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Trophy home of the week sip fizz in the hot tub and drink £30m project: in the view 58 new flats near Bayswater Tube £1,795,000: it’s all about could include just the views when it comes to four “affordable” living the high life in a London penthouse — and HE much-vaunted £1 billion this swish apartment, on the regeneration of Queensway 13th floor of the New is shaping up to include Providence Wharf scheme in almost no “affordable” Spot the E14, delivers in spectacular homes for young Londoners fashion. Luxurious lateral orT key workers. space of more than 1,700sq ft Thames, The O2 and the your evening glass of bubbly. In the latest example of a developer covers two double bedrooms Canary Wharf skyline There’s 24-hour concierge, a wanting to go against rules requiring and an impressive 30ft continue from a 2,000sq ft gym, swimming pool and affordable homes to be included in affordable living/dining/kitchen area wraparound terrace residents rates at the on-site multimillion-pound developments, wrapped in floor-to-ceiling complete with a hot tub five-star hotel spa. Through GMS Estates’ plan for an entire block windows. The views of the that’s perfect for enjoying Johns & Co (020 3858 3199). next to Bayswater Tube is awating approval from Westminster council. homes in The developer promises to transform Lifechanger a shabby west London street with new shops, offices and 58 flats with its of the week £30 million scheme. The council’s policy is that about a third of all new Queensway run a posh homes in the borough should be afford- able, aimed at first-time buyers and level of affordable housing being dis- party pad squeezed renters. cussed for this project flies in the face of But GMS Estates said including any a recent pledge by council leader Nickie in Norfolk affordable homes at all would make its Aiken to enforce affordable housing project financially unviable. Westmin- quotas strictly, to stop Westminster £1.2 million: if you know how ster disagrees — but is asking the devel- becoming a “ghetto of the rich”. to throw a party, we’ve found oper instead to build four affordable Fergus Coleman, the council’s afford- the perfect business homes, about seven per cent of the able and private sector housing chief, opportunity for you. This total, and to pay £282,000 into the said 16 or 17 of the flats should be afford- nine-bedroom listed village council’s affordable housing fund. able to comply with policy. Daniel house in Snettisham, Norfolk, GMS Estates says it has now agreed to Astaire, cabinet member for planning, looks innocent enough from four affordable flats, and that all the said: “The council is committed to deliv- the outside. Indoors, homes will be rented, avoiding the risk ering 1,850 new affordable homes in however, every room has a different theme, while the space, too, by converting a of absentee owners and making “a Westminster by 2023 … we will be taking been designed to create an entertaining space includes separate coach house and positive contribution to the redevelop- a firm approach to ensure developers exclusive weekend party pad a “jungle” drawing room, a stables. The vibrant, historic ment of Queensway”. A spokesman provide more affordable housing. Our for up to 20 guests. dramatic dining room and a market town of King’s Lynn is said: “With a private rented model we approach will begin to make an impact All the furniture and even basement disco for dancing just nine miles away. can be certain we will not be faced with in the coming months.” the bedding is included in the night away. There’s Call Abbotts for more the ‘dark flats’ that far too many new the price. Each bedroom has potential to expand on guest details (01328 618024). developments suffer from.” But the O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week nights out are no Editor: problem in a loft flat near the Southbank Centre Janice £695,000: you get an awful Morley lot of industrial chic for your money at this one-bedroom VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ Waterloo warehouse rules for details of our usual apartment — and the promotion rules. 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EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property GETTY A posh place for a school pal of George ÉPRINCE GEORGE starts school at the Queen’s nephew, features Thomas’s, Battersea next month — so throughout the five-bedroom house there’s just time to rent a home — one reason why it will cost you nearby and enrol your own offspring. £3,500 a week to rent. Ali Carter, The mixed-sex private day school is lettings negotiator at Russell Simpson, sure to become one of the country’s says: “We’ve seen enquiries for homes most talked-about schools now four- in Battersea increase since the news

year-old George, above, is going there. that Prince George is to be a pupil at GETTY There’s a royal link at 38 Westbridge Thomas’s. This is the first time a royal Road, above right, a large family child has attended a school south of The Deathly Hallows home for sale house with west-facing garden, just the river and it has certainly raised the The Levines move west of Battersea Park and a short cachet of the surrounding area.” …not like Jagger walk from Chelsea across Battersea At 4,100 sq ft, the house features ÉHARRY POTTER fans will instantly Bridge. Bespoke carpentry from the handmade cabinetry and dedicated recognise De Vere House in Lavenham, ÉMAROON 5 frontman Adam company founded by David Linley, children’s and adults’ areas. Suffolk — on the market for £995,000 — Levine and his model wife Behati as the house where JK Rowling’s boy Prinsloo, above, have splashed out wizard, played by Daniel Radcliffe, right, close to £14 million on a home in the was born. Holmby Hills estate in Los Angeles. The Grade I-listed property, dating from The French Regency-style property, the 16th century, features in Deathly by architect Caspar Ehmcke, befits Homes gossip Hallows as the home of Harry’s parents, one of California’s hottest couples — By Amira Hashish Lily and James Potter. Forming part of and also shows they know a bargain the fictional village of Godric’s Hollow, it when they see one. The house is a is depicted opposite a graveyard in the steal when you consider the original At last Kanye sells film, a Christmas tree in the window, asking price in September last year lights on and music playing. was £21.1 million. ÉKANYE WEST has finally sold his De Vere House’s façade, with carved The 9,221sq ft pile, built in 1966, has LA bachelor pad, below right. The huntsmen either side, features in five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a rapper, pictured with reality TV star guide books of the area. The six- “breakfast solarium” with garden wife Kim Kardashian, who he married bedroom home is one of views and a two-storey guesthouse in in 2014, got £2.2 million for the Suffolk’s most historically the acre of grounds, below. Hollywood Hills property, seven years significant houses, taking its Moves Like Jagger singer Levine — after he first put it on the market. name from the De Vere family who is also a judge on The Voice in He paid £1.3 million for the place in who were second only to the America — and his wife have got their 2003 and later tried to sell it on for royals in wealth in medieval house in the Santa Monica Mountains

