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Goodluck Hope Leamouth Peninsula is back on the map in this booming part of east London: Page 6 4 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News More bad news from Battersea Trophy home of UNDREDS of first-time buyers promised cut-price the week homes at Battersea Power Station will no longer be all in the best able to buy into London’s Hmost-hyped regeneration zone. possible taste Originally, 636 homes were ear- marked by the Battersea Power Station at Park Gate Development Company for first time- buyers and renters unable to afford the £4 million: show you are mega prices asked for the 4,239 luxury one of the deserving rich by homes on the site. moving to Park Gate, a Now the development company says beautifully proportioned the entire project may become “finan- Grade II-listed eight- cially unviable” if it is forced to stick to bedroom Georgian country room with French windows Gate was built in 1807 in the 2011 promise to include so many pile set in 27 acres just that open to a York stone classic period country house affordable homes. It says it made the outside Lewes in East Sussex, terrace and walled garden. style. Outside has barn undertaking when London’s new-build a short drive from the opera The house and estate, part stabling, a tennis court, a market was booming and construction at Glyndebourne. of a former deer park, were pretty pond, woodland, costs were lower. The house contains a bought by William Green in pasture and sweeping lawns Instead it wants to offer 386 afford- vaulted library, a large dining 1785, according to an looking out towards the able homes — or nine per cent of the room with space for 12, and a inscribed brick in the boot South Downs. Through total. The remaining 250 affordable bespoke kitchen/breakfast room, though in fact Park Savills (01444 704140).

Editor: Disappointment: homes would only be provided follow- Lifechanger Janice the Battersea ing an “end of scheme review” of the of the week Morley Power Station profits the company will make. Development Exactly how much profit the develop- settle in Settle Company wants ment needs to be deemed “viable” has VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ to offer 250 yet to be decided, but a report by coun- in the divine rules for details of our usual fewer affordable cil planning officer Dan Taylor, to be promotion rules. When you homes than considered by Wandsworth’s planning Dales and run respond to promotions, offers or originally committee, suggests 15 to 20 per cent. competitions, the London Evening proposed The proposals are expected to be rubber a grand B&B Standard and its sister companies stamped by the council tomorrow. may contact you with relevant Wandsworth council flagged up the £1.25 million: how about a offers and services that may be of move to the Greater London Authority, new life in 10 country acres interest. Please give your mobile which decided not to intervene. just outside the Yorkshire number and/or email address if “The applicant considers that the Dales National Park, close to you would like to receive such introduction of a review mechanism the market town of Settle? beautiful kitchen that’s fully alfresco dining space and offers by text or email. would ensure that the maximum reason- Littlebank runs as a equipped for cooking up all stunning views. With stables Editorial: 020 3615 2650 able amount of affordable housing is successful, rather grand those full English breakfasts. and grazing land there’s Advertisement manager: determined at a point in the project B&B, with eight guest There’s a detached barn with space for an equestrian Ann Finan when actual costs and values are known, bedrooms, opulent reception planning permission to business or smallholding, Advertising: 020 3615 0266 and many of the uncertainties currently rooms, a large games room, create a holiday cottage, and too. It’s on the market with Homes & Property, Northcliffe facing the project have been settled,” a beamed sun room and a three-acre gardens offering Hunters (01756 535000). House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, explains Taylor. London W8 5TT. O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week a gorgeous, glossy balcony flat in a connected new quarter in NW6 £499,950: Kilburn Quarter’s latest phase, Park Terrace, a collection of 52 new homes, is well worth venturing to NW6 for this Saturday, for the launch of this gorgeous new show apartment. The first floor, one- bedroom flat showcases a bright, roomy open-plan space, great for entertaining in the living/dining area while you cook up a storm in the high-spec glossy kitchen, all lit by wall-to-wall glass doors to a large decked balcony overlooking landscaped communal gardens. The bedroom also enjoys a stretch of balcony, while the bathroom is very spa-chic. Nearby Kilburn Park Tube gets you to Paddington in under five and what will be a children’s play minutes, while green space area and new park. Through includes leafy boulevards Hamptons (020 2451 1544). By Faye Greenslade EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Brand Beckham This is the hits Covent Garden headline that É DAVID BECKHAM and his business partner Daniel Kearns, right, are goes like this leasing a unit in Floral Street, Covent Garden, for their Kent & Curwen British heritage sportswear flagship store. The soccer superstar and the designer have agreed terms with property giant Capco to rent the 1,800sq ft space and are expected to Peace has its price in Hampstead open their doors in September. Designed by Paris-based Architecture + É LIAM GALLAGHER’S old cottage, Associés, the concept is inspired by a above and above right, is for sale in skylit vintage gym and features a Vale of Health bordering Hampstead central box in aged metal and hand- Village. The rocker and his girlfriend blown green glass. Debbie Gwyther, right, now live in an Beckham and Kearns are in good apartment in the next-door north company, with Paul Smith at one end of London village of Highgate. the street and Petersham Nurseries at The ex-Oasis singer lived in the the other in Capco’s new Floral Court two-bedroom cottage from 2006 to

redevelopment. GETTY 2010, selling to the current owners in GETTY 2014, the year after the collapse of his marriage to All Saints singer When Meg met Nicole Appleton. Across the ground floor is a bright, spacious open-plan Justin and Harry reception room with wooden floors and a fireplace, leading out to a patio É MEG RYAN has bought a flat in terrace. Upstairs is the master en- New York’s fashionable Tribeca suite bedroom, plus the second district. The star of When Harry Met bedroom and separate bathroom. Sally splashed out £7.02 million on a If you fancy a summer cottage in a three-bedroom, three-bathroom flat quiet spot, the property is listed for in the same building as singers Justin By Amira Hashish sale with Savills at £1.65 million. Timberlake and Harry Styles. The actress, above, has sold her O For more celebrity gossip, visit SoHo loft conversion, which was on Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip the market for £8.5 million, in order

REX to move into the glittering new build, below, where communal facilities include a 71ft indoor swimming pool, Haslam knows how Haslam’s stamp: a wine cellar and a rooftop terrace. interior designer A self-confessed interior design to spoil a celeb Nicky Haslam, addict, Ryan has renovated 10 homes left, designed this in recent years. Her new place will be ÉNICKY HASLAM, interior Knightsbridge kitted out with all mod cons but she designer to celebrities including house, right and will be able to put her spin on it with Mick Jagger, Roman Abramovich, below, with vintage furniture and statement art. Bryan Ferry and Rod Stewart, customary created a glam Knightsbridge home luxurious ﬂair that’s now on the market for £16.95 million with Rokstone. The five-bedroom house, opposite Hyde Park and with Harrods and Harvey Nichols on the doorstep, is pure Haslam luxury, with a spa floor including gym, Jacuzzi, steam room and rainshower room. There’s a cinema that converts into a bar, and a swimming pool with latest triple- jet tech. There is even a rising floor

for when you require a stage. MCFADDEN DAMIEN 6 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by

Thinking of moving? Start your search on Your luck’s in Goodluck Hope launches this week, part of a new district with thousands of homes, a riverbus service to the City and a true Docklands cultural vibe. By David Spittles

