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th 20anniversarya issue Homes&Property A message from the editor: Janice Morley Trophy home of ‘Thank you for keeping the week us at the top for 20 years’ a perfect glass TODAY we celebrate the 20th birthday of party palace in Homes & Property. As a Londoner and a Fleet Street journalist, then with the London Putney Heath Evening Standard, I have lived in and walked through this city all my life. It’s easy to fall in £3,475,000: with almost 5,000sq ft of living space this love with London, its architecture, its house at Putney Heath history, and its ever-changing landscape. delivers on the wow-factor This city has been burned down, flooded front, right from the off. and flattened by bombs but it remains the Full-height glass panels in most resilient of capitals. the entrance hall lead to a 28ft reception room Homes and property have always been my featuring a fabulous passions. I made the journey of everyman — mezzanine level that’s from rented flats to home owner. Property is perfect for a festive bash. a huge issue in London, so it wasn’t difficult The bespoke kitchen has a huge breakfast island, and to sell the idea of the first newspaper Then and now: our launch issue from 1996, the striking double-height property magazine to the Evening top, and this week’s cover stories, above glass dining room opens to a Standard’s editor of the day in 1996. Since south-facing garden. The then we have published every week, master bedroom comes with further en suite bedrooms gym potential completes the producing exclusive and exciting stories. especially for young average earners. a super-luxe en suite and are above. A detached package. Call Chestertons dressing room, while three double garage with home (020 8012 3879). This is a city that constantly reinvents There is a lot that needs fixing. We air itself; a steady flow of new ideas runs your problems and search for solutions in through every district, as fast and our constantly shifting property market. fascinating as London’s main artery, the With London as the main player, writing Lifechanger Thames. The city is both urbane and urban, its property story is easy — it was always of the week from its glittering central zones to its edgy, going to be a thriller. youthful fringes. It has transformed itself sell four-star out of all recognition in many boroughs, as After 20 years we remain the market breaks on your its enterprising residents and wealth leader — bigger, better and unique in creators generate the energy that draws in having London as our patch. And that’s Welsh farm a privilege. Thank you for keeping us £1.2 million: rolling, scenic newcomers. countryside, a rare-breed We all know the problems of our city, at the top. farm and holiday cottages form a fine Welsh package at Cwmcrwth Farm near VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our usual Editorial: 020 3615 2524 Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. promotion rules. When you respond to promotions, offers Advertisement manager: Converted from original or competitions, the London Evening Standard and its Ann Finan farm buildings, the three family home of four double totalling almost 50 acres sister companies may contact you with relevant offers and Advertising: 020 3615 0266 holiday cottages, ripe for bedrooms, a kitchen/ there’s plenty of room to services that may be of interest. Please give your mobile Homes & Property, Northcliffe letting, are full of charm and breakfast room with the horse around should you number and/or email address if you would like to receive House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, have a four-star rating. The requisite Aga, and a lovely wish to pursue equestrian such offers by text or email. London W8 5TT. farmhouse itself has been reception room warmed by a interests. Through Savills extended into a substantial bread oven. With land (029 2243 0212). London buy of the week monochrome flat in cool Chamberlayne Road will melt your heart £599,950: it’s hard not to fall for the chic monochrome styling in this second-floor flat near hip shops, bars and restaurants in Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise. The spacious reception room is all about sleek lines — from the glossy white floor tiles balanced by grey walls, to the floating dark wood sideboard that ties in nicely with matching cabinetry in the open-plan kitchen area. It’s all nice and bright thanks to two large windows and a skylight. second bedroom, and in the More good looks can be white metro-tiled shower found in the master bedroom room. For sale through with its smart en suite, in the Foxtons (020 8012 6806). By Faye Greenslade

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By company, of Titanic fame, SEALIGHT STUDIOS has been transformed Amira Hashish into a £100 million luxury Pretty Woman’s apartment block. Grade II-listed Oceanic pretty good profit House, right, in Cockspur Street, yards from É JULIA ROBERTS has sold her Trafalgar Square, is now Hawaiian estate. The Pretty Woman home to six lateral flats actress, below, bought the property O For more celebrity and a show-stopping five years ago for £10.7 million. gossip, visit two-storey penthouse. Called the Faye Residence, it comes homesandproperty. The ground-floor main with a 200ft stretch of beach. The co.uk/gossip foyer, once the first-class main plantation-style house, above, booking office, evokes the built in 1917, has beamed ceilings, a glamour of the early galley kitchen and a sea-facing porch. 20th-century ocean liners The sale includes a guesthouse and with a scale model of the taken together, the properties Live where doomed Titanic on provide seven bedrooms and four display. The homes are bathrooms. Oscar-winner Roberts the movie priced from £5,265,000 to failed to achieve her asking price but big cats £25 million through nevertheless made a decent profit, Beauchamp Estates and selling the estate to Mike Fleiss, loved to stay the penthouse has four creator of American TV dating game spacious bedrooms, five show The Bachelor, for £13.06 million. É
AUTHOR and owned by film actor four-bedroom house in bathrooms and two roof journalist Neil Forsyth Michael Trubshawe, the Seventies. terraces. Perhaps is selling his West best known for his roles For sale through Peter Leonardo DiCaprio or Sussex home. Famed in Bedazzled and The Hughes, it has recently Kate Winslet, right, stars for his comedy writing Lavender Hill Mob. been spruced up and of the 1997 blockbuster including the BBC Fellow British actor comes with a secluded film Titanic, might fancy a sitcom Bob Servant, David Niven, who garden. move… starring Brian Cox, appeared with It’s in the village of Forsyth has listed the Trubshawe in The Pink Kirdford and nearby Got some gossip? Georgian house, above Panther movie, above, Horsham station is less Tweet right, for £695,000. was a good friend and than an hour’s train trip The property was once stayed regularly at the from London Victoria. @amiranews You’ll be seeing stars in Belgravia É ONE of Belgravia’s tallest homes is and is a striking piece of architecture for sale. The seven-floor townhouse covering 4,243sq ft. The stunning in Wilton Place is on the market for interior includes a first-floor drawing £14 million with Harrods Estates. room that opens to a charming The house neighbours The Berkeley terrace with dark wooden decking and its new, über-modern glass-and- and white linen furniture. steel bar extension. The hotel is an Wilton Square residents have enduring favourite with the rich and included Margaret Thatcher, and famous — singer Mariah Carey and football bosses Jose Mourinho and Hollywood’s Penélope Cruz were Sven-Göran Eriksson. Elizabeth recent guests. Street, Motcomb Street and West The townhouse, left and far left, a Halkin Street are close by for

peaceful retreat, was built in 1825 luxurious shopping and dining. GETTY 6 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by th HAT a rip-roaring 20 anniversarya issue Homes&Property years it has been — 20 encompassing five British prime minis- ters, the dotcom boom,W a currency crisis, the biggest banking crash in living memory, the London is a spectacle of the London 2012 Olympics and the shock of the UK’s Brexit vote. And each of those events had its impact on the capital’s property market. It has also been a period of huge physical change in London, with high- city full of profile urban regeneration sparking the return of city-centre living. New residential quarters have been created, especially in the east, while dramatic high-rise architecture has transformed surprises the skyline. At the same time, transport upgrades, such as Tube extensions, Twenty years of dramatic change have have brought run-down and forgotten areas in from the cold. transformed 10 areas of London out of all So the capital’s property map has been redrawn, but through it all there recognition. You should have bought there. has been a constant factor — the inexo- rable rise in property values. You still can, says David Spittles Property pioneers who gamble on new frontiers and up-and-coming areas Knightsbridge. It’s a place with a varied trendy New King’s Road, packed with almost certainly reap rewards over time community of residents and businesses galleries and boutiques. for bold investments — evidenced by the that give it charm and individuality. Imperial Wharf includes a 10-acre most successful areas, which we are park, while the waterfront promenade highlighting today. If you have owned SANDS END connects with Chelsea Creek — where your property over the past 20 years, ONCE CUT-OFF, NOW CONNECTED apartments are being built alongside you will be happy with your return. The now-desirable riverside neigh- new docks and waterways — and the bourhood of Sands End in Fulham is a new micro neighbourhood emerging MARYLEBONE triumph of development in a seemingly at Lots Road Power Station. Chelsea LESS NOUVEAU RICHE THAN unpromising, cut-off corner of London. Island, another new scheme, has 89 NOTTING HILL Despite the negatives of a large tract of flats in blocks with communal roof gar- For most of the 20th century Maryle- industrial land, gasworks and train dens designed by “couture florist” Neill bone was the genteel, low-profile home tracks, it has been transformed into an Strain. From £925,000. Call Hadley of actors and doctors, its high street enclave of coveted flats and houses. Property Group on 0800 540 4377. more like that of a county town than The turnaround began slowly in the an urban thoroughfare moments from Nineties when nearby Chelsea Harbour BOROUGH Marble Arch. was built alongside a muddy inlet, and WHERE THE STALL WAS SET OUT Neglected by its landlords Howard de developers looked at the waterfront Two decades of regeneration along the Walden during the Eighties, by 1995 strip to its west with different eyes. historic South Bank has shifted Lon- the high street was in crisis. Half the Housebuilder St George, backed by don’s centre of gravity and catapulted shops were empty or let to charities, then-Mayor Ken Livingstone, launched the SE1 postcode into property’s pre- property values were going backwards 1,600-home Imperial Wharf, pledging mier league. It all began at Borough and businesses were leaving. to pay for a new train station and install Market. In the mid-Nineties, the once- Rethinking its masterplan in 1996, the a riverbus pier to connect this new thriving fruit and veg market looked like