£2.9 million. When he failed to find GETTY times. They also built ALAMY on the market for £12.2 million. any takers for the four-bedroom Hedingham Castle in Essex, house, which covers 4,200sq ft, he and there is a theory that dropped the price in 2013. Now, at Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of long last, someone has fallen for it. Oxford, was the true author Kanye, 40, and Kim, 36, have other of certain Shakespeare California properties, in Bel Air and plays. Hidden Hills. Rumour has it that the The house is on the couple, who have two children, will market with . use the cash from the sale of Kanye’s old place to invest in another state. 6 WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by

O ONE knows quite where they stand in Vauxhall — literally. Despite being one of London’s major trans- port hubs the area remains Nalmost impossible to navigate, thanks largely to the groaning chaos of a multi- lane gyratory system. Quite apart from the infrastructure, many other factors contribute to the district’s distinctly disorientating feel. Yet despite the traffic, the daunting network of run-down back alleys and unkempt public spaces, average prices here hover around the £850,000 mark for a two-bedroom flat, according to research by . This is, after all, a Zone 1 location and those back alleys are a stone’s throw from some of the capital’s highest-pro- Walk this way: Vauxhall Cross will be pedestrian friendly file housing schemes, including around the new US Embassy; in Vauxhall Tower at St George Wharf, and the £9 billion Battersea Power Station regeneration. The fact that the latter will become home to Apple’s new European HQ — a colossal 500,000sq ft space set to bring an influx of fresh tech blood to the area when it opens in 2021 — only adds noughts to local property values.

In 2019, Transport for London plans to start work on doing away with the hated gyratory system in favour of two-way roads, with more cycle and pedestrian crossings and the removal of the exist- ing bus depot. Whatever the future holds for the area, nicknamed “VoHo”, there can be no denying it has had some major challenges to overcome. The first, as basic as it is problematic, is its shape. Long and thin, snaking along the Thames from the eastern edge of Battersea Park up to Lambeth Palace Gardens, there is barely more From £655,000: flats at The Dumont, Albert Embankment than one road going in and out once Vauxhall: designed to attract

FIRST OF A NEW SERIES you get past New Covent Garden Mar- THE NINE ELMS RIPPLE above the London average. But there ket. And that road is a humdinger. With Another big hurdle has stemmed from is mounting evidence that the Battersea ON THE SOUTH BANK more lanes than an Olympic swimming the complexities around the ownership effect has begun to kick-start significant pool and the aforementioned gyratory of the wider Nine Elms area. Across this upgrades in and around Vauxhall. to contend with in the middle, it is little sprawling 561-acre regeneration site, Thanks, not least, to the expectations This prime Zone 1 riverside wonder that despite being a prime half a dozen landowners have had to of a new breed of buyer. riverside district, Vauxhall has always work together in a borough split James Lindsay, chief executive of district is determined to make life struggled to find its heart. There’s a between two councils of different iconic entertainment venue The Royal smattering of Victorian terrace proper- political persuasions. Vauxhall Tavern, explains: “When it was easier for its new homeowners, ties set back from the Thames, but this “In a perfect world it wouldn’t have announced that the American Embassy district has no real centre. been so complicated but when you was moving to this area, a certain reports Emily Wright look at what has been achieved with so amount of clean-up was required. There A HEART TRANSPLANT many parties involved, actually every- used to be a lot of drug use in the area, It may be hard to believe, but Vauxhall one has worked very well together,” was a picturesque London village as says Matt Bell, head of external affairs recently as the 19th century. Now, with at the Berkeley Group, whose St James the radical plans for its improvement, development arm is overseeing the the current chaos could soon become delivery of four new residential a thing of the past. schemes in the area — Merano Resi- Lambeth council has set out plans to dences, The Corniche, Riverlight create “a recognisable heart of Vaux- and The Dumont. hall” with new shop-lined walkways, Prices at the latter start at £655,000 the restoration of a high street and a for a one-bedroom flat. A reflection of civic town square. the area’s high average, it is actually This is where the ambitious proposals quite the bargain when compared to for the district tie in with TfL’s strategy Middle Eastern developer Damac’s to overhaul the gyratory. The removal AYKON London One tower nearby of the one-way system, major public in Nine Elms. Here, one of the Versace- space upgrades and, eventually, a fresh designed apartments in the 50-storey design for a new bus station should free block will set you back a cool £2.8 mil- up enough to space to create a centre lion for a two-bedroom home.

KIERAN TIMBERLAKE from scratch, stemming from a new Are these high prices justified? The ALAMY £800 million heart-starter: the new US Embassy, Nine Elms station square. £850,000 average is about 65 per cent Redesign: Vauxhall bus station will get a fresh new look Looking for a new-build home? Find the best new developments EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 7 New homes | Homes & Property

Left: ’s Stanley Building in King’s Cross. The co-working company has planning consent for a huge new flagship in Vauxhall

£1.76 million: two-bedroom apartments at Riverlight, right, Vauxhall SW11, in the South Bank’s major Nine Elms regeneration area a new generation

