if I could afford to buy some land I'd set up a caravan storage site, around here it's a sellers market - hence why I consider £48 pcm a bargain! There are about 200 units on the site I'm on...do the maths yourself.
Basically I sincerely believe that any storage site operator that implies in any way by advertising imagery, description or any other means to entice customers with the hint of improved security , must accept responsibility if what they have either implied fails and customer property to suffers losses.
I'm not sure about that...if the storage site has big scary looking gates with a huge padlock, and Jimmy Badguy turns up with a battery powered angle grinder and chops the lock off, has the business owner's security failed? Because it's never going to be possible to build a storage site that is totally undefeatable.
If the storage site has CCTV, the CCTV fails and that night Andy the Arsonist breaks in and torches my caravan, did the failure of the CCTV contribute to my loss? Well no, Andy the Arsonist would still have done what he did, but he might have been caught - my loss would be no different.
Caravan storage is what it is, and I'm under no illusions about the security of the one I'm on - it has CASSOA silver which makes it more secure than where I was before, but I don't expect it to be Fort Knox. Frankly the best protection against theft that my 'van has is that there are a lot of caravans nicer than mine, nearer the gate than mine.
Of course I expect the site owners to do their best to maintain the facilities that I'm paying for: But I know from my experience from work that CCTV can fail, and it can take up to two weeks to get someone out to fix it (even when I worked at the Home Office with a gold standard service contract on our CCTV the best we could get was a 24 hour response). I know from the evidence of my eyes that some of my fellow storage site users aren't as picky about locking the gates behind them as I am, if they're only coming in for a few minutes to pick something up from their 'van.