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ALEX LENTATI in west Wales Uncertain future: the Kensington Park Hotel, where serial killer John Christie worked behind the bar. He was played by Richard Attenborough, inset, in a film about his crimes They like a bit of rough in Ladbroke Grove Trophy home of the week when your LANS for the Ken- punk era it was the hangout sington Park Hotel of The Clash. The KPH, as it local shop is Harrods, you’ve arrived in Ladbroke Grove, is affectionately known, also one of London’s has a grisly more distant £1.1 million: fancy a sea change? Head to £21 million: living a stone’s throw from and boasts an impressive open staircase. oldest live music past. Serial killer John Chris- Llanrhian on the west Wales coast, within Harrods and Sloane Street certainly comes Media and games rooms, a wine store and Ppubs, are upsetting locals tie is said to have worked in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with a hefty price tag, but it’s one that three bedroom suites opening to a private trying to raise millions of the bar during the Forties. where this traditional farmhouse presents a buys unparalleled luxury, found at this terrace are downstairs, with plush dining pounds to buy it and save it Swade, the property invest- dream home/business package. triplex apartment at Kingwood — an and reception areas, an open-plan kitchen for the community. ment firm that bought the It comes with three one-bedroom holiday exclusive boutique development in the and lounge area, plus a study/library The Victorian pub forms pub in 2013, has indicated it cottages, planning permission for a fourth, heart of Knightsbridge. upstairs. Chauffeur service, 24-hour part of the backdrop to the wants to sell but music pro- and two guest suites, all with serene sea The 5,700sq ft top-spec home has views concierge and a luxury spa are among the annual Notting Hill Carnival. moter Vince Power, who views from an idyllic setting, in landscaped over prestigious Hans Place garden square perks. Call Knight Frank (020 3858 3536). In the Sixties Tom Jones was used to run the KPH, fears it gardens of just over one and half acres. The paid £10 for his first London will become a boutique farmhouse itself has been restored using gig in the upstairs theatre hotel-bar rather than remain oak, slate and Travertine floors in character London buy of the week put your stamp bar, while in the Seventies a regular boozer. living areas that include a drawing room with a wood burner, a character dining room on a designer conversion flat near the Heath O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk lit by French windows that overlook the sea, plus two en suite bedrooms. £399,950: there’s nothing quite like a Along with the sweeping gardens, there is blank canvas to start afresh in, especially an option to buy some 16 acres of one that has been finished to as high a pastureland and woods. Britain’s smallest standard as this Temple Fortune flat in city, St Davids, is about seven miles away. NW11 — perfectly located for Finchley Road Editor: Janice Morley Through Savills (029 2243 0212). shops, restaurants, and the leafy open spaces of Hampstead Heath. VISIT homesandproperty. contact you with relevant Set on the second floor of a smart new co.uk/rules for details of offers and services that house conversion, it has pale grey wood our usual promotion rules. may be of interest. floors and LED lighting in a bright, When you respond to Please give your mobile reception room that’s open-plan to dining promotions, offers or number and/or email and kitchen areas streamlined by gloss competitions, the London address if you would like to cabinetry and quartz worktops. Evening Standard and its receive such offers by text White walls, skylights and decent eaves sister companies may or email. storage can be found in the bedroom and the fully tiled bathroom, so clutter can be Editorial: 020 3615 2650 easily concealed. Advertisement manager: Ann Finan Golders Green is the nearest Tube Advertising: 020 3615 0266 station. For sale through Roundtree Real Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, By Faye Greenslade Estate (020 8012 1093). Kensington, London W8 5TT. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 3 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Spot Kanye and Kim from your window in SW7 Got a spare £84k? Try a week on Bieber’s island

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HE latest episode in the £8 billion regeneration that’s bringing 6,000 new homes White City and thousands of new jobs to White City is the launch of WhiteT City Living, a new 1,465-home neighbourhood. It sits beside Television Centre, which Living is is also part of the wider transformation of more than 250 acres. Dating back to the Sixties, the former BBC headquar- ters is being reborn with new homes including prized flats in the iconic open for “doughnut” building, plus offices, stu- dios and a raft of amenities including a glamorous rooftop pool. Designated an opportunity area, White City sits just north of Shepherd’s business Bush. Its reincarnation from industrial sprawl to west London’s biggest and brightest new district includes a new The latest phase of an £8 billion Imperial College campus of academic excellence set to rival Harvard; a media new west London district has village for creative businesses; an expanded Westfield shopping precinct launched, says David Spittles and the biggest-ever John Lewis depart- ment store, opening next year. Much of the 250 acres will become landscaped gardens, with plentyof pub- lic space and upgraded transport links — all aimed at giving the area a profile smarter and more sophisticated than its close neighbours Notting Hill and Holland Park.

WHITE CITY LIVING’S GOT A FRESH, GREEN FEELING The latest phase, being undertaken by developer St James, White City Living involves a complicated engineering project that seeks to create a coveted new address for homes in the middle of World class: a landlocked zone corralled by train Imperial College tracks, the roaring A40 and the West is investing £3bn Cross Route. in a new research A key design feature of the scheme is and innovation a five-acre, L-shaped park plus new centre in White bridges and walkways above and White City Living: stunning architecture, greenery and glass-fronted shops City that will through a railway viaduct. A line of 28 and bars in converted railway arches. Show flats open next month boost business derelict arches will become glass- fronted shops, bars and restaurants, and more than 350 trees are being The massive investment planted. being ploughed into this Architects Patel Taylor came up with a “Living in the Park” concept, design- area is set to turn it into one ing the landscaping first and then the of London’s best addresses buildings. A public central green forms the spine of the development, and there are private “sanctuary spaces” with sculptural fountains inspired by Coun- ter’s Creek, a “lost” river that used to run through the area. Though a lot of homes are being packed on to the plot, there is architec- tural quality. Grid-shaped apartment blocks overlooking central gardens have crisp, white concrete façades, a refer- ence to the marble-clad pavilions of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition that gave White City its name. A stadium built at the same time for From £620,000: the 1908 Olympics continued as an ath- homes at White letics venue for long after. In the late City Living, above Thirties, London County Council built and above left, a huge council estate on part of the latest phase of exhibition grounds, while the BBC’s the £8 billion purpose-built Television Centre opened regeneration of in 1960. The rest of the land was gobbled over 250 acres of up by a mass of warehouses and distri- west London, to bution depots. include John Lewis’s biggest Westfield London, the huge, glitzy shop- store yet ping centre that opened in 2008, proved a game changer for the area. With it came a new Zone 2 Tube station at Wood Lane and a new Overground sta- From £750,000: tion, sparking more regeneration. The apartments at wider mayoral strategy is for White City Television Centre to connect with other west London in White City Looking for a new-build home? Start your search EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 5 New homes | Homes & Property

Top-notch amenities: Television Centre will boast a Bluebird Café, sister to the landmark King’s Road venue, later this year

Prestige homes: Helios flats in the iconic round “doughnut” building at Television Centre

