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Discover hidden new homes Quietway routes launch across London this autumn: Page 6 J BEWLEY/SUSTRANS London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Locals fight homes plan for gasworks Trophy

SHOWDOWN is looming home of over plans to demolish the week Fulham Gasworks in Imperial Road and put perfect pile for 1,375 homes in blocks of Aup to 27 storeys high on the 17-acre entertaining site, writes Ruth Bloomfield. Residents are preparing to fight the your grand, destruction of one of London’s last surviving Victorian gasworks, with horsey friends its six redundant gas holders and disused industrial buildings, claiming the new towers will ruin £2 million: when home in Jacobean staircase leading to including five looseboxes and views and overcrowd the area, in one the week is a grand London an opulent master suite. a beamed groom’s flat above. of the most expensive parts of the mansion, the weekend There are five further Other outbuildings include a capital. country pile must match up. bedrooms, an attic games gym and coach house. Kensington & Chelsea council is Historic Elberton Old Manor room and an impressive Beautiful walled gardens considering the planning application does just that with its kitchen perfect for dotted with ancient trees, a for the multimillion-pound project, spectacular setting in open entertaining, plus a triple- manège and access to eight which would also include new shops, Gloucestershire farmland. aspect drawing room, dining more acres — available to buy restaurants and offices, along with a The Grade II-listed manor room, media room and — complete the package. park featuring one of the salvaged Prime site: 1,375 Seventies. After that the site was retains plenty of original studio. A two-storey barn Through Hamptons (0117 gas holders. Berkeley Group is the homes in blocks decommissioned and used as a car character including a houses equestrian facilities 407 2065). developer, and the National Grid up to 27 storeys breakers’ yard. Plans for its owns the site. high could redevelopment have been under However, Kensington & Chelsea replace Fulham discussion for several years. planners fear the cluster of Gasworks in Documents submitted by Berkeley Lifechanger skyscrapers will ruin views from Imperial Road and National Grid promise the Brompton Cemetery and “loom brownfield site will become an of the week above” Chelsea Academy school, “exemplary” new neighbourhood while impacting on period homes in between Fulham and Imperial make wine and around the lower reaches of Wharf, with glazed towers King’s Road and Fulham Road. interspersed with lower, red-brick in Devon “No justification is provided as to buildings. at Château how the impact of these alien and A decision on the site is not overscaled towers could be deemed expected until late this year or early Honiton beneficial,” said Graham Stallwood, next year. If approved, the project the council’s executive director of will join the ongoing redevelopment £1.95 million: wine planning and borough development, of the adjacent Lots Road Power connoisseurs with a who is also concerned about the Station, which is already being handsome budget will love impact of an influx of hundreds of converted into new homes. this East Devon farmhouse in new residents on local schools and A spokeswoman for the developer the rolling hills of Honiton, Seyval blanc, a sand school room warmed by an Aga. The stations. said: “This is all at a relatively early where you can, in a very real and posh stables for a fine sitting room and study each The Chelsea Society and Lots stage in the planning process. We sense, mix the grape with the collection of horses, plus have a wood burner, and the Village Residents Association are have done a significant amount of grain. Southcote Farm sits in traditional and modern farm five bedrooms and three objecting to the plans, underlining consultation pre-application. This some 54 acres of arable buildings. The house itself bathrooms enjoy glorious concerns that homes will be includes three public exhibitions farmland, including 20 acres has been renovated into a views over the vines and overshadowed by the new towers. which were well attended. We plan to of vineyards with plantings gorgeous country home with countryside. Call Knight Fulham Gasworks opened in 1824, work together with everybody of Pinot Noir, Bacchus and an impressive kitchen/dining Frank (020 8012 3483). replacing market gardens and involved and listen to all their orchards, and operated until the comments.” London buy of the week riverside strolling

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Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Marcus looks Here’s a hot deal for fans of the Fab Four after his mum É A FIREPLACE reclaimed from É UNITED forward the Beatles’ Marcus Rashford has moved his mother Abbey Road and two brothers into a luxurious Studios in NW8 is home. now a feature in a The footballer, right, who reportedly Georgian earns £25,000 a week, is thought to be maisonette in spending £5,000 a month to rent a six- Clerkenwell that’s bedroom house in posh Hale in for sale with Fyfe Cheshire, valued at about £800,000. Mcdade at His family will enjoy three floors of £1.5 million. space, their own personal cinema, and The fireplace a sauna in the garden. was in situ during Rashford, 18, who grew up on the the Sixties “Fab Wythenshawe council estate in Four” era, right. Manchester, is reportedly treating the The three- rented place as a temporary measure bedroom, two- for his family while he has a £1 million bathroom home home built at a secret location nearby. is close to Angel While Rashford has come to fame and station, and a fortune early in life, his mum says she 10-minute walk is there to make sure he stays from buzzing

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É OSCAR WINNER Jennifer Lawrence, O For more celebrity above, named by Forbes as highest- gossip, visit paid actress in Hollywood for the homesandproperty. second year running, has sold the co.uk/gossip Santa Monica home she bought for £662,000 in 2006 for £866,000. The Hunger Games star bought the property just before she shot to fame — but now that little old house can go. Only 20 blocks from the beach, it is in one of California’s hotspots. Nevertheless, Lawrence had to drop Fifty shades of sun at EL James’s new pad the price. The 1,413sq ft, two-bedroom property was originally on the market É FIFTY Shades of Grey author EL James, left, has floor-to-ceiling windows that open on to for £1.27 million. has splashed out on a sprawling property in private landscaped grounds with multiple She now lives in Beverly Hills, where the Hollywood Hills. The British writer bought terraces, a rear patio overlooks the pool and she owns a five-bedroom house worth a detached Thirties family home in west spa and of course, there’s a walk-in wine room. £6.02 million. London three years ago for £2.65 million after Before her Fifty Shades success, James lived Rumour has it that the actress is also her erotic novel trilogy sold 100 million copies in a modest £350,000 terrace house in west on the hunt for an apartment in New and brought a major film deal. London with screenwriter husband Niall ’s upmarket Tribeca district and Her latest home, above, is a £5.4 million, five- Leonard and their two sons. These days the has a budget of £9 million to bedroom, 5,616sq ft giant. The master suite couple split their time between London and LA. £13.5 million to play with. GETTY

     

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CLAPHAM COMMON TO WIMBLEDON Earlsfield and Southfields, good-value inner suburbs, are in line for a boost. Both have 15-minute trains to Waterloo and benefit from commons, playing fields, parks and the grassy banks of the River Wandle. New-build homes               are sprouting up to meet demand from buyers priced out of .     &%    Cambium, in Southfields, offers      modern , eco-friendly new-build town- houses and flats designed around an  !  !    oak tree said to have been planted by          ׄ -18th-century landscape architect Capa bility Brown. The 110-home scheme          ׄ includes an urban meadow and chil-    $'''' ''"$      & " '&         ׄ dren’s play area. Some houses have ''''"$      %         ׄ rooftop gardens and garages. Flats start Main picture: flats cost from £550,000, with shared at £429,950, with houses from £1.14 mil- cyclists enjoying ownership available. Call 020 8459 1133.    &    lion. Call 020 3817 7000. Quietway 2, A vast £4.5 billion redevelopment of following the railway lands at Brent Cross and Crick- REGENT’S PARK TO back streets and lewood is another good reason to move CRICKLEWOOD continuing to this area. There will be 7,500 homes, This Quietway cuts through handsome through parks three new schools, four parks and a new St John’s Wood, unrelentingly urban from Bloomsbury Thameslink station with a 12-minute Willesden Green and on to solidly sub- to Walthamstow; commute to central London. urban Dollis Hill. above, TfL’s first Cricklewood came of age in the 1880s seven Quietways BLOOMSBURY TO when Midland Railway Company routes straddle WALTHAMSTOW moved its locomotive works from Kent- 15 London This Quietways route crosses Regent’s ish Town to Brent Sidings and built an boroughs, and Canal into the East End heartland of estate of railway cottages, now coveted phase two, Dalston, Haggerston and London Fields, private homes, for its workers. Dr Peter starting in 2018, passing through De Beauvoir, with its Border, who works for a parliamentary will extend the wide streets of classic villas and modest research body, lives in one of these and network to all terraces. Fifty Seven East, a new cycles daily to his office at . of them scheme of 85 flats, looms over this “I’ve always tried to avoid main roads patch. From £540,000. Call 020 3862 but it’s not been possible. The Quietway 3945. will make life less stressful,” he says. Avoiding manic Hackney Central, the Today, Cricklewood attracts people route skirts Hackney Marshes before looking for good-value space less than reaching Walthamstow, popular with four miles from Marble Arch. Find the a new wave of young home buyers quieter streets either side of the bus- which is encouraging new street cafés tling Broadway, especially Mapesbury and cocktail bars. Business here will Estate conservation area and roads be boosted by the Night Tube. surrounding 86-acre Gladstone Park. Foundry Mews is a new scheme of

