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ALAMY converted barn in Sussex “Iceberg house” battle scene: Kensington Palace Gardens
It’s le silly Trophy home of the week racy mansion where Jaguars were born £7.5 million: Wappenbury Hall is a reception rooms, a games room, season nine-bedroom Warwickshire pile cellars, a coach house, a three- with a racy history. Sir William Lyons, bedroom cottage and farm buildings HE French appear founder of Jaguar, and his wife once with planning permission. Beautiful to have scored an owned the hall and approved every gardens, tennis courts and a glorious own goal in their new Jag prototype on their drive, just swimming pool can be found outside, bid to stop the bil- half an hour from the factory where along with arable farmland, all lionaire founder the cars were made. The imposing amounting to 330 acres. Through ofT Foxtons estate agents dig- Victorian home has six elegant Knight Frank (020 8012 3423).
ging a cavernous basement REX below his house next to their “Surprised”: Jon Hunt can ambassador’s Kensington go ahead with his basement £1.75 million: a grape opportunity residence. awaits you in Warnham, West London buy of the week cruise Having failed to block Jon excavate by Kensington and Sussex, where this 16th-century around your elegant marina home Hunt’s plan for a four-storey, Chelsea council, despite converted barn comes with a 16,800sq ft space beneath objections from neighbours productive two-acre vineyard, a £263,000: if location his Grade II-listed home in including the French and paddock and a lake. is everything but Kensington Palace Gardens, Japanese embassies and the The vineyard can produce up to you’ve been priced out the French embassy has now Indian High Commission. four tons of grapes a year, resulting of Shoreditch and successfully used the 1961 Work began but wasn’t in several thousand bottles, while a Whitechapel, the Vienna Convention to block completed. At the start of detached garage/workshop and solution could be found a substantially scaled-down this year Mr Hunt applied to games room could easily convert in St Katharine Docks, version — leaving the original amend his planning permis- to a vineyard shop and café to E1 and the Mary Sophia permission for the “iceberg” sion, slicing 5,000sq ft off boost income further. — a two-bedroom basement still in place. the size of the basement and The Old Barn itself is a treat with houseboat on a sought- Mr Hunt, who remains reducing it to two storeys. beams galore in the drawing, after mooring within free to build his earlier The French objected again sitting and dining rooms, as well as an über-smart marina. wood interiors and a outside dining space, scheme, says he is “sur- and the council agreed with a lovely Aga in the kitchen/ There’s not a hint of luxury fit throughout while the powerful prised” by the turn of them in light of policy breakfast room. Five bedrooms — cabin fever inside the the open-plan galley/ engine means cruising events. The planning battle changes since the original including two en suite — enjoy Dutch barge, designed living/kitchen area and up the Thames is a has been raging since 2008 permission was granted — views over more than 12 acres. to be light and airy in both double bedrooms. breeze. Through when he and his wife Lois but the new policy cannot be It’s on the market with Savills By Faye summer and warm in A spacious upper Winkworth (020 8012 were given permission to applied retrospectively. (01483 660057). Greenslade winter, with bespoke deck provides lovely 0962). O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty
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REX O For more celebrity gossip, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip REX Demi’s penthouse is a £45m bargain Homes É DEMI MOORE has taken a staggering £12.2 million off the asking price for her New York City penthouse atop the glamorous San Remo building, below. gossip The 7,000sq ft triplex was originally listed last year for £57.2 million. However, in a bid to sell quickly, the By Amira Hashish Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews actress, above, has slashed the price of the six-bedroom home she bought 25 years ago with then-husband The last remaining Harley Street home Firth film flat is Bruce Willis from Saturday Night Fever producer, Robert Stigwood. É ONCE the Thirties home of the in W4, actually The flat has its own lift entrance eminent Italian doctor Sir Aldo and the spacious roof terrace has one Castellani, who skipped England in a of the best views in the city. rush after it was revealed the dictator É A GRADE II-LISTED apartment Hollywood’s A-list favours the Benito Mussolini was his patient, the which had a starring role in the hit block, where neighbours include last privately owned and occupied 2003 movie Love Actually has just Diane Keaton, Dustin Hoffman and house in Harley Street is for sale. come on to the market. Steven Spielberg. The grand central London property, The two-bedroom garden flat was right, has been in aristocratic hands for the home of writer Jamie Bennett, more than 100 years. Florence-born portrayed in the film by Colin Firth, Sir Aldo, a tropical medicine pioneer right. Jamie lived there with his and a marchese, practised there up girlfriend — until he found out she was until the outbreak of the Second World having an affair with his brother. War, when he backed Italy against the The property is in Chiswick and was Allies and was its army medical chief. originally built for the English In more recent years the property watercolour painter and lithographer housed the Dowager Lady Killearn, Joseph Nash, who was apprenticed to said to be the last of the truly old- the architectural draughtsman and school London socialites, who would artist Augustus Charles Pugin in 1827. regularly throw lavish parties and Malibu, where the guests included The layout is still centred around the occupied the residence until her Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and Tom original artist’s studio which is used as death at the age of 105. Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson. a big open-plan dining room with a A regular visitor today is model The family is ready to say goodbye wonderful large window and high Liberty Ross, daughter of current to the five-storey property which ceilings. owner Roxana “Bunty” Lampson. comes with three residential flats and It’s listed with John D Wood for
Ross married record producer Jimmy medical accommodation. It is listed £1.5 million. GC IMAGES/GETTY
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dexters.co.uk % ' " " ( % ! " # 6 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes EXCLUSIVE STUNNING NEW STATIONS Crossrail pulls out all the stops The Elizabeth line, as it will be known in 2018, combines superb new architecture with great property opportunities, says David Spittles
HE just-released first images Brutalist architecture of the Barbican of London’s upcoming new yet will have lighter design elements Crossrail stations prove that reflecting the intricate craftsmanship the eagerly awaited east- of the nearby Hatton Garden jewellery west train line will deliver quarter. Tmore than reduced journey times for the city’s commuters. ART ON THE LINE All these new stations on the Elizabeth In the tradition of the marvellous line, as it will be called when it opens in Moscow metro, Crossrail is melding art two years’ time, have been designed by and infrastructure by creating fabulous renowned architects to reflect the herit- murals, sculpture and installations, age and character of their local areas, while a “Culture Line” initiative will and several qualify as architectural link stations with neighbourhood art showstoppers in their own right. galleries, exhibition spaces and Indeed, for the first time with a major theatres. UK rail project, there is joined-up build- One of the permanent artworks — A ing design, with new stations and the Cloud Index by Spencer Finch — is buildings above and alongside them embedded within a spectacular 120- designed to ensure stations knit into metre-long glass canopy above the their surroundings and improve the concourse at the new Paddington urban realm. station, which “echoes the design There will be lively