My wife and I were looking for advice on a project, for a garden room/ artist’s studio, when a Barrister friend of ours whose speciality is Land/Property, said the man you want is Jools, he is very good. We subsequently met Jools and engaged Insight Architectural Design.

Since when his advice, knowledge, and quiet guidance has been first class. Also his flexibility working with, ourselves, the builders, planning and local authorities necessary to the project. Jools is very pleasant and easy to work with, which I might add everyone has commented upon, which is very reassuring. Janet and I would have no hesitation, in using him again, or indeed recommending his services whatsoever.

We first met Julian through Design Matters in 2010 when we were looking for help and inspiration for our Holiday Lodge business. The lodges were to be designed by us and built by a company in Finland. We met up and gave Julian our ideas and thoughts on what we wanted and he listened and created the lodges to our expectations.

We met up regularly and amended plans to work with the space and specific regulations on flooding matters that were to be adhered to through planning regulations. Four years on, there is nothing that we would change on the lodges and the feedback from our guests say exactly that.

Since then, we have used Julian three times, with a leisure building to go alongside our lodges and a stone extension to our house for an office/work station. The most recent is in progress and has not reached planning stage, but he has researched and came back to us with fantastic plans on how the building would look and work, should we decide to go ahead! All in all, Julian is very easy to work alongside, listens to your ideas and what you want from the project, whilst giving his experience and ideas along the way.

He also seems to work very well with the planning officers involved. We would not hesitate to recommend Julian for any project that is required.