting is a normal event here rather than an unusual one. The practical advice is to book a week earlier than you think you need. Removalists and truck hire in this part of the southside get tight at the end of the month, and it is far less stressful to load into a container over two unhurried afternoons than to do it all in the four hours between handing back one set of keys and collecting the next.
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