Gladstone Village is a new micro flats and townhouses on the site of a       neighbourhood where housing asso- disused library car park. Through East          ciation Octavia Living is selling well- Thames Group, 25 per cent of a two-     designed houses aimed at young bedroom flat starts at £106,250. Call    families, from £775,000. Two-bedroom 0300 303 7333 for more details. 8 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Student accommodation Uni kids enjoy the high life Undergraduates are big business in London. Now a sky lounge, a porter and a swish gym are essential. By Ruth Bloomfield Heart of the city: above, Berkeley’s student rooms at Goodman’s Fields in Aldgate, E1, are part of a new “quarter”

Pool’s cool: Chapter Spitalfields student hall scheme has a 32nd-floor private bar

ERE it is again — that time security, particularly in a big city. of year when the new They are not all wealthy. You will find intake of undergraduates Chinese parents who have been cram their parents’ car, saving for 20 years to allow their or a hired van, with their child to study abroad and to have the preciousH belongings and new Ikea very best they can get.” Final year rugs and posters and head for students also like the live/work style London. of rooms at these halls, where they Traditionally, first-year students get can work without disturbance. bog-standard, barrack-like halls of residence on the edge of the campus, The Hammersmith Palais was and moved on to the cheapest, bulldozed to make way for a hall for grottiest shared houses available. But more than 400 students, who pay today, student accommodation is big from £399 a week for a “premium business. Parents with deep pockets penthouse studio”, all of which are want better for their offspring and sold out for the new academic year. developers have filled the gap in the Residents of Pure Hammersmith market with cool apartment blocks in enjoy a communal courtyard garden, central London. gym and games room. A flatlet at London’s most expensive Over the last two years, Chapter, bespoke student development in part of US property giant Greystar, Bloomsbury costs £490 a week and has developed seven halls housing comes with a 32in TV, 50mb internet 4,500 students from 100 nations in a and a private kitchen with a style inspired by the Soho House dishwasher. The cheapest private brand. Its Spitalfields building has a hall in London is in Bethnal Green, 32nd-floor private bar and an where developer Bethnal Living rents auditorium for performance, rooms from £99 per week. practice, and events. Its Highbury building has a private cinema, and The world of private student halls is Chapter residents have a positively thriving, fuelled largely by karaoke room. Rooms start at £249 a the overseas market. A decade ago week in all three developments. there were 43 dedicated student halls Chapter’s priciest rooms are on the in the capital, says Simon Thompson, South Bank, where from £295 a director and co-founder of week students can hang out in the accommodationforstudents.com. sky lounge and do their washing via a Today that figure has grown to 109, Eclectic: the phone app linked to the on-site housing more than 20,000 students. social space at launderette. For the kind of money paid for Chapter Neil Burton, director of corporate some of these swish digs, a student Portobello, services, says Greystar is “actively could easily afford to rent, or even canalside seeking” new sites and plans to buy, a flat. But private halls remain student halls increase its already substantial popular both with students and their with a private investment in London. parents. “A lot of international gym close to students live in private halls,” says Notting Hill and Thompson. “Their parents like the the West End ERKELEY HOMES has built 1,300 London student rooms including more than 600 at Goodman’s Fields, Aldgate. Matthew Biddle, managingB director of Berkeley First, says to attract the “best talent” to London: “The key is delivering high quality, bespoke and affordable.” Marcus Roberts, director of Savills, says lucrative student developments help to regenerate areas, and “corralling” students reduces pressure on mainstream housing. Greystar’s Neil Burton believes London universities are so popular, overseas students will double by 2025 — so demand for luxe digs must grow. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 9 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Commuting | Homes & Property GETTY ALAMY

Some of the best villages, so close

You won’t be alone Traditional detached house with large gardens. village: above, The commute: 39 minutes from in family-friendly historic timbered Bishop’s Stortford to Liverpool St. buildings and the Schools: a popular village primary. Hertfordshire, pond, Aldbury Who would it suit? Retired couples and young families enjoy village life     discovers Ruth and the good housing stock. Set in Above centre: lovely open country, there are cute       Bloomfield fishing on the thatched cottages, Georgian manors, River Lea at local pubs, a shop, tennis and Wheathampstead football clubs and lots of fêtes and    ERTFORDSHIRE is the fairs. Little Hadham, the next village, low-profile home county, has regular farmers’ markets. & (% '    # #   ' ' not as celebrity-friendly £450,000: above And the downsides? Single-track ( (% # %#( as Surrey and Sussex, or right, an end-of- roads mean occasional traffic jams.  %# ' #  % # as much of a magnet as terrace two- HOxfordshire and Gloucestershire to bedroom house THE AYOTS  (  &  # & # affluent west Londoners. Yet this for sale in Where are they? A cluster of hamlets 634-square mile swathe north of the Aldbury, through — Ayot St Peter, Ayot St Lawrence and capital contains some of England’s Fine & Country Ayot Green — sits two-and-a-half miles loveliest villages. In our series (01442 877627) north-west of Welwyn Garden City.       looking at top London commuter What it costs: £500,000-£750,000 options, we tip some of the best. for a three-bedroom semi; detached five-bedroom houses from £1 million.      ALDBURY The commute: 25 minutes from Where is it? In the Chiltern Hills, Welwyn to King’s Cross. An annual three miles from Tring and nine season ticket costs £3,960. miles from Hemel Hempstead. Schools: Osted “outstanding”   #  "    What it costs: about £400,000 for a Codicote CofE Primary is nearby.  ! $$$$ two- to three-bedroom cottage. Four- Who would it suit? Families and bedroom family houses start at country-loving downsizers. There are £800,000, and landmark houses three pubs, and a golf course and with a bit of land are £2 million-plus. Find a French restaurant at Brocket Hall. The commute: Tring to Euston And the downsides? These tiny trains take from 35 minutes. An home villages are super-quiet and you have annual season ticket costs £4,920. within to drive everywhere. Schools: Ofsted rates the village primary “good”. Excellent senior easy BEST OF THE REST schools in Berkhamsted and Tring. Barley: Tudor buildings, two pubs, a Who would it suit? Close to the reach shop, school, a GP surgery and 35- National Trust’s magnificent Ashridge minute trains to King’s Cross from Estate, walkers and riders love pretty of the Royston, 10 minutes’ drive away. A Aldbury. There are two pubs, a shop, city two-bedroom period cottage would a post office and tennis courts. cost £300,000. A large five-bedroom       And the downsides? Parking at detached house would be £1 million. Tring station can be a scrum. Wheathampstead: beside the River $#$"" " Lea, there’s a strong community, an MUCH HADHAM annual music festival, kids’ clubs, a   Where is it? Five miles south-west of tennis club, wine club, two pubs, a %# #     #& (   # (  #   %! Bishop’s Stortford. café, useful shops and 39-minute    # # #   # # #  $)  What it costs: about £450,000 for a trains to Blackfriars from Harpenden, three-bedroom house, and from three miles away. Three-bedroom £1.5 million for a five-bedroom houses cost £450,000-£550,000. 10 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Homes abroad