OODLUCK HOPE, a new Docklands neighbourhood, is unveiled this week, one of the last ele- ments of an ambitious Gregeneration programme at Leamouth Peninsula, formed by a bend in the River Lea before it drops into the Thames just east of Canary Wharf. In this booming part of east London, a community with 800 homes and a riverside cultural centre is being created. A riverbus pier is being built to connect this new address to the City and central London, adding a traditional mode of transport to the area’s fast-improving rail links. Architecturally the design of the development is back to the future, with brick-clad warehouse-style buildings Spire London: completing rather than shiny glass-and-steel. The in 2020, the 770ft block, name Goodluck Hope is taken from right, crowned with a medieval shipping maps of London. cocktail bar, will be Surrounded by water on three sides, western Europe’s tallest the site borders historic Trinity Buoy residential building Wharf, where a live-work artists’ colony exists, with recording studios and an office campus created from disused boats and commercial vessels as well INTERIORS NOD TO Yet artists, writers and animators are shipping containers alongside the as having a primary school. Here, too, INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE among the 650 people who have capital’s only remaining Victorian incongruously perhaps, is The Royal Interior design is inspired by industrial already moved into the 1,700-home lighthouse. Drawing School, founded in 2000 by lofts, in open-plan apartments with complex, says communications direc- the Prince of Wales. factory-like floor-to-ceiling Crittall tor Hayleigh O’Farrell. “What’s really A VIGOROUS VIBE THAT’S A central street lined on one side by windows. Prices start at £335,000 for surprised us is that people have moved AUTHENTIC DOCKLANDS townhouses with “atelier” spaces for one-bedroom flats. Call 020 7637 0800. here from Battersea, Chelsea, Hackney In its 19th-century heyday, the shipyard homeworkers will cut through the Completion is due in 2020. and Southwark. They see it as an attrac- was one of the British Empire’s “work- scheme, while a listed dry dock, with Ballymore expects to benefit from tive place to be.” shops of the world”, bustling with its structure re-formed to the outline nearby London City Island, an ambi- Traditionally, Londoners have looked tradesmen, a heritage that developer of a great cruise liner, is to become a tious award-winning project, formerly west for fun and fashion. A generation Ballymore seeks to revive by “creating social amenity. a margarine works, proving a hit with on, they no longer see Docklands as an environment where creative indi- Another dockside block, at the end home buyers and high-profile arts the back of beyond. Some of the capi- viduals and companies come together of a new promenade, will house a spa organisations. English National Ballet tal’s most glamorous new housing to meet, work and share ideas”. and swimming pool, café and restau- and London Film School have relo- schemes are under way in the wider There is already a vigour about this rants, a microbrewery, cinema and cated to dazzling new headquarters Canary Wharf area. district. It has a certain local vibe, an wifi-enabled work zone. Between the there. Bond Street is only 20 minutes For many people, this part of Dock- authenticity that much of the Dock- buildings will be small parks and pas- away on the Jubilee line. lands is an alternative to central Lon- lands of the Eighties lacks, being a Me time: a dockside block will house a sageways, while views across and along For finance workers, Canary Wharf don, with more in common with working section of the river, with tug spa and pool, cinema and restaurants the river are spectacular. is only a four-minute ride on the Tube. downtown areas of Chicago or Singa-

Make new friends: Goodluck Hope’s listed dry dock will become a social amenity From £335,000 for a one-bedroom ﬂat: Goodluck Hope homes at Leamouth Peninsula feature industrial interior styling EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 7 New homes | Homes & Property

Gaze across to Canary Wharf: Goodluck Hope has water views on three sides ALAMY New arts quarter: Trinity Buoy Wharf, site of London’s last remaining lighthouse pore than with Belgravia or St John’s Wood. It has wooed global banks but steadfast central Londoners have not been convinced, prompting developers to introduce a new level of luxury living. CANARY WHARF SINGS A NEW SONG Though synonymous with Docklands, Canary Wharf is in fact a private 97-acre estate with its own ring-of-steel security cordon. Until now, it has been a work and shopping district, but this is changing with a 20-acre extension of the estate bringing more than 3,000 homes. First up is One Park Drive, a telescope- shape skyscraper with 483 flats designed by big-name architects Herzog & de Meuron, of Tate Modern fame. It is an architectural From £425,000: Landmark Pinnacle garden square ﬂats, South West India Dock tour de force, unlike anything else in Lon- don. With a rippling, ivory-coloured terra- cotta exterior, the 58-storey tower has interlocking bays and includes fabulous loft-style homes that are functional as well as beautiful, with sliding glass walls and deep curved terraces or double-height recessed balconies. From £575,000. Call 020 7001 3800. First completions in 2020. Landmark Pinnacle has 994 flats and is the greenest of the crop in South West India Dock. There’s a garden square on the 27th floor and other exotically landscaped inter- nal spaces, play areas and a spectacular communal roof terrace. From £425,000. Completion in 2020. Call 020 3905 6826. When complete in 2020, Spire London will be the tallest residential building in western Europe, at 770ft with 861 flats and a cocktail bar at the top. Prices from £595,000. Call CBRE on 020 3841 6565. South Quay Plaza, with 888 homes, has a residents’ club, private cinema and spa on the 56th floor. Designed by Foster + Partners, the scheme brings a new dockside promenade and pocket park, along with shops, bars and restaurants. The tower is being built at a 45-degree rotation to ensure apartments are dual aspect. Floor-to-ceiling glazing maximises

views. Prices start at £490,000. Call 020 GETTY 3675 4400. Completion is in 2020. Affordable workspace: Container City, Trinity Buoy Wharf, near Goodluck Hope 8 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Commute to the country

IVING in the country is SPORTY VILLAGES good for the body as well as the soul, with a recent Office for National Statistics study suggesting that reducedL pollution, less stress, a bit of relaxing fruit and veg growing and all Keep the that fresh air and exercise can add up to two years to your life. If you are into horse riding, wild swimming or tennis, a move to one of these sporty hotspots could see you lasting even family fit longer. CHIPPENHAM, WILTSHIRE HORSE RIDING and happy There are few sounds more redolent of country living than the clatter of horses’ hooves, and the market town The commute will be worth it if of Chippenham and surrounding villages are perfect for horsey types. your sport-mad family is content. On the edge of the Cotswolds, this rolling landscape was made for Ruth Bloomfield finds villages exploring on horseback. You are also an easy drive from perfect for fresh air and exercise Badminton House and Gatcombe Park, for international-level three- day eventing. There are plenty of Thinking of giving moving stables and livery yards around Chippenham, whether you are very a sporting chance? Start skilled or an absolute beginner. Trains from Chippenham to your search on Paddington take from an hour and 14 minutes — though when the hugely delayed electrification of the Great Western Main Line finally completes this will be cut to about an hour. The commute is expensive, at £10,060 for an annual season ticket. Paul Hulbert, director of Hulbert Richardson estate agents, says most home at least part of the time, and London, Chippenham itself can seem For budding Andy Murrays: above, London buyers coming to while some opt for a home in the pretty rural” — others seek out Bath SE Tennis is a centre of excellence and Chippenham intend to work from town — “to someone coming from stone cottages in villages such as top-level coaching for children and Kington St Michael, which has a adults near Bearsted primary school with an “outstanding” Ofsted rating, plus a pub and a tea £310,000: left, a four-bedroom period shop, and is only three miles north of house at The Causeway, Chippenham. Chippenham’s shops and station. Call Allen & Harris (01249 536806) A three-bedroom semi-detached chocolate-box cottage would cost signs erected by the parish council. £300,000-£400,000, a four- The other wild swimming option bedroom executive home would be nearby is Frensham Great Pond, a about £500,000, and £750,000 corridor” and into Surrey and the huge sandy lake set in forest and Packing in the would buy a four- to five-bedroom Surrey Hills for a dip in clear, shallow open heathland. action: If detached house with good gardens. waters where the two branches of the Tilford is three miles outside eventing is your River Wey meet at a medieval bridge Farnham, from where commuter bag, the right TILFORD, SURREY in the village of Tilford. This spot is trains will get you to Waterloo in just move for you WILD SWIMMING tipped by wildswimming.co.uk as under an hour. An annual season could be to one of the best places in Britain to ticket costs from £3,968. Tilford is Chippenham — Residents of south-west London swim outdoors and chlorine free — very much your quintessential just the ticket for longing for a wild swim could move though you’ll need to pretend you English commuter village, with