“opportunity areas” including Kensal dents’ spa, gym, a business lounge, a off to the public, the compound is being Canalside and a huge site at Old Oak “multi-use entertainment suite” for opened up at the front with new land- Common, where 24,000 homes and a cinema screenings, and virtual golf. scaped areas the size of five football transport superhub are planned. White City Living prices start from pitches, while at the rear will be a green £620,000. Call 020 3811 2197. walkway to Hammersmith Park. WEST TAKES ON THE EAST Across the road, Television Centre, The White City masterplan is judged as the 14-acre BBC complex, is being rede- IMPERIAL COLLEGE: a counterbalance to London’s eastward veloped by Stanhope into 950 homes, A 25-ACRE CAMPUS shift. Traditionally, west London was including 142 “affordable” flats, most to Imperial College is a big part of this the capital’s most affluent side, boasting be sold to local people at 25 per cent revitalised district. The university is headquarters for global corporations below market value. There will also be investing £3 billion in a world-class such as GlaxoSmithKline. That changed offices and White City’s ascendancy is research and innovation centre, a place with the rise of Canary Wharf and accel- so assured that Soho House is opening where commerce and science meet, erated after Ken Livingstone became a boutique hotel and private members that will boost business in the borough. mayor in 2000. Thames Gateway club with rooftop swimming pool there. The open 25-acre campus is in addition became a priority regeneration zone, Cafés, restaurants and a cinema are on to its South Kensington base and brings new creative clusters formed in Clerk- the way. 11 futuristic-looking buildings with up enwell and Shoreditch, while east Lon- to 1,150 homes clustered around two don got a rocket boost when Stratford A BITE OF THE DOUGHNUT public squares. Accommodation blocks was chosen for the 2012 Olympics. The first homes are being created within for 500 post-graduates are complete. As part of the White City community the famous listed circular block nick- With Westfield already attracting 36 consultation, developer St James set up named “the doughnut”. These “Helios million visitors a year and soon to be design workshops with local secondary apartments” have a round courtyard Europe’s biggest shopping centre, school students, and their ideas have featuring the statue of Helios, the Greek regeneration is bringing life back to this been taken on board. sun god, symbolising the beaming of rather downtrodden part of London. BBC TV around the world. “People used to stop their home A massive underground car park frees up A new crescent of flats will wrap search at Shepherd’s Bush Roundabout, space for landscaped areas. A priority around the Helios flats, with gardens in but are now looking at the area with new voiced by locals was for better connec- between, while the original stage door eyes,” says a local agent. Home search- tions to Westfield and the train station, entrance to Television Centre with its ers should also have a look around the so a “green” pedestrian deck is being prized abstract mosaic murals will be a Queens Park Rangers FC stadium for built above the open-air tracks of the concierge lobby. An original rotunda good-value Victorian terraces and pur- Central line. will be an amenity space for residents. pose-built Edwardian maisonettes. Tower blocks rise to 32 storeys. Show From £750,000. Call 020 8811 8720. People buying into White City will flats will be ready for viewing next The first phase of development is have to cope with a decade of building, month. Prices have yet to be released expected to be finished next year, by but the investment being ploughed into but the first completions are expected which time Television Centre will again the area is set to turn it into one of Lon- by the end of 2019. There will be a resi- be a lively 24/7 place. Previously closed- don’s best addresses. 6 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Holiday homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by

ITH the literary, food PETWORTH and music festival WEST SUSSEX season about to get Once known as a sleepy destination under way, where for antiques fans — Hollywood heart- should you search to throb Richard Gere bought the entire Wbuy a rural bolt hole that will feed contents of a single shop — the small your cultural appetite? town of Petworth in the South Downs National Park has been undergoing a THE COTSWOLDS renaissance. WEST OXFORD AND Proximity to some of the summer’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE most glamorous racing and classic The Cotswold market town of car festivals held on the Earl of Chipping Norton, the highest town in March’s Goodwood Estate has Oxfordshire, is associated with its inevitably helped focus attention on political- and media-heavy locals, Petworth. However, homegrown whose favourite watering hole is the events, such as the annual Petworth Soho Farmhouse. Less well-known is Festival (July 12-29) and the its annual gathering of creative minds Petworth Literary Festival at ChipLitFest (watch chiplitfest. (November 1-5; visit petworthfestival. com for dates next year). org.uk for both) are “always sold This year’s line-up included out”, according to Nick Ferrier of

Scottish novelist Ian Rankin and Bake ALAMY Jackson-Stops & Staff. With Lord Off winner Nadiya Hussain, as well as Grand ambitions: Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds is the venue for ChipLitFest Egremont of Petworth House at the Radio 4 broadcaster the Rev Richard which draws an impressive list of literary and broadcasting heavyweights helm, the “great and the good” of the Coles and Blackadder star Tony town come together. Robinson. It doesn’t end with books, however. The multi-award-winning The property scene: Petworth town Wilderness Festival, with live centre has attractive Georgian and music, wild swimming and “late- half-timbered buildings. Popular night revelry”, is hosted at nearby JOIN THE streets include North Street and Cornbury Park (August 3-6; Angel Street, where Hamptons is wildernessfestival.com) followed by selling a Grade II-listed two-bedroom The Big Feastival (thebigfeastival. terrace house for £400,000. But com), a music and food festival held CULTURE buying in Petworth can sometimes on ex-Blur guitarist-turned- be a challenge because of the slow cheesemaker Alex James’s farm in turnover of the nicest houses, warns Kingham (August 25-27), near Nick Ferrier. “Also bear in mind that Daylesford organic farm shop, the some of the best houses are blighted posh weekenders’ favourite. CLUB by the main road which runs through the town,” adds Philip Harvey of The property scene: Jonathan Property Vision. If nothing on the Bramwell of The Buying Solution As the curtains lift on cultural festivals across market in Petworth appeals, he says: “Londoners looking for a recommends looking in some of the weekend house around Chipping the country, Arabella Youens finds family attractive surrounding villages, such Norton are our bread and butter. as Byworth and Tillington. Often they’ve come to Wilderness or homes for Londoners on a learning curve Travel time from London: an hour and one of the other festivals and have 50 minutes by car, and an hour and fallen in love with the countryside.” 15 minutes by fast train from Victoria Pretty, golden stone period four- to Pulborough. bedroom cottages or high-spec modern houses start from about WHITSTABLE £750,000, says Bramwell. KENT Weekenders who get sucked in have House prices in the seaside town of started to make the Cotswolds their Whitstable started to rise when permanent home. Chocolate-box Londoners began to pick up pretty cute ones start at £450,000. fishermen’s cottages about 15 years Travel time from London: two hours ago as weekend homes. It recently by car, or fast trains into Banbury made a league table of commuter

from Marylebone take about an hour. hotspots that recorded the biggest ALAMY £380,000: above, Mottistone Cottage, price growth in the last decade. £895,000: four-bedroom Alders Stedham, near Petworth, has two With an independently minded and Read, eat, chill: Whitstable, above Cottage, Ramsden, near Chipping bedrooms a studio and summerhouse. artistic edge, Harbour Street has a and above right, offers the sea and Norton. Knight Frank (01865 809175) Jackson-Stops & Staff (01730 812357) selection of quirky shops and art annual literary and oyster festivals EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 7 Holiday homes | Homes & Property

Always a sell- out: Roald Dahl stories at the Looking for a little theatre country bolt hole? for children during Start your Petworth Literary search on Festival

£650,000: three-bedroom Crooked Cottage, Chilton Foliat, Marlborough. Through Carter Jonas (01672 484274)

Prince Charles’s decorator Robert Kime and the fabric makers Fermoie based in the town. Marlborough College, Kate’s alma mater, hosts an annual four-week summer school

KERRY OSMOND/VINTAGE BAR BOX BAR OSMOND/VINTAGE KERRY (summerschool.co.uk), for all ages, where you can study everything from mindfulness to molecules, while the town organises a jazz festival ( July 14- 16; marlboroughjazz.com) and Marlborough LitFest (Sep 28-Oct 1; marlboroughlitfest.org).

The property scene: “It’s always buzzing,” says Rosie Souster of Humberts. “Culture, countryside, schools and easy access to the capital attract young families and retirees alike.” The weekend cottage market is consistently busy with demand from parents of Marlborough College pupils. Prices start at about £450,000, depending on condition. Travel time from London: two hours

ALAMY by car; about an hour and 10 minutes to Pewsey or an hour and 15 minutes, galleries, and local pubs often host MARLBOROUGH both from Paddington. live music events. But the place really WILTSHIRE comes together during the annual Before it entered the spotlight as the FIRLE Whit Lit (May 9-14; whitlit.co.uk) place where the Duchess of EAST SUSSEX which this year is at Whitstable Castle Cambridge went to school, the Charleston, the country retreat of the and gardens. Things get a little more market town of Marlborough had Bloomsbury Group in the village of boisterous during the annual another claim to fame: having the Firle, near Lewes, runs a packed Whitstable Oyster Festival ( July 22- widest high street in England. calendar of festivals and workshops 24; whitstableoysterfestival.co.uk). With its pretty independent attracting artists and writers year- boutiques, cafés and a recently round, with an annual festival (May The property scene: “Entry level opened Rick Stein restaurant, the 19-29; charleston.org.uk). Speakers at prices for a two-bedroom property in high street has been likened to that of this year’s festival dinner include the centre of town start from Marylebone by enthusiastic Nick Clegg MP and violinist Min Kym. £275,000,” says Will Roalfe of Londoners. The town and its non- Christopher Hodgson. stop cultural calendar make it a The property scene: “There is plenty Travel time from London: two hours perfect location for a weekend bolt going on to keep culture vultures by car; 73 minutes from St Pancras hole. There is a growing creative happy in and around Lewes,” says and 80 minutes from Victoria. community, with locals including Charlie Rosling of Strutt & Parker, who cites open-air concerts in the £689,950: Norman castle, Love Supreme, a at Railway three-day jazz festival at Glynde Place Cottages, Ripe ( June 30-July 2; lovesupremefestival. Lane, near com) and Glyndebourne opera Glynde and (May 20-August 26; glyndebourne. Lewes in East com). At the end of this month, The Sussex, this Depot, an independent cinema, is pretty three- opening in Lewes. Londoners love bedroom house the area for its easy access to Gatwick with front and and the coast, and the fast commute rear gardens and into town. Small two-bedroom a garage is for terrace cottages cost from £360,000. sale through Travel time from London: two hours Wycherleys 10 mins by car; about an hour by fast (01273 839174) train from Victoria to Lewes. 8 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Finance Has the bubble Builders beware: Taylor Wimpey has apologised for selling burst for ground leasehold homes with ground rents that double every 10 years. rent rip-offs? It has set aside £130 million to alter lease terms As a major housebuilder and a top mortgage lender act to halt and make ground

rents cheaper ALAMY crippling charges, the rest of the industry must surely follow