estate skilfully converted a rat-infested quarter to the rest of the city. a disused film set, eerily Dickensian, JOHN STURROCK stable block at the northern end of the Today Sands End is a new inner sub- with redundant wharves and ware- high street into The Conran Shop and urb, a destination as well as a place to houses and decaying railway arches. million people a year. And it is set to Awesome change: Granary Square in an acclaimed restaurant. Then came live, with riverfront bars and restau- Market trustees came up with the bril- move up a notch in status. regenerated King’s Cross, a district Waitrose, followed by specialist food rants, hotels and small businesses, and liant idea of turning it into “London’s A game-changing £300 million project with vitality and a sense of fun and furniture stores, fashion boutiques a lively hinterland that stretches to Larder”, a throwback to its Victorian is bringing dozens of Covent Garden- and quirky independent traders. heyday. Vinopolis blazed a trail by open- style fashion boutiques, an art house Most of Marylebone is a conservation ing a specialist wine and whisky centre, cinema, private members club, loft KING’S CROSS area and about half the buildings are Want to buy while developer Oakmayne was the first offices and flats built on a three-acre site A STAR IS BORN listed. Prized Georgian architecture to spot the area’s potential as a place to that includes a network of magnificent Even the most optimistic of regenera- and swish new builds attract affluent a new-build live by refurbishing wharves into smart vaulted Victorian railway arches. tion gurus could not have predicted home buyers and A-list celebrities. The loft apartments. In the blink of an eye, Borough might still be considered the awesome changes at King’s Cross. estate has kept control by buying head home? Start Borough went from fringe to fashiona- good value for money. Typically, new Two decades ago, the district wrapping leases and now owns 80 per cent of the your search ble, not just the buzzing, atmospheric homes start at about £500,000 and around the train station was blighted high street compared with only 20 per market but the wider area, too. range between £800 and £1,300 a by coal yards, railway sheds and dis- cent two decades ago. It is a superbly central address, both square foot, lower than most Zone 1 used freight depots. Marylebone has evolved into the quin- for the City and West End. Located districts. Brandon House, with 77 flats It was a place for kerb-crawlers and tessential London village: less nouveau alongside upgraded London Bridge and townhouses priced from £735,000, crack addicts, rough and dangerous riche than Notting Hill, less patrician station, the area has become a huge is the area’s latest scheme. Call 020 3437 with no property market as such. Now than Belgravia and more animated than business and tourist hub, drawing 50 1101 for more. it is home to an entire new district,

HOW PRICES HAVE ROCKETED IN LONDON’S ‘REBORN’ AREAS Average price Average price Percentage Area in 1996 today growth 1 Stratford £81,835 £378,078 462% 2 Dalston £137,856 £631,382 458% 3 Peckham £116,652 £508,603 436% 4 Sands End £226,637 £936,013 413% 5 Canary Wharf £128,414 £525,215 409% 6 Spitalfields £186,524 £755,424 405% 7 Borough £150,061 £606,250 404% 8 Bermondsey £129,538 £523,334 404% 9 White City £182,641 £728,741 399% 10 Marylebone £543,239 £2,129,499 392% 11 Bayswater £315,799 £1,190,563 377% 12 Hoxton £167,422 £585,977 350% 13 King’s Cross £178,568 £716,058 401% 14 Clerkenwell £225,089 £787,814 350% From £735,000: flats and townhouses at Brandon House in London average £139,928 £526,131 376% From £995,000: apartments at Garden House in Bayswater overlook Kensington Borough, where new homes are typically good Zone 1 value Source: eMoov Gardens Square. Behind the classic terrace façade, the homes have smart tech EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 7 New homes | Homes & Property

CANARY WHARF MATURING INTO A LIVELY SPOT A new London district was born in the Nineties when Canary Wharf suddenly emerged as a rival to the City financial centre. Quickly the area cemented itself into the consciousness of Londoners and today is synonymous with the geo- graphical entity we call Docklands. Having established itself as a flourish- ing commercial zone, Canary Wharf is now out to prove it is also a first-rate place to live, with an ambitious con- struction programme bringing thou-

REX sands of new homes, most ready for Out to entice: Canary Wharf is getting glam new homes occupation in 2018-2020. Crucially, you can buy off-plan today and move in when Crossrail, seen as a game-changer for the area, is up and running. For many people, this part of Dock- lands is an alternative London, one that has more in common with downtown  Chicago or Singapore than Kensington, 7KH Putney or St John’s Wood. Yet there is no doubting that Canary Wharf has acquired critical mass and is maturing into a lively district. More VN\oV WKH than 800,000 people a week are attracted to its 300 shops, bars and eateries, five retail malls, gyms and

GETTY OLPLW concert venues. Part of the renaissance: Westfield London in White City, Certainly more homes are needed for where property prices have risen 399 per cent in 20 years Canary Wharf’s expanding workforce, which has risen from 8,000 20 years ago to more than 130,000 now. Developers are also adding a new level of luxury and glamour to entice 
 
 buyers from other parts of London because despite its allure for global banks, Canary Wharf has yet to attract the capital’s movers and shakers. Spire London aims to plug this gap. When complete in 2020, the 771ft tower will be the tallest residential building in western Europe, with 861 flats. Call CBRE on 020 7519 5900. BAYSWATER BYE-BYE SEEDY B&BS Bayswater has regained much of its Victorian cachet. That era saw grand

