We recently employed the services of Christopher Williams (Studio 4 Architecture) for the design of a reasonably substantial extension and reconfiguration of our 1920's house. At the first meeting with Christopher he was very attentive when discussing our overall project aims and was clearly sympathetic with our proposals to retain the Edwardian character of the house. After this initial meeting Christopher produced provisional plans outlining his proposals for the work. He came up with some clever ideas (which we would not have come up ourselves) for using/reconfiguring the space available, however, he was very willing to listen to our feedback on his proposals and make slight modifications where requested. Once the overall design had been approved by us, Christopher prepared very detailed plans, which he shared with us. In addition, he produced a 3D mock-up of his proposals which were viewable using a free architectural software programme to which were given access. This really helped us to get a good sense of the spaces we were creating and the flow of the house. Following a few minor tweaks Christopher produced detailed final plans and submitted them to the Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) Planning Office on our behalf. The plans were approved with only minor conditions. Our building work started several months ago and on the few occasions our builder has been uncertain about aspects of the plans, Christopher has been very willing to discuss these with him and to make site visits where appropriate. He has always responded promptly to such requests. Following approval of our plans we had a change of mind about one aspect of the work which required a Non-Material Amendment to be submitted to HBC. Once again Christopher prepared this on our behalf ensuring prompt approval of the amended plans. Overall, we have been very happy with the service we have received from Christopher and would have no hesitation in recommending him. read more

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January of 2021 we met with Christoper Williams of studio4 and made the decision to use him as our architect for our large house renovation. We made two payments to Studio4 and and apart from submitting some plans for a driveway and taking some measurements of our house we have had nothing else over a year after our initial meeting. Christopher consistently lied to us before Christmas saying he had done the first set of plans for our house and after almost 2 weeks at the end of January of unanswered emails, text messages, voicemails and What's App messages he eventually replied admittinnghe hadn't even started the plans due to a high workload and illness! We have now wasted an entire year of our time and Christopher has only offered us as he puts it a "goodwill gesture" of £375 from the £1462 we have paid him. We have responded to this email saying this isn't sufficient for the lack of work and time wasted and as usual he's not even had the decency to respond! We have recently discovered that Studio4 Architecture's advertised business address on their website is empty and up for rent. At the time of writing this review we have still not received any money or a response from Christopher Williams. read more