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DECADE ago, new-build houses in London were an endangered species, with fewer than 1,100 Building under construction includingA just 155 in inner boroughs. Today almost 9,000 new houses are in the pipeline and many are ready to move into right now. This remarkable turnaround is due homes that mainly to a change in planning priorities, aimed at reversing the exodus of families from the capital and promoting more balanced communities, according to industry will bring analyst Molior. Developers have had to fall in line and to their delight have discovered huge, unsatisfied demand for well-designed houses in well-connected parts of town. families back Housing associations are boosting the numbers, too, and are making new houses available on a cheaper, shared-ownership basis. All this is particularly welcome news for young couples planning to into London have children and who might otherwise have fled to commuter Good-value, well-designed homes are encouraging land. DESIGNED FOR LIFESTYLE young Londoners to regenerate the inner city with Modern lifestyles are shaping the family friendly communities, says David Spittles design of this new generation of houses, marking a decisive shift away from the traditional idea of the Left: the Lillie house as a box with rigidly defined Square rooms for sleeping, eating and development relaxing. includes four- New homes of contemporary and five- design are often surprisingly bedroom houses affordable because they are built on with private run-down plots in gritty, inner-city gardens neighbourhoods that family buyers are helping to revitalise by clamouring for better schools, libraries, parks and shops. Whether opting for a boldly architectural house or a Victorian or Georgian lookalike, most buyers want their new property to have exciting design elements, and to chime with the way they live — light-filled, open- plan interiors, kitchen-cum-family space, manageable gardens, roof terraces and bedrooms with luxury en suite bathrooms. The wish list might also extend to audiovisual — home cinema and iPod docks — and “green” features — perhaps solar heating, serious insulation for low energy bills or rainwater collection.

Below: Tapestry OLD V NEW townhouses in Older period houses are tall and King’s Cross start narrow and lack good-quality living at £2million space. Formal drawing rooms tend to be for special occasions, not everyday use, and are therefore wasteful of space, while the central double-height space, an MEGA REGENERATION interaction between house and ingenious “butterfly” design that While many more such small-scale garden is poor. permits the generosity of seven projects on complex urban plots are “A lot of families want a house that levels. needed, council planners are insisting has the hallmarks of a loft, in open, Externally, the red-brick façade on mega regeneration schemes to dramatic and contemporary style. So and steeped pitch roof melds create entire new neighbourhoods. they are bypassing gentrified terraces harmoniously with the Victorian Modern four- and five-bedroom in favour of wow-factor new-builds,” surroundings, while the distinctive, townhouses with private gardens and says Albert Hill of niche estate agent double-arched entrance with a secure garage parking are part of Modern House. “stoop” staircase, an architectural Lillie Square, the first phase of the Replacing a single-storey shed on a device associated with American giant Earls Court exhibition centre tight plot at the junction of three houses to encourage people to linger redevelopment. roads and backing on to a railway at the threshold, adds to the public As well as 7,500 new homes, the cutting, a pair of new houses in life of the street. wider development will bring offices, Holloway shows how good Solidspace, the architect-developer, shops and community facilities architecture can make the most of a says this reinvention of the London including a high street public library seemingly unpromising urban townhouse provokes “a radical and residents’ clubhouse with spa, setting. rethink of how we measure the value and will add 23 acres to the public The four-bedroom “hand-made” of a property — in volume rather than realm by reclaiming wasteland. homes on Stapleton Hall Road have mere floorspace”. First completions are due in 2016. interconnecting rooms with Prices from £1,295,000. Call 020 Visit the marketing suite or call 020 overlapping uses arranged around a 7704 3504. 7381 9800. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 7 New homes Homes & Property

MODERN ELEGANCE Tapestry is a scheme of sleek, modern houses with double-height space and sky gardens at King’s Cross Central, the transformation of blighted railway land behind the station. Prices from £2 million. Call Knight Frank on 020 7861 5499. A new private garden square with 40 Georgian-style townhouses in densely packed Fulham is another arrival. The architecture of the two- acre London Square site, once a stableyard, is inspired by elegant Wellington Square, off King’s Road in Chelsea. At its heart are formal communal gardens overlooked by imposing houses with large front doors and railings. Houses range from 1,400sq ft to 4,000sq ft and rise to five storeys, with light-filled basements opening on to patio gardens. At the heart of each house is a feature oak-and-glass staircase, surrounded by an open- plan living space. The square will be traffic-free when completed later this year, with direct access to the houses from underground garages. Prices from £2.6 million. Call 0333 666 2737. The West Village, in Notting Hill, brings nine houses priced from £4.25 million. Call Strutt & Parker on Above: houses in Below: Stapleton 020 7318 4677. London Square in Hall Road houses Tucked away off busy Baker Street Fulham feature have stoop-style in Marylebone are five modern basement patio staircases at the townhouses, thoughtfully designed gardens entrance by young architectural firm Piercy & Company, whose priority was to bring natural light into the homes and provide flexible space. Set over four storeys, each home has an internal glass-walled lightwell and an integral garage. From £3.95 million. Call Druce on 020 7935 6535.

KEEPING DOWN THE COSTS Modern Zone 1 townhouses do not have to cost a fortune, according to Notting Hill Housing trust, which next week launches four-bedroom properties at The Exchange, Bermondsey. Prices from £999,000. Call 020 8357 4444. Travel deeper into south-east London to find some of the cheapest new townhouses. Vision Mews, in fast-gentrifying East Dulwich, is a gated scheme of houses with an open- plan ground-floor family space that unites with the garden via a wall of folding glass doors. From £925,000. Call Cluttons on 020 7407 3669. At The Old Dairy, SW16, new 1,648sq ft houses with attic-style master bedrooms featuring high ceilings are priced from £749,950. Call Bellway on 0845 548 3004.

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From £999,000: Notting Hill Housing Trust is building four- bedroom homes in The Exchange in Bermondsey 8 WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Estate agents’ homes homesandproperty.co.uk with Learn the rules of the profit game Ruth Bloomfield meets two property professionals who are moving up the property ladder

SCOURING auction catalogues for bar- gains, opting for ex-local authority flats, adding as much square footage as possible and using inexpensive but

stylish finishes: these are just some of BUTLER DAVID the ways property professionals man- Realising the dream: Karelia Scott- age to trade up from modest first Daniels with her husband, Simon. She homes to seven-figure dream houses. always longed to live in central London Clambering up the property ladder is tough and much depends on under- lying market conditions. But — as these the road which were almost twice the agents’ stories show — being prepared price,” he said. Lesson number one: to roll up your sleeves and take a cal- square feet is king. culated risk can be a most effective He spent the next year renovating the strategy when it comes to buying and flat and in 2002 let it out. He then selling London property. bought an unmodernised two-bed- room flat in a purpose-built 1970s block in Woodford, which cost £175,000. Karelia Scott-Daniels, 41, founder of “It was horrible but I was single so I property finders Manse & Garret. could live with it, and get stuck in when First home: A £92,000 three-bedroom I got home from work.”

