Wednesday 5 October 2016 Wizardry Homes& in wood Design news Property Page 13 FABULOUS FACTORY HOMES P6 KENT COMMUTERS P8 BUDGET HOTSPOTS P9 SPOTLIGHT ON THE CITY P34 Lofty ambitions My home: Page 28 DAVID BUTLER DAVID London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Focal point: the junction outside the Bank of England, where only buses and bikes may be allowed from next spring Trophy home of the week Victorian ALAMY grandeur with all mod cons City car ban will add £19.5 million: splash the cash in style on this grand Kensington house and luxuriate in its Victorian found on the lower ground proportions, extended across floor, while the basement chaos to commerce five floors into substantial houses a swimming pool, living and entertaining dance studio and sauna. A HE City of London is press- This tackles the time period when 75 space. Dinner soirées can be plush master bedroom suite ing ahead with controversial per cent of collisions occur.” held in the formal dining with extensive dressing and plans to close Bank Junction The City, with funding from Transport room on the raised ground en suite areas is upstairs, to cars and trucks after a for London, has already spent almost floor, while one floor up finds followed by four further en series of major accidents £400,000 modelling the impact of the a magnificent drawing room suite bedrooms all reached Tinvolving cyclists. The residents of the closure, including its effect on local to enjoy a digestif with your by a glass lift. Further details City of London, and its daily commuter businesses, how it would be enforced guests. A media room, study from Knight Frank (020 8012 army, need to brace themselves for and knock-on effects of diverted traffic and bedroom suite can be 3475). escalating levels of frustration and traf- in the surrounding area. fic turmoil, writes Ruth Bloomfield. Bank Junction is regularly the scene The junction opposite the Bank of of traffic accidents, and London Lifechanger England is the focal point for nine Cycling Campaign infrastructure cam- roads. Its closure will force traffic into Traffic victim: paigner Simon Munk says the plans are of the week narrow surrounding streets, causing Ying Tao, 26, was “hugely welcome”. traffic pinch points in nearby roads and killed at Bank This summer city workers formed an A period gem problems for residents with taxis and after a collision impromptu human barricade to pro- deliveries. The City plans to introduce with a lorry last tect an injured cyclist left lying helpless above a the ban — between 7am and 9am on summer, sparking on the road after a collision with a car. weekdays — as early as next spring. a mass cycling The man suffered head injuries. jewellery shop Hundreds of thousands of commuters protest at the site Last summer Oxford graduate Ying in Sussex pass through the junction, one of the Tao, 26, was killed after a collision with busiest in the capital, every day. City a lorry in almost the same spot, spark- authorities are concerned that when ing a mass cycling protest at the site. £550,000: if being a Crossrail opens at Bank station in 2018 The City, which resisted new residen- shopkeeper by the sea has a the area will become even more tial for so long, has become a prime nice ring to it, this jewellery crowded and dangerous. central London property success and shop on Seaford’s high street “It is likely that buses and pedal cycles building has escalated. It is thought this in East Sussex might just beamed kitchen/breakfast separate annexe ideal for only will be allowed across the junc- construction work, with heavy use of spark your interest. The shop room with the requisite Aga, letting out. The seafront is a tion,” the City’s strategic transporta- trucks ferrying building materials, has area has plenty of retail a dining room warmed by an stroll away, along with the tion officer, Gillian Howard, writes in increased traffic levels. space and sits on the ground open fire and a spacious train station, restaurants and a report to be presented to the council’s In 2011 7,400 people lived in the floor of a lovely period house sitting room. A further cafe bars. It’s on the market projects committee next Tuesday. Square Mile. By 2026 the number is that spans three floors and bedroom, en suite bathroom with Freeman Forman (01323 She adds: “Technical work is still forecast to rise to around 10,000. includes four bedrooms, a and kitchen can be found in a 490400). being undertaken regarding whether taxis will be included in the restriction. 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Outside also provides London W8 5TT. ceilings give upstairs a plenty of private parking By Faye Greenslade Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2016 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property DJ Evans calls time down at his local This is the É RADIO 2 DJ Chris Evans is selling The Mulberry Inn at Chiddingfold in headline that Surrey. The former Top Gear presenter and petrolhead owns the goes like this property with his business partners Kirit Doshi and Camilla Hanson. 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