This free tool provides a high-level estimate of the warehouse floor area required to store palletised goods in racking.
It is designed for UK warehouse planning, feasibility studies and early option comparison, before committing to detailed warehouse design.
This tool is an early-stage estimate. If you want a quick sense-check, contact me with your results.
The warehouse space estimator helps you quickly assess:
Required warehouse storage area (sqm / sqft)
Pallet storage capacity using Euro or GKN pallets
The impact of wide aisle, narrow aisle and VNA racking strategies
Typical aisle widths linked to reach trucks, articulated trucks and VNA trucks
The effect of pallet levels and utilisation (e.g. 85%)
A practical allowance for non-storage warehouse space
This is particularly useful for early feasibility checks, comparing layout concepts, and sense-checking headline pallet capacity requirements.
This tool provides an order-of-magnitude estimate only and does not replace detailed warehouse design.
It does not account for:
loading docks and yard interface
goods-in / goods-out and marshalling areas
MHE parking, charging or battery change
offices, welfare or plant rooms
fire aisles, columns or building inefficiencies
throughput, congestion, SKU velocity or picking profiles
structural, fire or sprinkler constraints
Final layouts, aisle widths and levels must always be confirmed during detailed design and supplier specification.
Warehouses operating close to 100% full typically suffer from congestion, poor slotting and double handling. For this reason, a maximum operational utilisation of around 85% is commonly used in practice to allow for replenishment activity, SKU spread and demand variability.
The estimator makes this assumption explicit so the impact on space requirements is clear.
If you share your pallet count, SKU profile, throughput and any constraints, I can sense-check whether your assumptions are realistic (utilisation, aisle strategy, levels and allowances) and advise on the next design steps.