house in Feltham bought in 1999. BAILEY CHARLIE FORGHAM Things changed when he met Julie, Current home: Four-storey live/work Well on his way: Jamie Lester outside his garden flat in Fulham. Next stop: a family house near good schools who had been offered a job in Feltham house in Bankside, worth £1.1 million, on the opposite side of London. The plus a four-bedroom Victorian rental let out three rooms to lodgers to help realise her dream of living in central Jamie Lester, 33, founder of Haus Proper- couple let out the Woodford flat and property in . fund more renovations and in June London. Working on the principle of ties, and his wife, Julie, 32, who works for moved into a rented flat in Fulham, Time taken: 15 years. 2000 she sold up for £160,000. “I broke never sell if you can find a way to hang an interior design company. where they stayed for three years. Top tip: Be prepared to take on a records for the area, and I think the onto your properties,they rented out First home: Two-bedroom flat in an ex- During this time Jamie sold both flats project where you can add value. thing was I just made it look really the Newington Green house. This rent council block in Wanstead, bought in 2001 and used the equity to set up his com- lovely,” she said. not only covers the mortgage, it ena- for £100,000. pany. In 2008 — “just at the wrong Karelia was 26 when she bought her She then moved in with her boyfriend bles them to pay off an extra chunk Current home: Two-bedroom garden flat time” — they bought a two-bedroom first property, using money she had (now her husband, Simon, 47, an engi- every year. Meanwhile, they bid at auc- in Fulham, currently being extended, garden flat in Fulham. By this time they earned in a part-time telesales job,plus neer) in Horley but soon decided com- tion, again, for their three-storey Vic- worth an estimated £1 million. had two small children and needed a £5,000 top-up from her mother, as a muting was not for her. They found a torian house with basement and roof Time taken: 13 years. more space. The 650sq ft flat cost deposit. With a tight budget, she took four-bedroom late-Victorian property terrace in Bankside,SE1. Although its Top tip: Buy near a station or where trans- £500,000 and had the potential to be two weeks off work to view properties in Newington Green, on the borders of guide price was £195,000, they had to port improvements are imminent; buy extended at the side and back to a little about to come up at auction. Hackney and Islington. pay £455,000. where there is potential to enlarge. over 1,000sq ft. Put off by the reces- At first sight, the three-bedroom ter- The house needed gutting but once They then converted the property sion, they did nothing until the begin- race, a boarded-up repossession, the work was complete, they lived from a ground-floor office with a two- Jamie left school at 16 and by the age of ning of this year, when work began. wasn’t inspiring and Feltham was not there for eight years, during which time storey flat above into a house. Their 20 he was working in property recruit- Jamie estimates that once the £100,000 her dream location. But the street was they got married and Karelia started a budget was £250,000 and the project ment and felt ready to buy his first project is complete, the flat will be leafy and the neighbours friendly. Most property company. began in the summer of 2012. By Janu- home. He took out a 100 per cent mort- worth about £1 million. Their next step important of all, she could afford it. By 2007 she had “itchy feet” but the ary 2013 she and Simon were able to gage and bought a run-down flat in will be to a family house close to good After moving in, Karelia installed a housing market had gone into freefall move in, and she estimates the house Wanstead. “It was in a poor state but it schools — for which Jamie is resigned new kitchen and redecorated. Then she and she was forced to wait until 2011 to is now worth £1.1million. was huge compared to conversions in to leaving Fulham to find value. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 9 Affordable homes Homes & Property

From £470,000: two-bedroom flats at New Capital Quay in Greenwich, an easy walk from or Greenwich stations

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With record numbers five years buyers will be charged drinking and hanging out. Prices 1.75 per cent interest on their start at £399,950 and the homes will using Help to Buy, Government loan, rising annually by be completed in November. Visit one per cent above inflation, and hamptons.co.uk for details. Ruth Bloomfield when they sell they repay it entirely. The last phase of Prime Place in A separate scheme allows the Greenwich has launched, with prices sniffs out great value purchase of older homes, with the from £475,000 for a two-bedroom Government chipping in 15 per cent flat (see primeplacegreenwich.com). in Zones 2 and 3 towards a deposit. Almost 20,000 On-site facilities include a health and buyers have taken this route. fitness club, restaurants and café, In London there were 12,700 first- and all homes have private balcony T BARELY seven months time buyer sales in the first three or terrace, some with great City old the Government’s months of this year, each spending views. It’s a swift walk to Greenwich flagship Help to Buy an average £293,589. DLR and Overground station in policy is being heralded a On the downside, the scheme’s Zone 2, with quick links to Canary huge success, with the £600,000 limit means first-time Wharf and Cannon Street. Anumber of first-time home buyers buyers are still locked out of most Also in Greenwich, New Capital reaching a seven-year high in the UK. new developments in central Quay (newcapitalquay.com) is a The subsidy scheme, which reduces London, and it has emerged that riverside development on the former the need for a big deposit, is credited homes in Chobham Manor, the first dockyards of Henry VIII. Almost with contributing to 31,400 first- of five new suburbs being built within 1,000 homes, plus bars, restaurants, timers clinching a property in March the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park at cafés, shops and a museum are being — the highest monthly number since Stratford, will not be included in built, with an easy walk to either the peak of the market in 2007, Help to Buy. Greenwich or Deptford stations. according to LSL Property Services. These gripes aside, there are some Two-bedroom flats start at £470,000. Help to Buy (helptobuy.org.uk) great current — and imminent — If high-rise living appeals, prices at works by allowing buyers to borrow opportunities in Zones 2 and 3 for The Tower, in Great West Quarter, up to 20 per cent of the value of a those keen to get on the ladder: Brentford start at £420,000 for a new-build home from the Close to prime central London is one-bedroom flat. Ready to move Government, interest free for five More West, 28 flats within an easy into next month, the homes are well- years, meaning they only need to walk of Latimer Road Tube station in located for Heathrow, while from raise five per cent of the asking price, Zone 2. Portobello Road and Notting South Ealing station in Zone 3 it’s less borrowing the remaining 75 per cent Hill are on the doorstep, so the than half an hour to central London. with a conventional mortgage. After location is great for shopping, eating, Visit barrattlondon.com.

From £475,000: two-bedroom flats at Prime Place, left, in Greenwich

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From £945,000: Offers over a five-bedroom £595,000: a house south of three-bedroom New Town. Call flat in Parliament 0131 222 9606 Square. Through Knight Frank Offers over £695,000: four- From £474,000: bedroom flat, left, a four-bedroom near Haymarket flat, left, west of

station. Visit CORBIS Princes Street. knightfrank.com Monumental splendour: Edinburgh’s historic heart makes it a cultural magnet Strutt & Parker Canny London buyers vote for Edinburgh The independence homes but buyers appear less con- he says. “I also got paid to employ a GEORGIAN ELEGANCE £595,000, also through Knight Frank. cerned, says Ran Morgan, head of university student.” He lives in the city New Town in Edinburgh is a Unesco Strutt & Parker is selling a three-bed- referendum is no bar Knight Frank Scotland, who reports a centre and says rental and overall World Heritage Site and the world’s room first-floor flat for offers over marked increase in the number of Lon- monthly living costs are £300 cheaper largest Georgian urban area. Broad £360,000, with the option for access to bargain hunters, don purchasers over the past year. than in London. streets and squares laid out in a formal to Queen Street Gardens. Also central “People with roots in Scotland or a Edinburgh certainly punches above grid feature elegant, flat-fronted homes in the New Town, a two-bedroom flat says Cathy Hawker desire to own a home here are not put its weight for culture. As well as the with high ceilings and big rooms. “For on the second floor of a Georgian town- off by the referendum,” says Morgan. world’s largest arts festival, it boasts an space-starved Londoners the room house is on for offers over £370,000. “Second-home hunters, parents buying annual book festival, six Michelin- dimensions are striking,” says Ed Doug- “The wider economic recovery is F HOME BUYERS in Scotland are for their children at Scottish universi- starred restaurants, four theatres, good las-Home of Knight Frank Edinburgh. overriding any concerns about the apprehensive about the results of ties and young professionals moving shopping and a proud sporting herit- “The city has plenty of purpose-built referendum, as demand is recovering the independence referendum this to Edinburgh for a career in the finance age, while the beaches towards North apartments in Georgian buildings with in Edinburgh,” says Ed Douglas-Home. September, they are hiding it well. sector are all continuing to buy.” Berwick and the Pentland Hills grand entrance halls and staircases.” “The mood here is increasingly upbeat. The Registrars of Scotland report Regional Park are within 30 minutes. A four-bedroom, 1,631sq ft first-floor Edinburgh will always be an attractive, thatI sales have risen 26 per cent since A CITY FOR BUSINESS There are several good private and flat in St Vincent Street, steps from The cultural place to live as well as the UK’s 2012, while prices continue to rise After a year living in Brixton and work- state schools, and house prices and Royal Circus, is typical of what sells well. second largest major financial centre steadily, up 3.9 per cent year on year. ing in the City, Harry Gourlay, 25, set rents represent good value for London- Light and airy with original features after London.” Knight Frank figures also tell a posi- up the H2O Hydro company which ers. The £1.5 million you spend in Ful- including shutters and elegant fire- tive tale, with the Georgian gems of designs and builds hydroelectric ham would buy a Georgian townhouse places, it is on the market with Knight CONTACTS Edinburgh showing 1.5 per cent rises schemes. Edinburgh provided excel- with twice the floorspace in central Frank for offers over £525,000. O Knight Frank: knightfrank.com (0131 in the three months to March. Many lent financial incentives and he moved Edinburgh, and rental yields are attrac- A three-bedroom flat on the top floor 222 9606) sellers are waiting to learn the referen- there last September. “I got a grant for tive — local specialist Cullen Property of a Georgian building off The Royal O Strutt & Parker: struttandparker.com dum result before marketing their £5,000 to help get the business going,” says seven per cent net is achievable. Mile seems striking value at offers over (0131 226 2500) 12 WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Commuter hotspots homesandproperty.co.uk with