commercial zones, legacy of Brunel’s existing terminus a lot of glamorous new homes and some building”. stations will be at the heart of large new Forty new public areas outside neighbourhoods, particularly in Wool- stations are creating space equivalent wich and Southall. More than 3,500 new in size to 19 Leicester Squares. homes at Southall will border the Grand Union Canal, with the first unveiled in WOOLWICH’S NEW ARSENAL £460,000. Call 020 8331 7130. More start at less than £150,000, according Show stopper: beneath Canary Wharf the autumn (see opposite). Once a walled-off munitions factory than 2,000 people have already moved to local estate agent Peter James. Call station’s timber lattice roof is a 310m- where a 5,000-home neighbourhood to this mini-district which also has 020 8858 2555. And away from the long park, below which are six levels A PARK AFTER YOU RIDE is evolving, the new station entrance various shops and eateries — galleries, town centre and industrial estates, of shops, restaurants and cafés The spectacular new Canary Wharf opens on to Dial Arch Square, a new museums and a children’s nursery too Woolwich has a Common plus leafy station has been built within a dock green space flanked by prized listed — in historic buildings such as The tree-lined avenues and conservation impact” than anywhere else along the that will remain a navigable channel buildings and classy new apartment Guard House. areas. route, according to the Crossrail for boats. A striking timber lattice roof blocks. The station cements a long-held company. This is because journey structure shelters a 310-metre-long Homes in these waterfront towers ambition of local planners to unite the ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT’ times to central London will be halved, park, below which are six levels of cost from £440,000, rising to more riverside estate with Woolwich town Woolwich is only one of two Crossrail with a train every five minutes at peak shops, restaurants and cafés. than £1,395,000 for duplexes and pent- centre, achieved through a new stations south of the river. The other is times. houses, while a phase called Pavilion pedestrian boulevard. And there is a at nearby Abbey Wood, which in It is the biggest addition to the local BRUTALIST ‘LITE’ Square includes two Georgian ware- Thames Clipper riverbus pier. transport terms at least is likely to train network since the North Kent line Farringdon station is inspired by the houses converted into flats priced from Ex-local authority flats in the area experience a more “transformational was built in 1849. “It may be a bleak
Joined-up design: how the new stations will look at Tottenham Court Road, left, Woolwich Arsenal, right and Custom House, far right
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Fast rail and water — a winning offer
WEST DRAYTON, HAYES & HARLINGTON AND SOUTHALL MORE than a century before Crossrail got under way, another vital piece of transport infrastructure was boosting a swathe of London to the west of Paddington. The Grand Union Canal was cut through much the same territory as the current Crossrail route and these two “arteries” are now feeding off each other, with canalside regeneration linking into new Crossrail stations and bringing new homes and neighbourhoods to places such as West Drayton and Hayes & Harlington. A disused gas works occupying 88 3,750 homes: Southall Waterside is west London’s biggest regeneration project acres of land alongside Grand Union Canal is being transformed into Launching this autumn, the first want quick West End connections. It 3,750-home Southall Waterside, phase of apartments includes private aims to be an animated, 24/7 district, west London’s biggest regeneration courtyard gardens, a gym, residents’ not a soulless commuter dormitory. project. lounge and concierge. To register, Ealing council also wants to widen “London has a great history of visitsouthallwaterside.com. Southall’s appeal by increasing the building on this scale, like Bedford Post-war this part of west London area’s draw beyond its “Little India” Park and Hampstead Garden Suburb became a neglected land, plagued by reputation, introducing different more than a century ago,” says Sean plane noise and not a first choice place shops into the mix to attract people Ellis of developer Berkeley Homes. to live. Crossrail will give it a boost. from outside the area. The local The Southall site, a depressing Trains to Bond Street will take 17 housing stock is among the cheapest piece of urban neglect, has more minutes, alluring for lower-budget in London with a four-bedroom house than 1km of canal frontage and is first-time buyers and renters who available for about £250,000. being opened up to the public for the first time in generations. A linear Fast to the West central park lined by apartment End: the new blocks is planned, It will be longer Southall station than Regent Street, a 30-minute for Crossrail, stroll from one end to the other. from which As well as new homes and a trains to Bond Crossrail station, there will be a Street will take primary school, neighbourhood 17 minutes shops, a cinema and a small business village. Four new pedestrian bridges across the canal will link the development with 95-acre Minet Country Park and nature reserves. Even a new road junction is being built to serve this new community. outpost now, but Crossrail will propel housing here dates back to the Fifties way for new homes for a new raised shared courtyards, creating waterfront will connect to the new Abbey Wood into a completely new and Sixties when the London County generation. smaller communities within the larger Crossrail station. demand bracket because it will be one Council built new estates on Peabody, the housing charity, is whole. And where there were once The area has been given “housing of the best connected and most marshland. building a new neighbourhood that towers there will now be a sequence of zone” status by the Mayor of London, affordable Zone 4 locations,” says Much of the uncompromising “reinterprets” the traditional 19th- streets and lakeside squares, one with meaning development will be fast- Candice Matthews, director of property concrete architecture fell into disrepute century Peabody estates. Clusters of a focal point water clock tower and an tracked. New river crossings are also consultant Cushman & Wakefield. Most and is now being bulldozed to make brick blocks will be grouped around arcade of shops. Three miles of planned in this part of London.
• Close to Jubilee & DLR lines • O2 and Canary Wharf just 6 minutes away** Imagine a large open plan duplex over 2 • Large open plan duplex 1183 sq ft storeys with 3 bedrooms and generous • Feature ceiling height to ground floor celing height to your living space. A Lumire • Good storage • Outside terrace duplex is on average 14%* larger by volume • Parking at extra cost compared to the London Design Guide • Help to buy available on this 3 bedroom duplex. standard similar apartment. • Move in by November 2016*** • 3 bedroom duplex to buy from £599,950****
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* Calculation based on London Design Guide standard 2 storey, 3 bedroom for 5 people which is 96 square meters. Lumire property has 109.9 square meters - a 13.9% increase. **Travel time taken from tfl.gov.uk ***Anticipated completion November/December 2016 **** P r i c e s c o r r e c t a t t i m e o f g o i n g t o p r i n t 8 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Commuting ALAMY ALAMY Dine by the river: The Compleat Angler hotel next to Marlow’s Thames bridge Ideal for “Lexiters”: new waterside homes in Marlow
HERE’S something about living by a river, whether it conjures thoughts of sum- mer evenings in a pub gar- den watching boats cruise Tby, or rowing club membership spur- ring you to get in shape, or even buying a boat of your own and simply messing about on the water. These feel-good associations mean riverside homes are soon snapped up despite often being at the most expen- sive end of a London commute. In the latest instalment of our guide to the 50 best options for life after Lon- don, we explore the finest riverside towns within an hour of the capital, from millionaire enclaves to surprising first-time buyer territory.