UILDER Taylor Wimpey apologised Sebastian last month and set aside £130 million to O’Kelly sort out its part in the Bground rent scandal. Selling houses and flats between 2007 and 2011 with leases where the ground rents doubled every 10 years was “not consistent with our high standards of customer service and we are sorry for the unintended financial consequence and concern that they are causing,” it said. The charity Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, responsible for bringing this to public attention, applauds the company for taking this decision. The ground rents

terms — typically rising from ALAMY £295 to £9,440 in 50 years — Double whammy: solicitors are advising against buying homes with were so onerous that home onerous ground rents while a top lender is refusing loans on them owners found they could not sell their properties: their past five years. Prime Minister pitch a generation of first-time buyers would be advised by Theresa May, among others, buyers into unwanted long- solicitors to pull out and can’t understand why. term tenancies — which is what mortgage companies would She told the Commons in leasehold means. refuse loans. March: “I do not see why new The open question now is, homes should not be built and The market is self-correcting what effect will Taylor sold with the freehold interest already, thanks to Nationwide Wimpey’s announcement have at the point of sale.” and the other lenders on the rest of the market? The Leasehold Knowledge expressing concern, but Partnership advises would-be politicians may well want to The doubling ground rent game buyers of leasehold houses to give it more help. was effectively ended by insist on buying the freehold, Taylor Wimpey’s £130 million Nationwide Building Society’s and copy in correspondence to is intended for a fund to announcement last week that the chief executive and to the convert “doubling in a decade” it would decline future loans housing minister, Gavin leases to less onerous ones. on any new properties where it Barwell. This has resulted in This is the only way of assisting applies. Other lenders will the immediate offer of the flat owners, but leasehold almost certainly follow suit. freehold in dozens of cases. house owners may want to buy In broad advice, Nationwide the freeholds to their homes at said the maximum acceptable Londoners bear the brunt of the prices originally offered by ground rent should be 0.1 per leasehold: 94 per cent of new- the company, before it sold cent of a property’s value — for build registrations on the Land them on to investors. We will example, £300 a year for a Registry in central London are see whether there is any £300,000 property. for leasehold properties. movement on this. This is not such a brilliant Leasehold accounts for 44 idea if you own, say, one of the per cent of all new-build HE new £25 million flashy penthouses registrations, and they totalled government will at Neo Bankside, beside Tate £13.7 billion in value in 2015. almost certainly put Modern. It would bump the Last year’s Land Registry new leasehold rules ground rents up to a possible figures are not yet available. on the statute book, £25,000 a year, instead of the The Leasehold Advisory lastT altered in the 2002 far more sensible £850 a year Service quango estimates that Commonhold and Leasehold they are at present. developers earn £300 million Reform Act which introduced But London penthouses are to £500 million a year from commonhold, where all flat not really Nationwide’s core selling freeholds on to owners own a share of the market. In general, its ban on investors, often anonymous, freehold. That’s the way the unfair ground rents is who can then hide their rest of the world, including welcomed. It shows the market beneficial interest behind Scotland, organises flat is correcting itself in the face of nominee directors. ownership. Maybe it is time for widespread disapproval of Leasehold rules may well be England and Wales to make onerous ground rent terms. raised as an issue by the main commonhold mandatory and Many housebuilders are also parties in the impending end leasehold tenure, which is hitting reverse gear, general election, with the focus the source of so much concern. particularly on leasehold likely to be on Help to Buy. houses. Just over 38,000 of Taxpayers have spent millions O Sebastian O’Kelly is trustee of these have been registered underwriting loans, only to the Leasehold Knowledge with the Land Registry over the find that they have helped Partnership. 10 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | First-time buyers Finding a price that’s right

OU can’t blame first-time buyers for being troubled. Average London starter homes cost a scary Desperate to own a home, they’re also terrified of £405k but Ruth Bloomfield searches for taking such a big step and new-build apartments that cost less Yof borrowing so much money. Which is why so many buy a new home rather than an older place that needs doing up and could saddle them with vast unforeseen expense. Latest research from Lloyds Bank shows the average London first-time buyer now spends £405,000 getting on to the property ladder. That sum won’t go far when you want a new build. But by choosing carefully it is possible to buy a one-bedroom — or even a two-bedroom — modern flat at the average price, or maybe less. PECKHAM RYE Flats at The Catcher Building, Peckham Rye, go on sale this month (thecatcherbuildingse15.com) priced from £310,750 for a one-bedroom home. This boutique, low-rise development of just 31 flats is set From £395,000: one-bedroom flats at Royal Wharf, E16. Through Knight Frank around a private courtyard garden. The pay-off for life on a main road is convenience. Peckham Rye station, in Looking for your Zone 2, is a five-minute walk away, while Peckham Rye Park is a 15- first home? minute stroll, and between them sits Peckham’s increasingly impressive Start your range of bars, restaurants and cafés. search on The Catcher Building will be completed by the end of this year. From 340sq ft, the one-bedroom flats are small — the bedroom will fit a double bed and not much else. But A new neighbourhood: communal the industrial-style interiors, with big facilities at Royal Wharf will include a Crittall-style windows, monochrome swish new leisure centre from 2019 bathrooms and wood floors, are well thought-out and fresh. The flats are being sold with a 999- it might be but it is a perfectly Silvertown DLR the hop to Canary year lease, and the service charge will acceptable blank canvas. Buyers of Wharf takes 10 minutes. Royal Wharf be a reasonable £78 a month or so. such renovation properties should is also a 10-minute walk away from know that they don’t come with the Custom House where, from next year, HITHER GREEN same 10-year warranties as new Crossrail services will go direct to the For more space for your cash you are builds. City and West End. going to need to compromise on Two-bedroom flats, priced from Prices for one-bedroom flats start at location, and Hither Green in Zone 3 £350,000, measure from 529sq ft and £395,000 (knightfrank.co.uk), which is a good a place to start, with its some have private patio gardens. gets you a generous 540sq ft, with super-fast trains that take just 15 Service charges are from £62.50 per service charge of just over £166 a minutes to London Bridge and 20 month, and leases are 125 years. month. The flats are all being sold minutes to Charing Cross. with 999-year leases. For now, there is Hither Green is a more laid-back ROYAL DOCKS: HANDY FOR little in the way of nightlife or good option than Peckham — more farmers’ LONDON CITY AIRPORT shops but both are on their way. market than pop-up vodka bar, and This new district is the start of a huge there’s not much nightlife. But it is a £3.5 billion regeneration. One of its SUTTON, SURREY lovely, leafy neighbourhood and it’s largest developments is Royal First-time buyers with really tiny becoming increasingly popular with Wharf, by developers Oxley and budgets would do well to think small priced-out young professionals. Ballymore, overlooking the Thames. and look on the fringes of London. In Foxtons (foxtons.co.uk) is selling six The first home buyers will start Sutton, “micro flats” are available at flats in a newly converted pub in moving in this year, and can look Sutton Court, by Inspired Homes Campshill Road, which is pretty forward to the use of communal (inspiredhomes.uk.com). This much equidistant between Hither facilities, including a swish leisure developer specialises in selling small Green and its brasher neighbour centre which opens in 2019. flats at small prices. One-bedroom Lewisham, and a 15-minute walk from The developer is also planning what homes of 334sq ft go on sale this either station. In this development’s it calls a “Marylebone-style high street month and will be completed later favour is its fresh, modern makeover and traditional market square” with this year, priced from £269,950. within a period-style building with shops and restaurants. Transport Help to Buy London is available at airy, high ceilings. It is not as stylish as links are already good. By West Sutton Court, which means buyers only need raise a five per cent deposit of just under £13,500. Two- bedroom flats of 570sq ft start at £389,950. The flats are being sold with 999-year leases. Service charge is £130 a month. Sutton Court is five minutes’ walk from the town centre, which has a full complement of chain stores, bars and restaurants, although it is not bursting with character. Train links to London are excellent, though. You can be at From £310,750: 31 apartments set From £350,000: six two-bedroom Victoria, London Bridge or Blackfriars around a courtyard garden at The flats in a newly converted pub in in just over half an hour. Since Sutton Catcher Building, Peckham Rye SE15 Campshill Road, Hither Green SE13 is in Zone 5, an annual season ticket costs £2,248. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 11 Homes abroad | Homes & Property