HE Hammersmith & City line came into its own in 1990, when it first appeared on the Tube map. Before that it was partT of London’s oldest underground railway service, the Metropolitan, which dates back to 1863 and originally ran from Farringdon to Paddington. Victorian business tycoons spotted the value of commuter trains serving the emerging suburbs of Shepherd’s Bush and Hammersmith and extended the track west. For the same reason, the line was pushed east to Barking during the interwar period. The east-west route skirts round From £1.65 million: for apartments at Westbourne Gardens, Porchester Road W2 rather than cuts through the heart of central London — Mayfair and the West End — partly due to the protests of powerful 19th-century landowners. Then, as now, most Map out your Londoners had no alternative but to search for more affordable homes beyond the capital’s core area. Today, property values along the route are what Savills calls “attainable”. All stations west of Paddington are in Zone 2, while going east from Whitechapel, average property values are consistently below £300,000, dropping to almost £175,000 at Barking in Zone 4. future THE HAMMERSMITH PRIZED ADDRESSES While Hammersmith is at the end of the line, the area is about as close-in & CITY LINE as you get in west London, with a good range of flats and family houses, and a lively arts and entertainment scene that gives Theatreland a run In part seven of our series finding hot homes for its money. Hammersmith town centre is on the Tube network, David Spittles takes getting a facelift and there are serious moves to reconnect it with the river the route that skirts the capital’s prime core by bulldozing the ugly, crumbling flyover that splits the place in two and replacing it with a tunnel, plot moments from the square to nurses’ accommodation, is being transformed into Sovereign Court, pavements, shop frontages and financed by developing the land create Georgian-style flats and refurbished into 68 homes. A rooftop offering 418 homes plus offices, shops cultural attractions. The giant above. So arguably, there is a townhouses at St Peter’s Place, extension maintains the Art Deco and restaurants just 160 yards from Westfield mall has had a big impact potential upside to buying here now. launching at the end of this month. building’s fine symmetry, while an the Tube station. From £964,950. Call on Shepherd’s Bush and led to small St Peter’s Square is one of the area’s Call 020 3667 5113. underground car park and a formal St George on 0800 008 6977. independent shops opening, such as most coveted addresses, with a The west side of garden are being created behind the Ginger Pig on Askew Road, the collection of grand, stucco-fronted is a leafy conservation area with lodge-style concierge entrance. WESTFIELD EFFECT quality butchers with other branches houses dating back to the 1820s pockets of charming Regency and Prices start at £730,000 for two- Planners are keen to revive Uxbridge in Marylebone and Borough. alongside an imposing domed Victorian villas and terraces plus a bedroom flats. Call 0844 644 1582. and Goldhawk Roads, the two main Coming soon to Goldhawk Road church and listed public gardens. pretty square that opens on to the In King Street, Hammersmith’s high drags sandwiching the Shepherd’s are new townhouses by developer Crest Nicholson has acquired a rare park. Listed Ashlar Court, formerly street, a multistorey car park is being Bush heartland, with new First Base, known for stylish,

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Porchester Hall. Prices from HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE £1.65 million. Call Hamptons International on 020 7034 0404. When Crossrail is up and running in Station Average house prices Zone 2018, the Hammersmith & City line will connect with major stations at Hammersmith £795,803 Paddington, Farringdon and Goldhawk Road £715,455 Liverpool Street. Property prices 2 Shepherd’s Bush Mkt £553,926 around these interchanges have jumped and are expected to rise Wood Lane £553,926 more because the stations will be Latimer Road £753,468 hubs for big business, too. Ladbroke Grove £921,035 2012 LEGACY BENEFITS Westbourne Park £487,507 Aldgate East is less “City fringe” than it used to be, due to mega Royal Oak £1,145,664 developments that are blurring the border with the Square Mile. One of these is Goodman’s Fields, where a gated seven-acre business estate has Paddington £998,321 been opened up as a new “urban quarter” with a mix of homes, shops, Edgware Road £523,789 1 restaurants, a public park and plaza. Baker Street £1,382,797 Prices from £672,500. Call Berkeley Homes on 020 3217 1000. Great Portland St £1,523,285 Penthouses at One Commercial Euston Square £657,759 Launching this month: flats and houses at St Peter’s Place, W6 (020 3667 5113) Street, a 21-storey tower above King’s X/St Pancras £462,648 Aldgate East station, go on sale later this month. Call DTZ on 020 3296 Farringdon £676,267 3837. Barbican £1,086,200 Whitechapel is not as rough or dangerous as is popularly believed, Moorgate £734,042 and it is relatively cheap for an area on Liverpool Street £1,250,833 the cusp of Zone 1. Change is afoot, with council estate regeneration and Aldgate East £603,922 flats above shops being brought back into use. Brick Lane’s curry restaurants are giving way to designer boutiques and galleries, while the Whitechapel £298,170 wider area is becoming an extension of trendy Spitalfields. Stepney Green £298,170 2 Budget buyers are advised to head Mile End £275,069 further east, past Bow, to what might £275,069 be called the “outer East End”. Bow Road History casts a long shadow. Over a Bromley-by-Bow £286,951 quarter of Newham’s houses were destroyed in the Blitz but the area is rising again on the back of Olympic From £964,950: for two-bedroom apartments at Sovereign Court, Hammersmith Park regeneration and is a legacy West Ham £226,044 benefits winner. Most parts seem From £672,500: affordable housing in east London. Paddington via Ladbroke Grove, affordable to anyone from west Plaistow £216,120 3 for homes at Call Strutt & Parker on 020 7318 4677. where a rare new-build scheme of London, but are not as bargain- Upton Park £216,120 Goodman’s Check out Brackenbury Village, scale on the border with Notting Hill basement as they were. Fields, above, which since the Nineties has moved is under way. Prices from £565,000. Plaistow is deceptively large, while East Ham £204,447 a new “urban from up-and-coming to fashionable, Call 020 3053 0734. Upton Park is a small neighbourhood, quarter” with a boasting just about affordable — if Westbourne Park, north of with a speciality Asian food market in plaza and shops, small — family houses, a well-regarded Bayswater and up towards the Green Street. One future new address at Aldgate East local primary school, a park, smart motorway and Harrow Road, stands is West Ham FC’s stadium, due for Barking £174,540 4 restaurants and gastropubs. out as lower priced. One redevelopment into homes by From the new station at Wood Westbourne Gardens is a scheme of Galliard when the club moves to the Lane, the line swings round to nine apartments along from listed Olympic Stadium in 2016. Source: Savills

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FOUR show-stopping giant steel “beasts” spiky, geometric beasts, their stainless- are currently prowling the Royal 1 2 2 3 steel surfaces reflecting patterns of Academy front courtyard. The abstract changing light, will be in the Royal sculptures were created by Lynn Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard Chadwick between 1989 and 1990, using until May 16. jagged, welded metal sheets, and their installation in Piccadilly celebrates this year’s centenary of his birth. 4 The high-end Portuguese brand The British sculptor died in 2003, but Boca Do Lobo calls itself a furniture the exciting planes, angles and points of jeweller — and says this opulent cabinet his works, reminiscent of the ancient is “the jewel in our crown”. Made Japanese art of origami (paper folding), entirely by hand and lined inside with herald a new wave of modern design for gold leaf, it has three sculpted doors