which was a heavy burden. The occupi- improved reputation, chances are that S FOR Vauxhall itself, it is ers moving into this area wouldn’t want the property values are a fair reflection a neighbourhood to that on their doorstep.” of a prime Zone 1 riverfront location watch. Once a network of that’s set for a rapid transformation nightclubs and back You have only to look at the new retail, over the next three years. alleys, there is definitely leisure and commercial tenants taking Many Londoners have already been lightA at the end of the tunnel for this space in SW8 to get an idea of the direc- priced out. However, there are other district. tion the area is heading. It was options. It is worth looking at more Hopefully, before too long, people announced in May that The Office affordable alternatives in nearby areas will start to know where they stand — Group — British rival to WeWork, the likely to be close enough to benefit from multi-lane gyratory system notwith- American-based provider of shared the Nine Elms regeneration boost. For standing. workspace for entrepreneurs, freelanc- example, average prices in Oval are ers, start-ups and small businesses — £521,499, according to , and O Emily Wright is features and global has been granted planning permission hover at about £550,000 in Stockwell. editor of Estates Gazette. to develop a 92,000sq ft flagship serv- iced office space at Tintagel House on Albert Embankment. Meanwhile, Network Rail, which has redeveloped six of the railway arches on the embankment so far, has signed a fresh wave of tenants who are set to move in towards the end of summer. These include a new bar from the Antic Collective, the team behind London venues including Brixton’s Dogstar and Effra Social; a second branch of Bethnal Green-based taproom brewery Mother Kelly’s, and fringe theatre company Above The Stag. Ultimately, with such widespread and major regeneration redefining the sur- rounding area, and with fresh tenants starting to bolster Vauxhall’s new and Merano Residences, Vauxhall: buy from £1.99 million or rent from £1,275 a week across the UK at 8 WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | London living

DECADE ago, a British course, the market in central London property company with an has changed dramatically over the last interest in central London two years, and it is worth noting that, took the bold step of buy- of the new homes currently advertised ing Covent Garden, one of on Rightmove in Covent Garden, more London’sA greatest tourist attractions. than half have had at least one price The price tag for the famous West End reduction. Piazza and seven acres surrounding it “Prices are where they were in 2014,” was £421 million. says Roderick Heffernan of Winkworth. Capital & Counties Properties plc — “Unfortunately vendors often don’t Capco for short — has since created accept that — they are living in the past. more than a million square feet of office I think prices will continue going down space out of one of London’s most as a deep price correction takes place. iconic locations, creating a value of at The market has not yet reached the least £2 billion. bottom, and I can’t see things changing There was nothing desperately wrong until 2020. But when it does it will with Covent Garden when Capco took zoom up again.” it over, but there was nothing particu- larly right with it either — aside from SHOPPING AND EATING Inigo Jones’s fabulous 17th-century Pre-Capco, Henrietta Street was a dis- Italianate architecture. mal sort of thoroughfare, lined with “It was a bit like Carnaby Street in the chain bars and restaurants designed to Eighties. There was a lot of tourist tat, feed and water day-trippers. Today it which as a local you didn’t really want,” is a destination in itself, with a cluster says Rob Hill, director of Greater Lon- of nice restaurants — including The Ivy don Properties. “It was all policemen’s Market Grill, Frenchie, and Sticks’n’ hats for 99p and those awful ‘I’ve Vis- Sushi — and a concentration of upscale ited London’ T-shirts.” menswear shops such as Nigel Capco has been a responsible parent, Cabourn, The Real McCoy’s, Oliver

nurturing a subtle sort of rebirth, ALAMY Sweeney and Fred Perry. gradually turning a mainstream tourist Covent Garden Piazza: the balcony of the 18th-century Punch & Judy pub is said to give the best view of street performers This kind of approach to Covent Gar- trap that few Londoners visited into a den’s side streets is turning it into a far more interesting, varied location. place Londoners actually want to visit, “Londoners can enjoy an incredibly COVENT GARDEN’S DRAMATIC DECADE at least for inspiration if not actually to pleasant environment to walk around,” Thinking of buy because, like its housing, the shop- says Hill. ping in Covent Garden is on the pricey moving? side and very heavy on high fashion. A PLACE TO LIVE Flower market Start your Capco has brought big international The Covent Garden community before names including Chanel, Dior, and 2006 was a mix of families, profession- search on Apple to the Piazza, while there is a als, entrepreneurs and people who quirkier feel with cafés and boutiques needed a weekday crash pad, says is back in bloom around Seven Dials, and the firm is Roderick Heffernan, associate director currently collaborating with none of Winkworth. “Covent Garden has other than Hollywood heavyweight- never been cheap,” he points out. But The tourist tat’s gone and once again new homes turned-restaurateur and hotelier Rob- prices are dropping and have further are flourishing, discovers Ruth Bloomfield ert De Niro. to go. Last summer the Oscar-winning star Most of those pre-2006 locals were won planning permission to build a from the UK, since wealthy overseas luxury hotel, designed by architects buyers tended to stick to better-known Kohn Pedersen Fox, in Covent Garden, residential districts such as Knights- in partnership with Capco. The Wel- bridge. Today Covent Garden has lington, in Wellington Street, is moved into a different sphere alto- expected to open in 2019. gether. Research from suggests that just over half the buyers GOING UPMARKET — 56 per cent — are Londoners, while Not everybody is impressed by the a third are from overseas, mainly main- glitzy big names now flocking to Covent land Europe, and the rest are from Garden. Heffernan says that pre-Capco elsewhere in the UK. the area was all about “family busi- One thing these incomers have in nesses, restaurants and shops that had common is deep pockets. Only one per been there for 25 to 30 years”. Now, cent of them plans to spend less than though, “they want to rent to the big £750,000, according to Knight Frank. chains at massive rents. They can By contrast 28 per cent will spend more afford to run at a loss in prime loca- than £5 million. tions.”

The Covent Garden Community Asso- ALAMY Covent Garden is a market at heart ciation has raised concerns about the and under Capco the stalls within the top-end boutique developments creep- From £995,000: Tourist draw: Piazza now sell better-quality, more ing into the area, claiming the small 38 Southampton quaint and pretty craft-style items than in the past. Cap- and quirky shops that are a key part of Street flats, Neal’s Yard, co’s war on tat hasn’t been completely Covent Garden’s appeal are being above, launch in above, offers successful, however. Cheap and cheer- replaced by luxury flats, which are October (knight shops and health ful is still very much in evidence at the often empty second homes. frank.co.uk) food cafés adjacent Jubilee Market. On the other Nonetheless, smart new homes con- hand the Disney Store on the Piazza tinue to spring up. In Floral Street, has recently closed.