S THE big-screen stars pre- pare for the opening of the annual Cannes Film Festi- val next week, many will take a stroll along the PromenadeA de la Croisette, one of the priciest streets on the Côte d’Azur, where three-bedroom seafront flats reach £6 million. But if you hanker for a longer — and cheaper — stay in the South of France start your property hunt in Nice, less than 30 minutes away from overpriced Cannes. Nice prices are much more alluring for those on a non-Hollywood budget, and the resort comes dipped in elegance and glamour, with the whiff of scandal. European royalty led the charge to the city in the late 19th cen- tury. Louche writers, artists and celeb- rities followed and 100 years on, it remains in vogue. A PROUDLY DEFIANT CITY Last summer’s deadly Bastille Day ter- ror attack clearly affected tourism in Nice but like London, the city is defiant. £662,700: a three-bedroom flat with full-height windows and parquet flooring in a Heavily armed police stroll alongside classical building in Cimiez, a smart residential district of Nice. Through Savills joggers and cyclists on the Promenade des Anglais, the scene of the attack, where substantial works are under way, including the installation of con- Cannes? Non. Nice crete bollards. Nice is a bustling, sensory treat, from its early morning flower market to the is a nicer price late-night bars in the narrow streets of the Old Town. The city fronts the beau- tiful Bay of Angels, the palm-fringed Cannes may attract the stars but Nice draws and pebble-stoned waterfront that curves seductively towards the mag- British home buyers, says Cathy Hawker nificent mansions on Cap d’Antibes. Those stucco-fronted homes come with sky-high price tags but you don’t From £671,000: have to be a millionaire to enjoy this city. at Domaine de Start the day with a café au lait, shop for Gairaut, a low- plump vegetables from Cours Saleya level scheme in market and take a long seafront walk: the hills boasting these activities represent the best of sea views and Niçois life and won’t break the bank. just 10 minutes Nice property prices today are on from Nice centre, average back to 2006 levels, with new- new-build flats build prices about 15 per cent below with two to four the top prices of 2008, says Alex Balkin, bedrooms are director of Savills Riviera. With lending available rates in France exceptionally low — 1.6 through Savills per cent fixed for 10 years is possible (savills.com) — the value remains interesting. “Nice’s excellent infrastructure of airports, roads, hospitals and public transport and the proximity of ski resorts 90 minutes away make it a £1,427,000: a comfortable place for a second home,” four-bedroom points out Balkin. flat in Regina Apartments in NEW BUILD IN THE HILLS Nice, a building Ten minutes from the centre of Nice in favoured by the hills above Cimiez, Domaine de Queen Victoria Gairaut is a new development of 25 during her visits homes in 10 acres of green and wooded to the Côte land. The apartments will be divided d’Azur, with a between five buildings and share a swimming pool, large pool, tennis court, golf practice communal hole, gym and full-time concierge. gardens and a The two- to four-bedroom homes of tennis court. For 990sq ft to 2,314sq ft will also share one sale through of the best views in Nice, overlooking Savills (020 7016 the city and the sea, even as far as the 3740) St Tropez peninsula on a clear day. “There are very few apartments on RESALE RENTAL PROSPECTS determined to live in star-studded the hillside, only larger villas and this Cimiez is a smart residential area of Nice Cannes itself can find an affordable development is low density and low where flats in grand Belle Époque villas home with Beauchamp Estates, which level,” says Simon West of developers in tree-lined streets provide fresh air has a 947sq ft two-bedroom flat on a Cogedim. “Residents have three good and well-tended gardens. Historically gated resort for £443,000 with com- restaurants within an easy walk and this was home from home for European munal pool and tennis court. The more are also next to the city with good trans- royalty — the Belgian king, Russian tsar usual price for Cannes is likely to be a port links to Cannes and Monaco, yet and Queen Victoria all visited. modern six-bedroom villa in the hills in quiet, green surroundings.” A 1,829sq ft first-floor flat in an above the centre for £3.28 million — Prices at Domaine de Gairaut start immaculate classical building with full- with cinematic coastal views, natch. from £671,000 through Savills with height windows, parquet flooring and underground parking from £25,500 and charming internal glass doors is for sale O Savills: savills.com (020 7016 3740) service charges from £4,200. Fourteen for £662,700. The three-bedroom O Domaine de Gairaut: domaine-de- homes have been sold so far, mainly to property would rent for about £1,500 gairaut.com French buyers but also Swiss and Brits, a week short-term or £2,000 a month O Beauchamp Estates: beauchamp. who expect to move in by spring 2019. on a longer let, says Balkin. Buyers com 12 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design

Big shoes to fill: left, Italian brand Gufram’s giant High Heels have a seat in SoSo surrealsurreaeal one shoe and shelving in the Barbara Chandler other, while its finds the wackiest furniture jacket-shaped Biker cabinet is a cupboard. Price on application for both. Gufram’s Zipped Lips! sofa is £10,150. All at janerichards. co.uk Right: Italian designer Fabio Novembre’s Venus is set into oak veneer “museum crate” shelving. About £5,735 at driade.com

It’s all Jaws: top, Up to the tusk: maverick Dutch above, Babar the design duo elephant, by Studio Job’s renowned shark-shaped Filipino furniture Killer umbrella designer stand, for Italian Kenneth web brand Cobonpue, qeeboo.com functions fully as a desk, with work surface and a Hard worker: drawer, shelves above, the slot- in his legs, together Donkey swivellng cork- desk by French board ears, and designer Benoît even a little Convers has a brush tail for built-in power tiding up. He point and USB costs £3,830 at port. It’s £2,298 kenneth at limelace.co.uk cobonpue.com 14 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design

For an exquisite brew: Postcard Teas in Mayfair sells teas and ceramic tea bowls and pots

By Liz Hoggard My design London Paul Schütze SALLY MAIS SALLY composer and artist Great friends: Paul Schütze with his Irish Terrier, Gilbert

AUL SCHÜTZE is an award-winning composer ceramic tea bowls and pots, and artist. Australian by birth, he is based in plus exquisite tea, and London, where he has exhibited at galleries Native & Co (nativeand including the Hayward, Alan Cristea, Maggs and co.com) in Kensington Park the V&A, and photographed the interiors of some Road, who sell perfectly ofP the capital’s landmark buildings at night. Creating selected pieces sourced perfumes for a candlelit event at Sir John Soane’s Museum from Japan and Taiwan, led Schütze to launch his own range of unisex scents. many of them expressions of dying crafts, all of them WHERE I LIVE engaging and beautiful. We’ve just moved to Highpoint in Highgate, Timeless homewares in E2:

right, which is pure, Labour and Wait, right BUCKINGHAM TONY unalloyed modernism. When the sun blazes HOME SCENTS through the metal- When you are working on framed windows there is perfumes (Paul Schütze a sense of material Perfume, right) it can be weightlessness, as distracting to have though everything is scented candles around. dissolved into light. But at home we have a

I swim in the pool most ALAMY Frederic Malle Saint des mornings and all I can Saints candle (frederic hear is birdsong. position high above malle.com) which I love.