London homes. opening on to shelving and two drawers. There is more gold leaf on the hand- 4 carved mahogany lion’s head feet. 1 Scottish Kyla McCallum of Foldability is The piece measures 180cm long by truly London’s new queen of origami, 60cm deep by 83cm high and costs compulsively folding paper or £18,555 from thelongeststay.com parchment squares into art and (020 7349 9057). design in her east London studio. 5 The Cuts coffee table by She has created six Milan-based French types of pendant designer Philippe Nigro has lampshade, glueing folded four distinct tops at three squares together by hand. different heights — 17cm, Each comes with flex, 25cm and 32cm. It looks ceiling rose and lampholder different from each side and ready for an energy-saving its origami-inspired shape bulb. resembles a paper aeroplane. You can see them in the Find it at Ligne Roset Westend, Tech Box at Grand Designs By Barbara Chandler 23-25 Mortimer Street, W1, and Live, ExCeL, E16, until Sunday. at Heal’s and Harrods. Visit ligne- The design pictured, called roset.co.uk, or call 01494 545910. Maya, comes in two sizes — the The price is £1,129. small size (height 220mm) costs £120 and the large (380mm) is Angles 6 The limited-edition Fernando £155. From foldability.co.uk (0759 Copper Chair is designed and made by 6697 160). east London’s Julian Mayor, a graduate of the Royal College of Art. It is made in 2 Sporting a riot of angles and planes is facets of welded mirror-finish copper a new wallpaper collection called Spirit with an enamel varnish, and costs and Soul. This is the Axis design, which £4,000. The design was developed on a comes in four colourways at £45 a roll computer, but the chair is folded and from Scion, with a showroom in Design welded by hand, a process that brings it Centre Chelsea Harbour, SW10. Call to life as the heat distortion mellows the 0845 123 6805 or visit scion.uk.com. surface. For more information, visit Also shown are Diva and Pucci fabrics at armelsoyer.com or julianmayor.com, or £27 a metre from the Scion brand. call 07775 516005. 5 3 This metal beast is one of the group of 7 The Flux chair, claimed to be “the four Lynn Chadwick sculptures — Beast 7 thinnest furniture in the world”, is made Alerted I, Stretching Beast I, Crouching from a single sheet of polypropylene. Beast II and Lion I — now being shown Designed in Holland, it comes flat and together publicly for the first time at the unfolds with one easy movement into Royal Academy. Coinciding with the a basic chair. It costs £89 and comes in installation is the largest-ever survey of pebble grey, ice blue, bright orange Chadwick’s work, Lynn Chadwick: (pictured) and white, from Southbank Retrospectives, at Blain|Southern and 6 Centre Shops, Belvedere Road, SE1. Visit Blain|Di Donna galleries across London, shop.southbankcentre.co.uk, or call Berlin and New York this month. The 020 7921 0773. 24 WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property My home homesandproperty.co.uk with Launch a business, raise a family, refurbish a London home . . . from the Far East — textiles queen Jane Bonsor did it all, says Damon Syson

EOPLE are quite nervous about combining prints,” says textile and creative designer Jane Bonsor, “but it’s all about layering. I love Phaving three or four patterns together without clashing — or being too matchy-matchy.” Her vibrant family home, a five- storey Victorian townhouse in west London, offers an object lesson in layering bold textiles. “The most important thing to consider is scale. I tend to use a small-scale print with a large-scale one. Never put two very big prints together. That would give you a headache.” As creative director of Korla, the textile and design house she co- founded two years ago while living in Singapore, Bonsor is no stranger to pattern, and the home she shares with her financial worker husband Alex, their three children and pet schnoodle Arnie — “named after Schwarzenegger, because he thinks he’s so big and macho” — is dominated by her own designs, which range from Moorish- inspired geometrics to subtle florals. Prior to Korla, she spent seven years Perfect blend: dressing celebrities with her fashion Jane Bonsor in label Pocket Venus, building up a list of her west London high-profile devotees that included kitchen, where Kate Middleton. Bonsor sold the modern lamp and business when children Cosmo, five, cupboards meet Hope, three, and Albert, one, began to period cornicing arrive, and transferred to home furnishings in 2011. “I love fashion but your home is what you’re surrounded Functional and by every day, so it feels like a more real chic: plain white thing.” sanitary ware, Last year, while establishing her left. The study, fledgling company, bringing up the right, with swivel children and teaching art part time to chairs designed university students, Bonsor managed, by Bonsor often remotely from Singapore, the refurb of their London home. The ground floor has a kitchen-diner, playroom and lavatory, while the living room and adjoining study are on the first floor. The children’s bedrooms and bathroom are on the second floor and the master bedroom with en suite Colour, textiles, texture. and walk-in wardrobe are on the third. The fourth floor has a utility room and guest bedroom with en suite. Bonsor reconfigured the ground because when things change at the last of the house, the garden has been STEAL THE STYLE Hallway: the fire-retardant doors in floor in a speedy four months, just in minute, it has a domino effect.’ One of designed (by Bonsor Landscapes) to Kitchen-diner: the combination of glass and whitewashed oak were time for the family’s return to London the main reasons there were no delays be good-looking and practical, with a period and modern — a Louis Poulsen designed by architects Gluckman in December. is because we’d chosen everything in sandpit concealed under the decking PH Artichoke light and ornate Smith. Sliding doors save space. “But advance.” and watertight storage for toys in the Victorian cornicing — works. Says that basically meant creating a room A GOLDEN LESSON Moving home after 10 years in built-in bench. It’s totally safe for the Bonsor: “I wanted a kitchen that was within the room to give the doors a “We had brilliant architects [Gluckman Singapore, China and Hong Kong was kids, but works equally well for the very simple, with high-gloss surfaces space to slide into. It worked very well, Smith] and builders [600 Cell], who we easier for Bonsor as the family’s home children and for entertaining friends. and no visible handles. At night it does as the architects were able to build Skyped or FaceTimed every day. We is now barely a mile from where she “The whole point of a family home is feel a bit like a white box, so we had a extra shelves and cupboards into the kept everything as simple as possible, grew up. “It’s lovely to do things with that it has to be easy to live in,” says feature painted on the shutters by structure.” obeying the interior design mantra of your kids that you did as a child. Bonsor. “It’s not a showroom. But if Catherine Cazalet, the wallpaper Get the look: the Stretch chair is by using only three materials or colours in London has changed a lot, but walking you want a stylish house and you have designer.” Carnevale Studio at Liberty. The print a space. The kitchen, for example, is down Portobello Road on a Saturday three kids, you’ve got to be practical Get the look: the bespoke dining table is a Howard Hodgkin. The blue Aldo basically white, wood or metal.” morning still feels incredibly familiar.” with things like storage. However nice is by Vintage Industrial Furniture. Find Londi Rimini ceramic vases are from Bonsor’s father, modernist architect Weekends often start with a stroll your home is, it doesn’t work if you are a similar reclaimed teak table at Heal’s. Jamie Troughton, was a big help. “My through the antiques market and a trip constantly tripping over buggies and Yorkshire Design Associates. dad gave me the best advice. He said, to buy quality foods before lunch with scooters.” Poliform’s Alea kitchen has similar Study: Bonsor’s carpenter built the ‘Before you even open the door to the friends. The ground floor of the house high-gloss units. The Bertoia side bookshelves. “I wanted them to look builders, make sure you have is designed for entertaining, with O See Bonsor’s work at korlahome.com. chairs are by Harry Bertoia for Knoll like they were floating.” She adds: everything specced — right down to grown-ups in the kitchen and kids in Contact her architects at gluckmansmith. Studio, with Korla cushions. Louis “The ebony boning on the floor was the last light switch and door handle — the adjoining playroom. Like the rest com and builders at 600cell.co.uk. Poulsen PH Artichoke lights from Nest. already here, so we decided to keep it.  EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 25 My home Homes & Property

Splashing out: brights and neutrals in the kitchen-diner, left. Retro Metro tiles in the children’s bathroom, right

Drama: Anish Kapoor prints are the focal point in the living room, right. Below left, Korla print cushions on Bertoia side chairs teamed with big zizag shutters in the kitchen-diner

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Styling:: Mary Weaver Create that feel-good factor

