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London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 2 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: we’re all living in a boom town. Property But how long will it last? search £530,000: a two- bedroom ﬂat in Lower Clapton London buy of the week Road, near Hackney Downs it’s playtime in Wandsworth train station. O homesand £645,000: this Wandsworth home — set on a private property.co.uk/ development opposite open playing fields — is a bit of a lowerclapton find. A new refit to its 1,022 square footage means you can move straight in to enjoy sleek oak floors, a smart kitchen MORE than a dozen buyers are chasing every house for and spacious reception room with wood shutters that fold sale in London — driving soaring prices. back to reveal a conservatory opening on to a patio The average seller in once-grim Hackney, where prices garden. Upstairs has three plush bedrooms and a slate- have risen 20 per cent in a year according to the Land tiled bathroom. Southfields Tube is a stroll away, as are Registry, is bombarded with five offers from eager buyers Garratt Lane’s shops and bars. Through John D Wood. looking to live in one of London’s fastest-changing boroughs. Meanwhile, only three London districts now O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/buyoftheweekwands have average house prices below the £250,000 stamp duty threshold— Barking & Dagenham, with an average £234,283; Bexley, on £248,383, and Newham, on £239,942. Out of town buy of the week work at Experts today called these growth levels “unsustainable” and warned buyers to expect an immediate slowdown home, have a lunchtime dip in your pool when mortgage rates rise next year or the year after. £650,000: views of the local church level and three more upstairs, one of O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk and picturesque village can be which is en suite. A detached annexe enjoyed from this Grade II-listed provides a fifth bedroom with kitchen thatch in pretty Iwerne Minster, and living areas, plus office space hot homes: take a Tube tour North Dorset. Glorious gardens with a allowing you to work from home — heated pool will be a treat this or earn a pretty penny from letting it. south along the Northern line summer, while inside offers a mass of Through Palmer Snell. £480,000: a beams and lovely open fireplaces in three-bedroom the sitting, dining and breakfast O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/ terrace house rooms. There is a bedroom at ground outiwerne less than half a mile from High Barnet Tube. Life changer dwell in the O Visit homes Dales and run a homely B&B andproperty. co.uk/teyn £695,000: dreams of a small business empire might just WITH exclusive research into new train routes, we begin be fulfilled in Kettlewell, North Yorkshire, where you can the second part of our series predicting homes hotspots take the reins at this popular B&B. Littlebeck thrives on on the Tube network, this time looking at the Northern being a home from home with its inviting sitting room line — London’s busiest rush-hour service (see Page 6 in where guests can relax by the log fire after exploring the Homes & Property today). A new 24-hour weekend countryside. A further open fire can be found in the dining service is set to connect revellers to the West End from room, leading to a beautifully bespoke kitchen complete next year, while additional lines will open into deepest with an Aga. There are utility and drying rooms, and five south London from 2018. Join us on a property tour as we bedrooms, three en suite. Through Carter Jonas. find homes at every stop from High Barnet to Morden. By O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechangerkettle Faye Greenslade O Join the tour at homesandproperty.co.uk/northern

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Framing the future: the John Jones Arts Building in Finsbury Park, housing the company’s world-renowned picture frames business, will also be an exhibition and gallery space, host seminars and workshops, and support emerging artists

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VERY now and again a scheme comes along that completely changes the dynamics of a location within John Jones central London. A local family-runE firm that has grown into the UK’s biggest fine arts specialist and framers has become the catalyst for change at Finsbury Park. is a bit of a This unassuming urban strip in north London is about to get a dazzling new building commissioned by the Jones family. The John Jones Arts Building, which launches next month, is part of local hero a multimillion-pound broader council- backed arts-led project in a cosmopolitan part of London that has missed out on regeneration for decades. in Finsbury This new cultural hub, wrapped around the railway station, is set to signal the transition from a faded neighbourhood to a fashionable one. As well as an exhibition and gallery Park space, the building will host talks, seminars and workshops, and support emerging artists. Its raw industrial, stripped-back interior with a jazzy This neighbourhood’s on the fast café would not be out of place in Clerkenwell . track to becoming an arts hub John Jones’s daughter-in-law Kate, 32, is project development manager. She with smart flats, shops and says: “We believe cultural regeneration will enrich the area. Our hope is that galleries — thanks to a family we will be able to offer employment and apprenticeships, and foster local with vision, says David Spittles talent.” Flats for University of the Arts students attending its nearby King’s Cross campus are being built on the site, formerly a low-rise industrial estate. This will add to the creative vibe. Park Theatre opened last year and is part of the regeneration programme. Some smart homes are planned for the area and will launch within weeks on neighbouring industrial land. City North, with 308 apartments , is all part of this, the largest regeneration scheme in Islington borough since Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium project. It will bring CITY BEAT AND OPEN SPACE Green Park combined, with a boating a tree-lined piazza at the base of two 21- Why has it failed to take off like other lake, tea pavilion and athletics stadium. storey towers plus shops, restaurants, close-in areas? Partly because it is the The park is also the starting point of a bars, an art house cinema and a gym. victim of geography. Being placed traffic-free pedestrian and cycle route Another local family, the Morrises, where three boroughs — Islington, extending to Highgate Woods. who own the Business Design Centre Hackney and Haringey — meet, there Upgrading of the scruffy patch around Group in Islington, are among the joint has been little co-ordinated planning. the station includes an art project venture partners. Launching in June, Close to Highbury’s handsome ter- focusing on two Victorian railway prices range from £300,000 for a races, Finsbury Park has its own varied bridges, with the aim of exposing the studio to £1.5 million for a penthouse stock of period houses crying out for original structures and opening up with roof terrace. Completion is due in young families to colonise, while the railway arches to provide a direct link 2016. Call 020 7087 5536. new-build apartments sprouting up are to the park. For the moment at least, Finsbury enticing singles and couples who want Park remains one of the cheaper well- to live in a place where they can feel ART POINTS THE WAY connected north London districts. In the beat of the city and also make use Hoxton and Bankside have shown how Zone 2, it is a major transport inter- of the area’s splendid refurbished Vic- art can put a place on the map and change with two Tube lines, national torian park. At 110 acres, Finsbury Park propel it to being a property hotspot. rail and a bus station. In charge: John Jones’s daughter-in-law, Kate, runs the project itself is bigger than St James’s Park and The process may have already started EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 5 New homes Homes & Property

From £300,000: City North’s two 21-storey towers will offer ﬂats from studios to penthouses, part of Islington’s biggest regeneration project since Emirates Stadium

Amenities: the City North development includes a piazza, shops, cinema and gym

Ford. In the Sixties and Seventies, Complete redevelopment of a Fifties music fans flocked to Finsbury Park for council estate overlooking two giant the old Rainbow Theatre rock venue, reservoirs and the New River is bring- now a Pentecostal church, to see bands ing 5,500 new homes — a mixture of such as The Kinks, Pink Floyd and the private and affordable properties, Sex Pistols, whose frontman Johnny including glamorous high-rise flats with Rotten was born and grew up locally. spectacular views. “That was the area’s main attraction,” It is an awesome, unexpected setting, says Chris Currell of Islington estate covering 64 acres in total. A sailing club agent Currells. uses one of the reservoirs for water “After years of under-investment, it’s sports, while the other is a nature reinventing itself and for the first time reserve with a “trim trail” for joggers. we are seeing demand for office space A listed pumping station, a climbing Culture club: Park Theatre, part of a from creative-sector companies.” centre and café are other attractions. new arts, education and homes drive Research by City North developer The ambitious homes project will that is transforming Finsbury Park United House shows that Finsbury Park take up to 20 years to complete. Blocks has a similar demographic profile to are linked by “linear parks”, while in Finsbury Park, where greasy spoon Clapham but, unlike the popular south- there is a new school and coming later cafés are being replaced by organic west London district, local residents will be a retail hub, with an open street food shops and French-style patisse- have tended to go elsewhere for leisure market. ries. Kate Jones says the Arts Building and recreation because there has not Says Piers Clanford, managing direc- project was conceived as a community been much on the doorstep — one tor of developer Berkeley Homes: facility as much as an international arts reason why the mixed-use City North “We’re creating a stylish new address centre. One alliance is with a youth arts scheme is likely to be a hit. that ups the game for the area, with centre at former Hornsey Road 24-hour concierge, spa, gym and Baths. AWESOME SETTING underground parking, plus a unique The John Jones company produces Young City workers priced out of Angel waterfront setting with amenities.” 1,000 frames a month, all handmade and Shoreditch are discovering Prices from £250,000 for studios. by skilled craftspeople to a museum Woodberry Park, another reinvented The next phase is due later this year. quality, and its long client list includes neighbourhood, on Finsbury Park’s Call 020 8985 9918 or visit homesand- Madonna, David Hockney and Tom border with Stoke Newington. property.co.uk/woodberry. 6 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Hotspots homesandproperty.co.uk with

NLY 30 of London’s 275 Tube stations are south of the river, and — somewhat quirkily — the sole line Map out your going deep into south OLondon is the Northern line. This route is heavily used by young Londoners because it connects cheaper locations both north and south of the river with the main employment centres of the West End and City. As a rule of thumb, properties north of the river are more expensive than those on the south side, but the “value gap” is smaller than it was five or 10 years ago, due to the spectacular rise future of districts such as Borough, where THE NORTHERN LINE average prices have jumped 189 per cent in a decade. The SE1 postcode in particular is a continuing hotspot, with the main In the second part of our series looking at action along the waterfront, where glamorous apartment schemes are housing opportunities along the Tube network, making a much bigger splash than on the north bank. David Spittles rides into the ‘deep south’ Balham and Tooting have also seen big rises — 114 per cent over 10 years — and along with Clapham, these “mid- range” areas are now comparable in price to Kentish Town and Tufnell Park, north of the river. PUT YOUR FAITH IN THE FUTURE AND THE SOUTH Some people doubt the south will ever catch up with north London. Away from the smart riverside developments, delis and wine bars are in short supply. However, areas such as Stock- well, despite edgy council estates, seem bound to get smartened up as the property price ripple spreads from the centre, which is why they may be the best places to buy and invest in — if you can play the long game and hang on for the trendy shops to arrive.