ALAMY horsey types further along the A3 “wealth haven’t seen the “no swimming” cricket on the green and a local pub EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 9 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Commute to the country | Homes & Property

Wet and wild: wild swimming, left, in rural lakes and rivers is more popular than ever, and at the medieval bridge, right, in the Surrey village of Tilford, the clean, clear waters of the River Wey are recommended by wildswimming. co.uk — though the local parish council isn’t exactly on board

GETTY with the notion ALAMY SE TENNIS/JULIAN SQUIERS SE TENNIS/JULIAN

£530,000: a BEARSTED, KENT four-bedroom TENNIS listed period cottage in Bridge With Wimbledon on your mind you Square, an easy might like to search out Bearsted & walk from the Thurnham Lawn Tennis Club as a town centre and great way to make new friends. This railway station in is one of the larger village clubs in Farnham, Kent. Kent, with more than 400 members, Call Bourne a friendly attitude to newcomers, (01252 915095) and the opportunity to play for fun, have some coaching or join a league. selling pork belly and quails eggs on There are regular socials in the club toast. It is not deepest countryside house, and the village has a couple of but it is surrounded by woodland pubs on the green alongside some walks — scenes from Gladiator were breathtaking country cottages. filmed at Bourne Woods — and close Just outside Maidstone, Bearsted is to Farnham Common Nature also close to SE Tennis, a local centre Reserve. You can also canoe along of excellence offering coaching and the River Wey, play tennis in courses for adults and kids. There are Wrecclesham village nearby, or cycle more golf and tennis clubs nearby, in the Surrey Hills. and the village’s location at the foot The village schools are strong. of the North Downs is perfect for Waverley Abbey Juniors gets a “good” walkers and runners. Ofsted rating, while All Saints CofE £875,000: Bearsted has its own station and Aided Infant School scores an ﬁve-bedroom trains to Victoria take just over an “outstanding” report. London Plantation House hour. An annual season ticket costs families will get more space for their in Bearsted, near from £4,408. This village is large money, with a three- to four-bedroom Maidstone, is a enough to have several restaurants cottage in Tilford costing about listed former Inn. and cafés, a clutch of shops, and £700,000, or a four- to five-bedroom Call Your Move three top-performing schools in detached house upwards of £1 million. (01622 922061 ) Madginford Primary, Roseacre Juniors and Thurnham Church of England Infants. The centre is delightful but this is a village of two halves, with quaint “old” Bearsted, and an urban sprawl of newer post-war houses extending south of the A20. Jonathan Woolgrove, senior branch partner at Ward & Partners says about a quarter of his buyers are thirty- or fortysomethings with families, looking to commute and drawn to Bearsted’s schools. “Our village green is beautiful and busy,” says Woolgrove. “We have music festivals, circuses and fêtes. A three-bedroom post-war semi in Bearsted would cost about £350,000 to £400,000. A four-bedroom historic cottage would cost between £650,000 and £800,000. 10 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Architecture COMMENT Londoners must be safe in our city of towers

Existing fire safety regulations are inadequate to protect high-rise residents. The recommendations of the Grenfell Tower inquiry must be enforced, says architecture writer Peter Murray PA Devastation: the blaze at Grenfell Tower, North Kensington, is believed to have killed at least 79 people

FTER every major tower block fire in source, and which do much less damage to homes recent history, guidance has been than a conventional sprinkler. issued. Following the fire in 14-storey Maintenance is a real issue in local authority Lakanal House in Camberwell in July buildings, particularly in the face of cuts to budgets. 2009, in which six people died and Experts and residents regularly complain of flats moreA than 20 were injured, the expert coroner without fire doors that will protect from fire for suggested a string of changes to the regulations between 30 and 60 minutes, long enough for the covering residential towers that included install- rescue services to arrive; they complain that fire ing sprinkler systems. doors are often left wedged open, that smoke seals She criticised the continued use of flammable have rotted around the doorways, or that piles of materials and the advice that, in the event of fire rubbish are left on fire escape stairs. Looking at tower block residents should “stay put” in their the way the Grenfell Tower fire spread through the flats until they could be rescued by firefighters. interior of the building, the investigators will need But almost nothing happened. If the coroner’s to look long and hard at how well these key ele- advice had been followed, if regulations had been ments of protection were working, and consider changed, would the fire in Grenfell Tower have how often such buildings are inspected. Did they been so devastating? have signs in many languages with clear instruc- The 24-storey North Kensington tower could tions of what to do in event of a fire? have housed as many as 500 residents. It was built When you look at the speed with which the fire in 1974. The regulations that cover old and new spread, it is clear the current fire regulations are buildings differ and there is no defined time no longer fit for purpose. There has been talk of period in the UK for updating them. Grenfell was a review for some years; it’s over a decade since both old and newly refurbished. the last update, in spite of the Lakanal findings. A report by the London Assembly housing and This may be partly down to the fact that fire safety planning committee in 2010 stated that 527,000 was not seen as a major issue because fatalities Londoners live in tall buildings, many of which in England dropped by a third between 2002 and are included in refurbishment programmes. 2012. Buildings are safer, appliances more relia- Ironically, it argued that major building refurbish- ble, we have fewer open fires, and furniture foam ment can often increase the risk of fires spreading is non-combustible. The idea of anything on the in completed buildings. scale of Grenfell Tower was unthinkable. In the Seventies there were a number of fires in The lack of action may also be due to the fact that towers similar to Grenfell Tower but they were we have had no fewer than 15 housing ministers in generally contained within the flat where they the last 20 years. As soon as they understand started because the concrete structure contained something about their job they get moved on. the fire and the exteriors were not combustible. HE government inquiry into the trag- The cosmetic improvement of many London towers edy of Grenfell Tower must not only in recent years has new and unforeseen dangers. ascertain the causes of the fire and There is still no requirement for the core of the propose remedies, it must also ensure panels that are used to reclad buildings to be fire- mechanisms are in place to remind us resistant. Tthat we can never take fire safety for granted. According to forensic architect Christopher Like Ronan Point, Fairfield House, Summerland Miers at Probyn Miers, who specialises in assess- and King’s Cross, Grenfell Tower will be etched ing the causes of fires, specific fire-safety regula- in the annals of building regulation, as it is in the tions do not have to be followed to the letter “as hearts of Londoners. It must herald a major long as you meet the overall requirement”. change in the way we build, procure and manage The use of sprinklers is a source of debate. buildings. We owe it to the victims of Grenfell. We Authorities are concerned about sprinklers in are a city of towers. We owe it to Londoners to public spaces, such as corridors, because they offer regulations that protect them. A tragedy are a target for vandalism, but they could be effec- such as this should never happen again. tive in a flat which is the source of a fire. Today there are new technologies such as water mist O Peter Murray is chairman of the influential suppression systems that can stop fires at their think tank New London Architecture 12 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design