GETTY terraces and squares of stucco man- sions built to fill the acres between costing £5 billion to build, complete London’s Larder: Borough Market, the Hyde Park and Paddington station. with its own new postcode, N1C. foodies’ favourite, kicked off 20 years The district went downhill after the There are 2,000 new homes, 20 new of regeneration along the South Bank Blitz. Poky bedsits, seedy B&Bs and streets, 10 new public spaces, 20 backpacker hostels took over — but its 7KH+XGVRQ&ROOHFWLRQ restored heritage buildings, oceans of Cross is joined at the hip with St Pancras, architectural fabric remained intact and new office space including a European rejuvenated by the Eurostar terminal in the mid-Nineties, after the phenom- HQ for Google, shops and restaurants and conversion of the old Midland enal rise of neighbouring Notting Hill, plus a campus for Central St Martins Grand Hotel into luxury flats. A former people began to recognise Bayswater’s college of art and design, an architec- engineering yard next to the station is potential. Tony Blair snapped up a Con- 7KH 0DGLVRQ D EUHDWKWDNLQJ  VWRUH\ turally stunning 21st-century “ware- now Regent Quarter, a smart enclave of naught Square townhouse. house of ideas” for 5,000 students. homes, design studios and small busi- First it was niche developers creating UHVLGHQWLDO ODQGPDUN WRZHU LV SURXG WR Once written off by many, this part of ness premises in cobbled courtyards. spacious lateral flats that cost half the DQQRXQFH WKH UHOHDVH RI LWV QHZ +XGVRQ London now offers diversity, vitality, Regeneration is also spilling over into price of those in Mayfair and Belgravia. commerce and creative kudos. The lat- Caledonian Road. XY Apartments is a Later came big projects such as The &ROOHFWLRQ IURP OHYHOV  WR  est homes to be unveiled are spectacu- collection of 273 sleek Scandi-style Lancasters, originally a terrace of 15 lar flats built within the listed frames of homes on the site of former Maiden houses, redeveloped into 75 opulent, 6IEGLMRK YT XS XLI WX ¾SSV XLI ETEVXQIRXW SJ XLI ,YHWSR 'SPPIGXMSR [MPP 19th-century Gasholders. Prices from Lane council estate. From £545,000. highly priced new residences behind SJJIV FVIEXLXEOMRK ZMI[W EGVSWW 'EREV];LEVJ XLI 6MZIV8LEQIW ERH XLI 3 £810,000. Call 020 3504 6933. King’s Call Savills on 020 3320 8220. a listed Belle Époque-style façade that’s said to be the longest in Europe. )\TIVMIRGI XLI TVMZEXI VIWMHIRXW´ ,MKLPMRI 'PYF SR XLI XL ¾SSV [MXL MXW Momentum is ongoing with a facelift FIEYXMJYPP] ETTSMRXIH PSYRKI FEV ½VWXGPEWW K]Q LMKLXIGL QIIXMRK EVIE of bustling Queensway, the once-grand ERH WGVIIRMRK VSSQ GSQTPIQIRXIH F] ER IPIKERX WTE ERH TSSP but now faded thoroughfare at the heart of the area. Royal Opera House architect Dixon Jones has been hired    ##   to draw up a masterplan to transform 
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  Kensington Gardens Square. Owners have direct access to the square through a central lobby backing on to the gar- % HIZIPSTQIRX F] 7EPIW VITVIWIRXEXMZI dens. These homes are rich in character, while “smart” tech controls blinds, mood lighting and home entertainment. From £995,000. Call 020 7408 5155. 'SQTYXIV KIRIVEXIH MQEKIW EVI MRHMGEXMZI SRP] 'SVVIGX EX XMQI SJ TVMRX From £545,000: XY Apartments are close to Caledonian Road and King’s Cross Continued on Page 8 ± 8 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Continued from Page 7 Life on the edgy side From £450,000: apartments at Wood’s Road, above left, in Peckham, face on to Cossall Park. Above right, flats at Fifty Seven East in Dalston start at £565,000 PECKHAM PUT ON THE MAP BY A CAR PARK incorporates open-air sky gardens. likely to get quizzical looks. Before the Once riot-prone, this edgy south-east Harry Handelsman, its renowned devel- early Nineties, most of London’s 29,000 London district has moved from up- oper, modestly calls it a “thing of printers worked in EC1, alongside met- and-coming to bohemian hotspot. Cool beauty”. alworkers, clockmakers and jewellers. young kids descend on the clubs and Interlocking single-storey with double- Then with startling suddenness, the cafés, gigs and galleries, rooftop bars height apartments has allowed for more area fell almost silent, leaving a sad and foodie night markets. than a dozen property types, from stu- streetscape of industrial buildings that The local council has also woken up dios to penthouses. Prices from nobody wanted. The trades and crafts to Peckham’s charms. Rye Lane, the £615,000. Call 020 7620 3803. that had flourished over the previous main shopping street, has been desig- two centuries died or departed as tech- nated a conservation area to protect DALSTON BUILDING OUT nology changed. heritage buildings from zealous devel- FROM THE STATION Islington council had to face the fact opers. The train station is getting a At the turn of the century buyers willing that the area’s commercial space was facelift and the zone around it upgraded, to invest in future growth saw that Dal- largely redundant, but here was a con- with a new town square created and ston offered an opportunity. version waiting to happen. Warehouses derelict railway arches brought back The catalyst was the East London line and factories make spectacular homes, into use as shops and business extension that brought the Tube to and so London’s “loft movement” was premises. Hackney for the first time. Dalston’s new born, taking its cue from similar districts Disused coal sidings are being trans- train station became a key interchange, in New York. Traditional housebuilding formed into an elevated “greenway”, a funnelling commuters entering London went out of the window. Developers

one kilometre-long park terminating at LYNCH DANIEL from north and south, but heading for unashamedly sought out buildings with Kirkwood Nature Reserve. th the East End and City, away from the a raw edge and popularised a relaxed, Peckham’s multi-storey car park — anniversarya issue Hip to Dalston: young Londoners main central London rail termini, which metropolitan way of living within bare which came to prominence when a 20 Homes&Property priced out of Shoreditch made this are heavily congested. brick walls, ushering in a new urbane cocktail bar and concert venue were once-gritty City-fringe address cool A new town centre with 550 homes, lifestyle that continues to this day. installed there — is being turned into 50 shops, a library and public square was Clerkenwell is now one of the smartest affordable art studios and workshops STRATFORD tural quarter is bringing a new Victoria built around the station, and soon Dal- places in London to live and work. plus pop-up stores, galleries and events AND THE OLYMPIC PARK & Albert Museum, campuses for Uni- ston’s gritty streets and derelict canal- Alongside designer homeware stores spaces. Regeneration of Stratford was a slow versity College London and London side were gentrifying, attracting young and art galleries are hip private mem- Peckham splits into three definable burn in the Nineties but what looked College of Fashion plus a 600-seat thea- Londoners priced out of Shoreditch. bers clubs, bars and noted restaurants. sub-areas: the northern patch around like being a marathon turned into a tre and choreography school for Sadler’s It’s no longer a cheap City-fringe The neighbourhood is set for another much-improved Burgess Park; the bus- sprint when London won the bid to host Wells. address but it still offers good value for boost when the Crossrail station at Far- tling town centre and the quieter and the 2012 Olympics. The former Olympics press and broad- a vibrant Zone 2 postcode. Fifty Seven ringdon opens in 2018. Estate agents leafier southern section embracing More than £13 billion has been spent cast centre has been turned into the East is the pick of the new develop- have stretched its boundaries east and Nunhead, Peckham Rye and Bellenden on infrastructure and new facilities, Here East cluster of creative and digital ments, a 15-storey cylindrical tower with north, while design-creep is spreading conservation area. making Stratford a new mini city. The companies, while relocation of Trans- sweeping views of the City. from the heartland towards the bound- More than 2,000 new homes — both 500-acre Olympic Park is the largest port for London and the Financial Con- Prices from £565,000. Call Cushman ary with Angel, where City University’s public and private — are in the pipeline recreational space to be created in duct Authority is bringing another & Wakefield on 020 3296 2222. campus radiates out from Northampton as part of an Area Action Plan. Europe for 150 years. Westfield shop- 5,500 jobs. Square, and Sadler’s Wells Theatre lures The first of these are at Wood’s Road, ping centre is part of the biggest mixed- One project, Manhattan Loft Gar- CLERKENWELL culture vultures from other parts of where apartment blocks clad in warm use regeneration project ever dens, softens Stratford’s hard urban LOFT LIVING’S BIRTHPLACE London to see dance of every kind. brick have their own green space and undertaken in the UK. face as well as setting a new standard in If you tell one of Clerkenwell’s bearded, also face on to Cossall Park. Thousands of homes have already terms of housing quality and architec- skinny jean-wearing brand consultants O For more on 20 years of change, plus Prices from £450,000. Call 020 3437 been built, while another 10,000 are in ture. The shimmering 42-storey sky- that 20 or so years ago this ancient par- a video, visit: 1273 for more details. the pipeline. A new £850 million cul- scraper has 248 apartments and ish was an industrial quarter, you are homesandproperty.co.uk/hp20 EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 9 A winner’s tale | Homes & Property th anniversarya issue 20 Homes&Property Take a punt on a fringe area. And good luck Jon Downey took risks and maxed out his credit cards but it all came good. Phew. The next hotspot’s Canada Water, he tells Ruth Bloomfield