MARLOW, Messing about BUCKINGHAMSHIRE in boats: a What it costs: an average property cur- crew takes to rently costs £532,614, up 15.4 per cent in the Thames the past two years. Houses sell for an Come on in, the MARKETING SUITE AND water’s SHOW APARTMENT NOW OPEN lovely %' (%"'" "/) !$"" (,($- #$' '% "' +%' " " ) +4 Just keep following the Thames people like is the bustling high street, ! $ obviously the riverside, and the ease of access to the motorway to London & % 59 529 209 03 0 9 05 5935 2 03 to country towns an hour from or the West,” he said. “There is a lot & 2053 9 .5 03 0;:97 39025 6< 5 (357 3 09) London, says Ruth Bloomfield going on in Marlow, with a good family 92; 397 +51 5 #0: 03 0930 *0;5 atmosphere.” & 09; ;0 2897 0 #03397 9 / 9;; <0:5 23 And the downsides? Not the greatest 0 5; 5 5 5095 average £510,805, and flats for £288,749. £600,000: commute. When launched, the Eliza- Source: Savills/Land Registry. above, a two- beth line — Crossrail — will offer services " '- & ,( ,* ;505 20;; ) The commute: from 52 minutes to bedroom house from Maidenhead, a 15-minute drive London Paddington. An annual season with a private away, to the West End and the City. ! 0 $03)3+4!$<0:597 955309;)/0< !< ticket costs £3,348. From 30 minutes mooring at a There is one exclusive estate, %%%%!" # # High Wycombe or Beaconsfield to private marina in Wethered Park, within nine private Marylebone. Marlow. Through acres, close to the town centre, and a Top schools: a quartet of Ofsted “out- Bonners & few good Georgian houses but much of &-(. .,( &//(/,+ , .,( standing” schools: Holy Trinity Church Babingtons Marlow’s housing was built in the Sixties #,&# #.' '$' #- of England (Aided) School, Spinfield (01628 301011) and Seventies and is pretty dull. And School (primary), Marlow Church of #&&,* /, #-' '' ( /, England Infant School and Sir William #.'$' /, ,*"! #%#. /, Borlase’s Grammar School. )&,% /, , '. '' /, Who it would suit: someone who Thinking of enjoys busy, pretty country with a good moving? mix of shops, restaurants and bars. The <;59 305 6< 209; 2 : # '. ,/' + #' #%%&,* " #' ,&,%#, ' . countryside around Marlow is stuffed Start your with pretty villages like Cookham and all the Hambledon Valley villages — search on ideal for a pub lunch and wander. Giles Davidson, senior manager at Hamptons International, says about half of his buyers are “Lexiters”, mainly young families cashing up in the capital and buying larger houses. “What EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 9 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Commuting | Homes & Property ALAMY ALAMY Water playground: Henley on Thames is world famous for its rowing festival Grand setting: historic Cliveden House near Taplow
£683,587. Source: Savills/Land Regis- try. The commute: from 50 minutes to SECOND Paddington, and an annual season PHASE OF ticket costs from £4,396. APARTMENTS, Top schools: Henley is really not a sink LAUNCHING school type of town. Nettlebed Com- SOON munity School (primary) is “outstand- ing”, while Frieth Church of England Combined School, and Gillotts School (seniors) are both rated “good” by & " !( Ofsted. Who it would suit: rowing fans will love getting blazered-up for the annual regatta. There are, of course, numer- ous rowing clubs, most notably the very posh Leander Club (members include Sir Steve Redgrave and Mat- thew Pinsent). !# The town centre is pretty, though spoilt by a one-way system, the river- bank has plenty of traditional (crowded !"" at weekends) pubs. It also has art gal- leries, a cinema, and an annual literary, SURPRISINGLY
ALAMY music and arts festival. Buying agent Nick Mead, a partner at The Buying Solution, has lived in CENTRAL Henley since 2005. “It is increasingly popular with people who are priced out of London and want to live in a buzzy place with loads of restaurants and cafes and all that.” And the downsides? Overcrowded with tourists in summer, it is also very expensive. The Victorian and Edward- ian villas on the riverbank rarely come up for sale, and when they do prices hover around £8 million. TAPLOW BUCKINGHAMSHIRE while there are some great schools, £795,000: a What it costs: average property prices Davidson warns that high demand three-bedroom have risen 13.5 per cent in thepast two means catchment areas can be tiny and island cottage years, to an average of £407,088. An premium prices are charged for homes with boathouse average house costs £503,961, and an close to the best options. And since at Rod Eyot, average flat £245,632. Source: Savills/ *-,4 ))4- 1 0- 0)-$ precise catchment areas change each Henley-on- Land Registry. *,-1/ (( )+- . 1) +2 &,3), ), year, a home that is close enough when Thames. Savills The commute: 40 minutes to Pad- ,-, * 3),+)-, /,$ 10 .))1+ bought might not fall within the catch- (01491 901013) dington. Annual season ticket: ment by the time a child comes to need £3,616. 1- )+ ,$ ), 3 41- ) ) .4 a place. Top schools: Taplow’s primary school )),) &)- !)1 1 - £650,000: a St Nicholas Church of England Com- HENLEY ON THAMES spacious three- bined School is rated “good” by Ofsted. PRICES FROM £775,000 FOR A OXFORDSHIRE bedroom cottage Seniors have several high-performing SPACIOUS 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT What it costs: house prices have risen at Hurstfield options in Maidenhead. 15.8 per cent in the past two years to Drive, Taplow. Who it would suit: good countryside an average £593,526. Flats cost an aver- Call Hamptons feel near the busy towns of Maidenhead, ' # "" " %& age £377,610, and houses come in at (01628 301035) Eton and Windsor. Pubs, Burnham # " !#" ! & Beeches and endless walks are on the 0333 0033 663 doorstep, as is the National Trust’s WWW.QUEBECQUARTER.COM lovely Cliveden Estate with good teas in the Orangery. As an added incentive Taplow is three miles from Maidenhead which, when the Crossrail Elizabeth line opens, will mean direct trains to West End and A development by City. And the downsides? Not a village with a centre as such. Houses a bit iffy — some nice Victorian cottages and Edwardian houses but a bit too subur- ban, with big executive houses and ---)1 . -*-+ )- 1 1,1+)1 - 3 near slightly scruffy Burnham village. 10 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Transport This is HELP TO BUY the age EVENT of the
SATURDAY 30TH JULY tram As the London Tramlink joins the TfL map, HELP TO BUY, Ruth Bloomfield HOW IT WORKS finds homes profiting from this clean, green transport
HERE can be few more Top of the line: Croydon’s Saffron unpleasant London Tower, above, with two-bedroom experiences than travelling flats from £260,000. Below, this on a hot and crowded rush- five-bedroom house in Nursery hour train in the height of Road, Wimbledon, is £725,000 Tsummer. But if you live in south through Hawes &Co (020 8012 2337)) London, there is another option. Clean, green, and sometimes air- conditioned, the London Tramlink turns 16 this year, and Transport for London has just decided to include it on London transport maps.