NEW TUBE STATIONS The next significant Tube upgrade, possibly by 2018, is an extension of the in Kennington and Oval. Oval Quarter From £340,000: Lilian Baylis Old the Lilian Baylis Old School building, Reach, with 45 flats, is being built on Northern line that will plug London’s brings a much-needed housing scheme School in SE11 offers spacious loft- now listed and set to become a new the rear car park. Call Investin on 020 biggest regeneration zone, 450-acre of scale and style to the area and has style apartments and townhouses. community of 149 homes, including 3675 4000. Nine Elms, into the Underground net- proved a hit with buyers looking for a spacious loft-style apartments in the work. A spur from Kennington to Bat- good-value address. “under” the park but with a sloping original Sixties classroom blocks and ANGEL OF THE NORTH: AREAS tersea will create new stations at A Seventies council estate — 30-acre glass roof to maximise solar gain. new four-bedroom townhouses. Prices WITH GROWTH POTENTIAL Vauxhall and Battersea Power Station. Myatt’s Field North — has been bull- Shared-ownership flats go on sale next from £340,000. Call Kinleigh Folkard For those playing safe, it is true that the The longer-term aim is to extend the dozed to make way for 808 new homes weekend, from £124,000 for the mini- & Hayward on 020 7740 2640. prestigious addresses remain north of Northern line further west to Clapham and one of the largest new parks in mum 40 per cent share (full price, Here, too, is listed Beaufoy Institute, the river. Many of the capital’s chatter- Junction, the UK’s busiest station. London. There will also be allotments £310,000). Call Notting Hill Housing a splendid Victorian building, once an ing classes still opt for the Islington Up-and-coming Vauxhall will get a and a showpiece community centre on 020 8357 4444. educational establishment and now a heartland, while inner north London boost and the impact will also be felt with café, crèche and IT suite built Close to the famous cricket ground is community facility. Parliament suburbs such as Hampstead and

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NORTHERN LINE Old Street and Angel Tube stations in via Charing Cross Islington. Development has been given Average house prices Zone impetus by the so-called “Silicon Round- about” cluster of fast-growing tech and High Barnet £466,911 5 creative companies. Young City profes- sionals and Shoreditch designers are Totteridge & Whetstone £690,401 the mainstay of this district. They like new, modern apartment buildings and Woodside Park £690,401 being able to walk to work. The Eagle, with 206 flats priced from West Finchley £428,223 4 £890,000, designed by Farrell & Part- Finchley Central £428,223 ners, launches soon. These range from one bedroom apartments up to four- East Finchley £442,117 bedroom penthouses. To register, call 0845 0779550. Canaletto, a sleek 31- Highgate £690,374 3 storey glass-and-steel tower has flats Archway £460,221 priced from £720,000. It will have a spa and private cinema plus a Manhat- Tufnell Park £525,371 tan-style “club lounge” and garden terrace high up the building. Call 020 Kentish Town £630,651 2 7608 1825. Camden Town £1,154,992 LIVE ABOVE THE STATION Mornington Crescent £1,063,194 Lower-priced Archway, in Zone 2, stands out as a promising north Lon- Euston £1,063,194 don address. Archway Tower, a former social security office building Warren Street £657,759 that sits above the Tube station, is being turned into 100 flats with some Goodge Street £657,759 for rental. Call Essential Living on 020 Tottenham Court Road £2,173,142 7340 0300. Leicester Square £1,331,977 1 KENTISH TOWN’S BUZZING A new private French school has added Charing Cross £1,331,977 to the growing buzz about Kentish Town, which is attracting a new gen- Embankment £1,331,977 eration of arty Londoners. One of the Waterloo £537,962 capital’s best contemporary-design galleries, Zabludowicz Collection, has Kennington £364,461 opened and photographer Ian Rankin has a studio in the area, too. Piano Oval £536,356 Yard, a mews-style terrace of homes Stockwell £386,008 and offices, has been built on the site of former workshops five minutes’ walk Clapham North £413,920 2 from the Tube station. Prices from £775,000. Call Pilcher Hershman on Clapham Common £562,960 020 7399 8600. The Fashion Apartments in Kentish Clapham South £665,550 Town have been carved from a hand- Highgate have increasing allure. Iain Highbury to Hampstead and from From £890,000: Balham £695,571 some former design showroom on Currie of Farringdon estate agent Angel to Camden — attracts bankers, ﬂats and Grafton Road. These double-height, Thomson Currie, says: “South London lawyers and middle-class radicals who penthouses at Tooting Bec £695,571 two bedroom spaces with big windows has no obvious rival to, say, Primrose find the north convenient and more The Eagle near 3 are priced from £650,000. Call Green Hill, and in general houses north of the sophisticated than south London. Old Street Tooting Broadway £371,406 & Co on 020 7604 3200. river are bigger and grander. The young creative crowd prefer to roundabout are Colliers Wood “The infrastructure in south London live on the City fringe, in the district launching soon. £288,184 is being upgraded but those people between Old Street and King’s Cross. Call 0845 South Wimbledon £465,166 O Join us on a tour of flats and working in the City and the West End A crop of fashionable apartment 0779550 houses for sale along the Northern want to live in more commuter-friendly schemes and a new canalside quarter Morden £407,476 line. Visit homesandproperty. north London.” have arrived on City Road, a once- 4 co.uk/northern The main patch — spreading from dowdy thoroughfare running between Source: Savills

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The property picture after the floods

Kent and Surrey are at last recovering from winter’s freakish rains, but are the worst-hit homes blighted forever? Owners and would-be buyers need to know, says Ruth Bloomfield JEREMY SELWYN

COUPLE of years back Fire brigade to suggests owners of flood-damaged Staines changed its name to the rescue: WAYS TO HOLD BACK THE homes give up trying to sell in the short Staines-upon-Thames in an residents in FLOOD — FOR A WHILE and medium term, “until there are some attempt to ally itself with Staines-upon- assurances from the Government on posher postcodes such as Thames, Surrey, O You can slow a deep flood’s entry insurance and flood defences”. Michael RichmondA and Henley, while distancing were hit by to your home long enough to save Parry-Jones, a partner at Grantly estate itself from the infamy of Ali G and his ﬂoods in possessions and make plans. The agents in Guildford, does not feel entire Staines Massive. After falling victim to February National Flood Forum has a towns will take a hit, but says individual a season of flooding this riverside town directory of sandbag suppliers — so homes will struggle to sell if new might like to switch back. stock up (bluepages.org.uk). defences aren’t put in place. Today, as submerged homes across O Invest in floodgates to hold off Kent and Surrey are drying out, experts water threatening to come through WOULD I BE MAD TO BUY A fear the long-term damage to the prop- the front door or garage. PROPERTY THAT HAD FLOODED? erty market. Who, for example, would O Install flood-proof doors and The winter’s floods were exceptional be brave enough to buy a home in the windows, and consider raising — Wraysbury, for example, was flood- Kent village of Yalding, where several thresholds. Swap wood floors for free for more than a decade previously. hundred residents were homeless over stone tiles to lessen the damage. But when negotiating a price you must Christmas? Or Wraysbury, in Surrey, O Air bricks that are flood proof, or take the potential risk into account. where locals vented their rage at the can be covered when flood risk rises, The average cost of a flood clean-up is Environment Agency’s flood defence will stop water ingress. estimated at £20,000-£40,000. Agents strategy after many homes were under O Check your pointing. say that while it wouldn’t be madness six feet of water? O Fit water-resistant skirting to buy one of these properties, it would Jeremy Boyle, associate director of boards (or varnish those you already be crazy to pay the full market price, estate agents The Frost Partnership, is have). and a discount of about 25 per cent based in Wraysbury and staying posi- O Raise electrical sockets, fuse might be in order. tive. He says buyers have short memo- boxes, controls and wiring to 1.5 ries, and will be drawn back by the metres above floor level. WHAT ABOUT INSURANCE? great rail links and village atmosphere. O Fit non-return valves to drains In the case of properties that are par- “There were floods here in 2003 and and pipes to stop waste water ticularly flood-prone, insurers can the market was strong again following Mistletoe and flooding the property. refuse cover or quote sky-high premi- those,” he says. misery: mopping O Landscape your garden and ums. The Government’s response is a However, buying agent Edward Hea- up after ﬂoods in driveway to help divert water away scheme called Flood Re which will ton, of Heaton and Partners, noticed the Kent village from your home. allow owners of high-risk homes to take an “immediate and marked” increase of Yalding just Source: Environment Agency out affordable insurance, paying up to in clients saying they would not buy a after Christmas £540 a year for the flood element of property at risk of flooding. “Many of their cover. However, it will not cover the well-publicised villages and areas homes built after January 2009, those that have been badly affected could in council tax band H, and some lease- now be stigmatised.” hold properties. The scheme will launch next year. HOW DO I CHECK FLOOD RISK? Flood risk goes far beyond Wraysbury, CAN I GET A MORTGAGE? Godalming, Egham and the other high- Lenders’ policies differ, and each prop- profile locations. Do a free check with erty will need to be assessed. You won’t the Environment Agency (environ- get a mortgage anywhere if you are not ment-agency.gov.uk, or call Floodline able to get insurance. risk. Estate agents are duty-bound to ask vendors about a property’s flood history, but solicitors and surveyors CAN I FLOOD-PROOF A HOME? also need to investigate and there See our panel, above left, for measures would be legal repercussions if they you can take, and visit knowyourflood- failed to do so. You can spend £200 on risk.co.uk for more information. a report from a flood-risk consultant. The Government is offering £5,000 ( ! " '' grants to homeowners affected, and #% !%# %# ' $ % ,$* WILL HOUSE PRICES BE HIT? flood expert Gordon Robb says some Buying agent Heaton believes they will might be in line for insurance premium +% $ + lose 25 per cent at worst, with some discounts. “You can make your home ) % #& # "$* properties “virtually unsaleable” for a lot more resilient, but you cannot 100 the next year or so. Estate agent Boyle per cent flood-proof it,” he adds. 10 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Affordable homes homesandproperty.co.uk with On the ladder in Chiswick for under £5,000 HISWICK sits alongside one Young Londoners of the loveliest stretches of the Thames. Step back a bit struggling to raise a from the riverside, however, and you will discover that it Help to Buy deposit alsoC possesses one of the liveliest and most attractive high streets in London can still settle in this — awash with cafés, restaurants and thriving independent shops. prized spot, says Little wonder that average prices in the area now stand at £872,195, up a Ruth Bloomfield