We didn’t have space for two desks in wall of red and orange in the living The French Bedroom Company is Alhambra Stars in Mushroom, with the Children’s bathroom: “It’s tiny. We here, so we had our carpenter install room. “The prints are the focal point similar. The lamp is from a shop on bedspread in Olive and the sofa and covered the walls in white tiles, and one long piece of plywood with a black in this room, so I made the carpet, Golborne Road. The rug is from the lamp shade in Blue Black, all by Korla. the kids love this little bath.” lacquered top.” walls and furniture quite muted and Tarantella range by Luke Irwin. The The Task short wall light by Original Get the look: for a similar bath, see Get the look: the Scratch vases on the picked up the red and orange in fabrics photo of a tree is the view from Bonsor BTC is similar. the Gem at Bathroom Heaven. The mantelpiece are from Habitat. The and accessories.” and her husband’s bedroom in South Kensington Retro Metro tiles are swivel armchairs were designed by Get the look: the sofa is from Ikea, Singapore. Master en suite: they managed to get from Fired Earth. The children’s Bonsor and covered in Korla’s Grand with cushions designed byBonsor. For in a bath and a shower, while a walk-in mobile is the 5R Flowing Rhythm in Kyoto Koi in Grass. The Martini side a similar coffee table, see the Premier Master bedroom: “I wanted the wardrobe is tucked around the corner. Black by Christian Flensted at The table in Persimmon is from West Elm. Housewares round coffee table with bedroom to be an oasis of neutral “It’s about as small as it could possibly Hepworth Wakefield gallery. Find a similar cowhide rug at London glass top at Wayfair. The polished colours — various shades of black, be, but it’s still a walk-in wardrobe.” To Cows. nickel lamps are Vaughan’s Savona white and grey to create a sense of give the room a larger feel, the line of Livingetc magazine is The Jielde Signal wall light in May table lamps. The black lacquer chair is calm, with a bit of green to liven it up. mirrored cabinet was continued to hosting its third Green is available from Holloways of inspired by a Ming chair — the Horn Monochrome can look boring but by make the entire right-hand wall annual House Ludlow. The paint is Lamp Room Gray chair from Orchid is similar. The Poole layering prints in different scales, it mirrored. Tours Plus event in estate emulsion by Farrow & Ball. Pottery vases are from Heal’s. The Juva gives it a sense of texture. And the Get the look: the Sandstone porcelain Notting Hill on May 9 I rug is by Luke Irwin. backdrop of the black wall really tiles are from Stone & Ceramic from 10am to 4pm. Tickets are £75, but Living room: one of Bonsor’s makes everything pop.” Warehouse. The bathroom units and to receive a 15 per cent discount enter proudest purchases is a series of Anish Children’s room: the sofa was bought Get the look: the black paint is Farrow sinks are by Victoria Plumb. The blinds HouseTours14 in the voucher code box at Kapoor prints dotted around the in Bali and reupholstered in green & Ball’s Railings estate emulsion. The are made in Korla’s Grand Bhutan the checkout at housetohome.co.uk/ house, six of them creating a dramatic fabric. The Brigitte bedroom sofa from fabric on the bedhead is Grand Lattice in Angel Blue. livingetchousetours  26 WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Events homesandproperty.co.uk with

1 50 YEARS OF UNIKKO: 2 ARTISTS’ OPEN HOUSE — A CELEBRATION DULWICH FESTIVAL May 15 at Aria, Barnsbury Hall, May 10-11 and 17-18, various venues Barnsbury Street, N1. (020 7704 (dulwichfestival.co.uk/openhouse) 6222; ariashop.co.uk) BUY art and craft direct from more UNIKKO means poppy in Finnish, than 200 painters, print makers, and the stylised flower designed potters, and textile and glass artists by Maija Isola for Finnish brand showing in homes, studios and Marimekko in 1964 is loved the cafés for the 21st Dulwich Festival. world over, appearing in Highlights include a selling show countless colours and sizes on with talks and workshops at Belair fabrics, tableware, bags and House, 1 Gallery Road, SE21 (May 9- more. See a range of goods, get 10 11; cavalierofinn.com). Print maker per cent off and in the evening Sarah Hamilton, whose cards are hear design historian Dominic pictured left, and acclaimed potter Lutyens, co-author of 70s Style & Julian Stair are among those Design, left. Please book. opening their doors. Five things to see in May By Barbara Chandler 3 LUKE GOTTELIER & MAX LAMB: 4 SPRING CLEAN SALE IN PAINTINGS & FURNITURE AID OF KIDS COMPANY Until May 31 at Kate MacGarry gallery, May 30 to June 1 at London 27 Old Nichol Street, E2 (020 7613 0515; Newcastle Project Space, 28 katemacgarry.com) Redchurch Street, E2 (020 7724 LONDON furniture maker Max Lamb 9679; carden-cunietti.com) caused a sensation last month at Milan AWARD-WINNING interior design week, building a whole room design duo Eleanora Cunietti 5 HANDMADE IN BRITAIN: THE and contents in Marmoreal, a marble and Audrey Carden are selling CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS & DESIGN FAIR compound. Now he has carved off high-end donated design May 9-11 at Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road, polystyrene offcuts into quirky tables, items including prototypes and SW3 (handmadeinbritain.co.uk; 020 7286 5110) chairs, shelving and a vase, sprayed in samples in aid of Kids Company. MEET British craftspeople selling their glass, streaky pastels. The sculptural shapes The pair are pictured right with ceramics, silverware, fashion, jewellery, textiles are a good foil, right, for the painterly the London charity’s founder/ and more, including this glass figurine by Elliot canvasses of artist Luke Gottelier. director Camila Batmanghelidhj. Walker. Tickets £7 on the door, £5 concessions. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 27 homesandproperty.co.uk with Exhibition Homes & Property Walk through the way we’ve lived in London for 100 years The Geffrye Museum of home design is marking its centenary with a cutting-edge new show. Corinne Julius takes a tour

ACKNEY was the centre preoccupied with flexible space, as Far left: O-Nest of the furniture trade in we have changed the way we live.” chairs byTord 1914 when a new The popular museum is currently Boontje. Above, museum, the Geffrye, occupied with its own flexibility. Rising chair in opened to inspire the “Visitor numbers have risen to bamboo, by Hlocal furniture industry with 110,000 annually as interest in design Robert van examples of good design. It is still has grown,” adds Dewing. “Our Embricqs fulfilling that promise 100 years on. visitor profile has changed to the 20 Over the last two decades designer/ to 45-year-old design aficionados.” makers have moved into workshops The Geffrye’s new exhibition, and living spaces around the Useful & Beautiful, celebrates the Right: a Useful museum, at the heart of the museum’s centenary, its purpose, & Beautiful Shoreditch design hub. and the emergence of Shoreditch as a exhibition room This museum of the home also design hub. “The title is drawn from set. Left the concentrated on educating children, William Morris’s quote, ‘Have Geffrye Museum and later adults, in social history and nothing in your houses that you do of the Home the history of their homes. Since the not know to be beautiful or believe to Thirties, the story of interiors has be useful,’” explains curator Alex retailers such as SCP or the Pigeon Light by Ed Carpenter. Useful aesthetic, the use of new materials or been set out in period rooms, with its Goddard. “We think our pick from designers’ own websites — alongside & Beautiful also includes Hulger’s new new ways of making, or a collection illustrating 400 years up to today’s designers ticks both boxes. prototypes being developed for Plumen 2 light, launching next combination of all four,” says the present day. “Over 75 per cent of the designers manufacture. month, and Matt Elton’s wooden Goddard. “Visitors can try out some The room sets are displays of the whose pieces we are showing are There are multiple displays and A-Frame shelves for Ambrose, the furniture, including in our garden.” taste “not so much of middle-class local to the museum,” offering a three mini room sets showing the new Heal’s online home and furniture O Useful & Beautiful runs until Londoners, but of the middling way broad range of domestic products work of designers based locally, collection which is sponsoring the August 25, Geffrye Museum, 136 of life of Londoners”, says museum from furniture to wallpaper, textiles, including Tord Boontje’s Magnetic exhibition with London property Kingsland Road, E2 (020 7739 9893; director David Dewing. “We don’t lighting and technology. Cutting-edge Fields coffee table and 100 Years developer, First Base. geffrye-museum.org.uk). Free represent the rarefied, but the design by established and emerging fabric; Hunting and Narud’s Rise and “All the work is intentionally admission to museum and gardens. typical. What I find fascinating is how talent includes relatively new pieces Shine adjustable mirror; Doshi domestic, but has been chosen for its The museum is open Tuesday to people’s homes reflect them. Over now in production — which can be Levien’s Capo Chair for Cappellini; innovation — be it in terms of how it Sunday from noon to 5pm. Closed the last 25 years people have been bought from the Geffrye’s shop, local BarberOsgerby’s Tab Lamp, and the fulfils new lifestyle requirements, its Mondays except bank holidays. 30 WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Interview homesandproperty.co.uk with

Fresh ideas: Deyan Sudjic at the Design Museum’s current home in Let Deyan take Shad Thames, left. Below left, homes at Borneo Island in Amsterdam

gender. Design affects everyone. you on the People are very interested in cooking, and so the kitchen is an important design aspect of their homes. The idea of the kitchen as the centre of the A-Z tour of home is quite new, only from the past 60 years or so. With Habitat, Terence Conran has had a huge influence on that. He has a knack of creating a way modern design of life that anybody can buy into.”