THE CLEAN-UP JOB IN NUMBERS Over the last decade Capco has worked MORE than 44 million people £2.25 million: hard to make Covent Garden look beau- visit Covent Garden every year, right, a loft-style tiful — and most people agree it has dwarfing the number of flat in Neal done a grand job. Streets have been residents. According to the 2011 Street, through cleaned up and prettified with new census just over 13,000 people Greater London lighting and shop fronts. lived in the entire Holborn and Properties Rebecca Warren, sales and lettings Covent Garden ward. director at Chestertons estate agents, By 2015, that number had Capco plans to replace the former Piazza, by developer Stonehaven. A two-bedroom flat in Monmouth has worked in Covent Garden for 12 increased to 13,700. Camden Sanctuary spa with a health and fitness one-bedroom flat will be priced from Street, just off Seven Dials, for years. She says: “If you walk along council forecasts the district’s club, a shop and nine apartments £995,000. Despite these high prices £1.35 million, while Greater London Floral Street or Shelton Street, for population will continue to grow, above. It also has planning permission half of the homes have already been Properties is selling a warehouse-style example, and then cross one block over albeit relatively slowly. By 2023, to build 31 flats at 22 to 25 Floral reserved ahead of the launch. Visit apartment in Neal Street, with marvel- into Drury Lane, which is out of the council estimates an extra Street. knightfrank.co.uk. lous pitched ceilings, for £2.25 mil- Capco’s area, you can really tell the 2,400 people will have moved In October, meanwhile, Knight Frank On the resale market, buyers can lion. difference. into Holborn and Covent Garden. will launch 38 Southampton Street, expect to pay from £1 million for a two- One-bedroom Covent Garden flats “What they have done is unify the with 18 flats just seconds away from the bedroom apartment. Dexters has a are priced from about £700,000. Of area and clean it up.” EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 9 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by London living | Homes & Property

BRAND BAGLIONE THE family has designed a 16,000sq ft central costs £350. Lara Boglione, 33, believes the shop will London shop, inset, in the same rustic style as draw in affluent families but says: “There are a lot of Petersham, with many Mediterraneann things in the £5 to £20 bracket — obviously we plants. Several full-size palm trees growrow go upup with the antique furniture.” up towards a trio of original A key difference between Petersham rooflights. Elegantly patinated MMark I and Mark II is a greater antique furniture joins surfaces emphasis on balcony-friendly pots piled high with glazed pots, and window boxes, for urban candles and hand-blown gardeners. There will also be drop-in champagne glasses. workshops; an Italian take on The deli is a foodie feast. aafternoon tea; a pre-theatre menu; “Everything is homemade,” says Gael.. evevening cocktails, and one of London’s “Even the honey comes from bees in only restaurants allowing (nicely Richmond Park.” The pleasure of all thishi bhbehaved) d dogs. The restaurant décor will be does not come cheap. The hand-blown very Baglione, with pink chandeliers, red leather wineglasses are £70, a rusted iron and marble seats, a bronze bar, open kitchen and pieces from garden side table is £650, an earthenware pot Gael and Francesco’s contemporary art collection. VICKI COUCHMAN VICKI COUCHMAN Founding family: holding son Achille, MD Lara Boglione and parents, Gael and Francesco Boglione

COVENT GARDEN GOES BACK TO ITS ROOTS Accidental gardeners who grew a family firm

HE great irony of Covent Garden as a garden centre in a former townhouse in King tourist destination is that in London’s Street. Petersham Nurseries central London- famous former flower market there style is a seriously grown-up operation with a has been almost nowhere to buy a shop, a deli and a wine cellar. By the end of the decent bunch of flowers. Ever since year there will also be two restaurants set NewT Covent Garden Market opened in Vauxhall around a courtyard garden in the backlands in 1974, and Covent Garden reinvented itself, between King and Floral Streets. the only flowers on offer have been of the sad, cellophane-wrapped supermarket variety. But The Boglione family was invited into Covent now proper flowers have returned to Covent Garden by the new landlord, Capco. In many Garden at newly opened Petersham Nurseries. ways the union of these two businesses is an The family-run company, headed by unlikely marriage. Capco is a multibillion- Australian-born Gael Boglione and her Italian pound place maker while the Bogliones are husband, former insurance broker Francesco, accidental shopkeepers. While hard-nosed started life by chance in 2004, up on the hill business people did deals to bring Chanel, just west of Richmond, where it grew into the Mulberry and the like to Covent Garden, most stylish garden centre in London, boasting Petersham will bring a breath of fresh air into Italian flair and a top chef to provide lunch all this polished multinationalism. among the flower-filled terracotta pots. The Bogliones knew some of the right people, and in 1997, during an afternoon watching the cricket with Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, heard that Petersham House, the grand old Georgian 17th-century mansion, was for sale. They bought it and moved in with their four young children. Soon afterwards, they discovered that the old garden nursery next to their property was also for sale. “We did not want anyone to come in and build at the bottom of our garden, so we bought it,” explains Francesco.

They knew nothing about running a garden centre but they grew lovely flowers at the old nursery and when they had too many, they sold them. Petersham Nurseries was born, and grew into a lush, bohemian, idiosyncratic green haven where visitors now go to marvel at the plants, rustic-luxe pottery and irresistible garden accessories. Eldest daughter Lara made the pilgrimage through India — where her dad joined her — as a teenager and the style, crafts and imaginative ingenuity of the villages there never left her. She now drives the business as its managing director. Son Harry is the family’s organic farmer, rearing pigs and chickens and growing veg on his Devon farm; Anna runs an interactive drama theatre and stages plays in the family home, while Ruby is part of the

buying team. ADRIAN SHERRATT Now Petersham Nurseries has made the Down on the organic farm: Harry and Perry journey into Covent Garden, launching a Boglione with their children at home in Devon 10 WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Commuting

Left: Basildon centre. The town enjoys great commuter links to the City and Canary Wharf

Southend-on- Sea: the average house price is under £362,000 and the London commute is