Outdoor fabrics By Barbara Chandler Above: Festoon outdoor lights, £60; Cabana pod chair, £349; Madrid armchair, £275, stool £75, and modular corner unit (two shown) £250; outdoor rug, £65-£390, all johnlewis.com

Washable: Fisher Ticking cotton rug, from £38 at dashand alberteurope.com, or Luma in Barnes, SW13 (020 8748 2264)

Above: fuchsia Trimaran Stripe outdoor pouffe, £292 from Dash & Albert (as before)

Right: The White Company’s Outdoor Living range for beach or garden includes the Pembridge striped scatter cushion £35; dark blue Aubrey outdoor mattress, £160; metal cloche to protect food, £49 and soft seagrass basket, £48

UMMERY design meets as in.” The new fabrics are typically advanced technology in a new synthetic yet they aren’t shiny, they generation of outdoor fabrics. have a natural texture and they feel Colourful and pleasing to the good, with a coating to resist rain, dirt touch, used in cushions, chairs, and stains. And they won’t fade — even sofasS and even rugs, these materials coping with chlorine by a pool. Teamed soften the hard surfaces of urban gar- with frames of synthetic woven rope, dens, drab patios and city courtyards. and/or treated timber and stainless Heather McCann, creative director of steel, cushioned furniture with quick- London outdoor furniture specialist dry fillings can stay outside all year. Indian Ocean — stocked in Harrods and with showrooms in Balham and BUTTERFLIES ARE BIG Hampstead — calls it a “fabric revolu- Go for cream, caramel or grey for large tion”, and adds: “We are doing fully pieces of outdoor furniture — this is upholstered furniture as sleek for out your smart neutral background. Then,

Right: the Gio outdoor sofa by Antonio Citterio for B&B Italia, in Alceo weather-resistant fabric. A two-seater sofa is £6,995 at Chaplins in Pinner (chaplins.co.uk; 020 8421 1779)

Below: Escapade outdoor sofa designed by Zeno Nugari for Roche Bobois, with removable covers in Michelangelo and patterned Papavero outdoor fabrics by Missoni. Priced £2,950 at Harrods, SW1. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 13 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Design | Homes & Property

Above: Dash & Albert Catamaran Stripe rug in denim, from £48; outdoor cushions Above: lounger cover in Butterﬂy Garden from £68, Samode tote bag from £50, at dashandalberteurope.com or Luma, SW13 fabric, £69 a metre, osborneandlittle.com

Right: Indian Ocean’s Berlin table and chairs have angled teak legs. The Berlin chair has a smooth aluminium seat and the cushions come in a choice of four bright colours. Table £1,675, chairs £375 each, from indian-ocean. co.uk (020 8675 4808)

maybe for a chair, add brighter shades protection. Amara (amara.com) has pretty fabric collection by Osborne & including Zimmer + Rhode and Sun- and patterns from “designer” brands, classic Missoni zigzag cushions from Little, with printed and woven designs. brella, from about £40. Chaplins has plus cushions, to get the look. Cushions £144, and its own brand for £100, with See them at King’s Road, SW3. an upmarket outdoor department in its from £10-£20 sold as “outdoor” come Designers Guild reduced to £34.30. huge Pinner store, where top continen- in palm prints at H&M and covered in Interior designer Annie Selke, well Above: Marina chair with cushions in FEELS JUST LIKE LINEN tal labels offer weather-resistant uphol- splashy butterflies at Sainsbury’s. known in the US, has chic outdoor Osborne & Little’s Pina Colada fabric, London designer Richard Ward makes stery by big-name designers (chaplins. Ikea has loads of neat, boxy floor cush- cushions and rugs on her UK website £1,495 from indian-ocean.co.uk sturdy beech-framed folding rocking co.uk; Uxbridge Road, HA5). A summer ions with easy-carry handles, from dashandalberteurope.com. They are chairs in his Wawa workshop off special is the Vibe set, fully upholstered about £10, and tie-on pads for loungers stocked, with other brands, at Luma SW10 do outdoor ranges. Or visit the Columbia Road, in Ezra Street, E2, open in tough Sunbrella fabric with quick-dry and chairs are everywhere. in Barnes, SW13 (020 8748 2264). fabric bar at Harrods. Just arrived in Sunday to Friday (foldingrockingchair. foam in a smart plain grey. You get a Bear in mind that cheaper cushions Indian Ocean does cushions by the Knightsbridge store is French brand co.uk; 020 7729 6768). They come in a sofa, two armchairs and a table for may resist a splash but you have to Dedar, Casamance, Pierre Frey and Roche Bobois with the Escapade great choice of polypropylene fabrics £2,800, delivered within days. spend a lot more to get quick-dry fillings Designers Guild, or make your own. stunning outdoor sofa dressed in fash- that feel like cotton canvas or linen Rugs in woven synthetic fibres are the and a good synthetic water-repellent Most of the fabric showrooms at ionable Missoni (roche-bobois.com; weave. There’s also a cushion-making latest outdoor furnishing. You can even fabric that feels soft and has UV fade Design Centre Chelsea Harbour in harrods.com). Sea Breeze is a very service for all the outdoor fabrics, hose them down. 14 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Homes abroad

From £217,000: new apartments at Holland Park in the south-east of the city. Through Engel & Völkers

£390,000: a one-bedroom ﬂat with a courtyard garden by a canal in the on-trend Jordaan area, recently

ALAMY gentriﬁed. Through Engel & Völkers Waterfront living: homes on Amsterdam’s Unesco-listed canal ring are prized