Architect Berthold London, the building and It’s so strong you scarcely MAIS SALLY Lubetkin’s eccentric grounds feel as though need to light it. I have a Chinese master of incense. utopia is still surprising they occupy some odd collection of rare incense These are precious things 80 years on and from its parallel dimension. from Japan and a dear which I burn for a few friend sends me single minutes only when I want MY DECOR sticks created by a some inspiration. We have thousands of books — we had to have bookcases built before we moved in — and artworks by myself and AMAZING ARCHITECTURE artist friends. The interior is fairly monochrome. Walls When I did a big series of are painted bright white, warm grey, and this extremely photographs of Sir John deep matte green, one of John Oliver’s wonderful paint Soane’s Museum, right, colours. (13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2), I had two amazing MOST COVETED OBJECT nights there. There are The artist Josiah beautiful brass filigree vents McElheny — a good in the floor all over the place, friend whose film I wrote so I went through the Soane a score for some years shopping lists of the period back — made a series of to find out the scents

beautiful cabinets fundamental to the building LYNCH DANIEL containing his exquisite and made three perfumes glass forms for a White for the ground floor, first floor and bedchamber. They were Cube show in 2012. My diffused for one night only for a candlelit event. favourite, right, is called The Space Age Body SECRET SPACE (after fashion designers I often seek refuge in my favourite bookshops. To Cardin, Courrèges and wander off the street into The Triangle architectural Gernreich). bookshop on Bedford Square, or Walther Koenig in Charing Cross Road is to enter a world of endless FAVOURITE HOMEWARE SHOPS distraction. I love Borough Kitchen cookshop in SE1 (boroughkitchen. com) for equipment I didn’t know I needed; Labour and O Paul Schütze Perfume is available at Bloom Perfumery Wait (labourandwait.co.uk) in Redchurch Street, E2, for (bloomperfume.co.uk) in Langley Court, Covent Garden and timeless utilitarian items; Postcard Teas (postcardteas. Roullier White in Lordship Lane, SE22 (roullierwhite.com). com) in Dering Street in Mayfair for unique handmade See Paul Schütze’s scents at paulschutzeperfume.com EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 15 Events | Homes & Property

DULWICH FESTIVAL May 12-21 in SE15, SE21, SE22, SE23, SE24, SE26 and SE27; dulwichfestival.co.uk THIS potent annual mix of art, theatre, music, design and craft is wrapped up in plenty of fun. The Dulwich Festival Fair is on May 14, with another big fair in Dulwich Park on May 21, while the Love West Dulwich Fair specifically celebrates SE21 on May 20. More than 200 artists will open their doors to all from May 13-14, and May 20-21, and you can download a guide from the website. For interiors, discover the London Chair Collective, Brilliant Neon, concrete lights by Tim Walker, glass in the workshop of Michael Ruh, embroidered scenic cushions by Charlene Mullen, plus group shows at Cavaliero Finn and Rosa & Clara, with ceramics by Hokolo, right. Explore 30 artist studios in Havelock Walk, see the working pottery in Parade Mews and tour quality street art fostered by Dulwich Picture Gallery on May 14. Five things to see inMay By Barbara Chandler MADE LONDON: BLOOMSBURY May 20-21 at Mary Ward House, 5-7 Tavistock Place, WC1; madelondon-bloomsbury.org (01903 608757) GRADE I-LISTED Mary Ward House is the stunning Arts & Crafts venue for the spring edition of Made London, with 120 makers in textiles, ceramics, art, glass, jewellery and more on hand to sell their work and share the secrets of its making. This fused glass bowl, right, is by Lynn Foster of Cockpit Arts. A former “settlement” where rich Edwardians helped London’s poor, the house has a gym, theatre, drawing room, library, dining rooms and classrooms, plus a café with seating outside in a walled garden.

CELEBRATION OF CRAFTSMANSHIP & DESIGN May 16-20, noon to 7pm at Craft Central, St John’s Square, EC1. Visit celebrationofcraftsmanship.com. SHAPELY solid timbers, fine veneers, precision joints and intricate inlay — here’s a taster for a much bigger celebration that takes place every August in Cheltenham, with 300 makers, mainly of furniture. Coming to London are 35 pieces from 22 small workshops of master craftsmen and women, from Yorkshire to Cornwall and the Isle of Wight. “Their workshops, so often overlooked,

ALAMY are sources of rare talent,” SATURDAY MORNING says show ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL organiser May 13, 20, 27 and June 3 and 10, from 11.30am to Jason Heap, 12.30pm at The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, himself an award- WC1. Visit londonsociety.org.uk/events winning furniture LONDON is stuffed with fab buildings, such as designer-maker. Tate Modern’s Switch House, above. Further gems A date for your are in its parks and gardens. Experts chosen by diary is 3pm-7pm The London Society explain London architecture next Tuesday, using a scale model. Five talks cover medieval May 16, when buildings before the Great Fire; the expansion of you can meet the Georgian London; grandiose Victorian makers, share architecture; the meaning of “modern” between the secrets of their work, the wars, and contemporary architecture. Tickets and maybe discuss a for each talk are £14, or £7 for London Society commission. We love this Velo members. Buy tickets for all five talks for the price chair by Jan Waterston in ash, for of four, and get free society membership. £2,000. Also comes in other woods.

BETWEEN SERENITY AND DYNAMISM: KOREAN CERAMICS Until June 3 at the Korean Cultural Centre UK, 1-3 Strand, London, WC2. Visit kccuk.org.uk KOREA is celebrated for ceramics worldwide, and you can explore the beauty and heritage of its ancient craft in this show of 16 makers. As for the show’s title, “Serenity” reflects the work of old-established potters with traditional techniques, while “Dynamism” is the new blood trained at art schools. Work has been loaned from galleries, museums and auction houses the world over. See a full range, from onggi — earthenware pieces for storing food, like these water bowls, left, by Lee Hak-su — to celadon, with a grey-green glaze, to contemporary porcelain and mixed materials. Connoisseurs and ceramicists will be fascinated to see the private collection of 200 traditional tools used by Korean potters. 16 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Outdoors

Timeless: a bust of Daisy, Countess of Warwick, looks over a modern garden at the Georgian home she owned in Stockwell

AN you mix contemporary palette, using green, white and blue, with traditional in a town with touches of silver, and Ben wanted garden, and make it work? A garden a wilder, more naturalistic feel. So we Design team Ana Sanchez used the mulberry tree as the perfect and Lucy Willcox proved it place to subtly change the palette,” says canC be successful, but you need to be to please Willcox. Thus, the front of the garden subtle, and pay attention to the small has a more formal atmosphere. The details as well as the big gestures. planting — small white shrub roses Kent “With their garden in Stockwell, the us all and Winchester, white and purple alli- clients presented us with a gift: old brick ums, purple salvias, camassias and sil- walls, a magnificent aged mulberry tree ver artemesias — is anchored with cubes and a fine marble bust of the Edwardian It is tricky creating a of Ilex crenata and two solid stone socialite Daisy, Countess of Warwick, a benches topped with riven stone that is previous owner,” says Sanchez. garden for a couple smooth enough to lie on. Lady Warwick, “Together, they create a very special, resplendent on her pedestal, gets a historical atmosphere. The challenge with four children. flowery fanfare with clouds of white was to bring modernity into the old soul hydrangea Annabelle at her feet. of the garden.” A big lawn was top A good start was to reference the rede- EYOND the mulberry tree, sign’s site lines from the proportions of of the wish list which is underplanted with a the back of the Georgian house, and to mass of Japanese forest grass use them as baselines to create different Hakonechloa macra to move areas. “The owners have four children with the wind, ferns, epime- aged from eight to 16 and all of them, Pattie diums,B brunnera, plumonaria and hel- including their parents Annabelle and lebores suggest a wilder woodland floor. Ben, are very active and outdoorsy,” Barron “We also used the grey-green foliage and says Willcox. “They wanted enough apple green heads of Euphorbia chara- grass to be able to play badminton, cias Humpty Dumpty throughout the cricket and football, so a substantial garden, over and over, to link the areas lawn was essential.” together,” says Willcox. The lawn is bordered with honed York log store, although a few of the cubby- Bands of Cor-ten steel run along the stone that gives a crisp, smooth finish holes have been converted by the chil- edges of the different areas, making a and is also used for the terrace directly dren, using cut bamboo lengths, to neat, contemporary finish to a timeless behind the house. make bug hotels. garden with a perfect blend of old and At the back of the garden, out of sight, new, sitting comfortably together. Further down the garden is a dining area are a trio of compost bins and a utility with a difference. The clients wanted a shed. On the right-hand side, two ham- O Commission Ana Sanchez and Lucy dining space in permanent shade, and mocks suggest a peaceful retreat, thick Willcox at germinatedesign.com the designers put it towards the rear of with foxgloves and emphasised by a the garden, “because a journey through Zen-like circular bowl of waterlilies. Photographs:: a garden is rather nice,” says Willcox. “Annabelle favoured a limited planting Clive Nichols Instead of a predictable pergola, the pair bought in roof-trained hornbeam trees which make a not-too-dense leafy can- opy. To delineate the dining area — and make a ground for pétanque, another of the family’s popular games — they used Cedec, a kind of compacted foot- path gravel. At the back of the garden is a bespoke cedarwood covered seating area that is a roomy take on a more traditional pavilion. Built-in benches run right around its three walls, making it a great gathering space for the children and their friends. “Everybody wanted a firepit so they could sit outside on a mild winter’s day, increasing the use of the garden. On top of the arbour is a roll-out green roof of sedums, which needs no maintenance,” says Willcox. Abutting one side of the pavilion is a Cor-ten steel Fresh life: behind the ancient mulberry tree sits a cedarwood pavilion with firepit 18 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Reader promotion Alison Cork