From £347,000: freehold flats with one to three bedrooms at Bicha Residences, left, close to upmarket Gstaad in Saanen, for sale through Sphere Estates

             PA The happy wanderers: Prime Minister Theresa May and husband Philip on their recent Swiss holiday    ). If it’s good enough   for Theresa May…   Skiers, bikers and hikers love sensible Switzerland but enjoy the Latin charm of nearby Italy. By Cathy Hawker

    RIME MINISTER Theresa May bished Chalet Pyrit. The ski-in-and- and her husband Philip out location and the price, from clearly appreciate the peace, £595,000 for three to five bedrooms,   beauty and safety of Switzer- New should tempt buyers. The first stage of land enough to holiday there home big plans to extend the ski area opens Plast month, and for many a cautious in December. holiday home buyer it’s the standout in the At Les Collons, part of the Verbier ski country of choice. The solid Swiss area, Investors in Property has detached national characteristics of dependabil- sun? resale chalets without the usual huge ity, financial integrity and calm stabil- price tag found locally. Four- and five- ity make a winning combination. bedroom homes start at £675,000, with “Switzerland is the cheapest country access to all of Verbier’s 255 miles of ski in continental Europe to borrow slopes, in a peaceful resort with good money,” says Jeremy Rollason of Savills views. Malster calls them “the best-value Alpine Homes. “Its attractiveness to chalets in Switzerland”. investors post-Brexit has only increased In Saanen, two hours from Geneva because it is seen as a stable economy airport, Bicha Residences offers 18 and a safe haven to shelter wealth.” freehold one- to three-bedroom flats It’s a popular choice for international being built over the next two years, from art and sporting events. Montreux Jazz £347,000 through Sphere Estates. And  '5 ,%- ( -*#(3- !(&- 0 3 Festival is 50 this year, and new for 2016 in high, snow-sure Grimentz resort, new 3,0, #'%3#' ) 2  1 ,((& *,0&'0- are the extension of the Kunstmuseum two- to four-bedroom flats at Chalets (4,%(($#' 5,"5#''#' 5((%' ' art gallery in Basel and Chaplin’s World, d’Adelaide start at £650,000 through a museum in Vevey dedicated to Charlie Mark Warner Property. -3,,(3' 6 %'-* ,(3'-  ('%6  -!(,0 Chaplin, who was a long-time resident. From £650,000: 5%$ 56 ,(& ' 0, 00#(' #' 7(' 2+ Ringed by Austria, Germany, France new two- to four- O Savills Alpine Homes: alpinehomes and Italy, Switzerland has 48 mountain bedroom flats at intl.com (020 7016 3740) peaks above 13,000ft and 1,500 lakes Chalets O Investors in Property: investorsin      — loved by skiers, bikers, hikers and all d’Adelaide in property.com (020 8905 5511)    fans of the great outdoors. historic, snow- O Sphere Estates: sphereestates.com sure Grimentz. (020 3617 1360)     RELIABLE CASH HAVEN Through Mark O Mark Warner Property: markwarner The value of the Swiss franc is now Warner Property property.com (020 7692 0786)             about 10 per cent higher than for most            of the past 12 months but even this doesn’t worry property buyers, says    Simon Malster of Investors in Property.  “Although sterling now buys less we have found that the number of enquiries for high-end properties in Switzerland has increased since the Brexit vote.      “Clients who have cash are looking for somewhere safe to park their money. A strong currency, low interest rates and a country run with Swiss efficiency are the main strengths.” In the Alpine resort village of Saas-Fee  ,*,-'00#(' ( 3 3,0, #- #'#0#4 ('%6 near the Italian border, Investors in Property has three flats for sale at refur- 12 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design

Connect with kinetics: left, Benjamin Hubert designed Foil, a 20-metre V&A installation; right, make a traditional Polish pajaki chandelier with Karolina Merska at Brixton’s Crafty Fox Market

Use it up: furniture designer Brodie Neill with his Gyro table made from recycled ocean plastic, Australia’s entry for London Design Biennale Be part of the action Barbara Chandler designjunction in King’s Cross. explores the future of design and craft Lighting supremo Tom Dixon will host (goldsmiths-centre.org). Join in free previews London a “harvest festival” at The Dock, 555 live glass blowing with Czechmaestros Harrow Road, W10 on September 20. at The Garage, 1 North Terrace, SW3 Design Festival, A walking tour of Brixton Design on September 21 and 23 (register at District is on September 24, taking in [email protected]), starting on Saturday local studios with designer sessions while at the Crafty Fox Market this from, among others, weaver Eleanor weekend at The Dogstar, 389 EET a robot, blow glass Pritchard (southeastmakers club.co. Coldharbour Lane, SW9, RA Fellow and take a tour on foot uk). Or walk the Maker Mile in and printmaker Justine Ellis will help or by bike, as design Hackney (makermile.cc), for art, you design/print your own tote bag comes to life all over design, tech and maker spaces, (£8; justineellis.co.uk). Or make a town for nine exciting, including tile firm Bert & May’s barge, chandelier from straw and wool with Minnovative days of the 14th annual in collaboration with designer Polish artist Karolina Merska (£60; London Design Festival, from this homewares shop Darkrooms. book at bobbinandbow.com). Oliver Saturday to September 25 with more Bonas has a marbling workshop on than 400 events. There are designers A talks programme suggests design September 22 and on the 24th, make to meet, demos, talks, parties and solutions to future world problems. At and design a Brixton chocolate bar make-it-yourself workshops. the new London Design Biennale, (brixtondesigntrail.com). Those robots are at the Victoria & open now at Somerset House (book at Albert Museum in South Kensington londondesignbiennale.com), hear A hang-out hub for the whole festival is on September 22, “growing” the Alice Rawsthorn, former Design Ace Hotel in Shoreditch, with wifi, threaded canopy of the Elytra Museum director, expand the themes sofas and food. A panel will discuss Filament Pavilion. Meet the project’s of her book Hello World: Where hybrid designs that burst boundaries architect, Achim Menges, at noon. Design Meets Life, tomorrow at 7.30. of art, craft, tech, factories and The V&A has a festival info desk and Also tomorrow, designer Brodie Neill bespoke (free; book at acehotel.com). free “drop-ins” for tours, talks and reveals his harvest of marine plastic Meet Max Lamb, creator of stone workshops. Meet French designer waste and how to use it. The furniture, or use the pop-up office set Mathieu Lehanneur at his Liquid Goldsmiths’ Centre in Clerkenwell up bySwiss furniture brand Vitra, with Marble installation, and quiz London workstations, sofas, wifi and free designer Benjamin Hubert about Foil, Join in: RA coffee at 4 Holywell Lane, EC2 his 20-metre kinetic installation. Fellow and (September 19, 21-23; vitra.com) The Global Design Forum is filling a printmaker V&A lecture theatre with star speakers Justine Ellis will Party nights around the seven design such as architect Alison Brooks and help you design districts include Brixtopia in St designer Patricia Urquiola. Buy tickets and print your Matthew’s Peace Garden, SW2 on at globaldesign forum.com. A late own tote bag at September 23 for installations, music night at the V&A, until 10pm on Friday the Crafty Fox and food (brixtondesigntrail.com). On September 23, opens a digital design Market, SW9 September 21, Granary Square in weekend with music, a bar and café. King’s Cross has DJ’s and street food, while Heal’s offers free drinks in Meet new and established designers Tottenham Court Road, where from September 22-25 at London workshops and demos include leather Design Fair in east London, and embossing and plate decorating. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 13 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Design | Homes & Property