ALAMY 40 minutes Essex: coast and country East Londoners love the swift City commute, great schools and good-value family homes. Ruth Bloomfield tours the county’s hotspots ALAMY HE capital continues its love Ofsted report, and the majority of local affair with Essex — for years schools are considered at least “good” the county of choice for City by the education watchdog. workers seeking a move Obvious areas to start house hunting from east London to a larger include Kingswood, near the station, familyT home with countryside on the where a three-bedroom terrace house doorstep. But which towns are the hot would be about £270,000. A posher favourites? Here’s our lowdown. option is Langdon Hills, leafy and quiet, and with rather grand contemporary BASILDON houses. Expect to pay about £650,000 for a substantial family house. Fantastic transport links to the Square Mile and Canary Wharf put Basildon BRENTWOOD £400,000: a three-bedroom luxury — birthplace of Russell Brand and a duplex at The Mill Apartments, East St, favourite location for Towie stars on a About a quarter of Brentwood’s buyers Colchester. Boydens (01206 916226) big night out — at the top of a league are from the capital, drawn in part by table of destinations favoured by com- the town’s proximity to the M25 and Colchester for its Army barracks, but muters moving from east London. the new Shenfield Crossrail station. its reputation as a slightly rough squad- A third of the homes sold here in the However, Brentwood, with an aver- die town is gradually dissipating. It has last year went to former east London- age house price of £554,735, is one of a new arts centre designed by Rafael ers, who paid an average £349,000, the most expensive locations included Viñoly, a couple of cinemas, the beau- research in today’s research, though its prices tiful Stour Valley is near and the coast shows. Prices in the area have risen six have flatlined in the last year. is only 12 miles away. per cent in a year and an impressive 45 The town centre has too many chain per cent since 2007. ROCHFORD stores to be interesting, but Kris Dixon, Outperforming it may be, but a move sales manager at Leaders estate agents, to this modern town involves compro- Closer to the Essex coast, about one in says it’s “bright and vibrant”, adding: mises. The ugly, worn-out Sixties cen- four Rochford buyers hails from east “There are lots of restaurants in the tre suffers from its proximity to London. With average house prices of town centre, and nightclubs, and good £600,000: Lakeside shopping centre, and not £373,500, there has been a 10 per cent country pubs in the villages around.” below, a very much property is older than Joey rise over the same period — the strong- attractive four- Essex, so if you want to leave London est annual price growth in the survey. SOUTHEND-ON-SEA bedroom, three- for a quaint old cottage, Basildon won’t bathroom, fully be for you. If, however, you want a COLCHESTER The alpha choice on the Essex coast, renovated large, detached executive home in a about one in eight Southend buyers Victorian house private road, you are in luck. This is one of the cheapest options, moves from London. The average house with a garden On the plus side, the commuter links with average house prices of £293,000, price is just under £362,000, up 11 per and balcony, in are excellent. Trains to Fenchurch up a hefty 14 per cent year on year. cent year on year. Cambridge Road, Street take from 37 minutes and an Colchester’s market has been bol- With a 40-minute commute to Fen- Southend-on- annual season ticket costs £3,948. stered by its thriving buy-to-let scene. church Street and an annual season Sea. Call Peter Basildon also has a mix of high-quality Despite tax changes and higher stamp ticket at £4,736, this old-fashioned sea- Howard (01702 schools. Great Berry Primary Academy, duty, investors are still keen to buy near side town is coming into its own. Its 744134) in Langdon Hills, gets an “outstanding” the University of Essex campus or airport is handy for European weekend around Colchester North station. breaks, the two high schools have “out- For owner-occupiers, west Colchester standing” Ofsted ratings, and there are is the smartest location, including sub- plans to revamp the dowdy seafront. urbs such as West Bergholt with its The most upscale part is Thorpe Bay, village feel and proximity to the town where a post-war family semi would centre and station. A four-bedroom cost about £500,000. A sea view, wher- detached house here would cost about ever you are in Southend, will come at £430,000, while a three-bedroom semi a premium, with large modern houses would be £300,000 to £350,000. costing £2.5 million-plus. Colchester has good schools and a The town centre conservation area good commute. Hamilton Primary is has pretty Victorian terraces for particularly sought after, as are Col- £650,000 to £700,000. 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Above: interior designers Kat Turner and Jessica Gibbons used the surfaces of the SE1 penthouse to create a stunning home for a City trader. Right: oversize felt shades light the striking mosaic wall in the dining space Girls’ eye for a City guy

HINK property developments ing enticing outdoor space. In 2015, the tem but layered things up with pendants Interiors experts Jessica Gibbons are boring? Allow Jessica Gib- owner commissioned Field Day to work that draw the eye to specific areas. As well and Kat Turner helped a City trader bons and Kat Turner from on the transformation and from the as showing off the materials on the walls, London interior designer beginning the pair and their client perimeter lighting creates the illusion of turn a new-build SE1 bachelor pad practice Field Day to change formed a collaborative team. Says Kat: extra space. “This was the first step in yourT mind. This two-bedroom pent- “When someone is looking to appoint creating more atmosphere. If the lighting into a home. By Claire Bingham house in SE1 offers plenty of ideas on an architect or designer, it’s a priority to is good, everything looks better.” how to transform dull “generic” spaces have a good chemistry. The oak-panelled wall in the bedroom into something startling — indeed, even “A fan of the London Look — minimal, was made by a fabricating company the surfaces of this urban home have masculine with lots of soft texture to off- called SETWO, who, the women say, is become a big talking point. set the clean lines — the owner’s brief was able to make almost anything you can Home to a City trader, the bachelor pad to step up the universal fit-out with lots dream up. French company Panbeton is in The Chroma Buildings, the award- of character that would make it his own. installed the concrete walls and the cop- winning boutique scheme built on the And he wanted to impress. He was happy per-tinted mirror is by The Wholesale site of the old Colorama photographic to push the boat out with statement fea- Glass Co. warehouse. From here, the owner can tures, which is music to our ears.” walk to work. He bought the penthouse OLISHED copper adds depth when the warehouse was redeveloped, As the layout was already set, the impact as well as warmth to the neu- drawn by the apartment’s huge outdoor had to come from the surfaces. Barbican- tral colour scheme but it is the space of 1,000sq ft — the same size as the inspired concrete walls inject a brutalist concrete walls that most trans- flat’s interior. feel in the living area, but one wall has a form the space, lending a raw, mosaic of white porcelain and copper Pindustrial aesthetic that suits the urban He says: “I’d been looking for years for a tiles, adding impact to the space. In the vibe. Thoughtful, customised lighting, low-rise apartment with outside space in bedrooms, a copper-tinted mirror quality materials and handcrafted details the area but they simply don’t exist. I paid reflects light and a wall of fluted oak make this property unique. This flat is the reservation fee for this flat at the panels casts lovely shadows. Each room full of creative ideas that have turned it launch event as soon as it was available, makes the most of natural light. into the owner’s ideal home. subject to a site visit the next day.” Starting with the lighting, the designers The 50/50 floor plan reflects the impor- added to the existing scheme. They kept Depth and warmth: polished copper in a Wow-factor warehouse flats: The Chroma Buildings in SE1 tance developers are attaching to creat- a couple of spots already on the grid sys- bedroom. Far right, urban terrace view  EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 15 powered by Interior design | Homes & Property