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Isokon the icon: above, the Isokon Building in Lawn Road, NW3, and its striking modernist staircase, left. Isokon Gallery, right, in the former garage at the block, is open March to October on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 4pm. Admission is free

Photographs:: David Butler

AGNUS ENGLUND, the Swedish design expert and co-founder of Scan- dinavian furniture retailer Skandium, lives in the MGrade I-listed Isokon Building in Belsize LIVING IN A MODERNIST Park, north London, and has become its unofficial custodian. He is a hoarder of all things Isokon — Poul Henningsen’s inimitable glass table the London-based company formed in Magnus Englund so loved the Isokon Building in Belsize Park he moved lamps and an unusual three-coloured 1929 to design modernist houses and Katie Law floor lamp designed by Josef Frank. The flats and the fixures and furniture to go in, restored his flat and filled it with period plywood classics. By tiny ship’s cabin-style bedroom retains in them. He has also been a champion the original curved, panelled plywood behind the Isokon Gallery, dedicated to Breuer lived there, as did Agatha Christie feels quite Scandinavian. Jack [Pritchard] walls and built-in wardrobes. Inside, the extraordinary history of the building in the Forties, while artists Henry Moore, who lived in the penthouse until the Six- Englund shows me with huge pride, are where he lives. The gallery opened in Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson ties, was a friend of Finnish architect and several ingenious storage ideas, from the the block’s former garage on the ground were among regular visitors. Sold to designer Alvar Aalto and they were all extending trouser rack to a thin plywood floor three years ago. Camden council in 1972, the building very influenced by pre-war Swedish loop device which he uses to stack and “I absolutely love living here — it has became a halfway house for single men architects.” store his T-shirts. The bathroom and become part of my life,” says Englund, with mental health problems but fell into The birch plywood walls and flooring, kitchen next door are exemplary models 50, who moved to the UK in 1995 to pur- dereliction until 2003, when it was taken which Englund had restored by his of compact living from which designers sue a career in fashion, working first for over by Notting Hill Housing association, friend Nick Goldfinger, grandson of the today could learn a thing or two. Paul Smith, then Patrick Cox, before which restored the building and set up a Trellick Tower architect Ernö, also lend opening the first Skandium store in shared-ownership scheme. warm tones to the interior. Says Eng- O LONGER active in the day- Marylebone in 1999. lund: “Nick came and patched it all and to-day running of Skandium, Englund shares his one-bedroom modern- refused to be paid because he was so Englund has just written For the past four years, he has lived in a ist paradise with his Norwegian wife, happy that someone cared.” three books: one on Scandi- one-bedroom flat on the top floor of the Gjøril. Thanks to the sprawling south-fac- He has furnished the open-plan living navian design, one on the long, horizontal, white building which is Championing minimalism: Magnus ing roof terrace, the flat is always filled area with Isokon classics, including two historyN of Isokon and the Bauhaus, and a often compared to an ocean liner that Englund founded the Isokon Gallery with light and seems twice as big in sum- small Marcel Breuer plywood dining children’s book about chairs “for parents appears to be cruising through a row of mer, when the couple more or less live tables, Alvar Aalto for Artek dining chairs who want to brainwash children with Victorian terrace houses. The concept of neur Jack Pritchard and his wife Molly, it outdoors. Winter is another matter and a nest of Isokon plywood tables. design from an early age”. the building was to promote the minimal was the first domestic building in Britain though, as the original Thirties insulation Books are stored in Isokon Donkey He has also managed to find time to flat and minimal living as a way of to use reinforced concrete. Originally cannot be upgraded. magazine racks. The soft woollen rug is curate Heal’s 100, featuring the most addressing the housing crisis of its day, created as an experiment in social hous- “We have plenty of Eleanor Pritchard Persian, its modern geometric design a iconic pieces that have been, or are still, he says, so things have come full circle. ing, it soon became an intellectual hub blankets instead, which fit into the reflection of having been made during sold by the famous department store. “Today’s London needs a lot of Isokon for architects and designers — together scheme very well,” says Englund. “It’s a the Shah’s reign, when traditional Buildings,” he adds. Designed in 1934 by with a sprinkling of Soviet spies. Bauhaus British building with an interior clad in designs were unpopular. Bizarrely, it μ Turn the page for Englund’s own Wells Coates for the furniture entrepre- émigrés Walter Gropius and Marcel Estonian and Finnish birchwood, so it looks perfect here. Lighting includes pick of the Heal’s 100 EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 21 powered by My home | Homes & Property

Left: in the living room, books are stored in Isokon Donkeys and there’s a portrait of Englund’s grandfather Yngve Englund, who edited a local newspaper in Sweden

Right: the roof terrace where Englund and his wife spend a lot of time in summer

Right: the tiny ship’s cabin-style bedroom still has its original curved, panelled plywood walls and built-in wardrobes

Right: Isokon classic pieces in the open-plan living area include Marcel Breuer dining tables and Alvar Aalto for Artek dining chairs

Far right: the bathroom, almost unaltered since the Thirties, provides an exemplary model MASTERPIECE of compact living 22 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Interiors