Left: Sunny Todd and Above: Yinka Ilori wife Emma of Sunny is hosting a chair Todd Prints launch upcycling their fabric book at workshop (see the festival; below, clerkenwell- furniture designer london.com); right, Bethan Gray will be see Robert Barnby at designjunction’s furniture at Cubitt House London Design Fair

            

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At Focus: wood and crystal At Focus: Zoffany’s new Phaedra ollectionc features fabrics pendant light (wired-designs. from £72 to £125 a metre (zoffany.com; 01895 221000) com; 020 7352 2921) At Designers Guild: Aubriet pattern is £248 for a wallpaper panel, £75 a metre for fabric (designersguild.com)

NEW design show coffee table, a wall of patterned FOCUS opening at Olympia next paper tailored to your room, or a Design Centre Chelsea Harbour week is called stunning chandelier. Fill in the gaps At Chelsea Harbour, the look — as Luxurious LuxuryMade. With 40 with budget paints and background channelled by up to 120 international brands displaying basics from the high street. Add a few brands — is elegant and understated, craftsmanshipA rather than bling, it is fine details, such as an intricate in a subtle colour palette of neutrals timely. Luxury is the buzzword for curtain braid or a quirky door and faded pastels. Surfaces are richly London homes this autumn, with handle, and bring in pieces of textured, while furniture is pared- London leads LuxuryMade sitting alongside the handmade ceramics or glass. This is down and sculptural. two other old-established decor the creative/eclectic look Londoners There is much emphasis on shows that open on Sunday — Focus, are so good at, and it’s one that is materials. Some are touchy-feely, in the glassy domes of Chelsea’s envied and emulated all over the such as woven cane and raffia, Design Centre, and Decorex in a vast world. crushed velvets and swishing silk. the way with tent to the west in Isleworth. Tantalisingly, these big autumn Others bring a harder drama to the Of course, luxury is tricky to define, decor-fests are “trade” events for mix, including marbles with the vein but you can safely expect exclusive professional designers, architects of ages, patinated copper, the dull design that’s frequently bespoke, and retailers, but there is some gold of brass, chunks of rock crystal new launches along with fine materials, superb access for readers. You can visit and exotic veneers. craftsmanship, authenticity — and Focus in Chelsea Harbour for free on Call by the design hub, which links maybe a dollop of so-called heritage the event’s last two days, Thursday the older centre dome to the new Quality is key at Focus and Decorex. for good measure. and Friday of next week (September showrooms in Design Centre East, for Spend wisely on one or two pieces 22/23). A ticket to Decorex on the free drop-in workshops including tips Invest in just one piece to stamp style from this top end of the market to lift public day, which falls next Tuesday, from experts on collecting art and your home into the glamour zone: a September 20, costs £30, and is a creating a colour scheme. You can on your home, says Barbara Chandler made-to-order rug, a commissioned little luxury in itself. also meet award-winning Stewart

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At Decorex: left, Osborne & Little: De la Terre à la right, Matthew Lune wallpaper — Williamson “From the Earth fabrics, £51 to to the Moon” — is £170 a metre at on show with Osborne & Little, Design-Nation King’s Road, SW3 (ellipopp.co.uk; (020 8812 3123; designnation. osborneandlittle. co.uk) com)

At Focus: below, Giuseppe Casarosa’s wood screens, with a choice of shelves and coathangers, and mirror, leather or fabric panels. By Ceccotti Collezioni (ceccotticollezioni.it; 020 3538 2780)

At LuxuryMade: Emma Shipley has a new furnishing fabrics range (emmajshipley.com; 020 7254 8449)

At Decorex: The Colour Wheel rug Carey, whose elegant hand-thrown moody indigo, tracking the story of Elli Popp and Boho & Co. Smart by Sonya Winner, from £960 ceramics are so covetable. Or sip this ancient dye through textiles, craft uses hi tech in a compelling (sonyawinner.com; 020 3283 8776) champagne before joining an fashion and one-off ceramics. Visit display of “future heritage”. afternoon tour (full programme at more showrooms nearby that are dcch.co.uk). marking the London Design Festival LUXURYMADE opening on Saturday (see Page 12; Olympia London, W14 STYLISH NEIGHBOURS visit chelseadesignquarter.co.uk). LuxuryMade is displayed in the Pillar Nearby in King’s Road, SW3, two of Hall at Olympia, recently reopened London’s best-known decor brands DECOREX for general use with its high-Victorian have offered a contrasting take on Syon Park, TW8 marble Corinthian pillars and richly pattern and colour for over 40 years. Decorex is an elite interiors edit of coloured panelled ceiling. This season Osborne & Little melds luxury labels that lets you explore Here you’ll find new faces such as fashion with fantasy in another how items are made and feel the RCA graduate Emma Shipley — glorious collection by fashion materials. Soak up expert advice, moving from scarves into furnishing designer Matthew Williamson. His and maybe discuss a commission. fabrics — with the likes of German is a very personal take on India — A clutch of newer brands adds a fabric brand Zimmer + Rohde, and watch out for the tigers. sharper edge — see the Design- Gainsborough Silks, where Karen Across the street at Designers Nation stand in particular (design Beauchamp has created sumptuous Guild, London’s first lady of florals nation.co.uk). Pattern is rampant and new weaves for this old-established Tricia Guild delivers huge new-look archives have been plundered. Suffolk mill. (Open to all, from blooms in the painterly palette that is Flower beds, the sky, lakes and fields September 21-24. A £15 ticket also her forte. Blue is the hue everywhere are digitally subverted using drawing allows you into adjacent show 100% this autumn, with Denim Drift named and photography into riotous romps Design. Book online at luxurymade. Dulux Colour of the Year 2017. Guild of colour enhanced with fine detail; co.uk and use reader code ES50 for a has dressed her store in a wash of watch out for Timorous Beasties, half-price ticket).

     

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Antiques: Insider tip: Town House, Pedro da Costa left, a shop Felgueiras and gallery recreated within a historic paint Huguenot finishes at house in Strawberry Spitalfields Hill House, right ALAMY Coveted: a Lucie Rie bowl, left; below, hand-painted pink silk Paper Knots cushion by Rose de Borman, priced £275 from thenewcraftsmen.com

CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CATHERINE NEW CRAFTSMEN SHOP AND LOCK GALLERY IN MAYFAIR MyMy ddesignesign LondonLondLondonon WHERE I LIVE GOOD FOR ANTIQUES FAVOURITE MAKERS A two-bedroom Victorian terrace I love Queen Anne and Georgian Rose de Borman (rdeborman.co.uk) house in Blackheath. It’s a beautiful, buildings. They’re the original is trained in textile art and surface green area with one of the largest minimalists... some of their furniture design and printing. She’s brilliant open spaces — Greenwich Park — that is just utterly contemporary and with colour and her work has a naive, leads down to the river. I’m Sussex functional. Christopher Howe has a folky quality. We’ve just started to born and bred so I have to be among shop in Pimlico Road and does sell her fabric by the metre. Georgia greenery and then dip my toe in the antiques and really quirky pieces. Kemball (georgiakemball.com) concrete jungle. Without the two, my Town House in Spitalfields is a really creates incredibly distinctive textiles. life wouldn’t be complete. sensitively curated antiques shop, as Edmond Byrne (edmondbyrne.com) well as a gallery and café. is an Irish glass blower who produces MY DECOR HOMEWARE SHOPS Favourite shops the most glorious coloured glass. And When I bought my house two years I’m about to embark on curtains, so and makers: SECRET STREET Nic Webb’s spoons (nicwebb.com) ago, nothing had been done to it for one of my favourite places is Tissus Donna Wilson’s Royal Hill in Greenwich. There’s a are hand-carved from green timber. 30 years. I project managed it myself. d’Hélène in Chelsea Harbour. They Motley footstool, florist, an old-fashioned family I’ve kept the original Victorian work with independent names and above, £2,730 at butcher next to a cheesemonger and INSIDER TIP floorboards really raw, and used a there’s a lot of block printing and SCP; right, a a fishmonger. There’s a brilliant pub, Pedro da Costa Felgueiras (lacquer palette of very matte chalky paints, beautiful pattern and colour. I also hand-carved The Greenwich Union. And Royal studios.com) has dedicated his life’s upon which I can put quite a bit of really like textile artist Kirsten spoon by Teas does the best handmade cake. work to reviving the lost art of colour if I want to. I have everything Hecktermann (kirstenhecktermann. Nic Webb traditional paint making. He painted from very simple Georgian furniture com), and Katherine May (katherine MOST COVETED OBJECT Walpole’s house, Strawberry Hill. and old English milk stools, combined may.com) who does patchwork and A Lucie Rie pot. I was really lucky with Scandinavian mid-century beautiful coloured indigo and natural that I was invited to [ceramics gallery O The New Craftsmen will present a modern. I’m looking at some rag rugs dyes. For furniture I always go to owner] Anita Besson’s flat before she special exhibition at Christie’s to for my floors and I keep buying fabric twentytwentyone in Islington — they died. It was full of Lucy Rie and Hans celebrate the opening of its new gallery in The Berwick Street Cloth Shop. have a great sale shop — and SCP. Coper pieces... so light and fragile. next month (thenewcraftsmen.com).

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    IMAGE COURTESY OF SOTHEBY’S COURTESY IMAGE Think positive: from left, David Shrigley’s Really Good, for the Fourth Plinth; Axis Mundi by JÜrgen Partenheimer; Kate Moss (She’s Light) 2014, by Chris Levine

A FIRST AT ST PAUL’S THUMB’S UP SOME of the greatest art we shall ever TURNER PRIZE-nominated David 6$/( see was commissioned by Medici Shrigley will present the 11th sculpture patrons and popes — think of the Sistine to stand on the Fourth Plinth in 12: 21 Chapel and The Last Supper. Now St Trafalgar Square, the first major public Paul’s Cathedral is pushing forward with art commission to be unveiled by 21st-century art in a collaboration with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Shrigley acclaimed video artist Bill Viola. hopes Really Good, a 10 metre-high Mary is a companion piece to his work bronze thumb giving the thumbs up will Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) which become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and went on view there in 2014. that “bad” news — on the economy or It’s the first time moving-image art has the weather for example — will benefit been installed in a cathedral on a long- from the move towards positivity. On term basis, and these pieces are view September 29. hypnotic, haunting, thought-provoking and controversial. Architecture fans FREE ART ALL OVER TOWN should check out the metal stands TOTALLY THAMES celebrates the around the works, designed by Foster + 42-mile stretch of the river from Partners. Free entrance Tuesdays/ Hampton Court Palace to the Dartford Fridays at 11.30am and 2.15pm. Crossing this month. Near Millennium Bridge is Floating Dreams, a three- MOSS: MODEL AND MUSE storey illuminated lantern structure by CELEBRATING British creativity is the Korean artist Ik-Joong Kang. zeitgeist and Sotheby’s is holding Made The Line, east London’s thriving art in Britain, a sale of the best of British, walk set up by art dealer Megan Piper, from 1900 on. Artists with works on sale has brought out an interactive map with include Grayson Perry, David Hockney, children’s arts charity The House of Marc Quinn and Chris Levine. Asked why Fairy Tales, to guide youngsters through he sculpts celebrities, Quinn said: “It’s artworks on view from the O2 to about wanting to make art about our Stratford. Sculpture in the City time. If you were an artist in ancient features world-class art in 20 locations Greece, you’d make a sculpture of across the City, with work by Gavin Turk Aphrodite. An artist now with the same and Anthony Caro, among others. See idea would make one of Kate Moss.” striking blue Axis Mundi by Jürgen The Sotheby’s sale is a great way to Partenheimer in Cullum Street. And this start a collection, with reserve auction weekend there’s free entry to 750 iconic prices from £300. Sotheby’s W1, use London buildings for Open House Conduit Street or St George Street Weekend including 10 Downing Street entrances; viewing from September and The Gherkin. Some pre-booking 23, sale September 28. required (openhouselondon.org.uk)

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Nice for nectar: left, a small tortoiseshell butterfly on Summer Beauty alliums

Dynamic duo: right, Allium Purple Sensation contrasts with ladybird poppies

DESIGN: DOVE COTTAGE DESIGN: DOVE at Great Dixter Plant your magic pompoms right now There’s a sculptural, statuesque allium to transform every type and size of garden Pattie allium colour spectrum, and is a fool for the lesser-known deep, dark Barron Allium atropurpureum. “It has really deep, inky purple flowerheads that look amazing with any silver, blue and 444)5*/#!+%#)# pale-coloured plants. It’s also rugged of stem, so I do a bit of a cheat when $ LLIUMS are the magic the flowers have faded and the stems 6 wands of garden have begun to rock at the base. I tug ( designers, and this them out, cut them off, and push versatile family of bulbs them back into the ground, which should work its magic in gives them another six weeks to allA our gardens. The star-studded display their seedheads.”  pompoms on rod-straight stems look Allium cristophii is another Bailey  wonderful rising head and shoulders favourite. “Each flowerhead is a above clipped box balls, echoing their perfect sphere of interlinking stars. shape, popping up randomly among There is no other plant with quite that the lavender or contrasting their metallic sheen. The understorey of perfect, globed heads with spears of any sun-loving herbaceous plant is flowering iris. ideal for cristophii to grow through, Early enough to spice up the but my most successful planting is aquilegias, they fill the lean gap with Nepeta Walker’s Low. When the between spring and summer, taking seedheads have formed, I cut the the baton from the tulips and hitting lilac-tinged pink evergreen allium that Star studded: stems and nestle the heads into the their stride before the roses get going. has a clump-forming habit, so throws Allium cristophii, catmint.” Bees and butterflies adore them. Best out several stems from each bulb. And among news of all, the bulbs are easy to grow, when the alliums are past their best, euphorbia OR London garden designer both in border and container, they ornamental grass Miscanthus Claire Mee, alliums are the naturalise over time, and the time to Silverspinner takes over, veiling spring and early summer plant them is right now. Summer Beauty’s dainty seedheads. version of agapanthus. If you’re looking for impact, Allium “They’re a great transition Alliums blend into any and every kind Globemaster, with its giant mauve, Fplant. You can use them anywhere in of plot, from modern minimalist to tightly packed flowerheads on fat 3ft the garden, but a favourite densely planted cottage garden, and stems, is the one to choose. Just a trio combination of mine is to weave the there are myriad ways to use them, will pack a big punch in a small only true blue ornamental onion,   from demure, pink-flowered chives border. Dynamic plantsmen Nigel Allium caeruleum, through a drift of that make the prettiest edging to Dunnett and James Hitchmough ornamental grasses or green-and- sensational Allium cristophii, with scattered spectacular Globemaster white Astrantia Shaggy.     sparkly, silvery heads up to nine through the Pictorial Meadow at the “I’ve just planted them beneath crab inches in diameter, that rival any Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, using apple Malus Red Sentinel, so as the       garden sculpture. them to create strong visual anchors blossom finishes above, the alliums At Great Dixter, the drumstick for the wildflowers. beneath take over. For later on in blooms of signature allium Purple summer, I like to use the small,     Sensation, several shades richer than PERFECT, STARRY SPHERES lozenge-headed, blackcurrant Allium their close relative A hollandicum, In a far smaller space, London sphaerocephalon. The only rule I have drift through ladybird poppies, designer Charlotte Rowe uses white in planting schemes with alliums is to making a striking contrast to the Nigrum alliums to add drama to a position them in the middle of a bed  616 ,, "16 #* $6( # #**+ scarlet, black-blotched flowers. Use contemporary courtyard, and plants or border rather than the front, so the %  5 %/ * 06/ & 2#/ both these hollandicum alliums groups of white, 4ft-tall, large-headed surrounding plants camouflage the together, darker and lighter, to Mount Everest among lime green foliage, which tends to die down when   $6"') * 3+/ #2* +#4*## + / fabulous light-and-shade effect. euphorbia, beneath pleached the flowers start to bloom.” 6- */#! # $  ! -$ -0 At innovative Sussex Prairies, Paul hornbeams, to add vertical interest to #//! ! *#2 !  ") and Pauline McBride couldn’t afford a a cool green colour scheme. O Garden queries? Email our RHS expert water rill to run down the long space, Garden designer and BBC Photographs:: at [email protected] so instead planted what they call a Gardener’s World presenter Nick Marianne O For outdoor events this month, visit pink river of Allium Summer Beauty, a Bailey favours the other end of the Majerus homesandproperty.co.uk/events 28 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | My home homesandproperty.co.uk