H IS FOR HOUSING Design Museum chief Deyan Sudjic shares “The state needs to re-engage with housing, which it hasn’t done since his expertise and offers answers to London’s Margaret Thatcher sold off council housing,” says Sudjic. “A problem for housing crisis. By Philippa Stockley commercial builders is there’s little incentive to build and sell thousands OU would expect the S IS FOR STORY of homes, as it drives down prices. director of the Design Raised in Acton, where his parents “We need multiple methods to Museum to have strong spoke Serbo-Croat at home — his solve the shortage, including reusing opinions, and Deyan father reported for the BBC World existing stock, and adaptable Sudjic doesn’t disappoint. Service — Sudjic recalls his childhood prefabs. One of the most interesting InY his brilliant, wide-ranging and embarrassment at the arrival of his experiments I’ve seen is Borneo engrossing new book, B is for grandmother, swathed in black, with Island, in Amsterdam. The land was Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern a roast suckling pig wrapped in sold in the early Nineties as plots, World, a paean to modern European brown paper tucked firmly under about a hundred of them. Architects design, he can occasionally use two one arm. But he also links his interest designed the houses, and then words as effectively as a flame- in architecture and design to those people could do what they liked with thrower, calling, for example Dale pan-European origins. the façade and the windows, so it was Chihuly’s glass art, “unnecessarily He began as an Edinburgh-trained a sort of controlled anarchy. . . I’d like energetic”, and referring to Prince architect, planning to complete his to see something like Borneo Island Charles’s “petulant crusade (against qualifications in the modernist at the development of Earls Court. anything he did not like the look of ).” practice of Chamberlin, Powell and “There’s no one right answer, no Director of the museum since 2006, Bon. But it didn’t take as a career. “I’m single solution.” Sudjic is steering it towards its future far too impatient to be an architect.” at the former Commonwealth In 1983, with Peter Murray, who is F IS FOR FUTURE

Institute in Kensington, due to open now director of New London LYNCH DANIEL At 10,000sq ft, the new Design next year. “I had just arrived,” recalls Architecture, he set up Blueprint Museum will have three times the Sudjic, 62, ”and had a two-book architecture and design magazine. space of the current one, plus free publishing deal, to write The From 2000-2006, he was Observer entry. “There are lots of wonderful Language of Things [published 2008] architecture critic, and edited Domus museums of decorative art,” says and a dictionary of design. Then magazine for four years. In 2002, he Sudjic, “but this one is about mass Penguin rang and said, ‘People don’t curated the Venice Biennale. production and what’s coming next. use dictionaries any more’, and the “We’ll get our millionth Twitter book ended up as 40 essays instead.” D IS FOR DOMESTIC follower this year. After the Tate, we Their range reflects his expertise While Sudjic’s great passion is have the biggest museum website in and interests, from architecture to the modernist architecture, he is keenly the world. Design doesn’t stand still. design of everything from cars to interested in domestic architecture It’s a fascinating story.” radios, to contemporary film, and design, too, and has good ideas advertising, and fashion; to new on London’s housing shortage. O B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the methods of manufacture such as “The home, and housing, is a very Modern World by Deyan Sudjic (£18.99, digital printing; to Conran, cooking powerful way in to design. It’s not all Particular Books) is available half-price, and kitchens, to the architect about taste. Design is the way we each until May 14, to Homes & Property Chipperfield and chairs, without show what matters to us, in our readers. Visit penguin.co.uk and use which no book on design is complete. homes, clothes, technology and offer code “bauhaus50” to order. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 31 homesandproperty.co.uk with Outdoors Homes & Property A garden that’s perfect for kids. . . of any age With a swing, cinema screen, lawn and pots of colour, this garden keeps everyone happy

HEN you have children, the Pattie temptation to leave Barron the garden as a playground or Wfootball pitch is understandable. But one couple with two girls aged 11 and 13, a boy, nine, and the family dog, in delineates the space, and also doubles a newly renovated house in Barnes, as a film screen. It was the ideal spot, were determined to achieve the too, for the firepit the owners wanted, seemingly impossible: a great-looking for children and adults alike.” garden that could be used and Mee unified the boundaries — fences enjoyed by the whole family, without and brick wall — with battened trellis sacrificing plants or lawn. to take them up to the maximum “There was just a fence, a back wall permitted height of two metres, and and a very tatty lawn in the usual to lessen the chances of balls straying. London rectangular space,” says On the left of the deck, she installed a Claire Mee, the London garden bespoke hardwood arbour to support designer called in last spring to make a swing, with bark chippings beneath the transition. to make a soft landing. “We also “The challenge with a child-friendly attached a steel bar to the end beam garden is to create something that for the owner, who is a fitness fanatic, works for everyone, but with features and wanted a chin-up exercise bar.” that can be removed later when the The arbour, of course, doubles as a children are grown, without having to climbing frame for plants, primarily renovate the whole space. The honeysuckle, chosen for its fragrance, owners’ wish list included a swing, a wisteria and roses. “I decided on Rosa cinema screen, a netball hoop, lots of banksiae Lutea, as it is evergreen and

bright, strong colour — and they also thornless, so scratch-proof. It also gets MARIANNE MAJERUS wanted to encourage the children to smothered in lemon flowers that appreciate nature, so seeing the appear early, at the same time as the another draw for kids: hot pink Child friendly: seasons change was important. And wisteria blooms, and they look Geranium psilostemon, purple- artificial grass they wanted a perfect lawn.” particularly lovely together.” flowered sage and perennial stays green and a The lawn was the easy part. “I’m not The owners wanted the children to wallflower Erysimum Bowles’ Mauve, white wall a big fan of artifical grass, but the see all the stages of fruit growing, so contrasting them with lime-green doubles as a owners wanted it not just as a tougher Mee planted a double row of stepover Alchemilla mollis. The children asked cinema screen option, but to stop muddy footprints apples — a low-growing, fun option for lambs’ ears — Stachys byzantina — and pawprints coming into the house. that takes little space — on either side because they love stroking the leaves. The other plusses are that it doesn’t of the path leading to the swing, I included other tactile, textural need mowing, and it stays green, which she underplanted with plants such as lavender as well as however dry the summer. Even a fake Pittosporum Tom Thumb and box. fennel and chives, because children lawn does need maintenance, though, “In a child-friendly garden it’s handy also love to cook.” which most people don’t appreciate. to have some tough, dense foliage The pile flattens when there is heavy plants that act as a buffer for straying NOTEBOOK footfall, just like a carpet, so it needs footballs, like Hebe rakiensis, which I O To commission Claire Mee, call 020 Clever to be brushed every month.” also like to use on corners, as a 7385 8614 (clairemee.co.uk) framework: a Although there is a terrace that leads punctuation point. It also has pretty O Artificial lawn from easigrass.com sturdy arbour down to the garden, Mee introduced a white flowers.” Down the right-hand O Fermob chairs and firepit from serves as a hardwood deck right at the far end. side of the garden, which gets most Barbed (020 8878 1994; barbed.co.uk) climbing frame “We always build something at the sun, she planted a row of five olive O Swing from Marnie Moyle (01635 281 for plants, an back of the garden, so people make trees. “Beneath the olives, I planted 786; greenoakfurniture.co.uk) exercise bar and a full use of the space — the last segment long-flowering, colourful perennials O Portable netball from Netballuk support for a is often wasted. The white wall that attract bees and butterflies, (0161 626 3936; netballuk.co.uk) swing buy it See it: win RHS Chelsea Flower Show tickets Buy it: children’s book of outdoor fun

A HIGHLIGHT at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show will be a “THIS book is to stop you moaning contemporary paradise garden by the award-winning there’s nothing to do outside. There are designer Cleve West, commissioned by the show’s title at least 101 things. I know because I’ve sponsor, M&G Investments. With a nod to the four rivers that written them down,” says garden are said to have flowed through the Garden of Eden, four designer and mother-of-three Dawn water rills will flow into a central octagonal fountain, behind Isaac, who has spent much of her time which will be a vast limestone relief depicting the Tree of coming up with ways to persuade her Life, engraved across the five panels by West himself. children to play outdoors. The result is a Homes & Property has two tickets for one reader and their children’s compendium packed with guest to sip champagne as they are shown around this games, crafts and gardening ideas, from spectacular garden by the designer, on Chelsea’s first day, making a butterfly feeder and planting a Tuesday May 20. rainbow salad wheel to staging an open- To be in with a chance of winning this exciting prize, send air play and holding a ball battle. your name, address and daytime telephone number to O 101 Things for Kids to Do Outside [email protected] by midnight tomorrow. (Kyle Books) costs £14.99, but Homes & The winning entry will be picked at random on Friday May 9 Property readers can buy it for £12.99 and the winner will be notified by email. For tickets to incl p&p by calling 01903 828503 and Chelsea, see rhs.org.uk Best in show: Cleve West’s winning last garden at Chelsea quoting ref KB TF/ES. First build your tent: setting up camp 36 WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Property searching homesandproperty.co.uk with

