What Planit I E Ltd. does

Planit I E Ltd. is a privately held, employee-owned UK place design practice specialising in landscape architecture, urban design, visual storytelling, impact assessment and creative engagement. Operating from five UK studios (Manchester/Altrincham HQ, Gloucestershire, Leeds, Liverpool and London) with 51-100 employees, the firm delivers long-cycle, multi-phase regeneration commissions for UK local authorities (Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire East Councils), central government bodies (Homes England, Historic England), major private developers and estates (Vastint UK, The Crown Estate, Peel Holdings, igloo, One Manchester), and professional sports clients (Everton FC, Manchester City FC).

The practice's technical core combines conventional landscape and urban design with a proprietary Regenerative Design Tool, grounded in Doughnut Economics principles, used to assess and optimise net-positive environmental and social impact on every project, supported by a wholly-owned CGI subsidiary, Virtual Planit, that delivers generative AI- and computer vision-enabled visual storytelling. Differentiated credentials include B Corp top-quartile certification (2020, recertified 2024), Living Wage employer status, and 100% employee-ownership since 2022.

Planit generates revenue through fee-based professional services engagements on a project-by-project basis, with several long-term commissions (East Manchester 2009-Ongoing; Sugar House Island 2013-Ongoing; Bramley Moore 2019-2025). Disclosed project values include £10m+ at Bramley Moore Stadium and £12m at East Manchester/Etihad Campus (client capex, not Planit fees). The firm sells primarily through direct, enterprise field sales to public-sector and developer clients, with co-delivery alongside leading architecture, engineering and construction partners (BDP, Buro Happold, Populous, Rafael Viñoly, Mæ, Laing O'Rourke), supplemented by event-driven cultural collaborations that build reputational and pipeline leverage.

Name

Planit I E Ltd.

Legal name

Planit I.E. Limited

Website

https://planit-ie.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Planit I E Ltd. is a UK-based, employee-owned place design practice delivering landscape architecture, urban design, visual storytelling, impact assessment and creative engagement for public-sector bodies, major developers and professional sports clients across five UK studios, supported by its proprietary Regenerative Design Tool and CGI subsidiary Virtual Planit.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Altrincham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional services – landscape architecture & urban design: Fee-based consultancy revenue from landscape architecture, urban design, visual storytelling, impact assessment and creative engagement engagements. Project values referenced include £10m+ (Bramley Moore Stadium/The People's Project) and £12m (East Manchester/Etihad Campus). Revenue is delivered through long-term, multi-phase commissions (e.g. East Manchester 2009-Ongoing; Sugar House Island 2013-Ongoing; Bramley Moore 2019-2025).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Planit I E Ltd. is a UK-based interdisciplinary place design practice delivering landscape architecture, urban strategy and design, impact assessment, and creative engagement services to public-sector bodies, real estate developers, landowners and major sports organisations. The firm supplements its core design work with CGI-based visual storytelling through its in-house subsidiary Virtual Planit, and applies a proprietary Regenerative Design Tool (grounded in Doughnut Economics) to measure and deliver net-positive environmental and social impact on projects.

Product overview

Planit I E Ltd. operates as a single, unified interdisciplinary design practice rather than a modular SaaS platform, with Landscape Architecture and Urban Strategy and Design forming the core offer, supported by Visual Storytelling (delivered through Virtual Planit CGI), Impact Assessment, and Creative Engagement services. The proprietary Regenerative Design Tool sits inside this practice as a specialist capability, applied across landscape and urban projects to assess and optimise regenerative outcomes, and feeds directly into Virtual Planit CGI visualisations that communicate those proposals to clients and stakeholders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Virtual Planit: In-house visualisation studio providing CGI, 3D visualisation, and architectural imagery services for the group.

Products and services

• Landscape Architecture Core design discipline of the practice, delivering landscape architecture across scales from site-specific public realm and green infrastructure through to strategic masterplans.
• Urban Strategy and Design Urban design and strategy offering that sits alongside landscape architecture within the interdisciplinary practice, shaping neighbourhoods, towns, and wider urban frameworks.
• Virtual Planit (CGI / Visual Storytelling) CGI and visual storytelling service producing photorealistic visualisations of proposed landscapes and urban environments for stakeholder engagement, consultation, and project communication.
• Regenerative Design Tool In-house Regenerative Design Tool used by the practice to assess and optimise design proposals against regenerative performance criteria during the design process, grounded in Doughnut Economics principles.
• Impact Assessment Service that evaluates the social, environmental, and design impacts of projects, supporting evidence-based decision making across the practice's portfolio.
• Creative Engagement Engagement service that uses creative methods to involve communities, stakeholders, and clients in the design process, complementing the practice's visual storytelling work.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,000+ projects delivered over 25+ years
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Arup: Global engineering and design consultancy with substantial landscape architecture and urban design groups, offering clients a bundled one-stop-shop alternative to specialist landscape practices like Planit on large UK regeneration projects.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with a large UK landscape architecture and urban design practice, competing for major UK regeneration, transport interchange and public realm commissions at scale.
• BDP: Major UK architecture and design practice with a significant landscape and urban design capability, named as a co-delivery partner on Planit's flagship schemes and competing as a larger, multi-disciplinary incumbent on regeneration briefs.

Direct peers

• J&L Gibbons: London-based landscape architecture and urban design practice with a strong environmental and public-realm focus, directly comparable on UK regeneration and place-making commissions.
• Gross Max: Edinburgh- and London-based landscape architecture and urban design practice of similar scale, working on public realm, parks and regeneration commissions that overlap with Planit's UK portfolio.
• Grant Associates: Bath-headquartered landscape architecture practice with a comparable portfolio of UK and international masterplanning, regeneration and public realm work, competing in similar civic and developer-led segments.
• LDA Design: UK landscape architecture, urban design and masterplanning consultancy with a comparable multi-disciplinary offer spanning regeneration, public realm and strategic planning, competing for the same Homes England, local authority and developer briefs.
• Gustafson Porter + Bowman: High-end London landscape architecture practice with a comparable track record on flagship public realm, garden and regeneration projects, often co-existing on the same prestigious UK competitions.
• Gillespies: UK-based landscape architecture and urban design practice of comparable scale and scope, working across public realm, masterplanning and regeneration commissions in the UK, directly competing for similar local authority, developer and stadium clients.
• HTA Design LLP: Multi-disciplinary UK practice combining landscape architecture, urban design and architecture, with significant overlap on housing-led regeneration, public realm and masterplanning commissions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PlanitIE

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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