Forty-seven years of extensions, attic conversions and new homes across the Fylde Coast, modelled in 3D before anyone lifts a shovel.
Chris comes out, looks at what you’ve actually got, and tells you what’s possible, including when the answer is “don’t”. No charge for that conversation, and no obligation after it.
Chris arrived on time, clearly explained the process and listened to our remit. He did the survey that day. Peter & Michelle Barber, Blackpool
Every project is built as a 3D model, not a flat drawing. That’s how problems get caught on screen instead of on site, and how you get to see the thing before it exists.
Planning application, building regulations, structural calculations, and every conversation with Fylde or Blackpool that goes with them. Knowing what this particular council will accept is the difference between eight weeks and eight months.
He submitted the plans and kept his eye on the ball… after a meeting with the planners, the rejection became an approval. Debbie Clayton
Full coloured specification drawings with the structural detail already in them, so quotes come back accurate and comparable, and nobody discovers a problem in week three.
Full coloured specification drawings with 3D perspective views, always easy to quote from, because all the relevant information is there. Unlike many other architects. Chris Devenney, builder · 20 years
When the model is right, the build matches it. And when a builder starts cutting corners, the person who knows the drawings is the one who notices.
The extension wouldn’t have been built to the same standard if you weren’t involved. The builder was trying to cut corners and would have got away with it. Roy Tindall
Doors open onto the garden, and the drawings stop being the point. Homeplan Designs has been finishing these on the Fylde Coast since 1979, award-winning, and still answering its own phone.
Recent work
Photographs of a real job rather than a visualisation. Designed, drawn, submitted, and seen through to the day the doors went on.
The work
Residential work across Lytham, Blackpool and Preston, with change of use, deed plans and the occasional conversion when they come up.
Kitchen, orangery, rear, side and two-storey extensions across the Fylde Coast.
02Bespoke contemporary and traditional houses, designed around the plot and the planners.
03Garden plots, infill sites and small multi-unit schemes.
04Front, rear and side dormers, and hip-to-gable rooflifts.
05Turning a garage into a room that earns its keep.
06Self-contained accommodation for family, designed around the planning rules.
Why it looks different
Most practices hand you flat elevations and leave you to imagine the rest. We build the whole thing as a virtual building first (walls, roof, structure, openings) and pull the drawings out of that.
It means the plans agree with each other, the builder can see what you can see, and you can turn your house around on an iPad before committing a penny to it.
How it works
Chris comes to the property, looks at what’s there, and talks through what will and won’t get past the council. Free, and with nothing to sign at the end of it.
A full measured survey, then your house rebuilt as a virtual model with the proposed work in place. You see perspective views before you see a bill.
Revisions come back in days, not weeks. When you’re happy, we submit the planning application and deal with the planners on your behalf.
Building regulations drawings, structural and SAP calculations, and full specifications your builder can price from. We’ll point you at good local builders if you need one.
Clients
As a local building contractor I’ve come across many architects over my twenty years in business. Chris Sinkinson is the most professional architectural consultant I have used.
On our first site visit Chris listened to my ideas, added many of his own and gave excellent advice. Within three weeks I had my plans.
Thank you for the plans, which have transferred from paper to the real thing perfectly, and look incredible. And thank you for finding us the perfect builder.
His work is amazing and we always achieve the best outcome for our customers. His design work is always spot on.
Comprehensive and accurate plans with advice on planning and building control allowed me to get my plans passed speedily.
He came up with ideas we’d never thought of and provided 3D images so we had an idea of what the finished article would look like.
Built
The drawings are the means, not the point. The point is the room you end up standing in on a Tuesday evening with the doors open.
This one is the Tindall extension: an orangery with a glazed lanternlight roof, designed, submitted and watched over through the build.
Blog
Chris has been writing these since 2019, usually after a conversation that came up often enough to be worth answering properly.
Get in touch
The first conversation costs nothing and often saves people from a scheme that was never going to get through.