HANKS to a willingness to take risks, an instinct for the next big thing and a large dollop of good fortune, Jonathan Downey hasT scaled the London ladder over the last 20 years to become a property millionaire. In 1996 he was a 30-year-old Master of the game: Jonathan Downey’s first flat, in Old Street, cost him £235k corporate lawyer working in the City. and is on the market now for £1.6 million. “London prices are insane,” he says The phrases “Generation Rent” and “Bank of Mum and Dad” had yet to Downey to quit the legal profession. considering, when the property is be invented, and it was nowhere near In 2004, after the birth of their sold, investing in two cheaper flats, as difficult as it is today for young, second child, Downey and his one for him and one for them. He single professionals to find a partner split up. When he met likes Haggerston and is also looking foothold. His starter home was a somebody new, he remortgaged the at south-east London locations on 1,500sq ft flat near Bunhill Fields, Old flat to cover the deposit for a home in the London Overground. Brockley is Street, which cost him £235,000 — “a another untested area — Dalston. a current favourite for its value for fortune in those days”. The couple, who have two children money by Zone 2 standards. Downey, now co-founder of street aged 12 and 13, bought a four- food market network Street Feast, bedroom semi-detached house for Downey thinks property in Canada had recently returned to the UK after £725,000. It’s now worth £2 million. Water could flourish. Sellar Property two years working in Abu Dhabi, The flat, meanwhile, was let out, Group, of Shard fame, is building a with his savings of expat cash to put comfortably covering its mortgage. tower there, while British Land has down as a deposit. He fell in love with In 2013 Downey co-launched Street plans for a £2 billion regeneration. the open-plan warehouse flat and Feast, which operates in Dalston, “Canada Water is like King’s Cross also with the Old Street area. Shoreditch, Canada Water and was six or eight years ago,” says “Even then lots of architects and Lewisham. At about the same time Downey “[Roger Madelin] at British artists and designers were living his relationship broke down and he Land was responsible for King’s there,” he says. “It felt quite cool, returned to the flat. Cross when he was at Argent, so I and undiscovered,though it was a bit think they will do a good job.” of a wasteland in the evenings and Exactly 20 years after he bought it, the Downey is, however, painfully weekends.” property is now on the market for aware that being a property success £1.6 million. It has been a great will be far harder for his children After his stint in Abu Dhabi he had a investment, with an almost sevenfold than it has been for him. “The price £25,000 deposit, and took out a “self- increase in value. But as a base for a of property in London is insane,” he certified” mortgage to raise the other father of four it has limitations. “It is says. “I don’t know how anybody in £210,000. This form of lending a great bachelor pad, or for a couple, their twenties or thirties manages to meant borrowers could tell lenders but though it’s the size of a four- buy anywhere. what their income was but didn’t bedroom house it is laid out with one “Everyone is being pushed out of have to provide back-up paperwork. bedroom,” explains Downey, 50. London. Perhaps home ownership is Self-certified mortgages were banned With his eldest children likely to not going to be an option for kids in in 2011 on the grounds they were an leave home in the next few years he is future.” invitation to buyers to overstretch themselves. Live/work: This was certainly the case with Downey’s Street Downey. “I was really nervous Feast venue in because it was more money than I Dalston. He had,” he says. “I had the £25,000 bought a semi in deposit but the flat was a shell when I the area for bought it and I maxed out three £725,000, worth credit cards fitting it out and buying £2 million today things like washing machines.” Adding to the financial pressure he was simultaneously investing in his O For more on first bar, Match, in Clerkenwell — the London’s site is now owned by the BrewDog property chain. In 1998 he and his partner had winners, visit: their first child, and by 1999 both homesand Match, and a second bar he had property. opened, were doing well enough for co.uk/hp20 10 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property |Changing London

We didn’t have a Mayor and starchitects weren’t invented

Then: local councils held all the power. Now: London has had an elected Mayor since 2000. Then: Routemaster buses. Now: Boris Bikes. Then: developers and councils rarely hired outside architects to design homes, hospitals, or schools. Now: a “starchitect” name GETTY or an up-and-coming Wall-to-wall wonders: feature skyscrapers by starchitects characterise the City skyline today, from Canary Wharf to the Gherkin and the Shard practice is seen as an th essential expense. NICK HOLT ROM yuppies to yummy anniversarya issue Homes&Property Back then: we all went mummies and scumble glaz- 20 Then: One Canada Square taupe, Kelly Hoppen’s ing to polished concrete, it’s was London’s only real signature colour. Thank not only London’s skyline that skyscraper. goodness we’ve moved on has changed almost beyond Now: the skyline has Frecognition in the past 20 years. changed beyond How you’ve changed who now routinely add recognition with additions THE MARKET: in 1996 London was just Ruth Bloomfield such as the Shard, Heron lavish health and leisure coming out of the recession-before- charts the property market roller Tower, the Cheesegrater facilities to tempt buyers. last. The average home cost £79,000. coaster ride enjoyed by Londoners over just 20 years and the Walkie-Talkie. Then: Kelly Hoppen’s Today prices have jumped 518 per cent With 250 more towers in “taupe on taupe” style to an average £488,908. TRANSPORT: the capital’s transport Frank, was working in Canary Wharf the pipeline it is hard to was the look to copy; Wages have failed to keep pace with network has spread and improved over in 1996 but believes it was not until the imagine how crowded the stencilling and scumble this leap. In 1999 the average Londoner the past 20 years. In 1996 the Jubilee early to mid-Noughties that the area skyline might look by glazing were earned £22,487, compared to an aver- line was extended through central reached a “critical mass”. 2036. unaccountably hip, as age £36,302, a 47 per cent increase. London to Canada Water, Canary Both HSBC and Barclays banks built Then: One Hyde Park had were squishy sofas Which means property prices have Memories: the Wharf, and on to Stratford. new head offices in the area, restau- just been granted decorated with giant risen more than 11 times as fast as City skyline’s Canary Wharf, back in those days, rants, bars, clubs and shops started to planning permission. cabbage roses and heaped incomes, locking many Londoners off standout was very much a work in progress: open, and developers started investing Now: after a million with pastel-coloured the property ladder (sources: Office for features in 1996 metaphorical tumbleweed blew across in the first residential towers, notably column inches, homes at cushions. National Statistics; Savills). were St Paul’s Canada Square at evenings and week- Pan Peninsula. this most-prestigious Now: 50 shades of pale and the NatWest ends. Charlie Hart, head of City & east “It was the first dawn of a strong and address fetch record grey on the walls, RENTING: in 2001 just 15 per cent of Tower residential development at Knight viable high-rise market in London,” prices. One buyer spent engineered oak or Londoners rented — it was what you says Hart. £136 million on a duplex. polished concrete floors, did for a few years before you bought In the mid-Nineties early adopters The scheme upped the and mid-mod furniture a flat. Nowadays around one in three who bought in Canary Wharf paid in ante for other developers, rule. of the capital’s residents belongs to the region of £85,887 for a flat, com- Generation Rent and many believe they pared to £478,000 today, according to will never own a home (source: Valua- Hamptons International, representing Today: a tion Office Agency). a 457 per cent leap. polished The 2010 extension of the East Lon- concrete floor FIRST-TIME BUYERS: in 1996 an aver- don line has worked similar magic on and a wood age first-time buyer borrowed £55,575 local property prices. In Shoreditch, burner are de and earned £21,575. Today’s first timers for example, they have grown from rigueur in your earn an average £51,000 and borrow £91,678 to £492,398 over the last six new all-white £174,000. Their average deposit is years, an increase of 437 per cent. extension £96,000, which is a tenfold increase on 20 years ago (sources: Council of O For more on 20 years of change,

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RCHITECT Ben Derbyshire, president-elect of the Royal Institute of British Archi- tects, and Sadie Morgan of progressive, wood-loving architectureA practice de Rijke Marsh Morgan — or dRMM — reveal their ideas for the homes of the future.