Brutalism meets natural warmth: concrete walls and wood floors in the living area

A Scandi style statement: the mosaic-tiled dining area fills half of the living space

Outside entertaining: at a generous 1,000sq ft, the terrace equals the inside space

WHAT IT COST O Copper tiles in the dining room: from O Purchase of flat in 2015: £1,155,000 Metal Tiles Ltd (metaltiles.ltd.uk) O Works by Field Day and Barton O Bespoke oak bedroom panelling: by Interiors, excluding fees: £60,000 SETWO (setwo.co.uk) O Curtain fabrics: ludvigsvensson.com JESSICA AND KAT’S TIPS TO ADD O “Connect” modular sofa: by CHARACTER TO NEW BUILD Anderssen & Voll at Muuto (muuto.com) O Think about windows. Avoid the O Customised media unit: treku.es “black glass effect” at night by lighting O Brokis “Shadows” smoked glass beyond, even from a window box. Or pendant lights: atomicinteriors.co.uk soften the space with a wave curtain. O “Under the Bell” felt pendants: by O Maximise space by using the same Iskos Berlin from Muuto (as before) colour palette and materials throughout. O “Loop stand” dining table; “About a O Light the perimeters of a room, chair” AAC22 chairs: from HAY (hay.dk) highlighting wall features and artwork, O Vintage wall clock: from The Old to expand space. Add corner lamps for Cinema (theoldcinema.co.uk) an ambient glow. O Feather bed, main bedroom: from O Don’t overlook bedlinen. A duvet can Amode (amode.co.uk) be a design statement when layered up O Bedside lamps: from Menu (menu.as) with neutrals in different fabrics or a O Guest bed: Amode (as before) bold-patterned bedspread. O Guest bedside tables: from Another Brand (anotherbrand.co.uk) GET THE LOOK O Guest bed lights: iittala.com/home O Interior designers: Jessica Gibbons O Cacti and succulents: conservatory and Kat Turner (fielddaystudio.com) archives.co.uk O Main contractors: Barton Interiors O Outdoor table: habitat.co.uk Ltd (bartoninteriors.co.uk) O Outdoor dining chairs: from Menu (as O Shuttered concrete panels: from before) Panbeton (concrete-beton.com) O White ceramic tiles: domustiles.co.uk Photographs: David Butler  16 WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design

ARAM STORE JAW-DROPPER at Aram’s Ashuach, in collaboration summer show in Covent with Kyoto Design Lab. “It Garden (until August 19, uses minimum materials 110 Drury Lane, WC2; and is carefully shaped for aram.co.uk) is a large comfort,” says Ashuach, white chair which appears who consistently leads the a mass of holes, and was capital in new 3D printing made in 19 hours by a (assaashuach.com). “retired” car-making robot in east London. The designer is London software maestro Assa

FUTON COMPANY CHAMPIONING British designer- makers, just in at Futon Company, 169 Tottenham Court Road, W1, are Jane Crisp’s Bare Milking Stools, top, priced £189, round or cut out to slot together, and her handmade baskets, top right, a sleek upmarket revamp of a traditional trug. With steam-bent strips of ash and walnut and copper nails, they’re inspired by clinker-built boats. Prices start from £95. Find also a nesting set of tables with a lace-like edge in three shades of oak, right, by Karl Weitz, at £750 for a set. A dash of colour comes from John Weaver’s mini chest of drawers/table, above right, with its solid, tapered-oak legs. Also splashy are neat tiered table/shelves by Nell Beale of Bath for CoucouManou (futoncompany.co.uk). Design summer Barbara Chandler tours the latest design shows in London’s top stores

LIBERTY LONDON HEAL’S JUST opened at Liberty, charcoal sketches of the THE big buzz at Heal’s are tables with tops top left, is the Interiors female form. Amy Isles in Tottenham Court made from a beautiful Emporium, a “walk of Freeman, top right, a Road is the new crop of fragmented mix of design” on the third floor. trained fine artist, turns designers in the store’s plastic bottles, yoghurt Driving force is buyer for and hand-paints wooden annual Heal’s cartons and plant pots, home Bryony Sheridan, bowls. “From plank to Discovers programme. handcrafted in the UK who combed the country finish can take up to 12 Going eco are Justin and priced from £249. for rising talent on the hours.” Artists such as and Hannah Floyd, Don’t miss ceramics cusp of art and design. Klimt, Hockney and Egon left, from Devon, by Matt Davis, who has Azem William of east Schiele are her “go-to who’ve turned excess morphed 3D computer London makes ceramic image-makers”, together fleece from their local software into moulds platters, above, with with modern illustrators sheep farms into for his pixelated modern facial profiles (libertylondon.com). Solidwool for a slender, porcelain reminiscent of classical moulded chair with vessels, £55 coins. Then there is Louise turned wooden legs, (heals. Madzia, who hand-paints priced £395. com). body outlines on to simple Design duo Adam vessels, right. “I’m inspired Fairweather and by high and low culture, Rosalie MacMillan, from Barbara Hepworth right, have revitalised and Picasso to reality TV.” Smile Plastics, the Alexandria Coe wants company that people “to fall back in love pioneered turning with hand-drawing” via plastic waste into her economically elegant furniture. Now there 18 WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Outdoors