Isokon Penguin Donkey Mk I by 1 Egon Riss for Isokon Plus (1935). MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE Available directly from Isokon Plus Stool 60 by Alvar Aalto for Artek ▼ for £670 (isokonplus.com) (1933) £170 “Jack Pritchard, founder of the “The stool No 60 by Alvar Aalto Isokon furniture company, knew from 1933, made by Artek, is one of Allen Lane, creator of Penguin Books the most important 20th-century and decided to create a piece to hold designs and my number one. Its the publishing house’s paperback simplicity makes it look current books. It’s a perfect example of form even today, and its reduced form, and function.” leaving only function and no decoration, makes it a modernist ▼2 masterpiece.” ▲3 Pinner four-poster bed by Kirsty Whyte for Heal’s (2015), from £949 “Named after Sir Ambrose Heal’s home town, this has a pragmatic Arts My favourite things: Magnus Englund & Crafts elegance combined with is curating Heal’s 100, a retrospective undeniable modernity.” look at the store’s design bestsellers Continued from Page 21 My pick of the ▲4 ▲5 ▲6 Arco light by Achille Castiglioni for Egg chair by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hepburn sofa by icons at Flos (1962), from £1,604 Hansen (1958), £11,908 Paola Navone for “One of the most iconic Italian “It is not always the case with Heal’s (2007), designs by one of the country’s most ground-breaking design, but the Egg £2,999 ►7 Heal’s influential designers, which would chair, which defined the post-war “A modern look as at home in a Georgian setting aesthetic, was greeted with interpretation Moka Express by Alfonso Bialetti for as in a modern space.” immediate acclaim and was first sold of a mid-century Bialetti (1933). Sold widely, from £16 ERHAPS no other shop has in the UK at Heal’s. Half a century classic, “A staple of design reference books, defined furniture design later, the instantly recognisable chair upholstered in the original design for the beautifully better than Heal’s. Founded remains an icon of pop culture.” soft leather, is functional Moka Express coffee more than 200 years ago, the epitome of maker dates from Mussolini’s Italy the feather dresser-turned- Fifties glamour.” pre-1943.” Pfurniture maker has always been a leader. It made chairs for Chartwell, Anglepoise 1227 Winston Churchill’s home in Kent, desk lamp (£185) and commissioned British designer by George Lucienne Day’s contemporary Carwardine for Festival of Britain fabrics. Anglepoise (1935) Now, for Heal’s 100, which runs “An undisputed until June 11 at the store in Tottenham ▲8 design icon, this Court Road, W1, Magnus Englund has Lounge Chair and Ottoman appearing in a number of model is true to selected 100 designer pieces sold by Charles and Ray Eames movies of the age and in its vintage roots. there since 1950, to mark 100 years for Vitra (1956), £5,250 magazine photo shoots on Revolutionary at since the founding of Heal’s Mansard “The Eames Lounge Chair the furnishings of upscale the time of its modern art gallery. Items are mostly is seen today as a true mid-century houses. This Wallis sofa by Russell Pinch for 9 design, this is for sale, priced from under £10 to classic, but it was also an covetable statement piece Heal’s (2017), from £1,999 ▲ the Anglepoise £14,000. Here, exclusively for Homes immediate success on its is renowned for its levels of “The sofa, which features a one-piece that inspired so & Property, Englund chooses his launch, its status owing comfort and confident, seat pad, is widely seen as a future 10 many other personal favourite 10. much to the piece masculine design.” classic.” ◄ variants.” 26 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Ask the expert This White Van Man is a parking pain WHAT’S I BOUGHT my leasehold flat in 2008 and I Fiona YOUR have changed nothing since moving in. McNulty PROBLEM? QHowever, it seems the previous leaseholder IF YOU have a changed the doors from the lounge on to the OUR LAWYER ANSWERS question for balcony, so now the caretaker tells me the freeholder YOUR QUESTIONS Fiona McNulty, wants me to change the doors back to how they were. please email Lots of the balcony doors in the building are no longer I RENT a house that comes legalsolutions@ the original ones. Does the freeholder have a right to with a garage. Instead of standard.co.uk require me to do this after so many years have passed? Qusing the garage for my or write to Legal car, I use it to store some of Solutions, Homes MOST residential leases include a covenant my furniture and bits which do not & Property, requiring the tenant to obtain the consent of the fit into the house. London Evening A landlord or the management company before Access to the garage is over a Standard, 2 Derry making any changes to the property. This consent private access way. There are lots of Street, W8 5EE. is known as a Licence for Alterations. If your lease garages at the back of the terrace of We regret that requires such consent and the landlord did not agree to houses and there is room for questions cannot the doors being changed, there has been a breach of everyone to get in and out of our be answered covenant and your landlord may be able to ask you to put garages easily, and to turn. individually, but the flat back to its original state, although you would need However, one neighbour parks his we will try to legal advice on whether that is the case here. white van outside my garage when feature them You could apply for retrospective consent. Contact your he is not working, which means I here. Fiona landlord or the management company to establish their cannot get into the garage when I McNulty is a requirements. If many balcony doors in the building have need to. What can I do? legal director been changed, it seems likely the landlord will grant in the private consent retrospectively. YOUR landlord’s title deeds wealth group of If the seller failed to disclose that they’d changed the are likely to include a right to Foot Anstey doors without consent when you bought the flat, that may A use the access way to get into (footanstey.com). amount to an actionable misrepresentation on their part. the garage, plus covenants need to get into it. If he fails to stop neighbour explaining that he is If the seller disclosed the alterations but was unable to regulating and restricting the way the parking there, report the situation to creating a nuisance and requesting produce the landlord’s consent for them, and your access way may be used, for your landlord or to the landlord’s him to cease parking in a way that solicitor failed to raise enquiries about that or advise you example, prohibiting the obstruction letting agents, and get them to take prevents you accessing your garage. of the issue, you may have cause for complaint against of the access way and garages with action. Ultimately, if your neighbour is your solicitor. parked vehicles. Your landlord may be in breach of interfering with your right to access Ask your neighbour not to park his the terms of his tenancy agreement the garage, you and/or your landlord More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on van in front of your garage. Perhaps with you if you cannot use the garage could seek a court order requiring the Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. he thinks that as you do not keep a you are renting from him. You and removal of the van and stopping Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar vehicle in there, you do not use it or your landlord should write to your future obstruction. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 27 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Inside story | Homes & Property Feathered guests Diary of an estate get me in a flap agent

MONDAY largest pigeon hotel in London. On a thing near the asking price he’ll make This could be the biggest week of my warmer than normal day, picking our a tidy profit. Who says flipping is dead? life. Aside from a number of large deals way through the mess is a character- Later on, a colleague from our Rio in the pipeline, my wife is due to give building experience. When I return to office sends me a lead from an investor birth to our first child at any the office after what in the end is quite in search of a 3,500sq ft medical space, moment. a successful visit, a few colleagues pick for a dental practice, in central Lon- I start the day off meeting a Brazilian up on a strange smell. I keep my head don. It’s an exciting new challenge, and client for breakfast at The Ivy, before down. for a space as elusive as this one, we’ll showing him a new retail property a certainly earn our search fee. few minutes away in Dean Street. It’s a WEDNESDAY good opportunity, pre-let to a well- Mayfair is the focus for today. I meet FRIDAY known restaurant chain with an annual some Qatari investors on the hunt for No baby yet, although the wife is pretty rent of £507,000. It’s also less than 170 a prime central London hotel and a few uncomfortable. I’ve got my phone yards from the new Crossrail station at shopping mall sites, as well as any other ringer tone set to loud, just in case. Tottenham Court Road. He wants to go sites that could pique their interest. I However, the first call I get today is from for it and I make the call, but so does take them around several sites I know our solicitor to say we won the contract someone else. We’re now in a race. The will suit their needs. All of that walking race and my Brazilian client has taken first one to exchange contracts wins. works up an appetite, so we drop into the prize. After calling him with the Fast-paced deals like this are the Sexy Fish in Berkeley Square. I can news I set the rest of the deal in order. norm at the moment. Brexit and the recommend the sea bream. I end the week with a late lunch, subsequent strength of the pound meeting an interesting contact I made means dollar and euro investors have THURSDAY at the MIPIM property exhibition in sent the commercial market into over- One of our residential market clients Cannes. Chiltern Firehouse is the drive. Retail investment opportunities wants to sell their apartment in Burl- venue, but in all the excitement I’ve of £1 million and above with blue chip ington Gate, just a stone’s throw from forgotten today’s my day to look after tenants move very quickly. the Royal Academy and a host of other Harry, our office dog. I won’t be able galleries, so it’s perfect for an art-loving to sneak Harry into the restaurant so I TUESDAY buyer. bribe a colleague, who I now owe more An interesting day. I visit a vacant prop- Designed by prestigious architectural than a few beers. erty that’s being transformed into an practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Part- incredible mixed-use scheme by a ners, the flat is a real gem and also O Richard Lightwing is head of renowned London developer. Things comes with a spa and private parking. London acquisitions at Athena don’t get off to a great start when I open My client bought it off-plan, hasn’t Advisers, an international property the door to discover what must be the moved in yet, and if we achieve any- company (020 7471 4500). 32 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Property searching

Relaxed: Kevin Vanthem at his Moka café, Wightman Road Specialist sweetmeats: Yasar Halim Turkish food market ALAMY Taste of the Med: Diyarbakir Kitchen in Green Lanes prides Keeping life colourful: apartments with bright balconies itself on the quality of its food and a warm Turkish welcome sit above a parade of small shops in Harringay Spotlight on Harringay Young families enjoying a batch of cool new coffee shops provide the proof. This north London spot has waved goodbye to its troubled past. By Anthea Masey

ORE than 15 years have 1880 and 1900, it was a well-known passed since London’s Start your property leisure destination for Londoners escap- Turkish and Kurdish ing the smoke. Hornsey Wood House communities would search on became a popular tea garden presided regularly come to blows rightmove.co.uk over by two elderly sisters, Mrs Lloyd Malong Green Lanes in Harringay, north and Mrs Collier, and a later incarnation, London. These days the 19 streets in the Hornsey Wood Tavern, provided the “Harringay Ladder” west of Green cricket, rabbit and pigeon shooting, Lanes — so called because they form a skittles and even cock fighting. The neat ladder pattern — are full of young tavern was pulled down in 1866 and the families who shop in the well-stocked land absorbed into Finsbury Park. Turkish supermarkets, go out for pide Harringay, in the borough of Haringey rather than pizza, or hang out at one a planned private scheme that offers 14 — pronounced the same of course, of the new independent coffee shops per cent affordable. After raising despite the different spelling — is six that have sprung up along the street £25,000 through crowdfunding, StART miles almost due north from central over the last five years. has come up with a masterplan for a London with Wood Green to the north, Estate agent Elan Silver, from the local development that, as well as bringing South Tottenham to the east, Manor Winkworth branch, points to the strong homes, would promote health and well- House and Finsbury Park to the south sense of community. One example is being in a green neighbourhood. It is and Stroud Green and Crouch End to StART, the St Ann’s Redevelopment working with regeneration specialist the west. Winkworth’s Elan Silver says Trust, a community land trust trying to igloo, and is backed by local Labour MPs it is a flourishing community. buy the St Ann’s Hospital site in St Ann’s David Lammy and Catherine West. “I’ve been selling homes here for 10 Road to provide what it calls “truly Before the open fields of Harringay Photographs: years and the area’s previous history is affordable” homes for locals, instead of were built over in the years between Daniel Lynch no longer an issue,” he adds.