Since 2000, millions of people ALAMY living from Wimbledon to Croydon to Beckenham and New Addington have Warren Pinto, senior sales valuer at been able to use the tram, while Proctors estate agents, says buyers along the line there have been some priced out of areas such as Crystal healthy property price rises and high Palace, Penge and Sydenham have levels of new-homes building. boosted prices around Birkbeck. “Property hunters are starting to 40 per cent to an average £684,338. “There are some beautiful houses in pay closer attention to homes on Houses in this area cost an average the area. I’d say that 90 per cent of tram lines,” said Johnny Morris, £694,338, while flats cost an average the market is made up of period research director at Hamptons £376,446. properties. And we get a lot of first- International. “The tram is well used This is another location with great time buyers, buying together, and by commuters living on the outskirts green space, with Deen City Farm and typically they want a two-bedroom of Croydon, Wimbledon and the National Trust’s Morden Hall Park garden flat at about £430,000.” Beckenham to reach links into nearby. Merton Park Primary and Belgrave Walk, just west of central London. These connections Ursuline High School (girls) are both Mitcham Junction, scored a 33 per have encouraged developers to move rated “outstanding” by Ofsted, while cent price uplift, to an average into areas outside town centres. The Pelham Primary School and Rutlish £263,500, making it one of the most number of homes built in Merton School (boys) are both “good”. affordable Tramlink options. Flats Park and Wandle Park, two Other Tramlink areas well worth around Belgrave Walk cost an neighbourhoods served only by the exploring include Birkbeck, another average £208,833, and houses sell for tram, have increased rapidly.” area with an overground stop and on an average £318,167. Exclusive research by Hamptons the northern fringes of South Blackhorse Lane, near Croydon, International analysing performance Norwood Country Park. has enjoyed price growth of 31 per along the entire length of Tramlink Prices here have risen 36 per cent cent, to an average £337,862. Houses found average prices have risen 19 per in two years to an average £430,030. in this area cost £373,300, while flats cent in the last two years, to an Flats here typically cost £304,187, typically cost £258,125. average of £384,041. But half a dozen and houses come in at £304,187. West Croydon, focus of huge locations have seen price growth of 30 This area has green space and well- amounts of regeneration investment per cent or more in the same period. performing schools — Stewart Fleming and location of London’s third The out-and-out Tramlink winner is Primary School gets a “good” Ofsted Westfield mall, has prices up 30 per Mitcham Junction (which also has report —and while local shops and cent to an average £294,394. Flats an overground station). It has seen pubs are basic, Crystal Palace’s cafés cost an average of £258,380, while prices rise a resounding 43 per cent, and shops are only a mile or so away. houses typically sell at £406,938. to an average price of £420,000. Flats are priced at £296,535, and houses at £440,000. TOP 10 TRAMLINK HOTSPOTS The area passes the green space Annual Average Flats Houses Two-year price Beyond your expectations test, with both Mitcham Common passengers price growth and Poulter Park close by, while the 1 Mitcham Junction 645,837 £420,000 £ 296,535 £440,000 43% local Cranmer Primary School is 2 Morden Road 477,111 £684,338 £376,446 £694,333 40% good with some outstanding features 3 Birkbeck 184,126 £430,030 £304,187 £510,570 36% according to Ofsted. The housing 4 Woodside 319,623 £345,078 £281,494 £373,690 34% stock can be uninspiring — plenty of 5 Belgrave Walk 350,272 £ 263,500 £208,833 £318,167 33% Thirties to Sixties terraces with three 6 Blackhorse Lane 342,972 £337,862 £258,125 £373,300 31% bedrooms, priced at about £350,000 7 West Croydon 1,352,291 £294,394 £258,380 £406,938 30% and ripe for improvement. 8 Harrington Road 207,139 £350,932 £264,624 £380,952 29% Morden Road, two-and-a-half 9 Lebanon Road 503,278 £340,586 £292,136 £420,530 29% miles from Mitcham Junction, has 10 Sandilands 1,058,037 £317,247 £270,340 £467,350 27% done almost as well, with prices up 12 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Homes abroad homesandproperty.co.uk powered by
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FRANCE: CHAMONIX Chamonix is the year-round resort where Roddy Aris of Knight Frank (knightfrank.com) tips for lifestyle and investment. “It has the best of every- thing,” he says. “Through the tunnel into Italy there is the Aosta Valley, Liguria and the Italian lakes, right in front of you is Mount Blanc and the best of the western Alps and the Swiss resort of Verbier is one hour away. Building is restricted but it is a buzzing year-round resort and one where I think prices have yet to peak.” Buyers are less interested in large multi-million Euro chalets, preferring the practicality of a lock and leave property or one with full on-site man- Bargain agement Aris adds. La Cordée in a sunny spot by the lake in La Plaine des Praz is a collection of 80 one to three- escapes to bedroom apartments priced from £250,000. The homes are due for com- pletion in 2017 and come with a pool, gym and underground parking. keep you fit Le Cristal de Jade is a five-star resi- dence due for completion this winter Rock-bottom euro mortgages with 56 one- to four-bedroom apart- ment in four-storey chalets. Fully fur- are a good reason to buy in an nished prices start from £458,500 for one-bedroom and from £469,000 for Alpine valley. By Cathy Hawker three-bedrooms exclusive of 20 per cent VAT through the leaseback scheme. Homes will be fully managed to the golf course, start from 205 Holland Park Avenue by MGM (mgmfrenchproperties. £508,600. com). “Rock-bottom euro mortgage rates Also in Chamonix with MGM but are one of the key factors in recent with no rental obligation, two- to four- strong interest in Alpine property with bedroom apartments at Chalet Han- 15-year fixed rates as low as 1.40 per nah, in the hamlet of Les Tines close cent,” says Francois Marchand of Erna TRAVEL MONEY TOP TIPS FOR BEST VALUE
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From £296,700: 14 new chalets, right, in the centre of Bad Kleinkirchheim among the 100 lakes of Carinthia in Austria. Through Savills
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ORE than 100,000 Think bike: far cyclists are expected to left, Pocket hit the streets this week- Living’s scheme end as the capital hosts at Weedington Ride London, the Road, NW5 offers Mworld’s biggest cycling event. Cycling cycle storage is now Londoners’ second most popu- inside flats and lar form of transport after the Tube and extra-large lifts developers are building for the cycle — for those who fraternity. Make your commute easier can’t bear to be and buy a home near a cycle lane, get- parted from their ting an apartment with bike storage bike once they’ve cabins — some even provide storage in ridden home your flat — and near repair facilities. from work, right Known as “the gateway to tech city” Old Street roundabout challenges the most fearless rider but a planned £25 million overhaul will bring segre-