resounding 13 per cent in the past 12 S;S,U months, according to property website Zoopla. However, first-time buyers now will cost £136,500 (full price offices and shops and will be ready to fabulous for prestigious shops, bars and Wealth of restaurants: Chiswick High have a chance to buy a new home, £546,000). Buyers will need five per move into in July. restaurants,” says Wendy Turland, Road has eateries and shops galore inside a nature reserve, only 165 yards cent deposits of £4,777 and £6,825 The development is particularly senior sales manager at Affinity Sutton. from Chiswick High Road for less than respectively. strong on green space, as it is being “It is like a little village area but with Ruggins hopes the scheme, open to £100,000, and with a total deposit of Monthly costs, including rent and built on a brownfield site within the great links into central London.” anyone who lives or works in the bor- less than £5,000. mortgage, are calculated to start from Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve. As far as downsides go, the develop- ough of Ealing, will help buyers who Housing association Affinity Sutton £1,191 per month for one-bedroom The reserve is run by the London ment is close to railway lines. However, cannot afford to get on the property has 23 one- and two-bedroom flats in a flats, and £1,713 for the two-bedroom Wildlife Trust as a haven of woodland the shared-ownership homes are not ladder using government schemes. seven-storey block, Chiswick Point, apartments, but buyers will also need dotted with ponds and meadows, and overlooking the tracks so residents “While Help to Buy has been invalu- for sale on a shared-ownership basis. to pay a monthly service charge which woodpeckers and rare butterflies are should not be impacted by rail noise. able in giving the property market a A 25 per cent share of a one-bedroom is expected to cost between £100 and among the wild creatures that are Surrounding roads are fairly busy boost, five per cent of the full purchase flat on the site will cost £95,550 — the £120. known to flourish there. although this could be considered par price of a home, particularly in areas full purchase price is £382,200. A Chiswick Point, being built by for the course in London. such as Chiswick, is still out of reach quarter share of a two-bedroom home Bellway Homes, will also include BUZZING WILDLIFE — AND Affinity Sutton sales director Yvette for many,” she says. A BUZZING SOCIAL LIFE Both Turnham Green and Chiswick Common are also close by and the vast expanses of Gunnersbury Park are within walking distance. The nearest station is Chiswick Park, on the District line in Zone 3, with direct services to Earl’s Court, Victoria, and the City. “This development is rare in that it is being built right in the middle of a nature reserve and yet it is really close to Chiswick High Road, which is

On the waterfront: Chiswick sits beside one of the loveliest Thames stretches

£95,550: for a quarter share of a new one-bedroom apartment at

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From £495,000: two-bedroom houses in The Village at From £350,000: contemporary homes clad in cedar wood From £365,000: two- to four-bedroom fully furnished ﬂats at Natural Retreats Watergate Bay command handsome high-season rents and Cornish stone at Talland Bay, near Fowey and Looe overlooking Fistral Beach in Newquay. Annual maintenance starts from £1,275

HE major public transport brisk hour’s clifftop walk away, Natural artery to the South-West, Retreats is selling fully furnished two- the train line from Padding- Cornwall is back on track to four-bedroom flats in a small, secure ton that was dramatically building overlooking Fistral Beach in washed away at Dawlish The rail link from London cut by storms is reopening. Holiday home Newquay. From £365,000 with annual duringT February’s storms, is set to maintenance from £1,275. reopen fully on Friday. buyers will find the South-West’s charms intact, says Cathy Hawker Close to Redruth above Portreath The news is a lifeline for Easter holi- Beach, facilities at five-star Gwel an daymakers and the businesses that rely Mor include an equestrian centre, on them. Cornwall had five million small farm and indoor pool. Along with visitors last year, lured by 300 miles of 58 chalets for rent there are 50 new coastline, village charm and attractions two- and three-bedroom fully fur- including Tate St Ives and the Eden nished lodges for sale. From £295,000, Project. However, the holiday home or £32,500 for a twelfth share. Full buyers who will turn up this summer ownership comes with a guaranteed are likely to have new priorities. yield of six per cent. “The market has changed since 2012 when buyers were more concerned THE SOUTH COAST with investment and yield,” says Miles Most managed resorts are on North Kevin of estate agents Chartsedge. Cornwall’s Atlantic coast — but don’t “Now they are looking for a good life- discount the sailing bays and historic style. People like managed projects and smugglers’ coves of the south. “Buyers are happy to pay a reasonable price for perceive value on the south coast and someone to maintain and let their of course it is much closer to London,” property, avoiding the hassle that can says Miles Kevin. come with owning a second home.” The agent tips Talland Bay, close to Culture and seaside charm combine Fowey, where London architects perfectly in St Ives, with its narrow, Mador & Partners have produced con- cobbled streets, fishermen’s cottages, temporary homes clad in cedar wood mild climate and the bright, clear light and Cornish stone with open-plan so beloved of artists. interiors and expansive glass. The final Glorious St Ives: the harbour at low three units are for sale from £350,000 GREEN CREDENTIALS tide, bathed in the clear, golden for a detached three-bedroom home A mile from the Blue Flag beach at light that brings artists ﬂocking with roof terrace.

Carbis Bay, five-star Una St Ives opens ALAMY this summer and offers an indoor pool, CONTACTS hammam, steam room, gym, spa and include one- to four-bedroom modern range from £873 to £3,200 and rental star location, beside the Extreme Surf O Gwel an Mor, Talland Bay and Una games rooms to ensure rain will not stop houses with fresh, clean design along yields are predicted to be between four Academy and a Jamie Oliver Fifteen St Ives: Chartsedge (chartsedge.co.uk; play. A central atrium has a restaurant, eco-friendly lines — sheep’s wool insula- and eight per cent. Fifteen homes are restaurant. Two-bedroom houses aver- 01392 832 446). Also see unastives.co.uk bar and shops, while an on-call con- tion, triple glazing, green sedum roofs sold, with several buyers from London aging £520,000 sold out fast last year, O The Village at Watergate Bay: cierge can organise child care, a private and locally sourced furnishings. Prices and the South-East. helped by a guaranteed seven per cent thevillagewatergatebay.co.uk chef or book surf lessons. The first of range from £160,000 for 494sq ft to The Village at magnificent Watergate rental yield — £2,050 a week in high O Natural Retreats: naturalretreats.co. 120 planned homes on the 20-acre site £450,000 for 1,480sq ft. Weekly rents Bay showcases thoughtful design in a season. Resales start from £495,000. A uk (01625 416 450)

