Meet our team

Operating in Gloucestershire and surrounding areas, we have over 40 years experience in the architectural design industry. As a result of this, we have worked with hundreds of great customers who have all agreed we provide a high quality, professional and quick service.

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Glenn Church

Owner

Glenn is a driven and focused technician who displays a desire to provide a fast, efficient and cost-effective design solution for clients, whether this be a modest extension or a new build bespoke property.

 

Prior to establishing Homeplan Glenn worked within a wide range of construction and building services related fields.

 

Having started his working life with Gloucester City Council in what was then the City Architects Department, whilst there Glenn worked in various departments including Planning and Building Control whilst embarking on ONC and HND studies at Gloucester College of Arts and Technology.

 

After leaving Gloucester City Council Glenn worked as a draughtsman for various local companies both directly employed and as a sub-contractor and this included works with structural engineering practice, roofing and cladding and ground investigation.

 

Having also worked on site as a quality assurance engineer for concrete structures at Lloyds Bank Headquarters in Cannons Marsh, Bristol.

 

Whilst working as a draughtsman for a refrigeration and engineering company Glenn went in to design and contracting gaining further building services engineering qualification at Bath College focusing on air conditioning and ventilation and qualified as a design technician whilst also taking the engineers “hands on” qualifications and also attained Associate membership of the Institute of Refrigeration and a member of The American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers Engineers, and formed his own air conditioning and building services company which was sold in 2008. The early foundation in architecture proving invaluable in building services design. 

 

Since the early days with Gloucester City Council Glenn has always worked self employed alongside full time works continuing with house extension and new build works and decided in 2016 to fully focus on architectural works with Homeplan.

Briony Church

Owner

Briony began her career path into architecture and design at age 17, employed as an apprentice at a large Gloucestershire based practice.

 

Whilst at this practice Briony gained experience within many sectors including residential, hospitality, education & commercial design projects.

 

Taking information from senior architects and technicians it was Briony’s role to produce full working plans and details across all divisions working with various systems including Autocad, Revitt and Sketchup, including colour rendering and completion of plans for design work with photoshop for presentation.

 

Over the years Briony has developed her technical and residential planning knowledge and become a competent architectural technician involved in largely domestic work and also some light commercial work.

 

Briony became self-employed trading as Homeplan in early 2017 after 5 years at the previous practice and upon completion of her training.

 

In the last four years Briony has worked on a wide range of domestic projects and thrives to create beautiful functional spaces for our clients.

Gloucester Cathedral hand-drawn in under 5 minutes

Here is a video of Glenn showcasing his skills by hand-drawing Gloucester Cathedral in under 5 minutes.

Are you thinking about an extension, new build or conversion of a property?

The team here at Homeplan Drafting Services would love to hear from you and discuss how we can help you with our specialist architectural design service. We can help you get planning approval and our quick turnaround means plans are submitted within 7-10 days of the initial survey.

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