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Wednesday 14 February 2018 New ways Homes& to build Solutions to London’s housing shortage Property Page 6 FUTURE LONDON: EAST HAM P8 WHAT A WASTE: PLASTICS P10 DORKING’S A WINNER P12 SPOTLIGHT ON ROMFORD P26 Looking fabulous The latest interiors from London Fashion Week designers Page 1818 London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News stop press: £400m revamp: a grand new entrance and 200 new homes are envisaged for Thirties-built Dolphin Square in Pimlico Trophy home of the week A cool Nothing for £30m means you need never go out £29,950,000: so you’ve sold the little garden, and the sleek kitchen/ business and made a mint. Now, breakfast room is lit by huge south- where to live? This stucco-fronted 10- facing windows. There’s a pool, gym, the locals bedroom Kensington mansion, on the cinema, wine cellar and staff living exclusive Phillimore Estate between space across the lower floors, while ULL details of the ties and has barely been Lifechanger of the week Holland Park and Kensington Palace the upper floors house the plush £400 million changed since, are now Gardens, has been remodelled to an bedroom suites and a decked roof revamp of one of being studied by Westmin- Equestrian business is a über-luxurious remit. Sumptuous terrace, reached either by lift or an London’s largest ster council. A decision is reception, dining and drawing rooms elegant winding staircase. Through and most famous expected later this year. good bet in this rural idyll have French windows to a landscaped John D Wood (020 8012 1762). Fblocks of flats are revealed Despite submitting almost today — but its American 300 planning documents to £945,000: Rowlestone on the owners aren’t saying how the council, Westbrook has Welsh borders near Hereford London buy of the week The perfect many of 200 new homes in declined to say how many of provides the most romantic of the plan will be affordable. the new homes will be ear- rustic locations for this historic Peckham combination of old and new Dolphin Square — which marked for people who collection of buildings, including a has been home to princesses, would otherwise be priced 16th-century farmhouse and a £600,000: when it politicians, spies and actors out of the area, other than fabulous studio barn with an comes to conversion over the last 80 years — is to to promise it will designate open-plan living/kitchen and flats, this one has the be reconfigured and partly the “maximum possible”. dining space. lot. Part of a handsome rebuilt to add new town- A report by its planning Other outbuildings include flat-fronted Victorian houses, flats and serviced consultants, DP9, says Dol- stables that come with five building, a few minutes apartments to its existing phin Square already provides paddocks, all designed to run a from the bars and 1,106 rental flats and 124 serv- a “different form of accessi- lively equestrian business. restaurants of über- iced apartments. ble low-cost housing”, a ref- The farmhouse has a generous cool Lordship Lane and A new underground swim- erence to the block’s original living room with a flagstone floor, the open space of ming pool and sports facili- role providing affordable an inglenook fireplace with a Peckham Rye in south- ties, plus extra shops, will rented homes to locals who wood-burning stove, slate tiles east London, it comes also be built at the seven- wanted to be able to walk to and a Rayburn oven in the with big sash windows and-a-half-acre Pimlico site, work. The council requires kitchen/breakfast room, while that let in masses of and a grand new vaulted about a third of new homes upstairs has three/four bedrooms natural light. entrance has been designed to be affordable. Dolphin that soak up the glorious views There’s a generous cabinetry and wood which has a glass door by Eric Parry Architects. Square’s past residents have across some 20-plus acres of land reception room and an floors, while clean lines out to a roof terrace. The plans by Westbrook included Princess Anne, to ramble or canter across. open-plan kitchen continue in two luxe For sale chain free Partners for Dolphin Square, Soviet spy John Vassall and Through Knight Frank (01905 By Faye that’s fitted with quartz bathrooms and through Winkworth which was built in the Thir- Carry On actor Sid James. 939053). Greenslade worktops, sleek bedrooms, one of (020 8012 3545). O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Now YOU be the judge Editor: Janice Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2018 Morley WE ARE looking for 20 people with a passion for property who are avid VISIT homesandproperty.co. readers of Homes & Property and uk/rules for details of our would like to join the judging panel usual promotion rules. When for the 2018 Evening Standard New you respond to promotions, Homes Awards. offers or competitions, the You will join industry experts to London Evening Standard and choose the very best homes and its sister companies may developments in London and the reader judge — just bags of contact you with relevant South-East and will be a VIP guest at enthusiasm for good architecture offers and services that may the glittering awards ceremony at and interior design. The awards be of interest. 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You would also have to be free for House, 2 Derry Street, a couple of hours on the evening of March 1 to take part in the selection process in Kensington, London W8 5TT. Kensington, and all day on April 5 for the final judging day. Please email your application to [email protected] EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2018 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Homesick Harry wants a quick sale in LA É DESPITE their global fame, it appears there really is no place like home for the One Direction boys. So much so that Harry Styles, left, has dropped the asking price of his West Hollywood mansion to £5.9 million in a bid to sell up in California. The Sign of the Times singer first POOLE DAVID listed the property for sale last June at £6.6 million but has yet to find a Gorgeous Georgian buyer for the three-bedroom home overlooking the Pacific with a racy past Ocean and Downtown Los Angeles. He is said to be missing his HOTSPOT: KETTNER’S London life and has previously TOWNHOUSE SOHO commented that he can’t spend too much time in a place where Branston É ONCE considered the venue of Pickle and bangers’n’mash aren’t choice for dangerous liaisons, Soho widely on the menu. POOLE DAVID restaurant Kettner’s has relaunched His bandmate Louis Tomlinson, as Kettner’s Townhouse, with home right, has also commented that they Fancy a trip inspiration at every turn. There to are “British boys” and listed his five- GETTY/GETTY celebrate were Fawn and India Rose bedroom Californian pile for sale for down James, below, of Soho Estates. £10 million last month. Under the Soho House helm, with a memory twist, it is a gloriously decadent break from the cosy members club model. É A SPECTACULAR The Georgian building, where Oscar Clerkenwell Wilde had illicit assignations and the townhouse built in the future King Edward VII was said to Eighties by celebrated have wooed Lillie Langtry, now architect Piers Gough for houses 33 bedrooms, a restaurant and journalist and broadcaster a champagne bar. Janet Street-Porter, right, has been The original spiral staircase leads to given Grade II-listed status. the en suite rooms with their wooden The four-storey building, floors, Georgian fireplaces, heritage pictured, has been hailed as an windows and vintage chandeliers. An By Amira Hashish “extrovert and ostentatious art collection is inspired by the example of post-modern domestic buildings’ rumoured reputation for architecture” and an “uncommon affairs, with installations by Danny late 20th-century revival of the Augustine and Sara J Beazley. Visit You’ll find no cause to tut at this treasure London townhouse tradition”. kettnerstownhouse.com to book. Gough, who made his name with É A NEW investigation into King his work in the redevelopment of Tutankhamun’s tomb began last London Docklands, said he modelled week. Ever since Egyptologist the space on Street-Porter herself, Howard Carter, inset, discovered the and that it carries a “visual punch” 3,300-year-old tomb in the Valley of to resemble her own. the Kings in Luxor in 1922, archaeolo- Loose Women panellist Street- gists have suspected other chambers Porter has fond memories of the were there to be found.