BEN DERBYSHIRE PRESIDENT-ELECT RIBA Ben Derbyshire heads up HTA, a big architecture and design practice dedi- cated to housing and urban planning. Its team of 157 come up with new ideas to make our homes and lives bet- ter. He is currently testing those ideas at Heartlands in Cornwall. So what has happened to architecture during Homes & Property’s 20 years? “Our big failure is the missed oppor- Trying it out: Heartlands pick’n’mix custom-build homes in Cornwall, by Ben Derbyshire’s HTA practice tunity to retro-fit existing housing Make the future flatpack Two award-winning architects tell Philippa Stockley how to solve the housing crisis — retro-fitted, flatpacked community-aware green homes with a ‘Built for Life’ label

stock,” says Derbyshire. “Every day I look at the brick building opposite, with boarded-up windows and think, what is going on here? “We are absolutely failing to deal with Britain’s housing crisis. Until we con- sider existing housing stock as essential infrastructure that needs to be main- tained, just like roads and railways, we’ll never achieve a sustainable, grow- ing economy. So, that’s the failure in terms of existing housing, but we can fix it. “For new homes, we need to simplify standards and rules. We’ve gone some way in the past 20 years but need to go much further. We need good, simple standards that builders can use and that home buyers — customers — under- stand. Unless the customer understands them, they don’t work. “So the Design for Homes panel, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and the Home Builders Federation have created a ‘Built for Life’ standard, a home per- formance label. At the moment it’s

voluntary, and only a fifth of councils CROCKER ©TOM have adopted it, but the Government needs to drive it through. Currently, Award winner: Hanham Hall in the national space standard is actu- Bristol, Barratt’s Home of ally optional. That needs to the Future, above, by HTA change. architects, led by Ben “Our label will tell you the cost Derbyshire, left per square metre, the running costs, the storage, the volume of petition run by Barratt. the home and how much daylight We found it’s all about you get. good design. We built “The Mayor has a great oppor- Hanham Hall [in Bris- tunity to get involved in future tol, for Barratt], and housing. I think he should run buyers love a living a housing expo across the city. room upstairs, with It involves taking tiny sites and great light. They like no getting architects and design- corridors, a lofty stair- ers to build new ideas on case, cathedral ceilings them. Let’s use local designers in the upper rooms and to custom-build, flatpack, co- big views. They like to build, and so on, on scraps of customise, and reverse land leased to them by their things later on if they local council. The planners want. need to make these experi- “Good schemes, with lots of ments possible. It makes a green space as part of the design, city-wide laboratory of good create more biodiversity. ideas. Let’s use our talent to “I refuse to accept that all this can’t create brilliant new homes be done. We can develop affordable, ideas for the future, to build well-designed homes and create a bet- over the next 20 years. ter environment. “Last year, my company won “That’s my aim for London, and the Home of the Future com- Britain, over the next 20 years.” EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 13 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Architecture | Homes & Property

“Community and placemaking”: Sadie Morgan, a director of dRMM architects, advocates sustainable materials and brilliant design

Right: dRMM is designing Wood Blocks — timber shell housing that you equip and furnish as and when you

ARTURAS BONDARCIUKAS ARTURAS can afford it PROFESSOR SADIE development called Art House in MORGAN King’s Cross with fantastic outside DE RIJKE MARSH space, play areas, and planting. Good MORGAN lighting made it feel safe. One tower was social rent, the others were for SADIE MORGAN, a director of sale, so there was a good mix. architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan — “At Trafalgar Place, there’s a new Below: Naked dRMM — has just been made a playground at ground level. The first- House was professor, awarded an honorary floor gardens are residents only, with dRMM’s first doctorate, and won Building safe play areas and small allotments. flatpack house, Magazine’s personality of the year. Half the development is builtuilt in 10 years ago This year, dRMM’s Trafalgar Place cross-laminated timber, a ffullyully was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling sustainable, fast-growing material. Prize for the UK’s best new building. “Lendlease, the developer,per, lletet us Morgan believes in community and do that. Like more and placemaking, and that the more developers, they eerectr it in 24 hours. All the combination of sustainable materials understand the fufurniture was cut out from and brilliant design enhances life, benefit of sustainable ttheh walls — a skylight became will help solve our housing problems materials and good a ttable. — and save money, too. design. Materials are so ““ThisT year, we’re designing “The thing we’ve done wrong in the important. We [dRMM] WWoodood Blocks, a development of past is lack any sense of community. I take everyday materials, ttimberimber shellsh housing with a was brought up in a commune in such as wood, which aren’tn’t wwarehousearehous look, that you furnish as Sevenoaks, so I’ve always understood expensive, and use them iinn yoyouu go alalong.o It’s 40 per cent cheaper the importance of supporting the interesting ways. Good designesign ththanan conconventionalv housing, cut out people who live around you. I used to can solve problems, add vvaluealue anandd ofoff-sitef-site wwithi CNC machines. come home from school and look save money. DDevelopersevelope are starting to build after my great-grandmother. That “My big plan for the nextt 20 yyearsears is ffabricationabricatio places in the UK.” important connection between to put people together fromom differentdifferent young and old has been displaced. creative disciplines to solve passionate about making. We should MY PLAN FOR THE FUTURE It’s important to mix homes for the problems. Engineers, designers, teach them about good design and O A national programme of building elderly, for single people, for architects, software designers. Like space from an early age, take them fast, sustainable housing, but couples, for young families, all creating one big, creative brain. round building sites, show them keeping regional identities. Mass together. “The UK has world-renowned amazing engineering, like Crossrail, production with character. “Simple things create community, architects and engineers, we export to make better designers and better O Off-site prefabrication of shells that like putting just a few flats round a the most extraordinary talent, and consumers for the future. buyers individualise. staircase and making that staircase we produce brilliant maverick “And there should be more O Educate, design, and encourage a wide and appealing. Then you get to designers — like Thomas flatpack. We built our first flatpack practical understanding. know your neighbours, help with the Heatherwick. house, Naked House, 10 years ago. O Train up in the new skills we need shopping, and chat. We did a “Education will help. Children are You could ship it in a container and for off-site construction and flatpack. 14 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design

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Above: a fun and easy way to keep Above: this classically minimalist shelf floorspace clear in a narrow hallway, in marble with buffalo leather wall this stylish Trophy Bull bike holder, £89, fixings would make a stylish addition to is an ideal gift and fits most bikes. From any home. It’s priced at £85, from cuckooland.com notonthehighstreet.com 16 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Our home homesandproperty.co.uk

Left: Kate Koumi and husband Jamie Lane created two warehouse flats in their former recording studios with the aim of turning them into their own single home one day

Right: exposed brick, floor-to- ceiling windows, high ceilings and painted concrete floors firmly establish the warehouse feel

Photographs: : Juliet Murphy th 20 anniversarya issue Homes&Property Warehouses race to the top of the charts A warehouse became the perfect recording studio, then a music couple turned it into a fabulous home. It was their biggest hit, says Philippa Stockley

HE industrial building conver- converting warehouses into homes is the sion has to be the single big- biggest recycling project in the history of gest surprise source of new building development. homes to emerge over the past 20 years. Deserted old brick In Fulham, Kate Koumi saw the light. She Twarehouses and redundant factories, the has turned a blocky brick industrial unit, detritus of the industrial age, were bought to use as a sound recording studio, unloved and unwanted — until that light into two flexible warehouse apartments, bulb moment when we walked inside and designed to convert to one house when fell in love with the high ceilings, iron fit- required. tings, chains and pulleys, and the light For almost 30 years, Koumi ran record- from huge metal windows. ing studios: first for Nick Mason of Pink The industrial warehouse was a big, Floyd, then independently from 1995 in bright galaxy of opportunity bequeathed a two-storey brick office building near during the 18th and 19th centuries, when Wandsworth Bridge that she had con- they were built to store sugar, spices, rum verted into studios. During her 18 years and all manner of exotic imports. Conran in business there, she worked with eve- saw their worth in Docklands, where a ryone from Adele to Kylie to Westlife. few other brave hearts bought shell “The insulation was so good — with spaces to convert themselves. brick walls a foot thick, the ceilings Mr Warehouse Conversion himself, industrial concrete and steel — that you Harry Handelsman, seized his first old could record a violin solo while jugger- industrial unit in Clerkenwell for a song. nauts roared past outside.” But Koumi, change in the law gave a three-year win- Above: choose No one wanted it — it was easy to turn 59, and her husband, Jamie Lane, 65, a dow to convert commercial premises to trusted ordinary your back on such cold, dirty buildings former session drummer with the likes residential under permitted development paint brands in with their smashed windows and heaps of Tina Turner and 10cc, now a musician, rights. Plans had to go before the council, shades that are of bird droppings. didn’t want to be 70 and still producing but as long as your designs met certain unlikely to be Now, though, we all lust after a ware- music. “It’s a young person’s game,” says stipulations, they would be passed. “We’d discontinued, that house home. They sell for millions. So Koumi. been thinking about doing it, and this you can refresh why were we once so blind? The green So in 2013, the pair decided to convert change in planning law seemed like a between gang, at least, should have realised that the studios into their house. That year, a sign,” says Koumi. tenancies
EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 17 powered by Our home | Homes & Property What it cost Two-storey warehouse building in 1995: £200,000 Total spend on converting and furnishing both flats, each around 900sq ft: £210,000 Value now: flats valued at £899,000 and 980,000. Kate’s top tips Use trusted ordinary paint brands that you can refresh between tenancies — and choose colours that are unlikely to be discontinued. Buy top-end products such as boilers, switches, and good-quality kitchen appliances. Give tenants drain unblocker, dishwasher cleaners and so on, to use each month. Put in power showers and heated towel rails, not baths, and always buy leather sofas and wood-topped furniture that can be sanded if marked. Pocket doors save space and look good but designer furniture blows the budget — so forget it. Set a budget and stick to it. Get the look Design by Kate Koumi: email kate@ britanniarowstudios.co.uk Builder: Ross Malone at Orchestrate Ltd (orchestrateltd.com) Industrial floor paint: from Resincoat at resincoat.co.uk Industrial-look pendant lights: habitat.co.uk Slatted loft-style Venetian blinds: from londonblinds4U.co.uk Black gloss kitchen units: diy- kitchens.com Stainless steel worktop: from stainlesssteelworktopsuk.co.uk Black Fridgemaster fridge: ao.com Leather sofa: dfs.co.uk Leather armchair: ikea.co.uk Revive radiators: from mrcentralheating.co.uk Wooden-topped side tables: from myfurniture.com White paint: from B&Q at diy.com Sliding track for master en suite and all door furniture: sdslondon.co.uk Porcelain bathroom tiles: from B&Q as before. White goods and bathroom cabinets: from victorianplumbing.co.uk