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UR modern world of con- In the Georgian age, London’s cosmopolitan lifestyle transformed the nation. sumerism, social mobility and a rapidly growing Now, with our own Prince George, royal palaces restored to their glittering population began 300 years ago this year with best celebrate four kings who shared a name, says Philippa Stockley theO start of the Georgian period, when George I, from Germany, ascended the British throne, the first of four kings in succession to bear the name. The glorious Vibrant and cosmopolitan London was seeing the most rapid change. The Bank of England had been established in 1694, Fortnum & Mason opened in Piccadilly in 1707, and during the century Britain’s population trebled to 24 million as industry, revolutionised by steam engines, flourished. This year the capital celebrates with the glittering restoration of Hampton Court and Kensington Palace, while both these important residences and Georges Kew Palace are running Glorious now Prince of Wales, argued violently, Georges tricentennial events in the the King occupied the King’s State coming months — including exhibitions Apartments while Prince George and to bring the Georgians to life — and The his wife, Caroline, entertained their First Georgians, a Buckingham Palace younger friends in the Queen’s. Effec- exhibition, opens on April 11. tively, they held rival courts. Back in 1714, to the surprise of most The state rooms astonish in scale and Britons, shy, 54-year-old German sumptuousness. The long, panelled George, who scarcely spoke English, Queen’s Drawing Room, punctured came from Hanover, Saxony, to sit on by full-length wooden shutters, its walls the throne, where he and his descend- and ceiling painted in 1705 by Verrio ants Georges II, III and IV, would stay with faux-marble columns and ebul- until 1830. Newly crowned George I lient figures, looks out to formal gar- made his home at Hampton Court. dens of trees and avenues. This was the This all happened because, in 1714, hub of life, where a lot of gambling Queen Anne died without an heir. A went on. In the long Queen’s Gallery, protestant with Stuart blood had to lined with Brussels tapestries, are take the throne, and next in line was William Kent stools and huge Delft Sophia of Hanover. However, she had jardinières. The gallery was used for also just died, so her claim passed to indoor exercise and dancing. her son, George, Elector of Hanover. Newly restored for this anniversary George was married to his cousin, is the Chocolate Kitchen, next to Sophia Dorothea, and they had two Wren’s lovely arcaded Fountain Court. children but because of Sophia’s affair Here, the luxurious drink was prepared with a Swedish count, she had been by George I’s Chocolate Maker, Mrs imprisoned in Germany since 1694. So Tosier. London’s oldest club, White’s, George came to England with his 31- began as Mrs White’s Chocolate House, year-old son, his daughter, his court, a notorious haunt where aristocrats cooks, and mistresses — leaving Sophia drank chocolate and gambled. As well to languish in jail until her death in 1726. as the kitchen, there is a Chocolate She never saw her children again. Room, a pantry where shelves held associated paraphernalia. Once, 94 ASTONISHING LUXURY syllabub glasses were kept here. Hampton Court is a palace of two halves, of which one is Baroque, KP’S TIME TO SHINE designed by Christopher Wren, with George II and his queen, Caroline, used magnificent panelled rooms, some Hampton Court but soon debunked to painted by Antonio Verrio, and with more homely Kensington Palace. Built later rooms by William Kent. Since the in 1605 as a private country house, it

newly arrived George I and his son, Sweet tooth: George I had his own Chocolate Kitchen installed at Hampton Court had been bought in 1689 by William III CORBIS

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Sumptuous wallcoverings: specially woven to a pomegranate design, crimson silk is rehung in the Presence Chamber, left, at Kensington Palace. Far left, one of the palace’s Royal State Rooms, restored during the recent £12 million makeover

stripped away, replaced with crimson Dramatic silk specially woven to a pomegranate Baroque, right: pattern by Humphries in Suffolk. The The Queen’s Presence Chamber has a Grinling Drawing Room at Gibbons overmantel, while a throne Hampton Court canopy and wide, 18th century-style oak Palace, where floorboards have been reinstated. walls and ceiling In 1760, his queen long dead, George were painted in II died alone in the lavatory. The court 1705 by Antonio swung towards Kew, where the Prince Verrio of Wales had grown up. George III pro- moted arts, architecture, and industry, transforming Britain into a “modern” nation from the place he made his and Queen Charlotte’s home: Buckingham House, now Buckingham Palace.

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and Mary II. Fast forward to 2012, and Four kings: after a £12 million restoration, the right, from top, palace reopened in time for the Georges I, II, III Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. A further (on his queen’s £1 million has been spent refurbishing engagement key rooms that were occupied by the ring) and IV glittering, intelligent court of George II and Queen Caroline, bringing them much closer to their 18th-century look. Since Caroline was highly educated and interested in many fields, politicians, artists, scientists and poets gathered. Below: a tea, The restoration is beautiful. The best coffee and way to the rooms is up the King’s chocolate Stairs, painted by William Kent with a service, c1725, dazzling trompe l’oeil of contemporary from Buckingham court life. Courtiers then passed through Palace the domed Cupola Room with its ceiling of gold and blue resembling a Fab- ergé egg, to the state apartments. The Drawing Room ceiling features an oval Kent ceiling painting of Mars, Diana and Pegasus, done in 1725 and still just as it was. This room leads to the Presence Chamber, where, beneath Kent’s airy Grotesque ceiling, more than 100 courtiers and hangers-on at a time would mill about, determined to get near the royal couple. Fifties flock wallpaper has been 16 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Interiors GREENEST NEW PLACE TOGREENEST LIVE DISCOVER CENTRAL LONDON’S Brought to you by HIGH PRAISE IS DUE

Master plasterer: architectural sculptor Geoffrey Preston is among craftspeople showcased at the Presented by Lend Royal Academy’s Crafted event. Lease and at the heart Preston, who undertakes of the regeneration projects large and small, is of Elephant & Castle, shown here with colleagues Jenny Elephant Park is a new Lawrence and Kate Montagne residential quarter in the Great Drawing Room surrounding Central at Great Fulford, a Grade I-listed London’s largest new Devon manor where the team park in 70 years. Just a restored ceiling ﬁ ve minute walk from plasterwork. a Zone 1 tube station By and featuring world Katie Law leading energy and water eﬃ cient homes set in a rich bio diverse Craft works landscape designed ON’T miss the best of for walking, cycling, British craftsmanship at Crafted, opening relaxation and play. tomorrow at the Royal Academy of Arts in W1. DThirty makers showcase their work, ranging from furniture and textiles to jewellery and glass. Are these the big design names of the future? Curator Guy Salter, who founded the show in 2007 in association with Walpole British Luxury and Swiss watchmakers Vacheron Constantin, believes they are. Here are our top picks:

Glassmaker Michael Ruh mouth 1 blows a range of beautiful bespoke pieces for the home in glorious jewel colours in his south London studio. 1 They include lighting, and these Buoy vases — clear glass amphora- shaped vessels for single stems which bob inside simple coloured 2 cylinders. The medium-size Buoy is £475 and the large is £650.

Naomi Paul has scooped 2 numerous design awards for her cleverly constructed textiles. Her The Life lighting collection includes the V2 Glück lamp, a crocheted cotton cord The Heart pendant which comes in a range of colours. Shown here in Lava The Elephant red and Putty. From £1,045.

All images used are for illustrative purposes only. Furniture and landscaping are also shown for illustrative purposes only. Royal College of Art Detail design of facades and landscaping subject to planning 3 graduate Margo Selby agreement, it is anticipated that there will be changes in landscape design. Individual features such as windows, brick set up her textile Vintage fabric, and other materials’ colours may vary, as may heating and company in this Jive electrical layouts. These particulars should not be relied Bloomsbury in chair is upon as accurately describing any of the speciﬁ c matters described by any order under the Consumer Protection from 2007. Her £1,920. Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the Business Protection designs unite from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. This information innovative O Crafted, including images and dimensions is not intended to form part of or constitute a contract or warranty. March 2014. handwoven tomorrow until structures and Saturday, Royal industrial machinery Academy, to create her Burlington trademark three- 3 Gardens, W1. Free dimensional fabrics. admission (crafted Upholstered in showcase.co.uk). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 17 Events Homes & Property www.elephantpark.co.uk www.elephantpark.co.uk By Barbara Chandler

1 Five things to see in | April 2 020 3675 9955 1 SELVEDGE SPRING FAIR This Saturday and Sunday at Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road, SW3 3 (020 8341 9721; selvedge.org) A CHIC textile event with over 50 stalls selling homewares, fashion items, antique textiles and vintage haberdashery. Meet designer makers including Catarina Riccabona, pictured with handwoven pieces. Tickets are £5 in advance, £7.50 on the door or £10 for a Friday evening reception.