OULD this be London’s ultimate roof terrace? The off-the-scale wow factor is Rooftop heightened by the access that gives no hint of what lies above:C a spiral metal staircase on the terrace terrace beneath, LED-lit at every step, leading up into the entry point of the bar area where, on party nights, you are for work greeted with a glass of bubbly. Barely a year ago, this rooftop terrace above a third-floor penthouse flat in and play Bermondsey looked very different and was never used. “There was a floor of plywood and astroturf had been laid After an alfresco board on top — a disastrous combination,” says London garden designer Robin meeting, turn on the McAfee. He was charged by the owner, a corporate high-flyer, with transform- party lights and enjoy ing the large area — 23ft wide and 52ft long — into a versatile, all-weather a terrace filled with space for both work and pleasure. “My client wanted a rooftop garden Mediterranean plants where she could socialise and hold dinner parties in the evening as well as Pattie use it as an outdoor workspace,” says McAfee. “It was important to create Barron shelter and for her to have privacy from neighbours, yet still enjoy the pano- ramic views across London.”

He replaced the rotting flooring with more durable Ipe hardwood decking, apply it, the wood turns bright pink. blocks of Portuguese laurel that also zone, an area for relaxing and enter- Light up: planters and barrel lights which he used to emphasise the differ- The client was horrified, but in two act as effective windbreaks and, he taining, that looks uncannily as if a mark the entrance to the relaxation ent zones of the terrace, placing the weeks the whole deck had turned a says, stop the view being given away contemporary living room landed on zone, with weatherproof sofa and rug boards diagonally at the entrance to lovely silvery-grey.” all at once. the roof — and indeed, the cool, plant- draw guests in from the staircase to the There were already clear glass screens flattering tones of white, grey and aqua bar and on into the garden. “We exper- around the boundary but where more The bar and kitchen in the first zone, reflect the owner’s indoor colour Get the look imented with a wood protector called privacy from neighbours was needed, with instant hot water tap, fridge, grill scheme. Sioo:x that quickens the weathering McAfee installed higher, frosted glass and a long L-shaped stretch of black Everything, from the corner sofa and O Design: robinmcafee.co.uk process,” says McAfee. “When you panels as well as rectangular evergreen granite work surface, can double as cushions to the large rug and square O Basketweave sofa, rug and cocktail or breakfast bar. Irrigation for pouffe, is weatherproof — as are the pouffe: cane-line.co.uk the garden is set up by a battery timer speakers concealed behind furniture O Napoleon grill: indian-ocean.co.uk beneath the kitchen sink, and the wi-fi and planters, at floor level, so that the O Mature olive trees: palmcentre. hub, as well as the Sonos sound system, client can play her favourite tracks co.uk is stored under the kitchen counter. outside, controlling them from her O Portable lighting: by Serralunga at Opposite is a large dining table that smartphone. barbed.co.uk is also used for business meetings. It O Crystal table lamps: by Kartell at can be sheltered with a giant weather- POTLIGHTS at the base of the madeindesign.co.uk proof umbrella that’s set in a concrete olive trees, uplighters set into O Faux lead fibreglass planters: base to withstand the wind and pro- the decking and soft lighting from capital-garden.com vides shade or a shield against showers. in the borders are discreet and Linear planters of lightweight faux effective, but McAfee also lead, set with predominantly Mediter- broughtS in high-style chargeable LED

ranean planting of lavenders, sedums, lights that can be moved around the Gardening problems? dianthus, stipa grass and sea holly, as space as needed, and make decorative well as mature olive trees underplanted statements during the day, too. He Email our RHS expert at: with creeping rosemary, help divide added tall, sculptural white lights, bar- [email protected] the whole space. rel-shaped floor lights and table lamps McAfee points out that each planter with faceted faux-crystal shades that ■ For outdoor events this month, visit has little feet to raise it off the ground make tracery patterns at night, bring- homesandproperty.co.uk/events Special effects: a bowl of agapanthus, Glamour: faux-crystal lamps make and prevent the deck rotting. Two of ing a magical touch to this exceptional lit from beneath, makes a focal point tracery patterns on the dining table them provide an entrance to the third outdoor space. Photographs: Marianne Majerus 20 WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Property searching

Time out: Blighty India Café offers coffee, sourdough — and a yoga studio upstairs Main shopping street: West Green Road has predominantly independent shops catering for the long-standing community

EAT roads of Victorian the first floor for start-up businesses houses in the north Lon- and artists. Under the opposing Seven don neighbourhood of Spotlight on Sisters Regeneration plan, backed by South Tottenham are Haringey, developer Grainger has plan- becoming increasingly ning permission to demolish the build- popularN with young professionals and ings on the island site and build 196 families who have been priced out of new homes, ground-floor and first- Hackney, to the south, and the sought- South Tottenham floor shops and restaurants, a purpose- after Victorian grid of streets in the built replacement market and a new Harringay Ladder, to the west. public square in front of the station. Seven miles north of central London, Young professionals and creatives looking for affordable north London The WCC campaigners claim the mar- South Tottenham straddles the A10 — ket won’t survive the upheaval. During Ermine Street, the old Roman road to homes bring a new vibrancy to this neighbourhood. By Anthea Masey building works, the market will move Lincoln and York — while the Seven to a temporary site in nearby Apex Sisters area gets its name from seven battles. Wards Corner Community bounded by Seven Sisters Road, Tot- House, where Grainger is building a elm trees planted around an ancient In South Tottenham Coalition, or WCC, a local group of tenham High Road, West Green Road 23-storey residential tower, before walnut tree on Page Green Common at campaigners, formed in 2007 to fight and Suffield Road. being moved back to its new home on the junction of High Road and Broad today there are 139 to save the Wards Corner department Wards Furnishing Stores, which sits the redeveloped Wards Corner site. Lane. Long gone, the trees were homes to BUY and store building and the Seven Sisters above Seven Sisters Tube on the Victo- Elan Silver, from the replaced in 1996 with seven hornbeam indoor market, home to a thriving com- ria line, ceased trading in 1972 and the local branch of Winkworth, describes trees planted, in a ceremony attended 21 to RENT on munity of Latin American traders. Edwardian building and wider site in South Tottenham as an area which is by the late MP for Tottenham Bernie The campaigners gave evidence last question is in joint ownership of the regenerating itself through a big influx Grant, by five families of seven sisters. month at a public inquiry sparked by council and Transport for London. of creative and artistic newcomers, South Tottenham’s recent claim to Haringey council’s decision to make a WCC’s plan is to restore the building, with many artists’ studios found in fame is that it is the location of one of compulsory purchase order on a improve the market and bring back into former industrial buildings in the area London’s longest-running planning number of buildings in the triangle use 2,400 square metres of space on around Markfield Park.

