Multi-disciplinary retail specialists with 40 years space planning expertise

Trusted by national retailers to maximise estate performance and revenue through clear, accurate, and proven store layout design.

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Our team of experienced UK-based surveyors apply mutiple survey disciplines across the UK and Europe. CADS Surveys is well-positioned to deliver rollout projects for our retail clients quickly, with minimal lead time.

Measured surveys

We deliver retail-focussed architecture and design from our sister company Prosper. Key services include concept design and rollout, desktop feasibilities, architectural design development, delivery and compliance services.

Retail design services

CADS is the UK’s leading retail planning provider, proudly partnering with high street retailers to deliver best-in-class store planning. We combine insights and experience to help retailers optimise space and performance.

Store planning

By partnering our trusted, highly-skilled retail planners with StoreSpace Insights, CADS helps global retailers optimise store layouts for improved space efficiency, profitability and customer experience.

Store layout optimisation

We provide accurate as-built surveys to verify existing or proposed construction using high-speed 3D laser scanning. CADS Surveys capture detailed site data quickly, supporting fast turnaround and validation.

Retail as built surveys

CADS Store Planning and Measured Surveys UK

Optimise retail store planning designs, layouts and floor plans

If you are in grocery, fashion, DIY, pharmacy, PFS or another retail sector, our retail store planning team can help you measure and optimise your space to increase sales.

Our trusted experience ensures we deliver industry-leading retail space planning services worldwide, for quicker, easier and more effective space planning. Professional retail planners use the powerful AutoCAD-based software StoreSpace® from CADS’ Sister company, StoreSpace Insights.

In-house retail surveyors and space planning experts can tailor a solution for any retail space optimisation or store development programme.

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Store planning services

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How CADS can help with the rollout of retail store fit-outs

Explore how CADS can help with your store fit-out projects and ensure your retail spaces are optimised for success with our measured survey, retail planning and design services.

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Measured surveys your projects need

Turning data from measured surveys into valuable insights for Architects, Landlords, and Project Teams

Our expert property and land surveyors work collaboratively with our clients to deliver measured surveys for projects ranging from individual buildings to large land surveys of estates.

Operating across the UK and Europe, we conduct measured, laser, Matterport, As Built, drone and topographic surveys. We create point clouds, 2D plans, 3D Revit® model & BIM modelling services to your level of detail. Our experienced team can also survey historic buildings to Historic England’s requirements. Or create and analyse asset-based information in a GIS datasets including land terrier record and land registry compliant title and lease plans for asset management efficiencies and savings.

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Measured survey services

Delivering a decade of as-built retail survey data for luxury retailer Watches of Switzerland Group

CADS was a market leader in 2012 and still is now. CADS has been our space optimisation supplier of choice because they provide a fantastic, reliable, and quick responsive service. In terms of working together in the future, I’m very optimistic. I’m looking forward to the next 10 years!

Robert Caunt Showroom Development Support Manager, Watches of Switzerland Group

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Complementary services to optimise your retail space

Our multi-disciplinary services help you manage and maximise your store environments with confidence.

Retail space planning

Access our accurate retail space planning services to manage & optimise the layout and floor space in your stores. With in-depth knowledge from our retail experts, you’ll be able to optimise your store layout to increase profitability.

Optimise your retail store designs

Store planning services

With the largest team of experienced UK-based retail planners, we provide a knowledgeable resource as an add-on to your team for all in-store layout changes including refurbishment projects and seasonal range reviews.

Retail space planning

Retail store surveys

Our experienced surveyors work throughout the UK and Europe to tailor your retail survey contents to meet your project requirements and budget. CADS Surveys is well postioned to deliver rollout projects for our retail clients quickly, with minimal lead time.

Retail surveys

Warings Lifestore, Prosper and CADS retail space planning

Retail design services

Our sister company, retail design agency Prosper, provides the inspiration to turn your space into an engaging place and your store into an immersive shopping experience that will delight your customers.

Retail design

CADS Housing surveys

CADS Housing Surveys plays a key role in fulfilling the English Housing Survey and Scottish Household Survey. These long-running Government-commissioned, National Statistic status surveys record details about the condition of the country's housing stock.

CADS housing

The relationship between CADS and the Watches of Switzerland Group is critical as CADS has been the single supplier of all our KPI area (m2) and linear space (mm) data for over 10 years.

CADS was a market leader in 2012 and still is now. CADS has been our survey supplier of choice because they provide a fantastic, reliable, and quick responsive service. In terms of working together in the future, I’m very optimistic. I’m looking forward to the next 10 years!

Robert Caunt Showroom Development Support Manager, Watches of Switzerland Group

We can quickly and efficiently automatically count and report on space usage within Primark stores. This includes linear merchandising capacities at store and floor level.

Our procurement teams can use a simple web-based reporting tool. The tool provides a component level call-off directly from our store plans via an online portal. This has saved an incredible amount of time, cost, waste and improved accuracy for us throughout the planning and loose equipment procurement process. Overall, this has contributed to the creation of profitable store layouts.

Quentin Bossom Equipment and Specification Manager, Primark

The as-built retail survey data, photographs and detailed merchandise layout plans provide support teams and key stakeholders with visibility of each showroom. This saves an awful lot of store visits and ultimately time, and that’s why I’m so pleased with the data we receive.

Robert Caunt Showroom Development Support Manager, Watches of Switzerland Group

For over 15 years, CADS has been providing essential support for our store planning function that enables us to deliver accurate store plans for branches, partners, contractors and suppliers on time. Hundreds of stakeholders both internal and external use these store plans to inform decisions everyday across our 352 branches and head office.

I can’t think of a time when CADS said no to any work we wanted completed. They always provide a very responsive and professional service delivering a high-quality level of work. We enjoy working with the team and thoroughly recommend them.

Chris Wilson Store Development Group Manager, Waitrose

ASDA has been on a retail planning journey with CADS for several years now. We have worked in partnership to create a dynamic and interactive store planning and space integrity system. Creating a level of space accuracy within ASDA that has never been greater.

Space Integrity Manager Asda

Our data is sustained at a level of 98% complete and we are now beginning to reap the rewards financially of utilising accurate space data. Both our Trading and Retail teams are now being able to use the information to drive competitive advantage and to see real benefits to their P and L’s.

Space Integrity Manager Asda

CADS has transformed the way in which we capture, manage and exploit our drawing database. We have streamlined processes that were once time consuming and adding no value so that we can now work with outputs rather than spending all our time trying to input.

Gurmeet Grewal Property Business Systems Manager, Nationwide Building Society