I don’t do overdesigned: Nia Morris created the bright loft she longed for with laid-back, smart style; a sconce mirror and fabulous feature wall, above, in the master bedroom

ITH two of her three A 1,150sq ft box with soundproof con- 2002 and hasn’t been out of work since. children at university, crete floors and high ceilings, it is an Paul, who Morris first met at , saw interior designer Nia interior designer’s dream. an article about her new venture in ES, I fled an empty Morris was feeling the Morris, 55, read philosophy, politics the Evening Standard magazine, and got full impact of the empty and economics at Oxford, then went into in touch, which opened a new chapter. Wnest. The family’s five-storey Victorian banking, which she disliked, so retrained After running her own company she house in Primrose Hill suddenly didn’t and qualified in law. A senior partner in worked with others, but has now decided seen so much fun: “A room on every a large city firm for 12 years, she quit to go solo again. “I don’t like things that nest and landed floor, with just me much of the time when her third child by her now ex-hus- are overdesigned,” she says, “and I like using the kitchen and the bedroom, with band was born, and took six years off. to mix things up.” The new flat shows off unused floors in between.” Of Harry, now 24, Charlie, 22, and Milly, her laid-back, smart, hard-working style. She yearned for a big, bright loft 18, Charlie currently lives with her. Morris viewed her loft in April 2013, instead. It had to be near Paddington or completed later that year and wasted no in a funky loft Marylebone — the train route to Glouces- time getting the builders in to gut and SEEDS OF A NEW CAREER tershire where she and her partner, Paul, During her spell away from work, Morris transform it, which took four months. a busy doctor, have another home, and did up two houses for her own family, A bachelor flat done up in the Nineties, When her kids left for uni, lawyer and interior where Morris plans to extend her design while friends increasingly asked for her it had yellowy oak floors, white walls, and business. Luckily, she spotted an apart- help with theirs. She started a firm mak- was open-plan bar a half-wall behind designer Nia Morris sold up and converted a ment in her chosen area and bought it: ing designer accessories and lamp shades, which was a fridge, sink and cooker. It “It was the windows,” she says. selling to the likes of famous designer was entirely lit by floor and table lamps. warehouse. Cool, Mum. By Philippa Stockley The classic second-floor warehouse David Collins. “I was meeting interior All Morris kept was the giant floor-to-ceil- conversion on a sunny corner near the designers, and I thought, could I do this?” ing pivot door that divides off a vestibule, rich mix of Edgware Road has large black After studying at KLC School of Design in in which she designed a wall-mounted metal Crittall windows along two sides. Chelsea, she set up her own business in cabinet for her Brompton bike.

Functional style: far left and left, the Bulthaup kitchen, open- plan to the main living space, has all you need but doesn’t steal the show; right, striking tiling in one of two skilfully lit bathrooms

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A window wonderland: new double-glazed Crittall windows bring light flooding into the main space, left, and the master bedroom, above; right, hard- wearing oiled solid plank floors and a mirrored console table

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BYE-BYE NINETIES STYLING Another neat touch is a loft over the main THE FACTS AND FIGURES She wanted to get in two bedrooms and bathroom, creating plentiful storage. two bathrooms but keep the spacious WHAT IT COST add splashes of colour and interest, Kitchen and wing-slat air extractor: loft sense. The main room, with its amaz- LACK switch plates, surface- Apartment in 2013: £825,000 such as the green bathroom cabinets bulthaup.com ing windows and two huge bamboo mounted metal conduiting, Money spent: £150,000 (excluding fees) * Spend big where necessary to get Z1 black lamps with cotton covers in pendant lights, is a great space. The new double-glazed Crittall win- Value now: £1.5 million (estimate) what you really want — as Morris did on main room: ayilluminate.com Bulthaup kitchen has all you need, but dows and brilliantly considered her stylish, functional Bulthaup kitchen Pendants over dining table: doesn’t steal the show and there’s an lighting finish the look. There’s NIA MORRIS’S TOP TIPS michaelanastassiades.com office area to one side. Off this space is aB terrific mix, from concealed lighting * Every room needs something to lift it GET THE LOOK US Navy Chairs (aluminium): from a small bathroom and a utility area. behind the kitchen to small pendants over from ordinary to extraordinary, such as Architectural and interior design: by outlets such as cultfurniture.com Behind all that is the roomy master the eight-seater dining table, to those the antique mirrors in the bedroom Nia Morris Studio (niamorris.co.uk) Freestanding Ptolomeo book stands: bedroom with a silvery feature wall and giant lamps in the bedroom. “Lighting is * Play with scale: put large items with Brompton bike caddy and TV console: from firms such as madeindesign.co.uk two big 18th-century sconce mirrors. so important” says Morris. “It can be small ones to make interesting rhythms bespoke from Nia Morris (as before) Bathroom tiles: by Patricia Urquiola Modern designer lights dangle like a sculptural as well as functional.” * Install hard-wearing floors. Morris Builder: asap-construction.co.uk for Surface Tiles (surfacetiles.com) drunken, arty spider from the ceiling. She adds that there’s so much choice used the same flooring as the Saatchi Oiled solid plank floors: dinesen.com Feature wallpaper: timorousbeasties. The master bathroom and a boxy second when doing up your own place, it’s much Gallery, which always looks great Windows: crittall-windows.co.uk com bedroom fit between the main bedroom more stressful than designing for some- * Turn light switches into a feature, and Arsenic green paint: farrow-ball.co.uk Aim lamps in bedroom: flos.com and living room. The smaller bedroom one else. You’d never guess. buy good quality Squid Ink paint: paintandpaperlibrary. Black Heritage switch plates: from has a platform double bed that Morris * Don’t be too beige. Be neutral, but com firms such as arrowelectricals.co.uk designed, reached by a folding metal stair. O Twitter @stockleyp

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S THE traffic hurtles on view that could be threatened if the through, Kentish Town can Regis Road Industrial Estate is ever seem like the neighbour- redeveloped. hood north London forgot. Estate agent Clive Nunes, from the Squashed between hectic local branch of Winkworth, has worked CamdenA Town, refined Highgate and in Kentish Town for nearly 20 years. bohemian but moneyed Hampstead, He says people used to buy in the dis- Kentish Town might appear to some to trict because it was cheaper than High- have little to offer. Yet it is cherished by gate or Hampstead, but now they come its residents. because they want to live there. Only recently they voted resoundingly “It is a well-connected neighbour- for a Neighbourhood Plan that, among hood popular with young professionals a raft of other measures, seeks to protect and City workers who hop on Thames- the view which greets everyone leaving link Trains — Kentish Town’s unsung Kentish Town station of the open green heroes — and are in Farringdon in less spaces of Parliament Hill Fields. It’s a than 10 minutes.”

