Chris Jennings-Petz

Chris has 19 years of experience across residential, later living, care, hospitality and mixed-use projects. He has led design teams from concept through to delivery, and pairs a close eye for detail with a thorough understanding of the commercial, technical and operational side of a project. He also brings specialist expertise in Building Information Modelling, project information management and digital workflows.

Chris spent almost a decade at PRP, working on residential, later living and care projects alongside hospitality and leisure. He was Project Architect on Botanical Place in West Byfleet for Retirement Villages Group, a whole-life net-zero development of 196 later living homes with a pool, restaurant and podium gardens, alongside shops, a new town square and a public car park next to the station. At the British Homes Awards 2026 the scheme won Later Living/Supported Living Design of the Year and Best Public Realm and Placemaking, and was shortlisted for Mixed-Use Development of the Year. His care work at PRP included Hendon Hall for Signature Senior Lifestyle, a £22m renovation and extension of a Grade II listed building in north London to provide 102 care suites, as well as Charrington Manor in West Byfleet for Hamberley and Haddenham Park in Buckinghamshire for Majesticare.

He then moved to Life3A, part of Marchese Partners, where he led design teams on a series of integrated retirement communities. These included a 96-home scheme in Alton for Revere Life on the site of a former brewery, and Allum Lane in Elstree for Endurance Estates and Rangeford Villages, a 150-home community with a GP surgery and extensive health, wellbeing and communal facilities. On Brent Cross he led the facade design, which was recognised for the quality of its architecture and detailing and the way it sits within its urban setting.

Chris joined amn in 2024. Alongside leading projects and developing designs, he oversees the technical side of the practice's work and is involved in client engagement and business development. His current projects include Kinford, a landscape-led masterplan for a new hilltop village at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey for Evergreen Escapes. The hybrid planning application, submitted in 2026, brings together over 400 homes, an integrated retirement community with a 70-bed care home, assisted living and retirement apartments, and a new village centre, alongside a modernised holiday park. He leads the design team on Kinford, shaping the masterplan and guiding the scheme through the planning application. He is also working on Bramston Park in Oakley and a number of care and later living schemes across the UK, and contributes to practice strategy and the development of amn's digital and project management systems. In design team meetings he is still often the one reaching for a pen to sketch ideas out.