HERE are more bicycles than residents in Amster- dam city centre and the A city that loves deference offered to riders if remarkable. Cyclists pedal Tnonchalantly the wrong way down one-way streets, ferrying children in to break rules low-level boxes on the front of their bikes — yet tram drivers stop for them and taxi drivers reluctantly give way to Cathy Hawker finds historic townhouses and them. Cyclists rule in this wonderful, water-filled place. new homes for sale in maverick Amsterdam Amsterdam is a rare city where residents live in the centre and commute townhouse with a small outside space to the outskirts, giving a real lived-in is on the market for £1.4 million through buzz to the 17th-century townhouses, Engel & Völkers. Agents Broersma have cafés and bars on the Unesco-listed an elegant two-bedroom apartment on canal ring. The city’s popularity is a prime stretch of the Keizersgracht growing. Tourist numbers are up more canal for £816,000. than five per cent year on year, helped West of the centre it’s a 10-minute by new five-star hotels, while average walk to highly desirable Oud West, property prices have doubled since where a newly renovated 1,000sq ft 2008, says Barbara van der Grijp of two-bedroom apartment with excellent Engel & Völkers. rental potential looks good value for “People like Amsterdam because it £500,000, again on the market through is essentially seven villages clustered Engel & Völkers. The ground-floor in one human-sized city,” she says. apartment faces a canal and has its own “Each village has its own charm yet front door, pale oak floors, boxy white you can cycle everywhere in a short radiators and extra-tall dark doors and time and that gives a freedom and ease windows. to living here that people really appre- ciate.” NEW BUILD AT THE Neighbourhoods especially in DUTCH HOLLAND PARK demand include Jordaan — a newly We love the healthy gentrified but still characterful and Residents priced out of the historic city buzzy area beside the main canals — and cultured lifestyle centre are snapping up new homes at and De Pijp to the south. Holland Park in the south east. This Traditionally, the most expensive JOHN AND LIZ HISCOCK relocated is a greenfield site being converted into properties were along the three main from Chelmsford to Amsterdam 18 a new district with canals, retail units concentric canals — Herengracht, months ago when John’s company and about 6,000 apartments. Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht — but moved its European HQ to the Dutch Prices start from £217,000 for a two- this year they have been overtaken by city. The couple live 10 minutes’ walk bedroom apartment and the project is the southern Museum District around from the main train station in the attracting impressive numbers of buy- the upmarket shopping street of PC centre of Amsterdam and love the ers, according to Engel & Völkers’ Van Hooftstraat. city’s healthy and cultural lifestyle. der Grijp. Global businesses with headquarters “Getting into the cycle culture is a “The aim is to create a new live-work in Amsterdam include Netflix, Nike and necessity and we cycle a lot, not just area of the city and we’ve seen buyers booking.com and their staff like being in the city but also along the river reserving 80 homes in a single week- close to the international schools in the through lovely small villages,” says end because it is difficult to find any- south of the city. Liz. “When the weather is bad we visit thing at this price in Amsterdam,” she the museums.” She joined says. RESALE HOMES IN InterNations (internations.org), the “Holland Park is convenient, 14 min- PRIME LOCATIONS world’s largest network and utes from Central Station and 12 min- information site for people living and utes to Vondelpark [the central city Expect to pay from £430,000 for an working abroad. It has an active public park] and all homes are free- 810sq ft two-bedroom unmodernised community in Amsterdam, organising hold, an important issue in Amsterdam apartment on the prime canals, and events and offering local advice. where 80 per cent of property is lease- from £900,000 for an entire canal- “Amsterdam has a great vibe and is hold.” front townhouse. welcoming and easy to get to know,” In Jordaan, on the prized Prinsen- adds Liz. “There’s always something O Engel & Völkers: engelvoelkers. gracht canal and 10 minutes’ walk from going on. English is widely spoken, so com/amsterdam Amsterdam Central Station, a newly I can get by with my limited Dutch.” O Broersma: broersma.nl modernised five-floor four-bedroom O Holland Park: hollandpark.nl 18 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Crafts ickck a starstasts ar By Corinne Julius

OYAL College of Art and Central Saint Martins graduates have a track record of influencing our homes and what we use in them, from furniture, textiles and decor to gadgetry. Alumni who are now household names include James Dyson, ThomasR Heatherwick, Robin and Lucienne Day and Terence Conran, but annual graduate shows in the coming weeks will reveal the new crop of potential future stars.

O See the graduates’ work at the Royal College of Art from June 24 to July 2 (closed June 30), noon to 8pm daily, at Kensington Gore, SW7 (Design Products and Textiles); at Howie Street, SW11 (Ceramics and Glass), and at Central Saint Martins, June 21-25, at 1 Granary Square, N1 (visit rca.ac.uk and csm.arts.ac.uk).

Elegant simplicity: the RCA’s Design Products department has traditionally encouraged students to investigate ways of developing material and processes. Han Su steam-bends ply to make this high beech stool, left, priced £350.

Take a seat: softness gone crazy is the contribution from RCA Textiles graduate Tom Collison. His thought- provoking range of contemporary seating, based on the compression, tension and suspension of stuffed fabrics, includes this stool, below. From £200.

What lies beneath: furniture and product Sculptural: RCA contemporary ceramicist designer Tianyi Shi, a Central Saint Martins MA Christopher Riggio’s range of strikingly beautiful student, deconstructs everyday upholstered vessels in paste earthenware and glass are priced furniture, exposing the hidden foam, to drive the from £300. They have the appearance of sculpted design and practical form of new pieces. stone, with jewel-like stoppers and inlays. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 19 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Crafts | Homes & Property

Other-worldly: Mette Marie Lyng- Venetian Terrazzo style: Gotcha! Eye-catching ceramics and Petersen’s lights, below, using both ornate work comes from RCA sculpture from the RCA’s Roseanne ceramics and glass, have a sci-ﬁ aesthetic. ceramicist Ines Suarez de Connolly includes Talons, below, cast Was the up-and-coming RCA ceramicist Puga, such as this patterned in bronze. thinking of jellyﬁsh — or perhaps some earthenware platter, below, strange type of fungus? with stained inlays. Her collection includes furniture using the same effect.

Saving the forests: right, Joachim Froment of RCA Design Products has discovered a new way to laminate wood with carbon ﬁbre to create this elegant, thin chair that’s strong and supremely light at less than two kilos. He hopes it will help to reduce wood consumption.

Bright ideas: Central Saint Martins graduate Suji Kim designs colourful wallcoverings and these bold and tactile rugs, left, using carpet cut-offs.

And so to bed: the Material Futures department at Central Saint Martins explores the intersection of craft, science and tech. Lena Saleh’s sculptural but functional objects aim to help the sleepless. They track sleeping patterns and adapt the environment in the room, for example lowering the radiator temperature, changing the light levels and emitting speciﬁc scents that promote mindfulness and optimise sleep. This lamp, left, is £295. 20 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Outdoors Let’s all have the full English Pack in roses, alliums, lilacs and even a mini wildflower meadow Pattie Flanking the lawn: oversized Barron box pyramids and a wildﬂower

meadow, above

Rural bliss in town: left, Butter UCKED behind a pretty Vic- Wakeﬁeld in her torian villa in Stamford country-style Brook, Chiswick, Butter garden Wakefield’s garden is crammed with roses, alliums,T sweet rocket, valerian and every sort of countryside flower imaginable. Gardening “I wanted the full English,” says Amer- problems? ican-born Wakefield, a garden designer whose light planting touch won her a Email our RHS Gold medal at the RHS Chatsworth expert at: expert gardeningadvice Flower Show earlier this month. @gmail.com However, the garden is not cottage- garden chaotic, but carefully orches- trated in a predominant colour scheme Photographs:: of pinks, lilacs and purples. The lawn is Clive Nichols kept neat at the edges with a brick mow- ing strip, while exuberant plants such Contrast: below, as catmint and geraniums are prevented a formal urn with from flopping on to the grass with low red campion, wire border supports, prodded in all buttercups and a the way along. hydrangea Most importantly, there is a strong evergreen structure provided by over- kinds opens up the spectrum for all sized box pyramids that run down kinds of pollinators. What’s interesting either side of the borders. “When I is that this second year it’s getting better moved here in 1992, I put them in and better. I never had red campion last straightaway, when they were teeny year, for instance, and this year it’s eve- blobs,” she says. “The clipped shape rywhere.” anchors everything. In the winter, all Maintenance, she says, is simple. “The the flowers disappear, so to have these company gave me instructions to cut it big fat pyramids really gives you some- halfway down in midsummer and thing to look at.” gather up all the cuttings, to give the plants room and air to grow, then in late Wakefield’s design principles include autumn, you cut it right back to the overscaling in a small space and creating ground and leave it to seed.” a rhythm through repetition, both Anyone can have a meadow, she says. informed by an early spell as an assist- “I had some surplus turf and divided it ant at Colefax & Fowler, the interior into two apple crates and displayed design institution. “The disciplines of them at Chelsea Flower Show last year. scale, texture, pattern, everything, are They were a great success. The exper- transferable from indoors to outside.” iment showed me that you could have Despite the abundance of summer a piece of the countryside even on a flowers, the major attraction in Wake- balcony.” field’s garden right now is a compara- Roses line the walls, blurring the tively new wildflower meadow that boundaries of the garden, and thrive sweeps across the lawn, leaving an invit- on a nutritious diet of banana peel and Mauve-and-white Little Nell is a great ing curved path down the centre. It’s a coffee grounds. One of her many one, with a sweet scent and tulip flow- triumph of country-in-the-town, with favourites is white rose Madame Alfred ers.” What Wakefield chooses to grow, sanguisorba, meadow buttercups, wild Carrière. “It’s the first to flower and the she says, is all about what she can pick carrot, cornflowers and bellis daisies last to flower. I have two bookending and bring inside. “As soon as I get in on scattered among the tall grasses but the the north-facing border, because they’ll Friday, at the end of the day, I will come real delight, says Wakefield, is that you grow anywhere.” out here and pick roses, alchemilla and never know what’s coming up next. whatever is in bloom for the house. The “Last year I thought all that grass was Her secret weapons to keep the colour scents are wonderful. It just makes me rather boring, so I thought I’d have a flowing through summer are late-flower- so happy. I believe that if nature was on meadow. This one came in rolls from ing clematis. “When the roses finish, prescription for mental health, we’d all Wildflower Turf and you just roll it out you’ve had your first flush of perennials be better off.” like regular lawn turf, sit back and watch and everything dips, the clematis viticel- the show unfold. All I did in preparation las go: ‘Pa-pah!’ Every shrub in my gar- O Butter Wakefield can be was lift the turf that was here, and turn den — lilac, viburnum, philadelphus commissioned at butterwakefield. over the ground beneath. I wanted the — has a viticella clematis scrambling co.uk most bang for my buck so I got a native through it, because they extend the and non-native wildflower mix, which season and they’re so easy: you just ■ For outdoor events this month, visit is better for biodiversity, because both whack them back, early in the year. homesandproperty.co.uk/events 22 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Our home homesandproperty.co.uk