HAVE YOUR SAY Hustle, bustle: Kentish Town @21Boscastle: Check out Road; far right, @PitstopCafeSoho in Kentish Town. O2 Forum music Dumplings not to be missed venue is in an old Art Deco cinema Manager: Helena Maria, at The Fields Beneath coffee shop @NimkoAli: Coffee and breakfast or brunch @BEAR_and_WOLF would be my top tip Photographs: Daniel Lynch

Tradition: Queen’s Crescent Market, one of London’s oldest Bookish types: Katie McLaren and Zoe of The Owl Bookshop Pizza perfect: head chef Mario Scarparo at Soho House’s local Pizza East branch

£430,000 £515,000 £765,000 £1.4 MILLION A ONE-BEDROOM flat in Chetwynd Road, near HANDY for Kentish Town and Tufnell Park stations, a A NEWLY refurbished two-bedroom first-floor flat WITH plenty of entertaining space and a private Hampstead Heath, with residents’ parking two-bedroom flat in Lady Margaret Road, NW5. in a period house in Lady Somerset Road. Through roof terrace, this four-bedroom home is in Railey zone. Benham & Reeves (020 8012 3275). Through Hotblack Desiato (020 8012 4358). Knight Frank (020 8012 5430). Mews. Call Marsh & Parsons (020 3858 2403). To find a home in Kentish Town, visit rightmove.co.uk For more about Kentish Town, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/kentishtown EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 33 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

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STATS CHECK WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN KENTISH TOWN (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £458,000 Two-bedroom flat £692,000 Two-bedroom house £915,000 Three-bedroom house £1.19 million Four-bedroom house £1.61 million Source: Rightmove RENTING IN KENTISH TOWN (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,539 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,920 a month Two-bedroom house £2,391 a month Three-bedroom house £3,174 a month Four-bedroom house £4,346 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 The best Kentish Town shops and restaurants O Local arts, leisure and sport THE PROPERTY SCENE O More new homes — and the best streets in Kentish Town VICTORIAN terrace houses large and is the largest local development. not yet been released but buyers can ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES small characterise Kentish Town, and Barratt Homes is building 164 one-, register their interest with estate Housing association Newlon Housing those in Kelly Street, Falkland Road two- and three-bedroom flats, agents Hamptons and Greene & Co, Trust will soon be launching Camden and Leverton Street are much- including 82 affordable homes, with on 020 3451 1544. Court, part of Barratt’s Camden photographed for their brightly two internal courtyards and a The Maple Building at 39-51 Courtyards development. Eighty-two painted exteriors. residents’ roof garden. Two show Highgate Road is set among a cluster affordable flats will be ready from The district also offers warehouse flats opened last week for off-plan of former industrial buildings that next spring — 44 for social rent, 21 for TRAVEL conversions, new flats and estates of sales and prices start at £620,000 for have a strong architectural presence intermediate rent and 17 for shared social housing. has the a one-bedroom flat, £819,500 for a in the road. This former furniture ownership. Call 020 7613 7480. KENTISH TOWN station, on the Tube’s Lissenden Gardens mansion flat two-bedroom flat and £1.15 million factory, later a clothing Northern line, has Thameslink trains estate, built from 1898-1906, and the for a three-bedroom flat. The homes manufacturers, is being converted ■ WHO RENTS HERE? to Farringdon, Blackfriars and St Dunboyne Road estate designed by will be ready early next year. Call into 50 flats with seven penthouses Winkworth agent Clive Nunes says Pancras. The Overground runs from Neave Brown in the Seventies “golden 0844 225 0032. by the Linton Group. One-bedroom there are many long-term renters in Kentish Town West and Gospel Oak to era” of Camden council housing. The former PizzaExpress building flats start at £545,000, with two- Kentish Town who have made a Stratford via Highbury & Islington, at 187 Kentish Town Road lay bedroom flats at £865,000 and three- positive decision to rent rather than and Gospel Oak to Barking. Buses ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES empty for two years but Uplift bedroom flats at £1,375,000. The buy. The two French schools have include the C2 to Victoria via Oxford On a former industrial site at the Property is now converting it into a penthouses will be released next brought many French families to the Circus. Kentish Town is in Zone 2. An junction of Camden Road and St new cinema and event space, with 12 month. Visit themaple building.com district, who often rent locally before annual travelcard to Zone 1 is £1,296. Pancras Way, Camden Courtyards flats above. Prices of the flats have or call Savills on 020 7409 8756. they buy.