The couple got stuck in straight away. tion of toxic chemicals in underground Greek Cypriot Koumi found the SW6 tanks. Koumi and Lane had to monitor building by scouring London, driving the situation for a year. The chemicals around while pregnant with their didn’t materialise, but it added £15,000 daughter Lucia, now 21. Koumi spotted to their costs. the broken-down old offices in a whole Then the Environment Agency stepped road of “crappy buildings”. in. The building is near the river and When it came to planning their house, there’s a low risk of flooding, so the pair she did the drawings herself, getting an were instructed to raise the concrete engineer in to do some structural draw- floors about eight inches, boosting costs ings. They planned to gut the two floors again. Once these hoops were jumped and sandblast the brick walls, leaving through, their builder, Ross, a former them exposed, and paint the concrete guitarist, could start work. floors. With the fabulous, very high ceilings they decided to retain the IMING for a fast build, the industrial look with surface-mounted studios closed in September metal conduit, and air-conditioning in last year and the rip-out began great industrial pipes round the top. two months later, with the Then out of the blue, Lucia said she project finishing in summer was upset about giving up their family Athis year. Demolishing the 1ft-thick interior house in Battersea in exchange for a walls created mountains of rubble. Koumi converted warehouse. “So we made a was in charge of design, and Lane was Great investment: Kate Koumi with Kim, a tenant in one of her Fulham warehouse Bargain buys: Koumi hit the sales for change,” says Koumi. “We decided to researcher, “searching online, night and flats. Koumi and her husband spent £410,000. The flats are now worth £1.88 million industrial-style fixtures during building initially convert the warehouse into two day”, he says. flats and rent them out, then when she Koumi adds: “Once we decided to rent dreds of rawl-plugs and fill the holes. Hitting the sales months ahead, Koumi sink is welded seamlessly into the steel is settled down somewhere we will out we knew everything had to be idiot- They ripped out the staircase that cut bagged bargains including industrial- worktop. It’s a good touch that raises the convert it back into a home and move proof — good quality and bulletproof.” straight across the floor-to-ceiling win- style lamps from Habitat and industrial- game. ourselves in. So we designed it with that The floor paint is “car-showroom dura- dows at the front and put in a central looking radiators off a website. She The two bedrooms and two bathrooms idea in mind.” The council then put a ble” in a sensible mid-grey. Once the stair, encased in soundproof blockwork. bought robust leather sofas, and white to one side are practical. The bricks add spanner in the works. A laundry once walls had been sandblasted, Lane recalls They budgeted £100,000 per flat, to paint to refresh between lets. A black warmth, and the young tenants — one a stood on the site and there was a ques- crawling all over them to pull out hun- build and furnish. kitchen was chosen for a sleek look. The singer — love it.
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Above: Schüller’s Biella Above left: Bright Things pendant kitchen range, in Curry, light by Hand & Eye Studio, £300 from InHouse. These (handandeyestudio.co.uk) units are £6,125 plus VAT Left: Tommy desk lamp, by Habitat, (inhouseltd.co.uk) £18 at Argos Above: Wayne Hemingway’s Do the Right: Summer Grouse Stretch wallpaper, £20 a roll at by Toikka for Iittala, Graham & Brown (grahambrown.com) 110mm x 150mm, £169 Right: Delano wallpaper from Cole & (skandium.com). Poppy Son, £76 per 10m roll (cole-and-son. tray, £6 at Sainsbury’s com)

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Above: Everlong Superior ICH yet vibrant, mustard Pentreath’s Quirky B carpeting for Finish Chalk Paint, in Dijon, bridges the gap between Alternative Flooring is heavy on the is £28.99 for a one-litre can muted earthy browns and mustard, while La Manufacture (theusefulshop.com) sunshine yellow. It’s often Cogolin’s Variamen Marelaggi rug seen as a tricky colour to comes in a strong, saturated version of Above right: cushions from Rwear but in home design it’s a different the shade. Floors — or walls — can be Sainsbury’s Harvest range, story. Full of warmth, it makes rooms covered with Tile Trader’s La Fayette £12-£16 (sainsburys feel cosy and inviting. glazed porcelain tiles in mustard, blue home.co.uk) In homeware this season, mustard is and grey. as hot as the condiment, ranging from Wallpapers with bold prints make a Below: Mari glass bird by the darker browns of French mustard strong statement, from Cole & Son’s Oiva Toikka, 115mm x to the more zippy yellows of its English Delano design to Wayne Hemingway’s 110mm, £230, from counterpart. Lighter mustard veering Do the Stretch paper for Graham & Skandium (as before) towards custard yellow looks funky and Brown. The trend also applies to paint pop paired with fuchsia and turquoise. colours, from Everlong’s chalk paint, Teamed with smoky grey or midnight Dijon Mustard, in a dinky pot recalling blue, playing up its rich luminosity, a mustard jar, to Neptune’s new Mus- mustard looks truly contemporary. tard shade. Mustard and grey is a beau- Thanks to their geometric patterns, tiful, very modern coupling. Welsh Blankets’ mustard cushions look crisply modern, while the new USTARD also works well Harvest home range from Sainsbury’s as an accent colour in includes knitted wool cushions and a furniture or accessories. tray adorned with midcentury-style Amy Somerville’s Mar- wheat stalks and poppy seedpods. lenaz desk has a mus- Lighting is one area where mustard Mtard leather top, and Jaime Hayón’s is much in evidence. Habitat’s Tommy Favn sofa, from Aram, pays tribute to light, Hand & Eye Studio’s Bright Fifties Danish design. Used sparingly, Things pendant lamp and Wild & mustard still adds pizzazz, as Vander- Wolf’s globe and task lights all come hurd’s mustard and fuchsia Flower Cut in a shade that’s as searingly sharp as Out cushion and Oiva Toikka’s glass Colman’s mustard. In flooring, Ben birds from Iittala prove. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 19 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Outdoors | Homes & Property th 20 anniversarya issue Homes&Property DESIGN: PATRICIA FOX DESIGN: PATRICIA Leafy corner: the best outdoor kitchens incorporate a salad wall for easy pickings Seeds of change Warmer winters have turned gardens into home extensions, as sheds become offices and pizza DESIGN: JANE BROCKBANK DESIGN: JANE ovens cater for outdoor play all year round Sociable seating: patios and terraces have become larger to accommodate relaxed seating that can be left out all year