2 INSPIRED | April 8-12 at The Goldsmiths’ Centre, [email protected] 42 Britton Street, EC1 (020 7566 7650; britishsilverweek.co.uk) A SELLING show in Clerkenwell featuring 21 contemporary furniture 4 makers, together with 60 silversmiths. Admission is free and there’s a lunchtime talk on Tuesday by furniture maker Nick Allen and silversmith James Dougall. 3 THE PTOLEMY MANN POP-UP SHOP April 8-12 at 33-35 St John’s Square, Clerkenwell, EC1 (020 7357 7101; highlights about 40 modern furniture ptolemymann.com) designers, from famous trailblazers THIS sale by award-winning textile such as Oscar Niemeyer and Sergio artist and designer Ptolemy Mann, Rodrigues, to current global known for her bold and distinctive superstars such as the Campana use of colour, will feature new brothers. We particularly like the homewares and handwoven textiles Agua table (2008, pictured) in including bed linen, rugs, cushions, recycled cardboard and glass by mohair throws and some fashion. Domingos Tótora. 4 BRAZILIAN DESIGN: MODERN & 5 CERAMIC ART LONDON CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE This Friday to Sunday at the Royal Until May 9 at the Embassy of Brazil, College of Art, Kensington Gore, SW7 14-16 Cockspur Street, SW1 (brazilian (ceramics.org.uk; 020 3137 0750) furnituredesign.com/en/) POPULAR with both collectors and BRAZIL is celebrated for home owners, this fair, with 80 contemporary design. This show leading international artists, is 10 years old. Items include Sarah Moorhouse bowls, left. A unique 5 collection of cups made by past exhibitors will be on sale for charity, and there will be talks, demos and films. Also showing/selling are RCA students. Tickets cost £12 and include an exhibition guide — or buy a three-day ticket for £25 22 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Reader promotion homesandproperty.co.uk with

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OUNDER and chief designer Finest fabrics: Osprey London’s tweedy of British leather brand check cashmere throws, £275 each Osprey London, Graeme Ellisdon, 58, the son of a Creative tensions between hot Hertfordshire carpenter, and cold are attractive areas to hasF grown his company into an explore. international brand with 10 stores in the UK alone. It offers beautifully TOP LONDON DESTINATIONS crafted fashion goods along with Shoreditch House, the private homeware and furniture, using soft members club in E1, is another leathers and fine cashmere and silks. world, both quietly self-contained On Friday Ellisdon launches Osprey and a part of the landscape. With the London, a 5,000sq ft flagship store, swimming pool on the roof in at 27 Regent Street, St James’s. summer and log fires in winter, it doesn’t get any better. The Dorchester is a comforting cocoon in the middle of London. WHERE TO FIND FABRICS My de de I source cashmere from Scotland, REX blankets from Norway and silk from Italy. In London, the fabric places on MY LATEST PROJECT energy of London energising. My WHY I LOVE BRITISH DESIGN High-ﬂyer: Graeme Ellisdon has a Berwick Street are great. Our new store is in a landmark dream home would be Buckingham At its best, British design is inclusive. passion for British craftsmanship building designed by Reginald Palace, for those wonderful gardens. It is a celebration of the collaboration FAVOURITE DESIGNERS Blomfield for The Crown Estate in between the designer and the maker WHERE I SHOP Terence Conran and Paul Smith have 1918. When we took it over it was a FAVOURITE DESIGN OBJECT which you can see in something like I am a great admirer of Skandium always been my heroes. shell, albeit a Grade II-listed shell An Aga. It sits in the centre of the Thomas Heatherwick’s inspiring and relate to the frosted with great bone structure. We home, at the core of the making and copper cauldron made for the Scandinavian look which I like to TIPS TO TRANSFORM A ROOM designed a beautiful steel staircase sharing of food, which we love to do. opening of the London Olympics. offset with warmer African tones. Paint everything white, throw down a depicting natural history icons, vintage kilim, flood the space with which was handcrafted in Top shop: natural light by day and low-level Hertfordshire, and worked with Skandium in lamps by night. A fire or wood burner British craftsmen to create Marylebone High will make any room feel like home. somewhere that feels as much a Street for a home as a store (ospreylondon.com). “frosted A PERFECT LONDON SATURDAY Scandinavian Alex and me would walk the dogs on WHERE I LIVE look”. This ESU the Heath, have brunch at Kenwood, Now our two boys are grown up, my bookcase, left, then wander down to Marylebone wife, Alex, who run Osprey London is by Vitra High Street and pop into Daunt with me, and I split our time between Books and The Conran Shop, before the Hertfordshire barn we recently dinner with friends at Orrery or a finished converting and a Victorian Inspiration: a drink in Soho with our boys and their rectory in Norfolk, near our selection from mates. daughter’s school. Designing the St Paul Smith’s new James’s shop together gave us chance homeware range, VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Graeme to spend more time in London. Our right. The Ellisdon gives Amira Hashish a first sons have been working on the designer is a look inside the Osprey London store. project, too. The countryside long-standing Watch the tour at homesandproperty. grounds me but I find the grit and hero of Ellisdon’s co.uk/OspreyLondon EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 25 homesandproperty.co.uk with Outdoors Homes & Property It’s the perfect outside room Indoors and outdoors merge seamlessly at this chic coach house in Little Venice

HEN the architect and garden designer have a dialogue from the start, you can expect the best possible results.W Case in point is a Victorian coach house in Little Venice, with a MARCUS HARPUR PICTURES BY sleek, contemporary interior that needed a courtyard garden to comple- to outdoors. “You walk on a completely Boxing clever: different levels and ment. Architect Sally Mackereth called level threshold so there isn’t a feeling materials make the space look larger in garden designer Chris Moss, and of being either inside or outside. And they discussed using the same palette one of the entrances to the garden is a the same proportions as the house’s of materials inside and outside, as huge cantilevered window which large chimney. The deck, backed by a much as possible. “It’s so important opens outwards like a glass canopy, so wisteria on a pale rendered wall, you can be outside and enjoy the receives most sun, so it was the ideal Pattie garden — in the rain.” spot for table and chairs. These were A unique wall that is used both indoors designed by Mackereth and are made Barron and outdoors is a real tour de force. The of reconstructed stone that again refers veneer is made of Japanese porcelain back to the house interior. tiles, laid horizontally, so that, painstak- Just beyond the deck, a patch of gravel ingly built up, they have a wonderful adds a soft texture to contrast with the pleated effect. “The wall provides a concrete floor, and is planted with that the garden relates to the house, so great horizontal plane that leads the eye perennials that surround a handsome there is a feeling of unity,” says Moss. out into the garden,” explains Moss. “It zinc water trough. “It is a similar metal “For me, the advantage of working this is expensive, but it gives a really won- to the one used on the staircases and way is huge, both from creative and derful texture and has the effect of in the kitchen, the water provides a practical viewpoints.” widening the garden. I’ve added cush- reflective element and I like the strong, The garden is just nine metres wide ions of green box in front of the wall, to structural shape. In winter you see the by seven metres. “Whenever I work in make a lively contrast.” trough clearly, and in summer it is a small town garden, I like to introduce At the back of the garden, Moss Glass canopy: a cantilevered window Textural wall: porcelain tiles, built up veiled in plants.” several different textures in the space decided on a wall of slatted cedarwood provides shelter at the entrance in layers, create a pleated effect Evergreen structure in the town gar- to give it variety,” says Moss. He used that provides similar horizontal lines den is essential, says Moss. “In small the same poured concrete finish as the to the pleated wall, then added a sense of depth to the space. As it is in wood deck around it that creates gardens you are generally looking out living room floor, so that there is a con- clipped hornbeam hedge in front to a conservation area, an existing ash another level, and added, just beyond on to the space, so it has to hold its form tinuous, seamless sweep from indoors make a green backdrop, and lend a tree had to stay, so Moss built a cedar- it, a green plinth of clipped box that has throughout the year, which is why I used box, horizontally pruned and as cushions, as well as the hornbeam hedge. “But you can’t just use evergreens, so at the front of the cedarwood wall is a line of Hydrangea paniculata, along buy it with Japanese anemones, for later flowers. And though the planting area is See it: Wildflower Workshop Buy it: RHS Nerine Collection small around the trough, I designed it so that there is something to please the eye from April to October, with tulips PETERSHAM NURSERIES, Richmond, ELEGANT Nerine flowers appear on slim and alliums in spring, followed by launched a range of British wildflower stems in autumn, adding late colour to white verbascum, aruncus and billow- seeds last year, and its popularity has sheltered borders or containers. These ing catmint, Nepeta racemosa Walkers inspired an event on creating your own bulbous perennials are hardy but need a Low. Miscanthus Morning Light, a wildflower patch in a border or window sunny site, ideally with the protection of white variegated grass, gives a great box. Resident horticultural expert a south-facing wall. lightness to the garden, while ferns Thomas Broom will show you what to The RHS is offering three bulbs of associate well with water.” sow and how to choose from a wide each of the following for £9.99: Nerine range of wildflowers to provide interest bowdenii, right, with bright pink NOTEBOOK through spring and summer, as well as flowers; Nerine bowdenii Ella K, which O Chris Moss: chrismossgardens.com how to use wildflowers to attract bees, has lily-white flowers with softly ruffled O Reconstructed stone table and butterflies and other pollinators. You petals, and Nerine bowdenii Ostara, chairs: designed by Sally Mackereth will also discover how to keep your with pale pink flowers. All three grow and titled Cast 001. They can be patch blooming from one year to the to 50cm. The whole collection costs commissioned from studiomackereth. next. 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OUR some of the capital’s quirkiest and most stylish homes, ranging from the Veneto Villa in Regent’s Park to a globetrotter’s houseboat Ton the Grand Union Canal, with roving photographer-and-writer team René and Barbara Stoeltie. In their new book, London Interiors, the couple celebrate the extraordinary diversity of the city’s living spaces as created by artists, gallery owners, interior designers, architects — and in doing so, provide inspiration for our own homes.

O CREATIVE CHAOS “London is a fascinating battlefield between the conservative and creative spirits,” says Vauxhall gallery owner David Gill, who lives above the shop — a series of galleries and storage rooms — in what was once a glove factory, and who decidedly falls into the “creative spirit” category. Gill’s spectacular collection of designer furniture and contemporary art sets the benchmark for eclectic style, so that a Thirties baroque chair covered in char- treuse silk looks perfectly at home beside a Pop Art Mattia Bonetti sofa, a modern- ist Marc Newson metal table and a Jeff Koons sculpture. How to make collecta- bles of different styles and periods work? Barbara Stoeltie gives a clue when she describes Gill’s look as “studied chaos”.