HE Catford Constitutional Club could do for the neigh- bourhood what the Tories couldn’t — provide a good venue for gigs. With the Spotlight regenerationT of Catford town centre stalled while Transport for London decides where to re-route the South Catford Circular road, which now uses Catford as a giant roundabout, the biggest cause for local celebration is the open- ing of the Constitutional Club in the former Catford Conservative Club, down a dark alley off Catford Broad- way. The price is London pub group Antic takes roughed-up pubs in mostly rough- round-the-edges areas, roughs them up some more, imports charity shop right for families furniture, good beer and a chef, then watches as the crowds pour in. Its Catford Constitutional Club comes complete with the old Con Club par- quet flooring, decorative cornices and and there are Seventies wallpaper. Catford, eight miles south-east of central London, has to the north, Bromley to the south, Forest Hill homes aplenty to the west, and Eltham and Motting- ham to the east. It probably gets its name from a ford over the river Raven- sbourne where wild cats once lived, and today it is known for the giant Solid period property, community spirit, good fibreglass black cat that sits — appar- ently poised to pounce on unsuspect- schools — this neighbourhood ticks plenty of ing visitors — above the entrance to the shopping centre. those essential boxes, says Anthea Masey

WHAT THERE IS TO BUY On the borders of Forest Hill and Cat- Road for sale at £899,950. The most Catford is a predominantly residential ford, the Perry Fields conservation area expensive Corbett estate house is in area with a good selection of Victorian east of Perry Rise is a pretty enclave of Dowanhill Road — a three-bedroom, and Edwardian houses, some of which detached double-fronted Victorian 1,585sq ft property on the market have been converted into flats. houses that sell for between £825,000 through Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward There are large houses in tree-lined and £960,000. (020 3280 3540) for £675,000. streets in the Culverley Green conser- Estate agent Patricia Irwin Brown, of The area attracts: Patricia Irwin vation area south of the town centre Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, says five- Brown says about 40 per cent of her off Bromley Road. Smaller three- and bedroom houses in the Culverley buyers are locals with the rest mainly four-bedroom houses are found on the Green area sell for between £700,000 made up of young families from outside Corbett estate on either side of the and £750,000, while on the Corbett the area who come in search of rela- South Circular off Brownhill Road. Estate three-bedroom houses go for tively affordable houses. The price per The Corbett estate is much cherished £475,000-£500,000 and four-bed- square foot averages about £350, which with a strong community spirit. It is room houses for between £550,000 is significantly cheaper than Black- named after Archibald Corbett, a and £625,000. A spacious garden flat heath and Dulwich, where many of the builder who in 1896 bought 278 acres in the Culverley Green area costs people who end up in Catford start of land from the Earl of St Germans and around £350,000. their search. built more than 3,000 houses. The most expensive house currently Staying power: families often move Corbett was a Scot, and many of the for sale is in Canadian Avenue in the out of Catford to more rural areas when roads, such as Balloch, Glenfarg and Culverley Green area. The seven-bed- their children approach secondary Muirkirk, are named after Scottish vil- room, 2,841sq ft property is for sale school age, particularly to Kent where lages. He later became an MP and was through Reeds Rains (020 8461 2233) there are grammar schools. elevated to the peerage as Lord Rowal- for £950,000. In another popular area lan. Corbett negotiated a booking office south of Stanstead Road in the Forest OPEN SPACE for his residents on the eastern side of Hill SE23 postcode, estate agent Catford has a good choice of parks. The station, with cut-price Wooster & Stock (020 8613 0060) has south of the fares. Catford Hill homes: there’s a wealth of local period houses and flat conversions a four-bedroom house in Elsinore town centre between Lane

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£300,000 £600,000 £699,950 £950,000 A three-bedroom cottage with a conservatory, A three-storey terrace house with four bedrooms, A six-bedroom house in Perry Hill with plenty of A spacious three-storey house with six rear garden and even a bonus loft room in two bathrooms and a garden, close to Blythe Hill living and entertaining space, plus a large garden bedrooms and three reception rooms in the Brookehowse Road, SE6. Fields in Winterstoke Road. with a summer house and outdoor seating areas. conservation area in Canadian Avenue, SE6. O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/brooke O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/winter O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/perry O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/canadian EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 37 homesandproperty.co.uk with Property searching Homes & Property

Community: the Broadway Theatre, CHECK THE STATS left, showcases local talent. Above, the shopping centre big cat. Right, market fish stall manager Bikash Aryal ■WHAT HOMES COST HAVE YOUR SAY BUYING IN CATFORD Photographs by: (Average prices) CATFORD Graham Hussey One-bedroom flat £195,000 Two-bedroom flat £256,000 Two-bedroom house £359,000 @daveldn affordable homes, and children’s shows. It is the home of Three-bedroom house £407,000 fields, Mountsfield the Blue Mountain Theatre, Britain’s Four-bedroom house £531,000 park, easy commute, sense of leading black theatre company, and its Source: Zoopla community, @CatfordCClub studio theatre is a top fringe theatre. RENTING IN CATFORD There is a swimming pool at St Dun- (Average rates) @jeanmarron an enormous stan’s Sports Club which makes use of One-bedroom flat £805 a month thumbs up for @CatfordCClub the facilities of St Dunstan’s College out Two-bedroom flat £1,112 a month best pub ever of school hours. The nearest council- Two-bedroom house and Bellingham Road is surrounded by owned facility for swimmers is Forest £1,113 a month @PStrickett best things about ancient woodland and has a skatepark, Hill Pools in Dartmouth Road, with a Catford: Turkish Food Centre, Three-bedroom house a BMX track and a football pitch. 25-metre pool and a learner pool. £1,408 a month charity shops, the library and north of Brownhill Travel: Catford has four railway sta- Four-bedroom house the parks! Road, is a large hillside park with tennis tions: Catford Bridge, with trains to £1,910 a month courts, a bowling green, a bandstand London Bridge taking between 10 and Source: Zoopla @merrybuckle is and café. It plays host to Lewisham 15 minutes, and to Cannon Street tak- pricing many of its occupants council People’s Day, which is held ing about 25 minutes; Catford and out to afford bigger less every year in July. Bellingham stations have services to GO ONLINE FOR MORE expensive houses in Catford. I is a linear park St Pancras taking about 30 and 34 O Catford’s best schools did! between Ladywell and Catford. The minutes respectively, and trains from O The best shops and restaurants river Ravensbourne runs through it and Hither Green go to London Bridge in @AndyJack8 Shhhhh! The best facilities include a skateboard park, between 10 and 15 minutes and to O The latest housing developments thing about Catford is that bowling green, running track, tennis Charing Cross and Cannon Street in O How Catford compares with the people don’t know about courts and a café. about 20 minutes. rest of the UK on property prices Catford! The Waterlink Way is a walking and All trains from Catford Bridge and O Smart maps to plot your cycling route along the Ravensbourne Hither Green pass through Lewisham, property search and Pool rivers. It runs through Lady- where there is a connection with the well Fields on its route from Sydenham Docklands Light Railway. All trains For all this and all the way to the Thames at Dept- from Catford and Bellingham connect more, visit NEXT WEEK: Bromley. ford. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE with the Underground at Elephant & Do you live there? Tell How did Massachusetts possibly Castle, Blackfriars and Farringdon. All homesand us what you think LEISURE AND THE ARTS: save this pop star’s life? stations are in Zone 3 and an annual property.co.uk/ The Broadway Theatre in the centre of Find the answer at homesandproperty. travelcard costs £1,472. @HomesProperty Catford is a listed Art Deco venue that co.uk/spotlightcatford Council: Lewisham council is Labour- spotlightcatford puts on events showcasing the talent controlled, and Band D council tax of local young people, with comedy stands at £1,359.35.

