Architectural signage
Architectural signage is custom-built for longevity and integrated into the building design, using premium materials, hidden fixings, and expert installation to set a bold brand standard. (Planning consent usually required.)
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Whether it’s a shop, office or venue sign, Astley helps businesses translate their brand into and onto their properties.
Offering a concept-to-completion solution from site survey and sign design through to quality manufacture and install, we are considered the ‘go-to’ partner for building signage in the UK.
Architectural signage is custom-built for longevity and integrated into the building design, using premium materials, hidden fixings, and expert installation to set a bold brand standard. (Planning consent usually required.)
Illuminated signage enhances brand presence day and night, with tailored LED tones and material choices offering creative flexibility while meeting sustainability goals. (Planning consent usually required.)
Panel signs are often a more cost-effective choice for shopfronts, offering flexibility through layered materials and optional illumination. Made from solid substrates such as aluminium composite (ACM), acrylic, foamex, or dibond (Planning may not be required if under 0.3m² and non-illuminated.)
Although still a panel, flexface signs are built using tensioned PVC banner material, stretched over a frame and clipped or locked into a frame system and pulled tight. Often used in retail parks and illuminated.
Projecting and hanging signs are ideal for enhancing visibility on approach, helping to guide customers and clearly mark your brand’s location. (Planning consent usually required.)
Maximum building space and the opportunity to communicate key messaging via impactful window graphics. (NB. Planning consent required in most circumstances)
To enhance traditional signage, many brands integrate digital elements – such as interactive screens for customer engagement or window displays promoting products and services. (Planning consent usually required.)
astley sees sustainability as essential, offering expert guidance on using responsibly sourced and manufactured materials as part of every signage project.
We survey across the entire of the UK, capturing critical site information that helps advise how a brand is translated into an environment.
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Our in-house design team collaborate with clients, offer concept development (including expert prototyping) and create signage manuals and site packs for brand implementation.
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Our technical team produces manufacture-ready drawings that ensure all signage is compliant, structurally sound, and safe to install.
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Astley Account and Project Managers bring sector-spanning experience, proven delivery expertise, and a collaborative, communication-led approach to every project.
From the creation of elevation drawings to liaising with local authorities, we aim to get designs approved and into manufacture as seamlessly as possible.
For further guidance on the planning approval process requirement, please visit the Government Website.
We’re proud to manufacture in the UK, with two production facilities delivering core signmaking services, backed by BS EN 1090 certification for structural fabrication.
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Our certified installation crews excel in complex environments—from live forecourts to out-of-hours retail and hospitality work—delivering consistent brand application and specialist experiential installs across large estates.
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Following the investment of your estate signage, we believe it’s important to keep it looking great and performing safely. Our dedicated maintenance team support clients with bespoke packages to suit any requirement with proactive, scheduled visits for clean and checks to reactive plans that mean if something should happen, we’ll respond and make it right.
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We’d love to be able to answer this straight away…but there are so many factors to consider.
From the actual design of the sign (eg. panel, built-up, illuminated, non-illuminated) to considerations on the building surface, structural integrity, fixing methodology and access needed for the installation, it’s impossible to offer an accurate cost without our teams understanding more precise details.
We do have a good guide though that would start you off. You can download the Guide here
Yes! We’re pleased to offer all the services you need in-house and actually, our teams offer the ideal solution as they understand HOW to make the product as well as design it.
We can also offer prototyping in-house so that you can review material, colour, illumination and other key characteristics before pushing the button! To learn more about our design services, click here
Yes! We have won awards for our rollout capabilities. We are one of the largest signmakers in the country with two production facilities and multiple installation and maintenance crews ideally located so that we can work sustainably and efficiently on substantial and/or complex programs.
If you have a particular project in mind, email enquiries@astley-uk.com to discuss next steps.
If you have a project you’d like to discuss, even if it’s still early on in development, our team would be able to advise and consult on a number of key elements for consideration.
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