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of our two latest instructions, including a lovely family house in a favourite vil- The quick brown lage just outside Winchester in the Itchen Valley. Hopefully the recent good weather will hold up, as the house fox races off has a very special garden that should appeal to families and downsizers alike. The second instruction is a very with our client’s pretty period cottage in the village of Twyford, a few miles south of Winches- ter and just a 10-minute walk from stiletto shoe Shawford station with trains to Water- loo, making it a great location for any London commuter. MONDAY A fox is the unexpected star as we Diary of FRIDAY launch into our regular round-up of the This sunny morning is perfect for an weekend’s activity. A colleague tells the an estate early viewing at an impressive Grade story of how he was showing a rather II-listed barn conversion with a rather smart £1 million architect-designed fun ancillary barn that stands on stone home on the coast, and he and the agent supports, or staddle stones. The prop- viewers had removed their shoes and erty is the jewel in the crown of Manor left them outside the front door. ister of sales to cover. But we appear to Barns, a collection of beautiful conver- As the tour progressed, they stopped have matters under control and if we sions in glorious countryside only a to admire the view from a window... can gently steer things in the right 10-minute drive from Winchester city and spotted a fox dashing across the direction, we are on track to have a centre. It is a third viewing for the fam- garden with one of the woman’s high- good week for exchanges. ily so we are hopeful that an offer will heeled shoes in its mouth. Quick as a We’ve a full diary for the rest of the west London a few years ago. I’m sure the move out of town. The roadshow be forthcoming. flash, my colleague bolted out of the day, and one of the highlights is com- the easy commute from Winchester to is a relaxed affair, taking in a country- Friday is always busy with plenty of house in his stockinged feet and chased pleting the sale of a pretty thatched Waterloo, together with the excellent side theme, with activities for all the viewings being arranged for the week- the fox round the garden, trying to grab cottage in a village outside Winchester. local schools, make it highly likely the family. It’s always popular, and with end, as well as exchanges and comple- the shoe. Luckily, the fox dropped it as It had been on the market with other property will appeal to another Lon- Winchester recently being identified tions — although there is always at least it made its escape. agents for about a year, so it was a long don family, in the event that the current by Hamptons’ research team as one of one nail-biter that goes to the wire. haul for the vendor — and it’s greatly owners decide to list their home with the best places for community spirit in Pleasingly, four sales exchange this TUESDAY rewarding for them and us that we have Hamptons. the country, we expect to be fielding afternoon, one of which has been very We’re reviewing our current pipeline found the right buyer. These potential clients are particu- plenty of enquiries. protracted and complicated. So we end of sales. The important thing about any larly interested in our forthcoming the week by celebrating over a drink... sale is to ensure it progresses smoothly WEDNESDAY London to Country Roadshow next THURSDAY after work, of course. to an exchange of contracts and com- A fantastic old farmhouse set in several month. This involves five Hamptons There’s very rarely a quiet moment in pletion — easier said than done, of acres and surrounded by classic Hamp- offices in London hosting property this office, with a large team and a wide O Gareth Anwyl is associate director of course. The summer’s been busy and shire countryside is my first port of call. experts from the country offices, to patch to cover, and today is no excep- Hamptons International’s Winchester productive, so we have a healthy reg- The owners moved out from south- help buyers who are planning to make tion. The morning brings confirmation branch (01962 920 265). 42 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Ask the expert Can I lock out my love-rat husband? Fiona WHAT’S I OWN the freehold of a three-storey terrace YOUR house that’s divided into two flats. I live in the McNulty PROBLEM? Qground-floor flat and there is a long leasehold IF YOU have a of the first-floor flat. The owner does not live OUR LAWYER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS question for in the first-floor flat but rents it out. Fiona McNulty, The main front door to the house opens into a small please email hall which has two doors leading to each of the flats. I MARRIED 10 years ago legalsolutions@ Some of the plaster has fallen off, so part of the hall and have always been the standard.co.uk now needs re-plastering and it needs to be redecorated. Qmajor breadwinner while or write to Legal Also, my flat includes the rear garden where one of the my husband stayed at Solutions, Homes boundary fences is in a bad state of repair, and I’d like home to write. We were both & Property, to replace it. Am I solely responsible for the hall, or can married before and have grown-up London Evening I ask the tenant upstairs to contribute? And how do I children. My husband owns a house Standard, 2 Derry find out about the ownership of the boundary between which he rents out to students. I Street, W8 5EE. us and our next-door neighbour? own the penthouse flat where we We regret that live and I pay all the bills, while he questions cannot YOUR freehold title deeds may deal with boundary keeps the rent from his house plus be answered ownership. “T” marks are often on plans to the little money he makes from individually, but Aindicate both ownership of the boundary and writing. we will try to liability to maintain it. The “T” should be on the He has had affairs in the past and feature them land of the fence’s owner. A “T” on each side of the is currently in Paris with a woman. here. Fiona boundary means it’s a party boundary. Can I change the locks so that he McNulty is a In the case of a party boundary, ask your neighbour to cannot get back into the penthouse legal director contribute to the cost of replacing the fence. Even if it isn’t when he returns? He doesn’t realise in the private a party boundary you should ask, as they may be prepared that I know where he is at the wealth group of to contribute. If they refuse, you will have to bear the cost if moment — he told me he’s on a both of you have or have not made only option is to invite your husband Foot Anstey you want to replace the fence and they don’t. As for the creative writing course. towards the property have no impact to leave the property voluntarily on (footanstey.com). hall, the terms of the first-floor flat lease should confirm it on that right. the basis that your relationship as a common area, and that the lessee is jointly responsible YOU are married and have However, a right of occupation appears to have broken down with you for maintaining common parts. Provide the lessee used your flat as the marital through marriage is not the same as irretrievably. with estimates for the cost of the work. Deal with the lessee home, so your husband has a having an automatic right to share in If he leaves, then discussions around as owner of the leasehold interest in the flat, and not the A right of occupation. That the value of a property, and your the future of your relationship and the occupiers, who are tenants of the lessee. means he is entitled to access and to respective financial contributions practical and financial arrangements live there for as long as you are towards the flat may be taken into that will have to be made can take More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on married, so if you change the locks account when deciding how the place with the benefit of each of you Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. you are unlawfully restricting his matrimonial assets should be divided having separate and private Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar access. The financial contributions between you. At the moment your accommodation. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor.

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MEWS houses are a architecture of the welcome arrival amid all Meatpacking District in the high rise at Nine Elms, Manhattan. The 1,000sq ft Battersea, and developer homes look contemporary, Smart Ballymore is offering with a 400ft roof terrace £20,000 towards artwork instead of a back garden. for the new home in a link- Floor-to-ceiling windows up with Frieze London, the bring in the light, and the Want annual art fair held at interiors have luxurious moves Regent’s Park in October. oak, marble and black to buy Buyers will get tickets to a granite finishes. your VIP event and first access The development also to 160 galleries showcasing benefits from lush first work. The houses are part communal gardens and of Embassy Gardens, a there will be a spectacular home? Be a show-off 2,000-home development communal sky pool, spa wrapping around the new and summer bar. Prices US embassy and inspired from £1,295,000. Call 020 by the robust red-brick 7062 8940. in Docklands

IX spectacular Docklands penthouse living. The homes are set penthouses are truly over three levels, with two bedrooms glamorous lairs, with on the lower floor, an open-plan impressive interiors and kitchen and living area on the second panoramic views from their floor, while the entire top floor is Sterraces. But by keeping these homes given over to a splendid square- to a space-efficient 1,200sq ft, shape roof terrace, right, sheltered developer Telford has managed to from the wind and with an outdoor hold the starting price below kitchen for show-off dinner parties. £1 million. These air-conditioned apartments Horizons, a 26-storey skyscraper, come with underground parking plus sits between Canary Wharf and a private gym and the services of a Royal Docks, and looms over that 24-hour concierge. great U-bend in the Thames. The With prices from £995,000, this is dramatic riverscape and big skies well-priced luxury. Call Cushman & From £1,295,000: Embassy Gardens mews homes, Battersea make Docklands the perfect place for on 020 3296 2222. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 51 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property Live among footballer mansions in Surrey

THE Cobham property market has enjoyed the glamour brought in by Chelsea football club, which built a modern training ground in this Surrey stockbroker belt district. The average home here now costs more than £1 million, while some trophy homes exceed £10 million. Knowle Hill Park is a scheme of apartments within what appears to be a traditional country mansion. In fact it is a new build with a classical façade and a central columned entrance. With up to 3,600sq ft of space, these large apartments are spread across two or three floors, and cost from £1,825,000. Seven big houses priced from £1.9 million are also being built in the grounds of the 45-acre private estate, which has ancient woodland, an orchard and a fishpond. Call Millgate Homes on 01483 564660. From £1,825,000: flats over two to three floors at Knowle Hill Park, Cobham, Surrey

GET ON YOUR BIKE changing and shower facilities, lockers and free wifi for cyclists. TO A SLOUGH FLAT Slough Urban Renewal, a regeneration partnership between the local council and SLOUGH is not what one might call a developers, is involved in schemes to raise beautiful place — but it is a Crossrail the profile of the town, known mainly for winner, and as such has registered the its massive trading estate. UK’s biggest house price increase, a Milestone is a development being built whopping 19 per cent, over the last year, on land next to the old town hall, with 73 according to the Land Registry. homes ranging from one-bedroom Today is National Cycle to Work Day apartments to three-bedroom houses. and Slough is joining the team by Prices range from £230,000 to introducing a number of bike initiatives, £500,000, and buyers get a £100 voucher including a £140,000 cycle route across towards the cost of a new bike at one of the borough and a “cycle hub” at the the town’s cycle shops. Call 01753 326 106 train station offering a repair workshop, From £230k: homes at Milestone, Slough for more information.