O MINIMALISM Architect Seth Stein’s motto is: “A house does not need clutter, just architecture,” and his conversion of the Victorian coach house he bought for his practice and his family in west London proves the point. Glass walls, sliding doors, concrete floors and an elevator contained in a concrete cylinder create exciting new spaces, while the spiral staircase in the living room, set within a curving white wall, resembles a fabulous contemporary sculpture. Minimalist Stein has allowed only a painting, a pumpkin and a scale model of a vintage aero- plane as decorative objects. That’s what Minimalism to the max: architect Seth Stein’s west London living room, top, with spiral staircase set in a you call discipline. curving white wall. Above, the kitchen, with no decorative objects save for a pumpkin and a model plane A fascinating g

A Spitalfields bathroom reminiscent of Ancient Rome, a ‘Georgian’ four-poster made from a billiard table, and a mirrored grotto. Londoners never cease to surprise, says Pattie Barron

O AN ITALIAN JOB How do you turn a 18th-century ambiance by painting the small basement courtyard into a grand panelled walls of his bedroom Georgian Italianate garden? You paint a balustraded yellow and turning a billiard table upside staircase on the back wall and add a down to create a stunning four-poster plaster statue of a Greek goddess at its bed, the canopied yellow and grey- head, surrounding it with real ferns and striped bedhead an artfully draped old vines to lend the lie. This is the work of bedsheet. Painting huge trompe l’oeil the late Roy Alderson, trompe l’oeil artist fragments on to pieces of board, and extraordinaire, who captured the Tuscan hanging them in the small bathroom to countryside on the bathroom wall of his recreate the magnificence of the Ancient Victorian terrace house, painted palm Roman baths, sensationally shows that trees and frangipani flowers in his bed- audacious moves pay off. room and, best of all, gave his front door the finest neoclassical fakery, complete O PERSONAL STYLE STATEMENT Following with Greek key friezes. your heart, with no compromise, can be Classics rule: the a great way to make a strong style state- entrance hall of O THEATRICALITY Creating theatre is the ment. Artist, designer and photographer the Veneto Villa in speciality of Argentinian artist Ricardo Danielle Moudaber was raised in Leba- Regent’s Park,

ANDREAS VON EINSIEDEL ANDREAS VON Cinalli, who, at his house in Spitalfields, non, and says she has been influenced by designed by Blue heaven: a black labyrinth on the ﬂoor contrasts with artist Danielle Moudaber’s cool blue apartment went a long way to restoring the a domestic life that revolved around an Quinlan Terry EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 27 y.co.uk with Interiors Homes & Property

Splendour in the bath: artist Ricardo Cinalli captured a sense of Ancient Roman bathing at his home in Spitalﬁelds, left

Clever fakery: trompe l’oeil artist Roy Alderson gave his bathroom, right, a touch of the Tuscan countryside with sweeping landscape and faux marble pillars

Cool cavern: antiques collector Keith Skeel found a use for hoarded bits and bobs. He lined the basement with them and painted white over everything to resemble an underground grotto, right glimpse behind closed doors

O VINTAGE “Classical architecture is like Best-dressed good food or wine, because it has served bed: if you want the cause of civilised man across the a four-poster but ages,” Quinlan Terry has said. Our coun- can’t afford one, try’s foremost classical architect more copy Ricardo than proved the point with the imposing Cinalli’s smart Veneto Villa, designed in 1989 for the move, right — Outer Circle of Regent’s Park, which was turn a table based on original plans by the great upside down, 16th-century Italian architect Palladio. then get busy The entrance hall lives up to the mag- with sheets and nificent exterior. A marble bust of the a staple gun Grecian god Paris stands guard and several medallions on the wall represent the profiles of Roman emperors, while neoclassical statues grace staircase niches.

O TAT’S ORIGINAL Going for broke is what antiques dealer and inveterate collector Keith Skeel did, literally, in the basement of his Islington home. “I col- lect and store everything, so I had bits intensely blue swimming pool, which icing white. A bonus of using just one and bobs — handles, knobs, legs from of white paint over the lot. The result? A READER OFFER accounts for her love of the colour she colour throughout is that when you use old pieces of broken furniture, interest- fantastic underground grotto set with London Interiors (Flammarion) costs calls “watery blue”. Thus her two-storey a contrast — such as the rust-red wall lights ing old bottle stoppers — and I had a long mirrors that reflect the tunnel infinitely £32.50, but Homes & Property readers Kensington apartment has panelling, purloined from a Forties cinema, hanging basement tunnel that I didn’t know what and present the best argument ever for can buy the book for £24.50 including paint, furniture and fabric all in the same above a chaise longue in ice-blue velvet to do with.” The solution? Stick every- upcycling hoarded tat. Copy — but with p&p — call 01903 828 503 and quote ref cool blue that teams so beautifully with — the colour really pops. thing on the walls, then slap several coats the risk of going completely bonkers. HPL14. The offer lasts until May 31. 32 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Property searching homesandproperty.co.uk with

Bridge that gap: Hammersmith’s Grade II-listed suspension Spotlight bridge, left, for pedestrians and traffic, links to Barnes on the Hammersmith south side of the Thames A proposed underpass and swish new riverside houses and apartments — welcome to ‘Glammersmith’, declares Anthea Masey

OULD the scare about the Pride of place: Hammersmith flyover’s Fred Kyle, left, structural safety in the run- supervisor at up to the Olympics have The Dove pub, been a blessing in disguise? known as a great ResidentsC of this west London commu- spot to watch the nity refer to the flyover as their Berlin annual Oxford Wall — separating the town centre from vs Cambridge one of the loveliest stretches of the Boat Race Thames. Now the local council has unveiled plans to replace the decaying £1.75 MILLION raised roadway and parts of the A4 with AN EXTENDED six-bedroom Victorian a tunnel that could stretch up to two terrace house in Southerton Road, in and half miles from the Hogarth round- highly prized Brackenbury Village, about to Earl’s Court. with a courtyard garden and rooftop This could release development land terrace. Through KFH. worth £1 billion and transform the town O homesandproperty.co.uk/ centre which, with the exception of the Cultural hub: the southerton public square in front of the Lyric piazza in front of theatre, is in great need of a facelift. the Lyric theatre, Hammersmith, five miles from cen- right, which is tral London, sits between Barons Court getting new and West Kensington to the east, Ful- drama, dance ham to the south, Chiswick to the west and TV studios, and Shepherd’s Bush to the north. plus a cinema, in Along the river there are Georgian an £11.5 million houses, rowing clubs and pubs that redevelopment overlook the green open spaces of St Paul’s School across the Thames in Barnes. In Hammersmith’s Upper Mall, £508,000 the great designer and social reformer Take the tour: A SPACIOUS one-bedroom flat in William Morris devoted the last years historic pubs and Glenthorne Road, with wood floors, of his life to the Kelmscott Press which rowing clubs large windows and a private terrace. produced books with all the beauty of pepper the Through Savoy Realty. medieval manuscripts including a ver- riverbank near O homesandproperty.co.uk/ sion of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Hammersmith glenthorne Kelmscott House overlooking the Bridge Thames was named after Kelmscott Manor, Morris’s country retreat in the Oxfordshire village of Kelmscott, where he is buried in the churchyard. Until the arrival of the railways, Ham- mersmith was a rural village supplying A ‘flyunder’ to topple London with fine fruit and vegetables but by the time of Morris’s death in 1896 much of the riverside south of Ham- Photographs:: the City of London, Westminster and mersmith Bridge had been taken over Graham Camden. Average house price is by distilleries and sugar refineries. Now Hussey £670,070, up 15.2 per cent in the year £1.25 MILLION these are being swept away and replaced to January. Estate agent Laurie Kavan- THIS beautifully presented three- with developments such as Fulham agh, from Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward bedroom house set over three Reach, a scheme of more than 700 new has seen price rises of up to 20 per cent floors and with a pretty patio homes that has opened up 175 yards of in the last year, with many houses now garden is in Chancellors Street. It’s riverbank to pedestrians and cyclists. selling for over £1,000 a square foot. for sale through Foxtons. In Tabor Road in Brackenbury Vil- O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/ WHAT THERE IS TO BUY lage, a house on sale for £1.6 million chance As well as those Georgian houses along had two bids and eventually went for the river, Hammersmith has a mix of £1.8 million. The most expensive house mainly Victorian terrace houses, rang- currently for sale is a five-bedroom ing from large five-bedroom semis near semi in Hammersmith Grove Ravenscourt Park to small two-bed- (homes andproperty.co.uk/grove) at room cottages in Brackenbury Village, £4.65 million. One of the oldest is a late the area around Brackenbury Road Traditional 17th-century, four-bedroom, semi- between Glenthorne Road and Gold- beauties: lovely detached house in Chiswick Mall hawk Road. There are new flats with old houses (homesand property.co.uk/mall) at more in the pipeline along Glenthorne overlook the £1,995,000. Road and Beadon Road. Thames The area attracts: Hammersmith £699,950 Hammersmith and Fulham borough along the draws buyers from central London, A STYLISH two-bedroom Victorian has the fifth most expensive homes in Hammersmith particularly Kensington, and with split-level flat on Disbrowe Road London after Kensington and Chelsea, river path Coca-Cola, Disney, HarperCollins and features a private garden, and has good access to shopping and entertainment. Through KFH. To find a home in Hammersmith, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/hammersmith O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/ disbrowe For more about Hammersmith, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/spotlighthammersmith EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 33 homesandproperty.co.uk with Property searching Homes & Property CHECK THE STATS

■WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN HAMMERSMITH (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £456,000 Two-bedroom flat £923,000 Two-bedroom house £818,000 Three-bedroom house £1.18 million Four-bedroom house £1.49 million Source: Zoopla.co.uk

RENTING IN HAMMERSMITH (Average rates) Watering hole: the popular Dove pub One-bedroom flat £1,390 a month is perched on the river in Upper Mall Two-bedroom flat £1,867 a month Two-bedroom house £2,773 a month at Lord Rogers’s architectural prac- Three-bedroom house £2,634 a month tice. Four-bedroom house £4,280 a month Hammersmith is a growing cultural Source: Zoopla.co.uk hub. The Lyric theatre is undergoing a £11.5 million redevelopment with new GO ONLINE FOR MORE drama, dance, and TV recording studios and a 60-seat cinema, planned O The best schools and designed by Rick Mather Architects O The best shops and restaurants and due to open in the autumn. O The latest housing developments The Riverside Studios in Crisp Road in Hammersmith are being rebuilt as part of Mount O Which parts are up and coming Anvil’s redevelopment of Queen’s O How Hammersmith house prices Wharf that will include 165 new flats compare with the rest of the UK and a new riverside walkway. The Ham- O The lowdown on the rental scene mersmith Apollo is a major music O Smart maps to plot your venue and will host Kate Bush’s 15-date property search comeback concerts in August and Sep- tember. Cineworld in King Street is the local multiplex cinema. For all this and more, visit William Morris left a legacy of two homesand small museums. The William Morris property.co.uk/ Society opens in the coach house at Kelmscott House in Upper Mall on spotlighthammersmith Thursdays and Saturdays from 2pm to 5pm, while the house of Morris’s friend and mentor, printer Emery Walker, opens in Hammersmith Terrace on HAVE YOUR SAY Saturdays and some Sundays from HAMMERSMITH April to September for guided tours. Book online at emerywalker.org.uk/. The house is described as having “the @hortonandgarton Increasingly last authentic Arts & Crafts interior in competitive property market, our Britain”. advice to buyers is go in and meet and There is private club swimming at the register with... all of the local agents Charing Cross Sports Club in Aspenlea to ensure you get the call as soon as Road and Virgin Active in Hammer- something new comes to the market. smith Road. The nearest council pools are the Fulham Pools in Lillie Road and @sulgravehunt great delis are the Janet Adegoke Swimming Pool in Raoul’s on the Grove and Brooks. Bloemfontein Road. Kerbisher & Malt for fish and chips. Travel: Hammersmith Tube connec- London’s Berlin Wall tions are great, with trains on the @hkvdesaihemant A South Indian District, Piccadilly, Hammersmith & vegetarian restaurant named Sagar is City and Circle lines. Other stations are famous for good food. L’Oréal based locally, and pharmaceu- LEISURE AND THE ARTS Standard restaurant critic Fay Masch- Ravenscourt Park on the District line, tical giant GlaxoSmithKline on the Lovely local riverside pubs include The ler. The Oak is a gastropub in Goldhawk Barons Court on the District and Pic- @AIRarchitects @RiverCafeLondon nearby Great West Road, international Dove and The Old Ship. The Salutation Road that replaced the late lamented cadilly lines and Goldhawk Road on the @RiversideLondon @RSHP_News buyers, particularly from France and in King Street, with its distinctive Anglesea Arms in Wingate Street. Circle and Hammersmith & City lines. @theDoveW6 @LyricHammer Italy, are moving in. The river, parks glazed blue-tiled exterior, is a local The Gate in Queen Caroline Street is All stations are in Zone 2 and an annual @eventimApollo and schools are major plus points. landmark. The Brackenbury in Brack- one of London’s most innovative veg- travelcard to Zone 1 costs £1,256. Staying power: this is a place where enbury Road has recently been taken etarian restaurants. The River Café in Council: Hammersmith and Fulham @MandyPrintmaker The Dove by people like to put down roots. How- over by Ossie Gray, son of the late Rose Rainville Road is the Michelin-starred is Conservative controlled and Band D the Thames at Hammersmith, great ever, the jump from a two-bedroom Gray of River Café fame, and is getting Italian-influenced restaurant that council tax for the 2014/2015 year on Boat Race day: dovehammersmith. cottage to a four-bedroom family house rave reviews including from Evening started life as the canteen for workers stands at £1,034.16. co.uk/whats-on is often unaffordable and drives families to look further afield. @JonPrynn Can’t beat wandering Postcode: W6, the Hammersmith through lovely Ravenscourt Park for a postcode, is highly desirable and will drink @TheHampshireHog on a sunny carry a house price premium over W12 day. #glammersmith — the neighbouring Shepherd’s Bush postcode. @lyoung1981 Around Lillie Road Best roads: these include Ravenscourt antiques shops — such a peaceful Road, especially the houses backing on area. Great park (Normand Park), and to Ravenscourt Park, St Peter’s Square shops/restaurants in Munster Road. — once home to stage and screen star Vanessa Redgrave — and Westcroft @CFCLeHarvey1 love that back bit of Square. Hammersmith Grove was once Barons Court, near Queen’s tennis a road full of bedsits. Now many of club. those bedsit houses have been con- TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE verted back into family homes, and this On what TV show did this Hollywood is one of the area’s premier roads. The actor represent Hammersmith? Find NEXT WEEK: Harrow. Do you roads around Brackenbury Road — the answer at homesandproperty.co.uk/ live there? Tell us what you known as Brackenbury Village — are spotlighthammersmith think @HomesProperty also very popular. Thames views: houseboats with historic Hammersmith Bridge in the background 40 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Ask the expert homesandproperty.co.uk with Our listed building guilty secret is out Fiona WHAT’S I BOUGHT a leasehold maisonette a few years YOUR ago and I knew the title deeds did not include McNulty PROBLEM? Q the front garden. However, the garden has OUR LAWYER ANSWERS IF YOU have a been fenced, presumably since the Thirties YOUR QUESTIONS question for when the property was built. I rent out the maisonette Fiona McNulty, and my tenants have always maintained the garden. please email I discovered the freeholder was trying to sell the MY WIFE and I have done legalsolutions@ front garden for off-street parking a while ago. I spoke a lot of work over the years standard.co.uk to the estate agent, who refused to divulge the name of Qto our Grade II-listed mews or write to Legal the freeholder’s solicitors. Can the freeholder, who house, almost always with Solutions, Homes has never spoken to me about this, just demolish the planning permission and listed & Property, front wall to use the garden for parking? building consents. Two years ago London Evening we wanted to knock down some Standard, 2 Derry internal walls and were warned we Street, W8 5EE. FIRST, speak to the agents to establish the current would not get consent but we did it We regret that position regarding the proposed sale. If the reply anyway. Now we have to move to be questions cannot A is unsatisfactory, contact the freeholder directly near our daughter and don’t know be answered to find out their true intentions. Also, consider the what to do about not having got individually but terms of your lease. You may have an exclusive right to listed building consent. Please help. we will try to use the front garden, and there may be covenants stating feature them it can be used only as a private garden. INSTRUCT a surveyor with here. Fiona A search of the index map at the Land Registry will show experience of listed buildings McNulty is a whether the title to the garden is registered, and who is A to advise whether you are partner in the the registered proprietor. If the garden is not registered, likely to succeed if you apply local historic buildings team will preclude you from obtaining residential ask the freeholder to show you their title deeds to prove for retrospective listed building have been put on notice that there is indemnity insurance, or may affect property, farms they own it. To demolish a wall and construct a parking consent. If the surveyor believes you no consent. Ideally, you should put the terms of the policy. Once you and estates team space, planning permission and building regulations will get it, make the application. such insurance in place before you have accepted an offer your solicitor at Withy King LLP approval are likely to be required, and if it is necessary to However, if they feel it’s possible market your property, but do not let should send out a copy of the (withyking.co.uk). drop the kerb for access from the road, the highways consent may not be granted, you the issue and existence of the policy indemnity policy with the contract authority will need to be involved and approve the works. must consider obtaining indemnity be generally known. This is because papers to the buyer’s solicitor. insurance for lack of listed building if a prospective buyer learns there is And don’t forget about building consent instead. The problem is that a lack of listed building consent they regulations approval. If you didn’t More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on if you apply retrospectively but may contact the local authority to obtain that either, you will need to Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. consent is denied, you will be unable enquire about obtaining it deal with that retrospectively or Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar property.co.uk to obtain indemnity insurance, as the retrospectively, and such notice may consider indemnity insurance. issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor. 44 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Inside story homesandproperty.co.uk with