gated cycle lanes to one of London’s GETTY )*-4-+6 busiest junctions. The nearby Atlas Building, just off City Road, will also be cycle tours so that they get to know have easy access to the Barking to Tower ' finished by 2018 and its 302 apartments their neighbourhood and which dan- Gateway Cycle Superhighway and can have access to 350 free cycle spaces. gerous junctions to avoid. be in the City within a seven-minute ! Sales director Andrew Hawkins, says Just off Homerton High Street in Hack- spin. Just one three-bedroom penthouse planning requirements now demand ney, E9, Rosina Street is near a major remains for sale at £740,000, annual bike storage takes precedence over cars cycle network enabling residents to service charges are £2.50 per sq ft with — the scheme has just 28 car parking ride to Canary Wharf in 23 minutes, completion this autumn. Call Telford spaces, which will be pricey and the Olympic Park in 13 minutes and Homes on 020 3538 4859. restricted to higher value apartments. Dalston in eight minutes. Ready by Thousands of commuting cyclists use He says: “There’s a big push to make December, 29 one-bedroom apart- the Stratford to Aldgate Cycle Super- European cities more bike friendly.” ments have access to secure bike stor- highway which runs for about 4.3 miles. Bike storage is in the basement with age but the five-storey scheme also has At one end of the route, just one two- lift access to apartments. Studios start an oversize lift for anyone who can’t bedroom apartment is left for sale at from £628,000 with annual service bear to be parted from their bike. Stratosphere, priced at £780,000, with charges from £6.07 per sq ft. Call Rocket Annual service charges start from annual service charges of £3.73 per sq ft. Investments on 020 7205 4570. £1,170 with prices from £282,000. Call Completion is spring 2017. Call Telford Pocket Living: 020 3040 6250. Homes on 020 3538 9273. At the Aldgate SUPERHIGHWAYS MEET In Shadwell residents at The Junction end of Barclays Superhighway 2, Grab a chocolate smoothie while get- ting your puncture fixed at Look Mum, No Hands! The popular bike repair café shares its location with new scheme 250 City Road which has free, secure storage for 1,486 bikes in its basement. Its position “where the information superhighway meets London’s cycle superhighway” makes it “the ultimate location for bike enthusiasts”, says Berkeley Homes, adding that hundreds of TfL cycle hire bikes are also within easy reach. One-beds start from £850,000 with completion set for the end of 2018 and service charges of £5.21 per sq ft. Call 020 3040 6250. Holland’s cities rank among the best for cyclists and Dutch-born CEO Marc Vlessing wants Pocket Living to be Lon- don’s most cycle-friendly developer. “Cycling is in my DNA,” Vlessing explains. “We are passionate about bikes and all Pocket sites are built with com- )55 . / '! // ,- munal cycle storage and a bike-sized From £620,000 : 5)+-, * 1 ' - &"( cupboard in each apartment.” Camden Vlessing cycles to all meetings and Courtyards is 33 2 6 ) 0 - Pocket’s workforce shares a Tokyo bike car-free with 296 ),$ "%' ), ' #-2)6 in the office. Residents are given guided free cycle spaces )-$ +2 ,$ . EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 15 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property
Aldgate Place contains 313 one-, two- two- and three-bedroom apartments and Skyline view: the and three-bedroom apartments and duplexes. The car-free scheme has 296 302 apartments three- and four-bedroom duplexes set free cycle spaces. Ready next summer, in the Atlas across four towers with 800 free secure apartments start from £620,000 with Building, just off cycle spaces for residents. Ready by annual service charges from £3,085. Call City Road, will ‘Canal location was the pull’ June 2018, prices start from £797,000 Barratt London on 0844 225 0032. have access to for a one-bedroom apartment with In N1, next to Wenlock Basin where 350 free cycle JAYNE MCNALLY and under 15 minutes along annual service charges of £2,830. Call you can ride into central London along spaces in the Emmanuel Néret, both 26, the towpath. 0844 225 0032. the towpath, City Wharf has storage for basement — and work in the ad tech “As a cyclist the location Canal towpaths offer relaxed routes for more than 300 bikes in its secure base- only 28 car industry in Soho. They was the main pull, being the nervous cyclist. Three minutes’ walk ment. Two-bedroom homes at the latest parking spaces bought a one-bedroom, near to Angel, Old Street from the canal at Regent’s Park, NW1, phase, The Merchant Building, start apartment at Fabrica’s and within cycling which runs from Paddington to Lime- from £760,000 with annual service City Wharf development distance from our house, new scheme Camden Court- charges of £3.05 per square foot. Call and can cycle to work in offices,” says McNally. yards in Camden Road contains one-, Fabrica on 020 3642 8973. DESIGN $ MUST END THIS SUNDAY
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Picture this: furniture designer Henry Hardy made this dining table. Deborah Baker filled it with images and art from friends and her travels around the world She put her heart and sole into her home Shoe company director-designer Deborah Baker grew up in Shoreditch — and transforming a Victorian button factory there was sheer joy, she tells Amira Hashish
EBORAH BAKER lives for studio and strip club before becoming shoes. Much of her child- Baker’s “happy retreat”. hood in Bermondsey was In her unassuming style, Baker tells spent playing in her grand- me: “I started looking for a business and mother’s miniature shoe flat in London in 2012. This place Dcupboard before her passion turned into attracted me because it is a beautiful old a career path. She trained at the famous corner building that hasn’t ever really Cordwainers (now part of London College been altered or had extra floors added, of Fashion) where her contemporaries so it is the shortest building on the included Emma Hope and Patrick Cox. road.” and semi-open plan bathroom. Old brick table made by furniture designer Henry are stark. So much for those “modern This year she celebrates the 15th anni- walls and plank floorboards are stained Hardy. Rather niftily, she has filled the day” hipsters. versary of her brand Fiorentini+Baker. She splashed out £980,000 and made her with a star and diamond print that has glass top with artwork from friends and Baker describes her style as eclectic With stores in London, Bologna, New mark. The ground floor is the main show- faded over time. her travels around the world. and unplanned. “All sorts of stuff appeals York and Los Angeles, Baker is always case for her leather wedges, boots and “I love the original features so I tried YouTube is fired up: “In the Sixties, this to me and I pile it all in and hope for the jetsetting. A great deal of her time is heels. Painted with a two-coloured not to change too much,” she says. “I put property was home to The Antiuniver- best.” This applies to her fashion as well spent in Italy where she oversees rhombic pattern, it is a mishmash of a kitchen on the first floor as it was sity of London. Rumour has it that Yoko as interiors. “I think lots of people with production at the region’s artisan vintage lamps, retro furniture and dis- originally in the basement. Most of the Ono would come and listen to lectures the time, money and inclination dress factories. play stands. The first floor is an open- work we did was in the shop space. I here. This video from 1968 shows footage their houses almost as much as them- In London the lines between work and plan kitchen and living room which probably spent about £25,000 in filmed in this very room.” selves, even changing themes and trends home are blurred. Her apartment sits doubles as a gallery (check out the Jan- total.” As we watch bearded men in over- every season,” she muses. above her Shoreditch shop on the corner ette Beckman photography exhibition After a quick browse at her latest col- sized, scruffy jumpers indulge in intel- of Rivington Street. Once a Victorian on punks, running until July 31) while lection we settle in the dining area. She lectual chat about the parallels between Her colour scheme regularly alters but button factory, it served as a recording the top floor is an attic-style bedroom places her laptop on a mid-century style the Shoreditch of the Sixties and 2016 the base palette tends to consist of auber- EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 21 powered by My home | Homes & Property