ONDON’S gardens, balconies poured concrete and no-maintenance nature, while our concerns for wildlife Garden merchandise companies have and courtyards have seen Pattie synthetic decking are the sustainable have us pinning up bug motels and bat caught on quickly, so now we can pin many changes these past two Barron hardscape materials of choice, while boxes as well as bringing ragged robin, fabric plant pouches on walls, slot decades. Rockeries and permeable paving that allows rain to cow parsley and ox-eye daisy in from tiered tray systems into side returns rotary washing lines have sink into the ground instead of running the hedgerows. and grow rocket and strawberries in Lbeen replaced with wildflower patches into the drain has become the accept- back-saving raised bed tables on our and pizza ovens; overwrought metal able hardscape, tempered with plant- Our passion for roses endures, but prai- paved patios. There have also been furniture has been superseded by sleek Patios and terraces have become larger, ing, for the front garden. rie planting — drifts of perennials and other, less welcome developments. modular seating in weatherproof rat- to accommodate our desire to enter- grasses — has heralded a looser, more tan, while the garden shed has been tain alfresco. There is more emphasis Water features, having reached their naturalistic look for our borders. The demolished in favour of the home on a well-conceived plot, with design- dizzy cascading heights on TV garden olive tree has replaced Sissinghurst’s LOBAL warming has gifted office with wifi. ers called in to make the most of limited makeover shows, have calmed down silvery weeping pear as the feature tree us the red lily beetle, the As square feet become more precious space, using devices such as raised from shouty metal-sheet waterfalls and of choice in London gardens, although New Zealand flat worm and and winters become milder, we’re beds, tiered planting and built-in stor- three-tiered fountains to moody, reflec- multi-stemmed silver birch trees rule in the devastating box cater- moving outside, with multifunctional age and seating. tive water bowls and — for those who shadier spots. Cloud topiary, with tiers pillar, as well as the equally spaces that allow us to work, play, cook Fencing has become a design state- have the space — natural swimming of cloud shapes cut into a shrub or tree, Gdevastating box blight, which, latterly, and dine, as well as, for some, roll out ment, so with luck, you can borrow the ponds. has become the high-style way to clip has led us to broaden our evergreen the Pilates mat or practise mindfulness landscape of your neighbour’s Western With less time to spare, we have wel- evergreen box, bay and Japanese yew. choices. And despite the introduction on the patio. red cedar slatted screens. However, we comed practical short cuts, such as This past decade, especially, the rise of exterior grade fabrics, weather- Outdoor fridges to keep the Prosecco want it both ways: high-level hedging, retractable hoses, plants grafted on to and rise of Londoners who are growing synced watering systems to combat nicely chilled and wood-burning ovens comprising pleached trees of horn- kick-start rootstocks and pots that their own organic edibles has been drought and wands that zap weeds with with stone baking boards that make the beam or ornamental pear that neatly water themselves. Living wall systems phenomenal, with seed sales of vegeta- thermal shocks, we have yet to find a crispiest pizza bases are proving more blocks out the neighbour’s first-floor brighten our patios and act as insula- bles outselling those of flowers. If we way to conquer the garden’s greatest popular than the simple barbecue. And windows, is on the rise. tion, as do living roofs of sedum mat- don’t have soil to spare or an allotment enemies — slugs and snails. because we like to sit out later and We still love our lawns, but with lack ting that have the bonus of absorbing to tend, that hasn’t stopped us. Win- longer, firepits, burners and braziers of time to maintain or resuscitate them rainwater. dow boxes hold Chantenay carrots, O Garden issues? Email our RHS expert: are red-hot, with laser-cut steel fire in our shady plots, we’re turning to Wildflower turf inspired by the Olym- heritage blue potatoes sprout from [email protected] balls and customised outdoor fire- tougher grass mixes as well as alterna- pic Parks is simply rolled out for, in a galvanised bins and Tuscan ridged places the ultimate ways to keep tives such as microclover, and even season or three, a mini-meadow that courgettes wind their way up trellis on O For outdoor events this month, visit warm. artificial lawn. Cor-ten steel, polished nourishes our need to feel closer to balconies and rooftops all over town. homesandproperty.co.uk/events

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Mock Tudor touches: Shenfield homes range from Victorian terrace houses to plush £4 million villas on a private estate, left

Our daily bread (and pastries): Duncan Parry, right, owner of Roses Bakery, established in Shenfield for over 40 years Spotlight on Shenfield West End commuters will move east when Crossrail comes to this little Essex town with big plans for a new-look centre. By Anthea Masey Sweet guy: Michael Fenttiman of Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe, selling traditional confectionery in Hutton Road LONG-TIME favourite with Courage brewing family, who donated City workers, who can get land that has provided a playing field to their desks in 25 minutes, for the cricket club, along with a sig- the Essex town of Shenfield nificant nature conservation area is set to become a magnet known as The Butterfly Meadow, an forA West End commuters, too, when extension of St Mary’s churchyard. The Crossrail arrives in three years’ time. Shenfield Cricket Club logo is a cock- Bond Street station will then be just erel, echoing both the Courage brand 48 minutes away from Shenfield, the and the weathervane on the church last stop at the eastern end of the steeple. Elizabeth line. As well as running fast Estate agent Jane Mann, from the trains into the very heart of London, local branch of Hetheringtons, says the link will whisk passengers to Pad- Shenfield still boasts a traditional high dington mainline station in 51 minutes street. “There is a greengrocer, a fish- and Heathrow airport in 82 minutes. monger, a delicatessen, a butcher, and In addition to more commuters, a popular local bistro. Crossrail is attracting investment into “The shops get together and stay Shenfield town centre, where there are open for Halloween and there is a plans to transform scruffy areas out- Essex. Shenfield is smaller and quieter Christmas Fair, which this year will be side the station with a new piazza, than the home of Towie, however, and on Sunday December 4. The local landscaping and a new taxi rank. popular with families for its good library holds lots of events, too. It all Shenfield is on the edge of the Essex schools, local societies and sports helps to cement a strong sense of com- countryside, 27 miles from central clubs. munity. London and just a few minutes’ drive There’s also a plentiful supply of “Families move here from east and from the larger town of Brentwood, detached family houses, especially in north London because they get more Traditional high street: Hutton Road shops include famous for the antics of the ITV the Hutton Mount private roads. The house for their money and they are butchers, a fishmonger, a deli, Co-op and fish’n’chips scripted reality show The Only Way is town has a long connection with the close to open country.”

TRAVEL SHENFIELD is well placed for the M25, A12 and M11. The fast train service to Liverpool Street takes 25 minutes, or £685,000 £475,000 £800,000 it’s a 45-minute journey on the THIS three-bedroom home in Chelmsford Road A THREE-BEDROOM semi-detached house in A PERIOD house, just off Hall Lane, with three bedrooms, a stopping train. Some commuters is full of character and has a pretty cottage Rayleigh Road with bright interiors, a feature big kitchen/family room and lovely countryside views from work in Romford which is 15 minutes garden with access to neighbouring playing fireplace and a pleasant rear garden. Mainline train the landscaped rear garden. This property, within walking away by train. When the Elizabeth line fields. Shenfield and Brentwood stations are links to London Liverpool Street are less than two distance of Shenfield town centre, is on the market with opens in December 2019 it will handy. Meacock & Jones (01277 218485). miles away. Through Hetheringtons (01277 577168). Court & Co (01277 577199). improve commuting times to the West End, Paddington and Heathrow, but not to Liverpool Street. To find a home in Shenfield, visit Shenfield is in Zone 7 and an annual rightmove.co.uk travelcard costs £4,012. There is an additional charge of £32.90 a week to For more about Shenfield, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/shenfield use the station car park. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 25 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

