Introducing Playskan Insights — Market Intelligence for the UK Padel Industry

Padel is now the fastest-growing racket sport in the UK. New clubs are opening every month, council planning desks are processing applications at unprecedented volume, and the asset class has started to attract serious institutional capital.

And yet — if you're an operator trying to benchmark your club, a developer evaluating a site, or an investor sizing a portfolio opportunity — the data is everywhere and nowhere. Bits and pieces scattered across the web, anecdotes traded between operators at industry events, nothing connected, nothing live, nothing comparable.

That's the gap we built Playskan Insights to fill.

What Playskan Insights is

Playskan Insights is a market-intelligence platform for the UK padel industry. We track every UK padel club and compute occupancy, pricing and revenue benchmarks every day. Beside that we maintain a complete index of UK padel court planning applications — submissions, approvals, refusals, the agents and local authorities moving fastest, the supply pipeline by region.

The dataset already covers:

• 400+ active padel clubs across 270+ UK cities and towns
• 1,400+ courts with court-type, opening-hours, and pricing data
• 1,800+ padel-related planning applications
• Daily refresh — every metric is recomputed daily

What you can do with it

Benchmark any UK padel club

Every club has its own insights page with occupancy, pricing, revenue per court, RevPAH, peak-hour analysis, and side-by-side comparable benchmarks against similar clubs. Most recently we shipped month-on-month growth indicators, so operators can spot momentum (or softness) at a glance instead of waiting for a quarterly board pack.

Read any UK market at a glance

Drill into any city we track to see how its clubs stack up — top venues by revenue, average occupancy, pricing distribution, court-type mix, daily-refreshed. The same view exists at the local-authority level for investors looking at deal flow rather than venues.

Track every padel court before it opens

The Planning Applications tracker covers every UK padel court submission we can find. Approval rates by local authority, top agents, application volumes by quarter, status filters, and an interactive map. We also link applications to the clubs they actually became — so a club page now shows the full timeline from "application submitted" to "opening day" automatically.

Compare operators and platforms

Multi-club operators get their own benchmarks — market share, average occupancy, revenue per club, pricing strategy, court mix. Same treatment for the booking platforms so you can see which players control which segments.

Estimate the revenue of a new club

The Revenue Calculator lets you drop a pin anywhere in the UK, specify courts and pricing, and get a revenue estimate based on comparable clubs in the area. The Revenue Optimiser does the inverse — pick an existing club and see where the upside is hiding.

How the data is built

Every number on the platform is derived from publicly available sources, refreshed daily. Nothing is private, scraped from behind a login, or shared by club operators — we just bring it all together in one place.

Read the methodology page for the details on how we compute occupancy, revenue and confidence scores.

Who it's for

• Padel club owners and operators — benchmark your pricing and occupancy against comparable venues, identify peak-hour gaps, and price court types correctly.
• Property owners and developers — evaluate sites with the revenue calculator before committing capital, and track the planning pipeline around your shortlist.
• Institutional investors and family offices — track market saturation, deal flow, and operator performance across the asset class.

Pricing

Three plans:

• Basic — free. Limited UK market summary, limited city-level reports, save favourite pages.
• Pro (£200/month) — full UK market summary, detailed city-level reports, club reports with daily performance metrics, club comparison view, booking platform analysis, and the Revenue Calculator.
• Investor (£1,000/month) — everything in Pro, plus multi-site operator reports, local authority reports, the UK Padel Planning Applications Tracker, and planning data wired into the Revenue Calculator.

Every plan starts free. You can click into any city or club page right now and see real data.

Try it

The fastest way to get a feel is the 1-minute demo, which walks through the main surfaces. Or just jump straight into the Playskan Insights home and explore.

If you're operating, developing, or investing in UK padel, we'd love to hear from you — what's useful, what's missing, what should we build next.