CADS retail store planning, layout design & rollout services
CADS’ specialist store planning team provides end-to-end retail store planning solutions to support your store rollout and refurbishment programmes. We incorporate precise spatial analysis, facilitating efficient retail fit-outs and refurbishments. By ensuring compliance with merchandising strategies we help maximise sales floor productivity and enhance the customer journey.
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Work with experienced retail space experts
We are the trusted retail planning partner for numerous renowned brands both nationally and internationally, including three of the top five UK retailers – Asda, Sainsbury’s, and Morrisons – as well as M&S. Our partnerships span over a decade, reflecting our commitment to excellence and long-standing working relationships.
With over 40 years experience and extensive expertise in the retail industry, our teams support a wide range of sectors, including grocery, non-food, DIY, pharmacy, clothing, and jewellery.
At CADS, our comprehensive retail store planning services are designed to help clients optimise their physical store estates effectively. By consolidating data into a single, accurate source, you can streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and achieve more with a smaller team.
Retail turnkey solutions
Our multi-disciplinary services work seamlessly together to deliver efficient and effective results. We provide a turnkey solution for our clients. Combining the expertise of our in-house surveyors with our experienced retail planning teams , designers and retail architects at our sister company Prosper.
Why choose CADS for retail planning?
Our specialist retail planning team supports you across every stage of your store development lifecycle. From store plan layouts and car park configurations to commodity zoning and concession rollout planning. Our team create practical, data-informed store layout designs tailored to your objectives with a strong focus on space optimisation in retail environments.
We also provide space planning for seasonal retail support, refurbishments, and store extensions. To ensure speed and consistency across projects, we develop and maintain detailed block libraries. This gives your teams the tools to deliver accurate, efficient plans at scale.
UK and Europe retail measured surveys
Our experienced retail building surveyors work extensively across the UK and Europe, having completed 255 surveys in 25 countries in a single year. Each survey is tailored to your project requirements and budgets. We use both digital-laser and traditional methods, delivering outputs as 2D CAD floorplans, 3D Revit models, or immersive Matterport digital twins.
We have a wealth of experience delivering measured building estate-wide surveys, supporting internal or external updates to multiple stores simultaneously—helping retailers reduce disruption and improve accuracy.
Discover CADS' retail planning services
Optimise your retail store designs, layouts and floor plans with the help of CADS’ expert team and intuitive AutoCAD-based retail space planning software.
Gain the resource and insights many leading retailers are already enjoying!
Tell me more!Designing the customer experience
Are you looking to create a new retail brand, revitalise your visual identity or launch a new store concept? CADS’ sister company Prosper transforms store spaces into compelling, customer-focused experiences. Their creative team specialises in shopfront design, window displays, and mapping customer journeys—all aligned to commercial goals.
As your desing partner of choice, Prosper brings proven expertise in retail architecture and interiors, delivering design-led, practical environments that enhance your brand and boost your bottom line. The team also support the development and implementation of retail planning standard details, ensuring consistency and efficiency across your estate.
Plan smarter with StoreSpace®
Used by top UK retailers, StoreSpace® is CADS’ sister companies proprietary space planning tool that enables fast, accurate layout development within an AutoCAD environment. It consolidates data from across your estate to support consistent, compliant space strategies.
CADS can take a store, survey it, plan it and manage the data coming off that plan inside the StoreSpace® software.
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