houseboat in Limehouse Marina. There’s something particularly charm- A tenant paints ing about this boutique-style narrow- boat moored against the Canary Wharf the town red. . . backdrop. THURSDAY Today’s first task is easy. I have the pleasure of presenting an offer 10 per including his cent above the asking price for a property in Millennium Harbour, and the vendor is delighted. Later I hear that one of our favourite tenants has locked front door himself out for the third time this week. He adds: “I also had a ‘small gathering’ MONDAY at the weekend and my front door may It’s 5.30am and I head for the gym — Diary of have been painted. Is this a problem?” which seems even harder to do on a He is told he is allowed to paint the Monday than on any other morning. town red — but definitely not his door. By 8.15am I am in the office and Canary an estate Our property managers are experts at Wharf is looking stunning in the spring dealing with unusual problems from sunshine, which is always good motiva- agent our tenants, and if it reduces the hassle tion at the beginning of the week. for our landlords, then we are always I’ve got a big day ahead of me, with happy to help. an important corporate viewing at The TUESDAY Heron, the incredible 36-storey tower I begin the day by reviewing my notes FRIDAY in EC2. The appointment is with a very from last week’s meeting with a client, I have two valuations booked in for large American social media company a key developer, regarding the regen- today. One is a lovely 18th-century looking to take all of the remaining eration of a tower in Bow. At 10am we warehouse conversion in Liverpool units, and I am pleased when the tour have our follow-up meeting to discuss Street and the other is a 3,500sq ft goes well. the progress of the build and advise on penthouse in West India Quay. It’s For my next appointment, I am still launch strategy and marketing time- amazing how diverse our market is. I at The Heron and it’s a fast shuttle up scales. We expect to launch this scheme an asking price offer, which is a great for the rest of the week. We discuss the get a call at lunchtime instructing us to the stunning 6,000sq ft penthouse next month and with attractive pricing, result. The sales market really seems sales pipelines, new properties coming on the houseboat, which highlights the for a viewing. My prospective buyer I’m hopeful of a busy Easter. to be turning now and the phones are to the market and any further market- diversity even further. As the sun sets arrives with a full entourage and they This afternoon my team agrees the busy with enquiries all afternoon. ing we could be doing. One of my nego- over Docklands, we toast another busy all get busy, setting about ticking off sale of a £1.2 million riverfront property tiators is looking a little worn-out but week for CBRE Residential. the check list. The view is mesmerising close to our office on the Isle of Dogs. WEDNESDAY it’s all in good cause — he ran up the at sunset and his team snaps away. I This impressive sub-penthouse — I start with a team meeting to review 1,037 steps to the top of the Gherkin O James Bearryman is agency think it’s one of the most incredible extremely popular due to the Thames the week’s sales and lettings activity, with CBRE for charity. We end the day manager at CBRE Residential in views in London. and City views — manages to achieve and assess where our focus should lie with a very unusual valuation of a Canary Wharf (020 7519 5900). 46 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Letting on homesandproperty.co.uk with

IKE many buy-to-let mortgages, mine strictly forbids me to let to tenants on benefits. It sounds No one will ridiculously 19th century andL quite honestly I am surprised companies can get away with this sort of discrimination these days, but it is actually pretty common. benefit if she A while ago I approached my mortgage lender to find out if it would waive this Dickensian clause so that I could make my property loses her job available for social housing. The lender said it would consider doing so, but I would have to apply in Victoria Whitlock bemoans Dickensian writing, there would be an £650 a week: at Embankment Gardens, Chelsea, John D Wood has this spacious administration fee and the interest buy-to-let mortgage deals that prevent and bright one-bedroom ﬂat available to rent, with spectacular river and rate on the loan might be increased. I landlords from letting to people on benefits Chelsea Physic Garden views. Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/rentembankment decided not to bother and continued letting to private tenants instead. So picture my alarm when one of withdrawn, I could lose my rental flat burned to the ground or was to have a six-month break clause in my tenants told me she had put in a The property and then my kids and I damaged in a flood, the insurance all new lease agreements so that if a claim for housing benefit and she would also end up on the streets. company could use my non- tenant’s circumstances change, you needed me to write a letter to the accidental I know — I am a drama queen. But I disclosure as an excuse to wriggle out have the option of ending the local council confirming her rent. find it is always best to consider the of covering my loss. tenancy early. I’m not saying you I was previously unaware that she worst case scenario. In the end I decided it was best to should rush to evict anyone who falls had lost her job and had been landlord I was also concerned about my ’fess up to both the mortgage lender on hard times — I like to think most struggling to pay for her little room landlord insurance. The policy, and the insurance broker and see landlords would try their best to and of course I wanted to help her up begging at my local Tube station. which covers the contents of the what happened. To my surprise, they avoid that — but if their mortgage out, especially as she has always been Imagine the guilt I would feel as I property and provides me with were both totally fine with the lenders are less flexible than mine, a good tenant and paid on time, but I stepped over her every day on my public liability insurance, also states situation. My insurance premium they might not have any choice. was worried about the effect on my way to work. that the place must be let to wasn’t affected and my mortgage mortgage. However, what if I didn’t tell my “professional” tenants — in other lender said it was “not concerned” O Victoria Whitlock lets three If I told my lender I had a tenant on lender, if I metaphorically stuffed my words, not tenants on benefits. that I had accidentally ended up with properties in south London. To contact benefits, might it expect me to turf fingers in my ears and pretended I By not informing the broker that my a tenant on benefits. The saga Victoria with your ideas and views, her out on the streets? Heavens was unaware of my tenant’s change tenant was no longer working, and proved, however, that it is important tweet @vicwhitlock above, given the shortage of in circumstances? I was fairly sure was claiming local housing allowance accommodation available for the the lender would never find out, but and income support, I could Find many more homes to rent at unemployed I was seriously worried what if it did? I would be in breach of invalidate the policy. In the she might become homeless and end my mortgage, which might be (admittedly unlikely) event that the homesandproperty.co.uk/lettings 48 WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with David Spittles has the word from the street Smart moves

From £495,000: for coach houses on the Kent estate, above, that inspired novel It’s a first — loft Farrell’s new mews in the Secret Garden living in Ealing FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT ALING is a top location for arrived with the Dickens Yard wrote children’s novel The Secret those who love the West scheme in the town centre, and now Garden — published more than 100 End and travel regularly lofts are making their debut, too. years ago — while living at Great from Heathrow. Crossrail Orchard Lofts is a listed Maytham Hall, right, near the village will make it even more of a warehouse with nine apartments of Rolvenden in Kent. The neglected drawE by slashing journey times to arranged around a restored garden that inspired her story is still Bond Street and the airport to under communal atrium that’s suitably there in the 17 acres of grounds. Five 15 minutes. industrial in character. A central steel coach houses have been built in a While many London areas have staircase is crowned by a glass corner of the estate, and like the main experienced big demographic canopy allowing light to flood into house, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens changes in recent years, Ealing has the space, which also boasts a 19th- and split into grand flats, the new remained largely itself, with a century lift wheel and water pump homes have architectural kudos, middle-class old guard, an enviable mechanism. being the first outside London created high-quality, traditional design. Common and tree-lined spacious Suspended concrete and glass- exposed brick walls painted white, by architect Sir Terry Farrell. The Priced from £495,000 (homesand streets. Change is in the air, however. block walkways link the upper flats, and steel beams. Some even have charming, mews-style homes are of property.co.uk/maytham). Fashionable apartment living has which have original Crittall windows, cargo doors. Prices from £575,000.

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SHOWCASE FIRST From £595,000: ﬂats at Lillie Square, ﬁrst of four new neighbourhoods HOMES AT NEW being built on 77 acres surrounding EARLS COURT Earls Court exhibition halls

LILLIE SQUARE launches this week, four new neighbourhoods, backs on with 808 homes for sale in the first to Brompton Cemetery and Eardley phase of the development by Capco Crescent conservation area. Flats of 77 acres surrounding Earls Court have up to three bedrooms and range exhibition halls. from 524sq ft to 2,480sq ft. Many are A whole new residential district will dual or triple aspect, and some are eventually rise from the site, with duplexes with large roof terraces. 7,500 new homes in modern Five-bedroom family homes with mansion blocks and terraces of private gardens and garages are also townhouses linked by new streets for sale, while a promised “lifestyle” and garden squares, while a “lost” package includes a residents’ club river park is being re-established. with swimming pool, 24-hour The wider scheme will also create security and underground parking. offices, shops, community facilities Homes will be ready in 2019 and including a library, and add 23 acres Capco will run the estate. Prices start to the public realm by reclaiming from £595,000. Call 020 7381 9800 wasteland. Lillie Square, the first of for more information.

Bow’s still winning thanks to the post-Olympics effect

WELL-CONNECTED Bow, sandwiched value period houses in neat between Canary Wharf and Stratford neighbourhoods such as the Tredegar in the East End, is enjoying a fresh Square conservation area. Parkside is wave of post-Olympics regeneration. a new-build scheme of 52 flats The development focus prior to the overlooking Furze Green, a park of 2012 London Games was on derelict nearly three acres. Developer Galliard canalside buildings and old industrial is offering an “Easy Buy” option — sites. Warehouse flats attracted £2,000 to exchange contracts, with 20 incomers from pricier parts of town, days to get the funds for the initial 10 Buyers are being offered free Oyster From £575,000: for homes at Orchard joining earlier gentrifiers who, a per cent deposit. From £315,000. Call card travel for two years (homesand Lofts, Ealing, where natural light ﬂoods decade before, had discovered great- From £315,000: Parkside ﬂats in Bow 020 7620 1500. property.co.uk/orchard). the industrial-style atrium, above

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