£735,000 £950,000 £830,000 A FOUR-BEDROOM, two-bathroom house, part A VICTORIAN house with a south-facing garden and A THREE-BEDROOM period terrace in of a gated development in Effingham Road, great transport links in Lothair Road, N4, close to Fairfax Road, in the “Harringay Ladder”. Harringay, N8. Call Foxtons (020 8012 6733). Green Lanes. Call Martyn Gerrard (03339 870201). Call Anthony Pepe (020 8012 6467). To find a home in Harringay, visit rightmove.co.uk For more about Harringay, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/harringay EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 33 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

Retail therapy: homesandproperty.co.uk left, bustling powered by Green Lanes, the main shopping street, with specialist delis, cafés and STATS CHECK restaurants WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN HARRINGAY Designer gear: (Average prices) Andrew Kricoss, One-bedroom flat £365,000 owner of Kricoss Two-bedroom flat £506,000 specialist Two-bedroom house menswear £547,000 boutique, right Three-bedroom house £738,000 Four-bedroom house £847,000

RENTING IN HARRINGAY (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,161 a month TRANSPORT Two-bedroom flat £1,437 a month Two-bedroom house £1,504 a month MANOR HOUSE and Turnpike Lane Three-bedroom house Tube stations are on the Piccadilly £2,102 a month line with trains to the West End. Four-bedroom house £2,581 a month Hornsey and Harringay train Source: Rightmove Water views: stations have services to Moorgate, right, homes in 19 and 17 minutes respectively, along Lothair while Harringay Green Lanes FOR MORE, VISIT Road North, railway station is on the recently homesandproperty.co.uk seen from the reopened Gospel Oak to Barking O Use our School Checker to find ALAMY New River line. All stations, with the exception catchment areas and inspection of Manor House, are in Zone 3, with reports for local schools an annual travelcard to Zone 1 costing £1,520. Manor House is in O The best Harringay shops and Zone 2, and the travelcard is £1,296. restaurants THE PROPERTY SCENE A number of useful commuter O Local arts, leisure and sport buses run down Green Lanes. The O Harringay’s best streets — and an HARRINGAY has roads of fine two-, The development will have 55 No 29 goes to Trafalgar Square via up-and-coming spot to watch three- and four-bedroom late- affordable units, of which 32 will be Camden Town and Tottenham Court Victorian terrace houses, many of for shared ownership. There will also Road; the No 141 goes to London them converted into flats. be a shop and a playground, and the Bridge via Old Street and Bank, and Winkworth’s agent Elan Silver says first residents are expected to move the No 341 goes to County Hall via many of the smaller houses are now in next year. Call 020 8003 4566. Islington and Chancery Lane. being extended into their lofts and side returns. House prices range ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES from £649,000 for a three-bedroom Housing association Sanctuary Homes property in Harringay Road in need launches 94 shared-ownership flats HAVE YOUR SAY: HARRINGAY of renovation, to £1.15 million for a this month in The Quadrangle at St seven-bedroom house in Duckett James’s Smithfield Square scheme off LOCALS TWEET THEIR TIPS Road. Two-bedroom period Hornsey High Street. Prices start at conversion flats range from £107,500 for a 25 per cent share of a @ArlingtonEstate the ballpit that my toddlers just love). £430,000 to £530,000. one-bedroom flat and £132,500 for 25 Alexandra Palace — it offers per cent of a two-bedroom home. The unrestricted and amazing views of @Im_Becka ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES first residents will move in later this London along with green space, a lake Jam in a Jar the bar in Grand Parade in Fairview New Homes has plans to year. Call 020 8826 1643. and a place for events throughout the Green Lanes is my favourite. build Altitude, a scheme of 174 one-, year. two- and three-bedroom flats in two ■ WHO RENTS HERE? @luke_harrison blocks on a former steel storage site Harringay renters are mainly young @RachelAFisher In Harringay it’s Gökyüzü Turkish in Hampden Road overlooking the professional sharers or young Sought after: neat homes in Warham Bianca pizzeria & Beans and Barley (for restaurant for me. New River, close to Hornsey station. families. Road on the “Harringay Ladder” 38 WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes By David Spittles SmartSmSmamartmarartrt momovmmoveovoovevee

Walk the bridge to Canary Wharf

PLANNED pedestrian House built by the great engineers Sir Prices from and cycle drawbridge Marc Isambard Brunel and his son £1,295,000: across the Thames to Isambard Kingdom Brunel as part of right, Dockside Canary Wharf is another their Thames Tunnel, the world’s Terrace, new reason to put down roots first tunnel beneath a river, which Rotherhithe inA Rotherhithe, SE16, where a second opened in 1843 and connected townhouses wave of regeneration is creating a Rotherhithe to Wapping. close to the sparkling new town centre around Dockside Terrace in Rotherhithe planned Brunel Canada Water Tube station. Street, moments from where the new Bridge over the Yet the area’s best address is likely footbridge, the Brunel Bridge, is due Thames, above, to remain the historic patch by St to open in 2020, is a new infill which will be the Marychurch Street, a cobbled scheme of seven modern-looking world’s longest conservation area of protected townhouses set over three floors and drawbridge wharves and warehouses converted including a roof terrace with views into loft flats. Here you will also find across the water to the Docklands Sands Film studios and The Brunel skyscrapers. Prices from £1,295,000. Museum in the former Brunel Engine Call JLL on 020 8712 6596.

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RADIO LONDON’S handsome former to buy more central London headquarters in Marylebone, above This launch buildings and aims to sell to people right, is being transformed into comes as who want to live in their homes, boutique housing. Called The W1 rather than to absentee overseas London, the project is the property Marylebone investors. debut of insurance tycoon Peter is expanding The launch comes as Marylebone is Wood, who made Direct Line’s red at the edges, expanding at the edges and becoming telephone brand a household name. an even more coveted address. Buyers Wood commissioned Dixon Jones, turning into are pushing west past Baker Street the architects responsible for the an even and east of Great Portland Street, Royal Opera House revamp, to blurring the border with Fitzrovia. transform the Thirties building in more Prices at The W1 London start from Marylebone High Street into 19 smart coveted £4.1 million so expect super-deluxe apartments plus five townhouses interiors, underground parking and tucked away in a quiet rear mews. address 24-hour concierge services. Call 020 The broadcasting mecca, where 3740 0350. Tony Blackburn and Chris Evans The Chilterns, another local were among the famous DJs, was luxury new build, has apartments secured by Wood in the face of fierce from £3.5 million. Call Galliard on competition. He says he is planning 020 8418 1070. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017 39 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property

KENNINGTON seems stuck in time Slip to while dramatic change takes place all the Oval around it, especially in Vauxhall and Elephant & Castle. Less than a mile from from Parliament, the Victorian terraces and Georgian squares of this your south London neighbourhood act as a block on big development projects. elegant The Northern line Tube extension from Kennington to Battersea Power SE11 Station is causing people to look at the terrace area with fresh eyes — and not just cricket fans who want to be near the Kia Oval. Listed, recently refurbished Kennington Park now boasts a pretty flower garden and new green space leading to St Agnes Place, right and above right, a low-rise scheme of 58 Georgian-style houses and flats. The homes replace a derelict terrace that was a squat for years, and where music legend Bob Marley once lived. Townhouses with garden and parking space cost from £1.25 million. Call L&Q (0333 0033 660).

COMMUTER HOMES IN A NEW ESSEX ‘SUPER SUBURB’ IF YOU like your properties on the developer London Square. Chigwell blingy side, the only way is probably Village, right, offers nine house types Essex… and Chigwell. — a variation of classic heritage In Travel Zone 4, the town has a designs — with modern, family- reputation for “gin and Jag” friendly interiors including a vast, footballer-style mansions. However, open-plan room combining kitchen, Chigwell has now been named one of diner and lounge. 25 “super-suburbs” by estate agent Ranging up to 2,713sq ft, each home Savills in a report on commuter has a private driveway, garage and hotspots, and more discreet homes garden, while a central landscaped are being built there, including a area is a communal garden. Prices gated scheme of 43 houses by from £1,095,000. Call 0333 666 0103.