The power of positive thinking: Catherine and Felix Finkernagel coped with major crises, not least ﬁnancial

Transformation: the couple, both architects did a triple extension — a big, light-ﬁlled box on the back of the ground ﬂoor, a smaller one on top and a loft conversion

Photographs:: Juliet Murphy It was all going horribly wrong Beset by the banking crisis, a five-year planning hold-up and a wire-chewing rat, a young family battled on to turn an Edwardian ‘dump’ in east London from drab to fab. By Philippa Stockley

VEN the best-laid building façade had gone, the garden was over- plans don’t factor in the havoc grown and it was a total dump, says Cath- that can be caused by a bank- erine. They bought it. They wanted to ing crisis, a five-year planning stay in their Leyton home while the work battle — and a hungry rodent. went on, so they got a bridging loan. “We ButE the Wanstead home of Catherine and came home one evening and Lehman Felix Finkernagel, both architects, Brothers had gone bust.” Catherine says. proves it can all come good in the end. It was the start of the 2008 crash. They Catherine, 45, is American and Felix, lost their banker clients overnight. 47, is German. They met at college in Texas, and moved to London so Cather- EVERY CLOUD… ine could finish her studies. They only Catherine decided to work full time on planned to be here two years, but Felix their own house: “We decided that even got a job, so they stayed, first in a one- if it all went wrong, we’d have a nice bedroom rental flat in Fitzrovia, then a house in a good area.” She honed every Victorian terrace in Leyton in east Lon- last detail, down to door handles and don — the only area with decent trans- hinges, which meant the build was fast port where they could afford a house, and smooth, with no expensive which they did up. In 2004, they set up changes. their own firm, mainly doing top-end The couple had decided on a triple homes, with rich bankers as clients. extension — a big, light-filled box on the back of the opened-up ground floor — A BITTER BANKING BLOW plus a smaller extension on top of that In 2007, expecting their first child, Miles, to hold a bedroom and a bathroom, and the pair decided it was time to find a a simple loft conversion at the top. good family home. They had friends in Catherine knew the ground-level exten- Wanstead, east of Leyton, so on a whim sion would go through planning as there they looked there and found it was a were others nearby, so she applied for it good spot for affordable family homes. along with a basic loft conversion that A local agent suggested the Aldersbrook followed strict local guidelines. Essen- area, an attractive enclave of solid tially, she made a staircase up through Edwardian family houses with big gar- the old bathroom and just put in two dens on the southern edge of Wanstead dormer windows. By following the rules Park and golf course, near fast transport to the letter, she got fast consents and links. They found a three-bedroom house gutting began in May 2008, with this first to do up near the park. The Edwardian phase done, incredibly, by December. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 23 powered by Our home | Homes & Property

Facelift: details of the house’s lost Edwardian façade have been restored

Timeline and cost 2001: Leyton house bought for £140,000 Works done by the Finkernagels, excluding fees: £50,000 2008: sold for £385,000 2008: bought Wanstead three-bedroom 1,500sq ft house for £462,000 Works: £150,000 (£250,000 at today’s On-budget: the bespoke kitchen island in white composite, Ikea carcasses with bespoke door fronts, and handles that were far cheaper from the US rates) excluding fees Value of 2,000sq ft five-bedroom house now: £1.2 million (estimate)

Catherine’s top tips O Put the utility room on the bedroom floor, where most dirty washing is created. Who wants to see knickers going round in the washing machine while you’re eating? O Our big trough sink only cost about £200 and is great for family wash time. O Don’t knock out all the walls — you need them to put furniture against and hang pictures on.

Get the look O Architects: Catherine and Felix Finkernagel at Finkernagel Ross (finkernagelross.com) O Gutex ecological building system: gutex.de/en/home/ O Smoked oak floorboards: sourced Above: the from AB Lewis (ablewis.co.uk) handsome master O Sliding doors to garden: from bedroom in what Schueco (schueco.com) used to be a drab O Bronze switch plates and handles: property, now a from SB Ironmongery Solutions light, friendly (sbironmongery.co.uk) home in O Semi-pendant lights over dining Wanstead, E11 table: by Gubi (gubi.dk/en) O Eero Saarinen Tulip table: from knoll.com Right: a staircase O Black and gold diffuser pendant was created to the lamp shade: from Graham & Green loft conversion; (grahamandgreen.co.uk) centre, Ella’s O Yellow FL/Y pendant lamp: from bedroom, one of Kartell (kartell.com) five; far right, the O Plaster cornices: bespoke from new first-floor stevensons-of-norwich.co.uk extension picture O White washable paint throughout: window view by dulux.co.uk O Kitchen island: by Catherine and Felix, made of acrylic composite from A FURRY FIEND sliding windows and three big roof lights. That’s a long wait, but the extension HI-MACS (himacs.eu) They remember that month because one They rewired, replumbed and put under- added a bedroom with that wonderful O Jura beige limestone in bathroom as night Catherine woke in the early hours floor heating under the dark oak boards window, and a roomy family bathroom feature wall: from stonell.com to the faint sound of chewing. Minutes that run front to back. The kitchen is done in stone and porcelain with a big trough O Silver Travertine used as splashback later, claxons went off. She and Felix on a budget, with white composite for the sink that can take three pairs of little and garden path: from tilemountain. rushed outside with their two young bespoke island, Ikea carcasses with hands — the couple now have a daughter, co.uk boys, one a few weeks old, to find fire- bespoke white door fronts, and sleek Ella, aged six. Catherine also put a utility O Stained glass in door: by specialist Left: Catherine men ready to drench their newly done- bronze handles that Catherine got from room on the first floor. After all that, Tenby & Penny (stainedglasslondon. and Felix had up home. Luckily it was a false alarm — a the US at a tenth of the price. She contin- doing the garden was a cinch. com) underfloor rat had gnawed the alarm cables. ued the bronze theme throughout for O Crosswater basin taps: from heating installed They used a speedy German system switch plates and door handles. HEY’VE added 500sq ft, crosswater.co.uk beneath the dark called Gutex for the extension. A timber Planners weren’t keen on the first-floor turned a drab three-bedroom O Bedside teak cabinets: by joiners oak floorboards frame is built on site, newspaper insula- extension with its big picture window house into a light, five-bed- Wooden Horse London that run from tion is blown into the cavities and the over the park. “We modified it and got room home, and got some- (woodenhorselondon.com) front to back outside is rendered. Into this went vast it through at appeal — after five years.” Tthing really worth having. 24 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Reader promotion