Top floor: the attic-style bedroom features bedside tables from Kokon to Zai
Eclectic charm in the living space: for Deborah Baker, left, “all sorts of stuff appeals to me. I pile it all in and hope for the best”
Lofty style: the semi-open plan bathroom is also on the uppermost storey
Art of cooking: gine, slate blue, grey, white and black. responsible for a striking star-shaped light In the store: great toilet tiled with Scrabble pieces in the ceiling so I’m just waiting for the the open-plan She sources pieces from eBay and mar- from a fairground. “I love my De Sede above right, a a restaurant somewhere or the deca- renovation day when I will change those kitchen and kets such as Portobello, or Spitalfields sofa as it is so very comfy. It is sectional friend gave Baker dently overcrowded upstairs at the Bridge as I do like pendant lamps a lot and I have living room on a Thursday. Her go-to furniture shop and each bit folds out into a bed. I like its the striking star- Bar on Kingsland Road. The V&A and the a collection of them to be used. Plus, I doubles as a for kitchen items and rugs is SCP, rather versatility for when friends want to stay shaped light from Barbican are contrasting favourites of have some nice Fifties brass wall and gallery conveniently on Curtain Road around over,” she says. Then there is Lola: “A a fairground mine.” table lamps.” the corner from the flat. Bedside tables completely useless and slightly cumber- Beyond Britain, there is a shop in were found in Kokon To Zai on Golborne some life-size fibreglass mannequin. She OREVER thinking of new ways Downtown Los Angeles on the cards, a Road, Notting Hill, while a striking Biba was apparently a prop in the stage pro- to evolve her space, Baker is premises in the city centre of Bologna picture came from a vintage shop in duction of Hair and is a bit bizarre.” working with an architect and the conversion of the barn next to Kempton Park. friend to increase the shop size her Italian farmhouse in the country. In Her photo of Iggy Pop, a present from Inspiration comes from all over: “The by opening up the basement, her words, she likes a project. Photographs:: photographer friend Danny Clinch, is a wallpaper at Madame Jojo’s or the tiny Fredoing the stairs and possibly building Adrian Lourie prized possession and another pal is courtyard and bar at Trisha’s in Soho, a up half a storey. “I still have spotlights in O fiorentini-baker.com 26 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Outdoors Exclusive preview Kew sets a record The Royal Botanic Gardens today launch the world’s longest herbaceous borders. Wow.
HE spectacular new Great Full-on Dynamic duo: Kniphofia Tawny King Broad Walk Borders at Kew flowering: the highlights Agapanthus Midnight Star Gardens, which open today, borders are are set to put all other bor- designed to If they start to fade, you just cut them ders, private or public, produce a back, and off they go again. Alstroeme- Tcompletely in the shade. It’s not just succession of ria Indian Summer, with yellow- their length — they stretch a 20-minute colourful blooms streaked orange flowers, keeps going, stroll from the Palm House to the from May right too, and is very resilient. We had it in Orangery and at 350 yards are the long- through to another scheme, lifted it, planted it in est pair of herbaceous borders in the October a nursery bed and replanted it here, world — but the dazzling spectacle they and it’s blooming merrily.” produce, with 30,000 garden plants His favourite flower from what’s in in huge swathes and drifts of colour, bloom right now? “Kniphofia Tawny selected to hit their flowering peak King. I love the colour, a subtle yellow/ between May and October. orange. It’s been flowering for quite a This is the place to come for inspira- while, and when it goes over, it will be tion, not just at the start of summer, followed by brighter orange triangula- but right through the season and espe- ris, which will still be looking great in cially when your own borders are flag- Photographs: : October. I’ve teamed it with Agapan- ging during the dog days of August. At Ralph thus Midnight Star, a deep blue, and that time, for instance, you will inevi- Hodgson added a bit of Russian sage, Perovskia, because it makes a good hazy lavender Pattie contrast to the two verticals.” The perennially popular Geranium Barron Rozanne gets his vote for the longest- flowering geranium, but he also recom- mends similar Orion, which is taller, and has been going strong since May. “I’ve also used shocking pink Ann Folk- tably be seduced by the flirty New ard because it scrambles through other Mexican salvias in their carnival pinks plants. I’ve got it growing through sky and firecracker reds, as well as admire Plant partners: blue Eryngium bourgatii and lemon at close quarters, via a series of path- below left, yellow Achillea Moonshine.” ways within the borders — which reach Geranium Ann over 15 yards at their widest point — the Folkard YNAMIC colour combos huge circle of the Compositae plant scrambles abound throughout the group that encompasses the finest through Achillea borders, such as pink-pet- varieties of daisy flowers, including Moonshine; alled Echinacea purpurea rudbeckias, heleniums, sunflowers and below right, scarlet popping up among asters, mildew-free, of course. Echinacea DCrocosmia Lucifer, and rust Achillea Purpurea flatters Terracotta flattering deep blue Salvia Kew’s head of garden design, Richard the vibrant Caradonna. Salvias are high on Wil- Wilford, is the man with the plan that flower sprays of ford’s list of top summer performers. took six months of scribbling on prob- Crocosmia “They’re such useful garden plants, ably the world’s longest piece of paper, Lucifer not least because of their length of flow- before transferring the series of circles ering. We have a salvia border at Kew to canes and landscape spray on the of plants that made the final cut com- visiting other gardens, just as we might Walk was landscaped in the 1840s by that looks amazing in September and bare ground. Aside from their major prise quite simply of plants Wilford choose plants for our own rather architect William Nesfield to heighten October. Early salvias were one of the petal power, the 220 different varieties likes, as well as plants he noted from smaller borders. The original Broad the drama of the approach to the newly first plants to appear this summer: light constructed Palm House. “I enhanced blue Serenade, deeper Dear Anja and the perspective by planting an avenue Caradonna. Later on, less-hardy New of 14 four-sided pyramid yews at inter- World salvias like Maroon and lilac-pink vals along the front, which really trans- Peter Vidgeon take the limelight.” forms the space,” says Wilford. Despite their size — and that sensa- tional vista is seemingly endless — the “What also makes a big difference is that new double borders offer many lessons now you can wander and sit among the for gardeners with borders of a more plants, instead of just admiring them modest size. For instance, those pyra- from the central path. When we put mid yews planted at intervals, setting a down the benches, within minutes formal note, could be scaled down to people were sitting on them.” box balls. Wilford also advises: “Have Interpretation panels through the fewer plants, but more of each one. By planting will give visitors botanical reducing the number of varieties, you’ll information. But which of the vast have more impact. Come and look at selection on display does Wilford espe- the borders and see what will work for cially recommend to give prolonged you.” That’s the best tip of all. blasts of colour through summer for London gardens? CELEBRATION WEEKENDS “Penstemons are great value, espe- To mark the launch of the new borders, cially bright red Penstemon Firebird Kew is hosting three celebratory which has kept on going from June, and weekends through summer, starting paler, pink-and-white Apple Blossom. this weekend. Visit kew.org for details. 28 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Inside story