THE PROPERTY homesandproperty.co.uk powered by SCENE THERE is a scattering of period cottages and houses near St Mary’s Church, in the location of the original village. The opening of the station in 1887 — there was an earlier false start STATS CHECK when a station opened and then WHAT HOMES COST closed for lack of demand — shifted the focus of the town to the south BUYING IN SHENFIELD side of the A1023, the old Roman (Average prices) Road from London to Colchester. One-bedroom flat £245,000 There are a few Victorian semi- Two-bedroom flat £307,000 detached houses in Hutton Road and Two-bedroom house £362,000 Shenfield Road but the town mainly developed in the Twenties and Three-bedroom house £479,000 Thirties. Old Shenfield Village, the Four-bedroom house £812,000 area around Worrin Road south of Shenfield Road, has large detached RENTING IN SHENFIELD and semi-detached houses from this (Average rates) period, many with mock Tudor detailing. Shenfield Park, north of One-bedroom flat £852 a month the town centre, has a mix of semis Two-bedroom flat £1,034 a month and detached houses and bungalows Two-bedroom house £1,213 a month from the same two decades, along Three-bedroom house £1,450 a with Fifties-built houses. month The private roads in Hutton Mount have Shenfield’s finest houses which Four-bedroom house £2,219 a month benefit from large gardens and Source: Rightmove carriage drives and can change hands for up to £4 million. This is an area where some smaller houses have been knocked down and rebuilt in lavish style. There are also some modern flats close to the town centre. ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES Builder Croudace owns the large Officers Meadow site in Alexander Cheers: Jo Eastwood of Liquorice wines and spirits, Hutton Rd Lane, which the local council has earmarked for improvements to FOR MORE, VISIT Shenfield High, the local co-ed homesandproperty.co.uk secondary school, and up to 600 new homes. Croudace is expected to O Use our School Checker to find submit a planning application as catchment areas and inspection soon as Brentwood council adopts its reports for local schools Local Plan. O The best Shenfield shops ■ SUPPLY — AND DEMAND and restaurants Shenfield has a shortage of flats close O Local arts, leisure and sport to the station that would certainly O The best roads — and an up-and- prove popular with young coming area to watch professional commuters, who instead tend to concentrate their search on nearby Brentwood. However, according to local agent Jane Mann there is keen demand for family houses, especially in the catchment area of St Martin’s School in Brentwood, a secondary school with an “outstanding” Ofsted rating. Services to art: Sophie Jackson of Turner Barnes Gallery Photographs: Daniel Lynch 28 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Inside story

MONDAY It feels like the market is picking up, which could be a sign of confidence in Tasty bids response to the Autumn Statement. Last week was busy and this morning we have two separate offers to review. from abroad The first is for an apartment in a nice red-brick portered mansion block not too far from our office in Fitzrovia. The couple making the offer are expecting Diary of their first child, so this three-bedroom property has everything they need for their foreseeable future. an estate The second is from a buyer who saw a new-build flat in a cobbled mews three agent weeks ago. He discusses his offer with me and although it is a little lower than my seller’s expectation, I am confident With big to grab a coffee and discuss the various we will get this one agreed with some differences between buying in the UK negotiation. He says he prefers buying discounts to versus the US. in a slower market as there is more time be had in to make an informed choice without the THURSDAY pressure of always thinking you might London Our buyers have come back with a miss out. through the counter offer on the red-brick mansion exchange flat. It’s still lower than the seller is TUESDAY looking for, but they tell me it’s their I am out viewing with some Americans rate, it’s the final offer, so I go to discuss it with the today who are looking to rent a place in perfect time vendor. They are motivated to sell as Marylebone close to the high street. they are buying something larger and They joke that after Trump’s success for foreign they are keen to get an offer agreed. they are coming to live here. Originally buyers My colleague, Simon, takes a call from they were looking south of Hyde Park a Japanese couple today asking to revisit but I explain that Marylebone seems a penthouse flat they saw four months more in tune with their lifestyle — I am ago. Originally they were put off by the slightly biased as I live there myself — stamp duty that would be payable but and, given my local knowledge, I can since then the exchange rate against the secure a lot more for their money. yen has improved significantly and it is They are excited about the 20 per now more affordable. cent savings on the dollar and decide It’s similar to our US buyers. Consider- that they want to look at options to buy able discounts are being offered just by instead of renting. We view a range of the exchange rate alone. Right now is two-bedroom apartments from £2 mil- the perfect climate for international lion to £3 million and I leave them to buyers in central London where they mull it over with a coffee and a bun at can once again get a good deal. The Nordic Bakery in Dorset Street. husband doesn’t speak English but his wife does and she says she must have WEDNESDAY the flat. It’s a very promising viewing. The couple’s offer from Monday is rejected by the seller, so I leave it with FRIDAY them to return with a better one. How- Back in Fitzrovia, it’s great news as the ever there’s some good news as the mansion flat seller accepts our buyers’ other offer from Monday is agreed after offer. The delighted couple can’t wait to a small increase from the buyer. get the ball rolling. The purchase will The Americans are back out viewing probably complete in the new year, again today, they are a real pleasure to perfect timing for the arrival of their be out with. We look at some more baby. The seller is happy, the buyers are places and it’s clear that they like char- happy — a super way to end the week. acterful, older-style Georgian proper- Simon’s offer from our Japanese buy- ties with high ceilings. I am hopeful that ers on the penthouse needs to be I have just the one off Marylebone High higher and it is unlikely to get agreed Street. today as they want the weekend to They love the local community feel- think about it. Who says the winter ing with the weekly farmers’ market months are quiet? and the branch of La Fromagerie in Moxon Street, and the viewing is a suc- O Jonathan Hudson is director of cess. We head off to Aubaine café bistro Hudsons in Fitzrovia ( 020 7631 8702). 30 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes m By David Spittles

From £3.9 million: five-storey Fulham Riverside townhouses Fear not, these five-storey Fulham houses have lifts THE drift of buyers from riverside promenade, wealthy Kensington & landscaped communal Chelsea continues to gardens and a refurbished Want neighbouring Fulham, jetty with a new-build where a fresh wave of marketing suite that will to buy riverside housing is become an environmental your attracting those searching and education centre for for “affordable prime”. river ecology. first Waterfront developments Residents have the use of EW homes next to the west of Wandsworth outdoor and indoor gyms home? Royal College of Art’s Bridge have swept away and a badminton court. Battersea campus have a breweries and factories for Apartment blocks are set at Arty Battersea’s lot to live up to — and new flats and houses. right angles to the Thames boutique developer Fulham Riverside is to increase the number of NBanda has risen to the challenge with perhaps the best placed, flats with river views. Five- a sleek scheme of eight apartments. between Hurlingham Park storey townhouses Taking a design cue from Norman and Peterborough Estate. overlooking the water have boutique flats Foster’s nearby Albion Riverside — a On a site of more than lifts to each floor and start metal-clad crescent hanging over the eight acres, the 401-home at £3.9 million. Call 020 Thames — Banda’s Radstock Street scheme launches a wide 7751 3999. homes, above and above left, are part EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 31 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property

New homes bask in the glory of Kew SET around a green with a cricket From £232,000: for a one-bedroom Brickfield Court flat pitch, Kew is often described as a

village by local estate agents, but GETTY YOU’LL LOVE IT WHEN constant South Circular traffic and Heathrow-bound jets dispel any rural From £435,000: courtyards. Prices from £435,000. CROSSRAIL ARRIVES! illusions — until you lose yourself in flats at Emerald Call Taylor Wimpey (020 3667 5595). the world-famous Royal Botanic Gardens, above If you prefer a home with a little “COME friendly bombs and drop on Slough” begins John Gardens or the Old Deer Park. left, near Kew more character, a Georgian coaching Betjeman’s poem. But today’s first-time buyers recognise Emerald Gardens is the latest Gardens, above; inn near the river at 2 Kew Bridge the Berkshire town’s worth as a commuter spot. apartment scheme seeking to bask in below and below has been converted into 35 Land Registry records show property prices there have the glory of these unmatched green right, flats from apartments priced from £445,000 to jumped 19 per cent in a year, the highest increase in the spaces. There are 170 flats in low-rise £445,000 at £1.75 million. Call estate agent UK. A new Crossrail station is being built and when the blocks divided by landscaped 2 Kew Bridge Featherstone Leigh (020 8940 7676). line opens in 2018, the journey to central London will take just 32 minutes. of a fast-growing creative quarter that The undeniably dull town centre is getting a £1 billion includes the fashion design studios of makeover spearheaded by Slough Urban Renewal, a Vivienne Westwood and Victoria regeneration partnership between the local council and Beckham. developers, while celebrity interior designer Kelly Hoppen Set across two low-rise blocks with has ventured out of her central London lair to add taupe exteriors of limestone, smoked black glamour at Brickfield Court, one of six new residential brick and extensive glazing, flats buildings. One-bedroom flats cost from £232,000 and range from 2,000sq ft to 4,000sq ft, qualify for the Government-backed low-deposit Help to while the smart lobby features a Buy scheme. Call 01753 331 064. Families may prefer bespoke tapestry by RCA graduate King’s Reach, which has three-bedroom semis from Shang-Yu Danny Lee. Prices from £489,995. Call Bellway on 0333 202 5174. £3.6 million. Call 020 7937 9600.