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of waking me up. I let it go as the driver looks seriously stressed, and I can The buyer asked empathise. In the headlines are more stories of rocketing house prices in London and I can see why people everyone for believe properties sell themselves and estate agents are just middlemen. It’s true that buyers are more informed than they have ever been their opinion about sales prices and other flats that are on the market, with it all ready to view at the click of a mouse. Everyone — even his pets is a property “expert”, it seems. How- ever, the reality is very different. The man who made Tuesday’s offer MONDAY calls to tell me our client is crazy not to I wake up to an absolutely beautiful day Diary of accept it. He points to his homework, after a weekend of nothing but heavy consisting of details of the last five sales rain. Oh well, at least there is plenty on the street. But I know what this flat going on at work to take my mind off an estate is worth and I am even more deter- the injustice of the weather. mined to prove the doubters wrong. After a week of persuasion and per- agent sistence I am instructed on a flat that FRIDAY is owned by a native Singaporean who nine viewings from one buyer to get In this busy spring period, this week bought in London thinking the streets them to the point of making an offer. seems to have flown by, and today were paved with gold. He purchased Parents, brother, sister, parents-in-law yields two really good applicants for the apartment “blind” and after two and friends have all been brought along the flats department, while we are years of being let, it has been on the to give their opinions. Even pets have being called in to see more properties sales market with another agent for six seen it. The offer comes in over by the week. With the improving months. However, there’s still no buyer £150,000 below the asking price. This weather I can sense the kind of opti- — and the price is falling. won’t go down well with my client, but mism in the market that I haven’t seen It’s a great flat that is suffering from before I am able even to get a response optimism, but the reality is the flat is and I am still not convinced we have since last summer. overexposure to the market, making from them, a request comes in to see worth much more, and with other found the right person for the job. It The week ends well, with Tuesday’s buyers feel there must be something the flat just one more time. Patience is viewings lined up I’m feeling confident. feels as though we are looking for a flat selling for just under the asking wrong with it, when in fact there isn’t. a virtue, as they say… I would buy it — if I won the Lottery. needle in a haystack, but I know “The price after nearly 50 viewings — so my I am thrilled we will have our chance. The rest of my day is filled with the One” is out there. hard work eventually pays off. WEDNESDAY task of establishing a new flats depart- TUESDAY I receive a response to yesterday’s offer. ment for Strutt & Parker’s Notting Hill THURSDAY I receive an offer on an apartment we That would be a “no” then. The buyer office. We need another negotiator and On the way to work a kamikaze driver O Jeremy Montagu-Williams is an are selling in the heart of Notting Hill. I feels he was in with a good chance of this means interviews, and plenty of nearly takes me off my bike. In a associate at Strutt & Parker in love the flat, yet it has taken a record the offer being accepted and I love his them. We must have held over a dozen, strange way, this has the positive effect Notting Hill (020 7221 1111).

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OW can a local council £310 A make an extra £15 million WEEK or so? Simple. By A bright and airy introducing compulsory A cunning one-bedroom flat licensing for private on Inkerman Hresidential landlords. Road in Kentish That’s roughly how much Newham Town, NW5. has raised since the east London O Visit homes borough became the first in the plan to control andproperty. capital to make the move last year. co.uk/rentink Now Enfield, in north London, wants to do the same from next April. If it goes ahead, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot of other councils follow the lot of you! suit, eventually. After all, it’s easy money, isn’t it? Councils forcing private landlords to buy a On the plus side for amateur landlords who might be clueless £500 licence say it will make antisocial tenants about letting property, licensing should make them aware of behave better. Victoria Whitlock disagrees obligations they might otherwise overlook, thereby ensuring they believe that tosh. I have had dozens antisocial behaviour is the fault of than 30,000 licence applications don’t accidentally break the law. On of tenants and never received a private landlords, or that a licensing since introducing its borough-wide the downside, these schemes are The complaint of any antisocial scheme is needed to eradicate it. scheme last year, so given that it costly, especially for “accidental” behaviour, but I live next door to a Councils already have all the powers charges £500 for each one, it must landlords who only intend to let a accidental council-owned property which has they need to deal with slumlords and have raised more than £15 million. place for a short time. And if councils been raided by the police more than with antisocial residents, so why don’t Enfield will also charge £500 for a or residents think they will get rid of once and the present tenants have they get on and do it? five-year licence — with a 50 per cent rogue landlords and unruly tenants, landlord devised a time-saving method of A lack of cash, that’s why. So these discount for early applicants — and they’re living in cloud-cuckoo-land. not be associated with antisocial disposing of dirty nappies, which is councils have come up with a has 27,500 privately rented As it voted in favour of compulsory behaviour, but be a positive force in simply to throw them out of the cunning plan to force the many properties in the borough. licensing for landlords last month, the borough — providing homes and bedroom window. decent landlords to foot the bill for Kerching, kerching. Enfield said the main improvement it contributing to cohesive Now, before you send me hate mail, flushing out the rogue ones and for was seeking was a reduction in neighbourhoods and sense of place”. I am not suggesting council tenants dealing with antisocial residents, O Victoria Whitlock lets three antisocial behaviour. So, correct me It seems to be suggesting that are worse than private renters. I have whether they are private renters, properties in south London. To contact if I’m wrong, but the council thinks tenants who rent from private lived on a south London council home owners or council tenants. Victoria with your ideas and views, that if a landlord has a licence their landlords are worse-behaved than estate and the other tenants, mostly in Newham says it has received more tweet @vicwhitlock tenants will be better-behaved? It’s a home owners, or those in council council properties, were charming, piece of paper, not fairy dust. Enfield properties. All I can say is there must especially Earl who wanted to make Find many more homes to rent at said it “has a clear ambition that its be something funny in the water in me his “b***h”. I am saying I can’t growing private rented sector should north London if the voters of Enfield believe Enfield’s problem with homesandproperty.co.uk/lettings 44 WEDNESDAY 7 MAY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with David Spittles has the word from the street Smart mo Shard’s up close and personal Take the High Road to From £870,000: two-bedroom Chiswick’s urban village apartments at VIEW of the Shard is no have projecting glass walls and Corner Haus, exclusive privilege, so triangular balconies. Prices from CHISWICK draws families commercial end, but above, a new omnipresent is it on the £800,00 to £1,125,000. Call Greene seeking good schools and apartment schemes are Linden Homes London skyline. But from & Co on 020 7604 3200. safe, leafy streets. Kew springing up on former development close up, across the low- The Light Rooms, by developers Gardens and Richmond office sites. Property is in Chiswick riseA roofs of Borough, it has a more Life Less Ordinary, is a boutique Park are on the doorstep, more expensive than in High Road intimate, almost magical quality, scheme of five two-bedroom and even Chiswick High neighbouring Acton, but whether wrapped in cloud or apartments with enclosed winter Road, from Hammersmith within the budget of media glistening on a sunny day. gardens on Borough High Street to Kew Bridge, is tree-lined. and City workers. Corner A boldly designed apartment that also boasts a view of the Shard. This major thoroughfare Haus is a High Road scheme in Pilgrimage Street seeks Prices start from £724,950. Call mixes independent and development of 14 flats to maximise the vista. Called Atollo, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward on 020 chain shops, bars and being built above shops and after the three-dimensional shapes 7740 2640 for more information. brasseries to create an an underground car park. of an architectural construction toy, urban village feel. The Two-bedroom flats start at the nine two-bedroom apartments From £800,000: two-bedroom western end, nearer £870,000. Call Linden have been assembled on top of an apartments at Atollo, a development Heathrow, used to be the Homes on 0844 488 1041. existing white box building and in Pilgrimage Street, Borough, right

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DOLLAR BAY is the first of several new skyscrapers coming to Docklands during the next decade and has the advantage of being within the Canary Wharf “halo” encompassing properties just a 10-minute walk from the 97-acre office complex. The 31-storey tower, right, is being built alongside South Quay, close to the Docklands Light Railway station, and has 121 apartments, from studios to three-bedroom penthouses. Architect Ian Simpson’s glass façade design aims to reflect the water and bring in light. All the homes have concierge service, a sky from £435,000. Completion full-height, glass-walled lounge and residents’ gym, is due in 2017. Call developer winter gardens with louvres. plus underground parking Mount Anvil on 0845 077 There will be a 24-hour and cycle storage. Prices 9069. It pays dividends when you invest in a show home BUYING a show home and Blossom Bank on the River leasing it back to the Medway in Kent, where developer can be a Ward Homes is offering convenient solution for two years’ guaranteed those who want to plan rental income of five per their move well in cent a year on the four- advance. It can also be a bedroom Tonbridge show good deal for investors. house. It costs £419,995. The chance has arisen at Call 0844 4700555. £419,995: the Tonbridge show home

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