MONDAY ing, all-dancing marketing suite in April Coffee in hand, I review the diary for and even for those who spend their day the week ahead while the buzz of the Flat full to day lives examining marketing sales calls have already begun. For our suites, this one stands out from the sales team it will be a week of property crowd. The show apartments look viewings, cheers for deals agreed, tears of groovy amazing and it is evident that design for deals that were not to be, and some has been at the forefront of this project. amusing stories along the way. Sixties Complete with health club, Cowshed First on the agenda are new show spa, Soho House Club and the best apartments for a boutique development independent restaurants and cafés, on Vicarage Gate. These are classic chic this scheme just oozes cool. Kensington flats — high ceilings, ornate We make our way up to the Pergola fireplaces, grand entrances — and I’m on the Roof which has been trans- expecting the typical beige on beige formed into an open food court under with beige detailing. How delightful to a canopy of flowers and ivy, and every be proven wrong! Designers N Studio table is packed. Miraculously the sun and Viewport Studio have gone to town has emerged and we spend the evening with the colour, plenty of it. Think Six- Diary of sampling Salt Yard tapas with a glass ties California meets classic London pad or three of rosé. with splashes of mustard yellow, lime an estate green and deep blues, tropical flora and FRIDAY an original Frank Gehry light feature. agent Another new scheme won, in W2 this It’s all very chic for Kensington and the time, and another team of consultants sales team are impressed. to meet with. This time the architect resembling a presidential tome, and joins us and the discussion is focused TUESDAY they look great. Weeks of effort and late around the importance of waterways Having celebrated the news of winning nights go into these so the final presen- to Londoners and how this has been a project in Westminster on Friday it is tation to the client must be perfect. After incorporated into the design. A site now time for the hard work to begin. The three hours of gruelling questions I’m visit is required and I am the image of developer wants to launch in six weeks exhausted and the cabbie has decided elegance in my fluorescent jacket, hard and the first project meeting is under- to share his impassioned views on the hat and (now) muddy heels. way. A series of creative designs are referendum. There is no escaping. It’s been a busy week and by 5pm I’m presented to the boardroom and deci- only too happy to finish it by helping sions on colour palettes, logos, bro- THURSDAY my colleague celebrate her recent deal, chures and launch dates must be agreed. After a day of back-to-back meetings a stunning penthouse apartment in First we need a name for the develop- an invitation to check out the new Victoria. Our local pub is overflowing ment, do we have any brilliant ideas? rooftop pop-up bar at Television Cen- and there is only one rule on arrival — tre is gratefully accepted, but before no talk of Brexit. WEDNESDAY this the wider development depart- Three days in and no one has uttered a ment are keen to see what our team has O Alexandra Vincent Martelli is a word of Brexit, which makes for a wel- been getting so excited about. London residential development and come change. We have another pitch Television Centre, once home to the investment consultant at Strutt & today; the documents have arrived, BBC, opened the doors of its all-sing- Parker (020 7318 4677).
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Green space: St Mary Magdalene Gardens in Holloway Road Classic line-up: from left, Tenzin Dolkar Lama, Nicole Caulfield, Laura Candela (manager), Rebekah Pledger and Lucia Pla covers four acres with ash, lime and London plane trees Sanchez of Vivien of Holloway in Holloway Road. a specialist in Forties and Fifties vintage-style women’s attire Spotlight on Holloway Holloway Prison is closing and new homes will attract families priced out of Islington who are seeking a Zone 2 location. By Anthea Masey
WAY from its noisy main — just a short distance from the town road, Holloway has streets centre at the Nag’s Head crossroads in of fine Victorian houses Holloway Road. The 10-acre site, which that attract young couples could be worth £200 million, could and families priced out of provide as many as 5,000 new homes. areasA such as Islington and Highgate. This is why estate agent Steve Barron Meanwhile, London Metropolitan Uni- from local firm Drivers & Norris says versity is bringing in wealthy overseas the district still hasn’t reached its full students who can afford to rent the new potential. Up and coming: purpose-built flats in this north London Holloway stretches out on either side street life in neighbourhood. of Holloway Road, the Great North Holloway Road. This is the Holloway where Charles Road or the A1, starting close to the With thousands Pooter, the social-climbing clerk and Highbury and Islington roundabout of new homes in hero of George and Weedon Gros- and ending two miles further north prospect, the smith’s The Diary of a Nobody lived so close to Archway. The Nag’s Head, at district has yet to comically. Holloway’s heart, is sadly no longer a reach its full His Holloway home, The Laurels, be top City bankers than humble clerks. pub but an amusement arcade. potential, says a Brickfield Terrace has possibly been This summer, nearby Holloway Prison Only four miles from central London, local estate identified as number one Pemberton is closing down and the site is likely to Holloway has Highgate to the north, agent Gardens, a road of large Victorian be earmarked for housing. The removal Highbury and Stoke Newington to the Local fixture: Julie McKenna, left, and Che Narine-Howe of houses in Upper Holloway, where of the grim, fortress-like jail building in east, Islington to the south and Tufnell Arsenal-themed café Piebury Corner, Holloway Road today the residents are more likely to Parkhurst Road will transform the area Park to the west.
£675,000 £400,000 £440,000 A PERIOD conversion two-bedroom flat A ONE-BEDROOM flat with a terrace in Westbourne MOMENTS from plenty of shops and restaurants, with a share of the freehold in Yerbury Road, Road, near Upper Street, within walking distance of a newly refurbished studio flat in Axminster Tufnell Park. Call Keatons (020 8012 3875). five train/Tube stations. Call KFH (020 8012 2755). Road. Through Foxtons (020 8432 4343).