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Feed your mind: far left, Black Gull Books, an established independent High Road trader

Quite a catch: left, Paul Jones, manager of ﬁshmongers A Scott & Son in High Road, East Finchley

All you need: the High Road, far left, offers mainly independent shops, cafés, restaurants and a gastropub

10 acres of green: left, pretty Cherry Tree Wood has a playground and a picnic area Spotlight on East Finchley

Families can afford this community-spirited spot THE PROPERTY with plenty for kids to do, says Ruth Bloomfield SCENE

LEAFY north-west London THIS classic Victorian/Edwardian neighbourhood, East TODAY suburb sprang up with the coming of Finchley remains inextri- the railways, so think tree-lined cably linked in the collec- in East Finchley streets of neat semis and terraces, tive imagination to the late rightmove.co.uk many converted into flats. Towards formerA Tory prime minister Margaret the boundary with Hampstead are Thatcher, its longest-serving MP. has 243 homes some fab detached Arts & Crafts But there is far more to East Finchley houses, while buyers on lower than being part of the Iron Lady’s old to BUY and 170 budgets can check out pretty two-up Finchley & Golders Green constitu- two-down workers’ cottages. Newer ency. It possesses all the key ingredi- homes to RENT arrivals tend to be small boutique ents of a poshed-up, gentrified suburb: developments of rather upscale flats. excellent schools, streets of smart period houses, independent shops and ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES great transport links. With no big sites available, the local The fact that it is still managing to new-build market is limited to keep its feet on the ground is good news boutique firms creating trophy for buyers priced out of Hampstead, townhouses or small, low-rise Highgate, Muswell Hill and Crouch within walking distance of very decent schemes that tend to be aimed more End. This is north London, after all, so cafés, pubs and the station. at the affluent downsizer market East Finchley does have its share of Meanwhile, a second stepper could than at cash-strapped first-time multimillion-pound trophy homes, but trade a flat in one of the posher neigh- buyers. Savills has a two-bedroom a first-time buyer on an average budget bouring districts for a three-bedroom flat at Cherry Tree Hill, a scheme of of just over £400,000 could still find family home in East Finchley, which is Photographs: seven flats in Great North Road, for themselves a period conversion flat brimming with activities for kids. Daniel Lynch £975,000, while Martyn Gerrard has

£1,275,000 £550,000 £850,000 FACING south is this new two-bedroom A TWO-BEDROOM maisonette in East Finchley, WITH a front garden, garage and two double apartment at Bishops Wood Court, Aylmer with a good back garden and great transport bedrooms, this terrace house is in Greenfield Road, N2. Call Savills (020 8012 3124). links. For sale through Foxtons (020 8012 6761). Drive, N2. Martyn Gerrard (03339 870634). To find a home in East Finchley, visit rightmove.co.uk For more about East Finchley, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/eastfinchley EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 31 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

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STATS CHECK WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN EAST FINCHLEY (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £362,820 Two-bedroom flat £532,106 Two-bedroom house £668,496 Three-bedroom house £887,222 Four-bedroom house £1,362,329

RENTING IN EAST FINCHLEY (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,216 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,496 a month Two-bedroom house £1,588 a month Three-bedroom house £2,198 a month Four-bedroom house £2,745 a month Source: Rightmove FOR MORE, VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk O Use our School Checker to find catchment areas and inspection reports for local schools O Local arts, leisure and sport Art Deco treasure: O The best streets in East Finchley the Phoenix, inset, — including the popular ‘village’ one of London’s best independent cinemas, where Nathan Cable, above, is projectionist/ technician Leafy and gentriﬁed: East Finchley has great shops, schools, transport and homes

a four-bedroom detached house in a who can drum up a deposit but have ■ WHAT IS THERE TO RENT? new gated development in East End been priced out of better-known, You could rent a studio in one of East TRANSPORT Road for £1.25 million. trendier areas. A two-bedroom flat in Finchley’s scattering of post-war a low-rise ex-local authority or post- purpose-built blocks, mostly on ON THE Northern line, East Finchley ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES war private block will cost about former bomb sites, for just under Tube station is in Zone 3, so an A great flaw of the shared-ownership £300,000 to £350,000, while a two- £1,000 per month, or a one-bedroom annual travelcard costs £1,548. It system is that first-time buyers can bedroom period conversion will be flat for about £1,100 to £1,250 a takes about 30 minutes to London only take advantage in areas where between £450,000 and £550,000. month. Expect to pay at the higher Bridge, while it’s only one stop along medium to large developments are A two-bedroom cottage — some end of this scale for a period the line from Highgate and the going up. Locations like East have scope to extend, subject to conversion, and homes really close delights of historic Highgate Village, Finchley, with no obvious empty planning consent — would be to the station attract a premium. its gastropubs and Hampstead sites, get left out. So, there are no £550,000 to £600,000. Three- A two-bedroom flat in a purpose- Heath. East Finchley sits in the “elbow” shared-ownership or Help to Buy bedroom terrace homes are about built block will be about £1,500 a between the A406 North Circular road London properties available in this £750,000 to £800,000. month, with a two-bedroom and the A41, so road links are good, enclave and the areas around it. While nobody in their right minds Victorian cottage at £1,600 to £1,800. though traffic-clogged during rush On the upside, East Finchley would call this cheap, in the London Three- and four-bedroom houses do hour. represents decent value for buyers context it is reasonable. come up for rent in this family area. 34 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Inside story Diary of Selling hot new an estate homes in boho agent Hackney Wick

MONDAY elsewhere. I love the variety of schemes the flats, as he can see how desirable My working day starts early as I head we are currently selling all across the the area is for anyone working in into the City for a property viewing. I capital. Canary Wharf. Just as I finish the view- am meeting a client who is a corporate ing, my manager calls and asks me to chief executive, and he is looking at WEDNESDAY undertake a valuation at a property both residential and commercial A breakfast launch is first on the agenda, nearby. He sends over some compa- opportunities for his expanding com- for one of our new developments in east rable information and we talk through pany. London. This has been a lengthy project some likely values. I begin by showing him a show-stop- and I’ve been involved from the begin- ping 31st-floor apartment with incred- ning, working with land acquisition, FRIDAY ible panoramic views, and I can tell development consultancy, sales and What a brilliant start to a Friday! I from his reaction that this man just marketing. It is fantastic to see the receive an email from the vendor of loves London. Then I take him to meet project finally come to fruition. yesterday’s valuation enclosing signed our commercial team, who have man- Admiring the phenomenal views, I terms and conditions and asking for aged to get him a last-minute viewing instantly think of some of my applicants, the property to be put on the market at one of London’s most prolific office investors and search agents who this immediately. It is a great property so blocks. There is so much potential for would suit. Once I’m back in the office I’m really excited to be involved, espe- future business for CBRE with this cli- I contact them and book in appoint- cially as I have a number of potential ent and his company. ments to show them round. The hard purchasers who I know will be inter- work pays off — later in the afternoon I ested in looking at it. TUESDAY receive a really good offer. It has a huge outside balcony with I’m at a conference today on the future stunning views across to the City and of our business and my personal THURSDAY beyond, as well as really quirky interi- development. CBRE really emphasises Another day of viewings, starting in ors. I start making calls straight away career advancement and training bohemian Hackney Wick. It’s a loca- and by the end of the day I’ve got six among its employees. The conference tion that’s increasingly sought after by viewings already lined up for next is held at Twickenham Stadium, so I a range of buyers and a potential pur- week. take the opportunity on the way back chaser is considering a bulk buy of five to pop into one of our schemes in west units from an off-plan residential O Georgina Pope is a senior sales London — it’s always good to compare development. We discuss the options negotiator at CBRE in Canary Wharf the homes I sell with what’s available over a coffee. He intends to rent out (020 7519 5900). 38 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Letting on

O, WHO wants to be a reality TV star? Yes? No? Sort of tempted but not sure? Well, if you fancy it, the television I refuse to be production company behind GrandS Designs, House Doctor and The Apprentice is making a new prime-time show for the Beeb and they are looking for landlords to take part. the next Kim They aren’t aiming to emulate the landlord- and tenant-shaming programmes such as Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords — or at least, they say they aren’t. Kardashian Boundless Productions researcher Caroline Oliver tells me the new show, called The Week the Landlords Victoria Whitlock explains why she won’t Moved In, will be more of a documentary in which landlords be volunteering for a new reality TV show in experience what it’s like to be a tenant. In a nutshell, they want you which landlords trade places with tenants to move into your own rental property for four or five days to live tenants and on their budgets. They’re in your tenant’s shoes. all young, free and single, they are all £462 a week: in Molasses House, Plantation Wharf in SW11, John D Wood & Co The professionals and probably earn twice has an unfurnished two-bedroom apartment available to rent (020 8012 2452) You will have to live on your tenant’s as much as me, and they don’t have budget — while the tenant is put up accidental kids. So I imagine they spend most somewhere at the BBC’s expense — nights out on the town. Woo-hoo! my front door keys. Otherwise it HE makers are particularly and at the end of the week you’ll get landlord Also, I think my flats are very nice wouldn’t be a very realistic keen to find London to chat about your experience, places to live and, unlike my own experiment. However, I can’t see how landlords to take part as presumably on camera. landlords “really do care about their house, they aren’t full of teenagers’ my tenant swap would make they haven’t got anyone in Eight landlords have already been tenants”, while at the same time smelly trainers and discarded clothes interesting TV. I’m afraid viewers the capital appearing on filmed and, according to Boundless, letting landlords see “if they’re waiting to be picked up by yours would think my life a bit of a yawn, theT show yet. All age groups, they are happy with the edited getting things right”. truly. And I wouldn’t be bombarded and anyway, I’ve got a face best suited demographics and types of versions of the shows, but the If you are keen but still not quite with constant demands for food. to radio, so I won’t be volunteering. accommodation will be considered. producers are short of two more sure you want to take part, you can Don’t let me put you off though. Tweet me at @vicwhitlock if you’re volunteers. Boundless admits chat to some of the landlords who Also, if I’m living in my tenants’ shoes, The programme will be going out on interested. landlords are wary that this is going have already been filmed, but when I presumably I’ll be able to do what BBC1 at 9pm “sometime in late to be yet another landlord-versus- asked if I could get a sneak preview of they do and call a landlord to ask for summer, hopefully” and maybe, just O Victoria Whitlock lets four tenant programme that presents us some of their performances, I was new light bulbs, get them to come maybe, it will undo some of the properties in south London. as the bad guys. However, Boundless given a definite no. Personally, I’d love round and clean the oven, and let me damage caused by some of the To contact Victoria with your ideas says it’s aiming to show that to spend a week living as one of my in when I go out on the razz and forget landlord-bashing media recently. and views, tweet @vicwhitlock 40 WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes By David Spittles SmartSmSmamartmarartrt mmovemomovooveveve Catch up with the arty set in NW5 From £399,950: ﬂats at The Old Chambers, High St, Epping

ENTISH TOWN has come Epping flats in a a long way since the Thinking of 1820s when Frankenstein former bank are author Mary Shelley moving? on the money dismissed it as an “odiousK swamp”. Start your These days the area has a definite search on EPPING FOREST, a surprisingly spring in its step, with popular music wild and wonderful frontier on the venues, trendy bars and restaurants, eastern edge of London, has a French lycée school, restored listed managed to protect its rural status Victorian baths and swimming pool — despite increasing development and a growing buzz created by the pressure to build more homes to new generation of arty Londoners cope with the capital’s bulging moving in. One of the capital’s best population. contemporary gallery spaces, Epping has a weekly market and Zabludowicz Collection, is in NW5, homes are likely to chime with From £570,000: the town’s 18th-century high street housed in a former Methodist chapel. buyers looking for compact, light- above and left, boasts some prized listed The Furlong Collection, a filled, open-plan interiors with loft ﬂats at The buildings. Spacious and quirky reference to a racetrack in the area in underfloor heating and air Maple Building; new apartments have been carved the early 1900s, is a gated scheme of conditioning. Prices from right, open-plan from a former bank, handy for the eight houses in cobbled Little Green £1.6 million. Call Hamptons apartments at Central line Tube station. Street, one of the oldest Georgian International on 020 3451 1544. The Furlong Called The Old Chambers, prices terraces in London. Nearby, the same agent is selling Collection, also at the scheme start from £399,950. While the modern architecture loft-style flats at The Maple in Kentish Town The homes are on the market strikes a discordant note with Building, a former furniture factory. through Foxtons (020 7973 2020). neighbouring heritage cottages, Prices from £570,000. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 41 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property

From £475,000: ﬂats at 330 Clapham Road. Townhouses start from £1.35 million From £675,000: ﬂats at Crescent House in Clapham SW4 CLAPHAM CAN PLEASE ALL THE PEOPLE

CLAPHAM in south London is street. Flats are priced from comparable in price to coveted north £475,000, with houses from London addresses such as Islington £1.35 million. Call 020 7368 4830. or Hampstead. The 220-acre expanse Metropolitan Crescent is another of its common is one reason. Another scheme that is well-located, with a is the three Northern line Tube very good address in SW4. Well, what stations connecting it to the City and else would you expect from the gated central London in 20 minutes. former headquarters of the Post Twentysomethings like the gyms, Office workers’ union? bars and the train links, while The grand, crescent-shaped families gravitate towards the Old building in Crescent Lane dates from Town and its pond, kid-friendly the Thirties and has an imposing Imposing: the cafés, gift shops and organic food manor house-style entrance, along manor house- outlets. A new development of 79 with a carriage driveway and style entrance at homes, 330 Clapham Road aims to landscaped rear gardens. Metropolitan attract both types of buyer, having a Apartments from £675,000. Crescent, former mix of apartments and townhouses, Penthouses cost from £1.4 million. Post Office union all a short walk from the lively high Call Galliard on 020 7620 1500. headquarters