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RENTING IN HOLLOWAY (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,455 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,837 a month Two-bedroom house £1,936 a month Three-bedroom house £3,124 a month Four-bedroom house £3,382 a month Source: Rightmove
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HOLLOWAY has a mix of large, Holloway. The Beaux Arts Building in over the past 10 years. The stadium 44 new-build two-bedroom flats in mainly three- and four-storey Manor Gardens, a former Post Office conversion yielded 650 flats, while Tufnell Park Road. These are ready Victorian houses — most of which in the elaborate Beaux Arts some 1,000 new affordable homes are to move into, with prices starting at have been converted into flats — and architectural style, was converted scattered around the neighbourhood, £425,000. Call Foxtons on 020 7973 estates of social housing. There are into 162 flats 20 years ago. most notably around Hornsey Street. 2020. Eight three-bedroom new-build two main conservation areas: the There is also a large Barratt Homes mews houses are on the market at Hillmarton conservation area covers ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES development of more than 300 proper- Lotus Mews, off Sussex Way. Also the roads around Hillmarton Road, As part of the redevelopment of the ties opposite the new stadium. move-in ready, prices for these homes while the Mercers Road/Tavistock Arsenal football stadium, about 2,000 However, only smaller-scale develop- start at £849,950, through Mulholland Terrace conservation area is in Upper new homes have been built in Holloway ments are currently for sale, including (020 7272 7705). On the corner of Holloway Road and TRAVEL Fortnam Road, Mulholland is also sell- ing off-plan, for completion in summer THIS district is well connected but the next year, 12 new build two- and three- choice of how to get around depends bedroom flats with prices starting at on where along the Holloway Road £585,000. Again, call 020 7272 7705. you happen to live. On the Tube, Caledonian Road, Holloway Road, ■ WHO RENTS HERE? Arsenal and Upper Holloway stations Rental manager Josh Mills at Drivers & are on the Piccadilly line; Archway is Norris says nine out of 10 tenants are on the Northern line and Highbury & young professionals while the rest are Islington is on the Victoria line. students. Rents in Holloway are at least There are Overground trains from 20 per cent cheaper than Islington, yet Upper Holloway to Barking and from the attractions of Islington’s Upper Highbury & Islington to Dalston Street are still a bus ride or walk Junction and Stratford. Drayton Park away. and Highbury & Islington have trains to Moorgate. All stations are in Zone ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES 2 and an annual travelcard to Zone 1 No new shared-ownership homes are costs £1,296. There are bus services currently available locally, but Newlon to destinations including London Housing Trust, the main housing asso- Bridge, Moorgate, Waterloo, ciation in the area, often has second- Trafalgar Square and Euston. The realm of Charles Pooter: Sounds great: manager Simon Talbot hand shared-ownership homes for Eye-catching: modern flats at Eden Victorian properties in Furlong Road at Bartlett’s Hi-Fi, established in 1958 resale. Call 020 7613 7480. Grove can be rented for about £400pw 36 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes SmartSmartmoSSmSmamartmartmmarartmoartrt momovovov By David Spittles
£1.1 million: two- bedroom flats at 205 Holland Park Avenue, left and right Chelsea Island’s exotic flower is ready to bloom Just room for you THE now-fashionable river bus pier. At Chelsea For all AVID CAMERON’S move only about £153,000 in today’s riverside neighbourhood Creek, apartment blocks to a £17 million mansion in money. Back then, many of the grand of Sands End, once a cut- are being built alongside the Holland Park is likely to old properties were hard to sell in an off corner of south-west new docks and waterways, turn an unwelcome glare area considered too close to the London blighted by a while the stunning best on to a super-rich inner council estates of Notting Hill. This gasworks and dissected by redevelopment of Lots suburbD favoured by privacy-seeking kept Holland Park’s early Victorian new train tracks, has been Road power station is celebrities, among them Elton John, architecture intact for a later transformd by a under way and on sale, homes the Beckhams, Simon Cowell, Robbie generation of gentrifiers. flourishing community of with homes that enjoy Williams, Richard Branson and Led Now with conservation groups interior design and sweeping river views. Zeppelin rocker Jimmy Page. keeping guard over these listed homewares companies. Chelsea Island is the Green and spacious, the Holland buildings, there appear to be few Chelsea Harbour and its latest scheme, offering 89 Park district, as distinct from the park opportunities to squeeze in new Design Centre, nearby apartments in blocks with itself, covers the western flanks of homes, but a site has been found at There are five linked pavilion hotels and apartments, communal roof gardens, Campden Hill and holds the highest 205 Holland Park Avenue. An buildings up to 10 storeys high with built in the Eighties, paved above, designed by concentration of large houses, some office block has been bulldozed to landscaped grounds, underground the way. Later came “couture florist” Neill now embassies, in the Royal Borough make way for 41 flats in what is the parking, 24-hour concierge and work Imperial Wharf, a 1,600- Strain. From £925,000. of Kensington. first apartment scheme for 50 years spaces at street level. Prices from home neighbourhood with Call Hadley Property A nine-bedroom home could be in this busy tree-lined road that runs £1.1 million for a two-bedroom flat. a new train station and a Group on 0800 540 4377. bought there for £8,000 in 1954 — still westwards to Shepherd’s Bush. Call Redrow on 020 3538 2058.
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ON THE outskirts of Architects Harlow in Essex, Newhall is a new address being earn their built on farmland, with a homes award forward-thinking design approach that has scooped Royal Institute of British thatch. Many homes have Architects and Royal Town double-height space, spiral Planning Institute awards. staircases and extensive Homes at this 280-acre glazing. There will be 2,800 neighbourhood meet a homes eventually, while strict overall design code, old farm buildings have but have architectural been remodelled into a variety and a modern community centre and twist, while fitting neatly there are advanced plans into a semi-rural landscape for a primary school, with pedestrian-friendly doctor’s surgery, art studios KIDBROOKE’S NEW SHOOTS zones, woodland, streams, and a performance venue. lakes and hedgerows. Fusion, below, the latest DOWNHILL from areas across the 276-acre Roads are tree-lined and phase, offers four-bedroom Blackheath Village in estate. Flats and homes have bay windows, houses from £464,500. Call south-east London there is townhouses with roof domed or steep pitched 01279 436046. Harlow is a no trace of the Ferrier terraces overlook this roofs, timber-clad walls or Stansted Express stop, council estate, where green expanse, and buyers powder-coated aluminium putting it 30 minutes from concrete tower blocks and are looking here with fresh coloured panels. Copper, Liverpool Street. The M11 houses have made way for eyes. Properties are a step steel and glass façades mix gives direct Stratford and Kidbrooke Village, above. up for the area, with with Welsh slate and even Canary Wharf access. Described by developer smart, space-efficient Berkeley Homes as a “new interiors. A new three- garden suburb”, this once- bedroom “urban house” blighted area now has new design features a roof homes, shops, a school, a garden rather than a health centre, leisure conventional back garden, facilities, a hotel and a new while the space-efficient transport interchange at back-to-back terrace Kidbrooke station, offering format means twice as a 15-minute commute to many homes can be built. Another 72 apartments are being Land expects to finish the project by London Bridge. The 1,442sq ft houses can built on land that was part of the end of this year. It is a surprisingly green be adapted as occupants’ Holland Park School, a state And the Candy brothers’ CPC setting, bordered by needs change. Prices from secondary known as the “Socialist Group has won a planning battle to attractive Sutcliffe Park, £800,000. One-bedroom Eton” because Labour MP Tony Benn demolish an existing block of flats in which has a lake and flats start at £407,500. Call and other party grandees sent their Holland Park, the road, and build 24 wetlands, with landscaped 020 8150 5151. children there. Developer Native luxury apartments.