£535,000 £375,000 £625,000 A REFURBISHED two-bedroom flat with its own A CHAIN-FREE three-bedroom flat with double THIS four-bedroom chain-free Victorian terrace garden in St Margarets Avenue, Turnpike Lane. glazing and lots of storage in Cornwall Road, off house in Suffield Road, N15, is ripe for a refurb. Through Anthony Pepe (020 8012 6467). West Green Road, N15. Homelink (020 8012 7083). Through Barnard Marcus (020 8012 2047). £385,000 A MODERN two-bedroom flat in a secure scheme To find a home in South Tottenham, visit rightmove.co.uk in Milton Road, N15, close to Turnpike Lane Tube and well presented throughout with bright, airy For more about South Tottenham, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/southtottenham good-size rooms. Call (020 3858 3005). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 21 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

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Party people: Nick Daly runs Celebrations Party Shop in West Green Road with his Taste of Italy: pizza chef Ray Czi at LovenPresents, a Neapolitan-style pizzeria, mother, selling everything for your bash from balloons to South American piñatas café, bar and arts space tucked away on an industrial estate in Norman Road

Growing café culture: Ed Yarnton co-owns Blighty India Café in High Road. Open a Keep it green: the High Road, where you’ll find Tottenham Green, a refurbished Change is coming: modern flats can be year, it’s popular with locals working at their laptops as they tuck into a full English open space, scene of a Sunday street food market that has revitalised the centre found amid the area’s period stock

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SEVEN SISTERS and Tottenham Hale SOUTH TOTTENHAM has many Smithfield Square development by are on the Victoria line Tube which roads of Victorian terraces with the St James in nearby Hornsey High offers a quick journey into the West price of three-bedroom houses Street. Call 0800 916 1444. End. The two stations also have train ranging from £500,000 to £650,000 services to Liverpool Street that take and two-bedroom conversions from ■ WHO RENTS HERE? about 15 minutes. South Tottenham is £315,000 to £430,000. The Clyde Winkworth lettings manager Michael on the Gospel Oak to Barking Circus conservation area between Georgiou says tenants are coming to Overground line. All stations are in West Green Road and Philip Lane is South Tottenham from pricier areas Zone 3 and an annual travelcard to particularly in demand. such as Shoreditch and Dalston. “As Zone 1 costs £1,520. well as cheaper rents, our tenants, There are also a lot of useful ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES who are mostly young couples and commuter bus routes with the No 76 There are no significant new-build sharers, come for the area’s excellent going to Waterloo via St Paul’s; the developments currently for sale. transport links.” The new No 149 to London Bridge via Liverpool development Lawrence Square in Street; the No 243 to Waterloo via Old ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES Lawrence Road, with its gym and Street; the No 259 to King’s Cross via Housing Association Sanctuary communal roof terrace, has proved Finsbury Park and the No 476 to Housing will soon be launching one- very popular. Euston via Islington. and two-bedroom shared-ownership Ideal buys: South Tottenham’s three- flats at The Quadrangle, part of the Photographs: Daniel Lynch bedroom terrace homes start at £500k 26 WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes By David Spittles SmartSmaSmmartmarartrt mo o Easy living with driverless vans

AVING your groceries delivered by self-driving van is the latest Looking for a enticement for residents of Royal Arsenal, the new-build home? Hformer munitions factory in Woolwich Start your search that is being turned into a new waterfront neighbourhood. on The area already has a river bus service and the Docklands Light Railway — and next year Crossrail arrives. Now, online supermarket Ocado is operating a fleet of CargoPods across the development. These electric driverless vans, the first in the capital, are being tested as safety stewards on board to take can’t yet make door-to-door Look, no hands: part of a project with Transport for control if anything goes wrong. The deliveries. Royal Arsenal is maturing safety stewards London to cut pollution and traffic vans deliver eight boxes of groceries into an attractive address, with a new will sit inside the congestion at big new housing from a central depot to a collection cultural quarter boasting a theatre driverless schemes. The idea is to cut out the point where residents, often busy and rehearsal studios alongside 20 CargoPods, “last mile” carbon use when lorries young professionals employed in the listed buildings, new restaurants, above, during the have to make short final deliveries. City, can pick them up after they get bars and sleek riverfront flats. Homes trial at Royal During the trial the vans will have home from work. The CargoPods start at £452,500. Call 020 8331 7130. Arsenal, right

GOOD-VALUE Streatham is regaining great to be starting our life together in its post-war popularity following a Streatham’s hip a new flat.” high street facelift and the arrival of In its Fifties heyday, Streatham was a new apartments enticing young but also Square popular place to live and visit. A John buyers priced out of neighbouring there’s an on-site Marks & Spencer Lewis department store, a Locarno Clapham and Brixton. food store and café. dance hall, a theatre, the cinema and London Square Streatham Hill, The package on offer attracted first- ice rink made it the “Piccadilly of left, a gated scheme of 234 flats time buyers Rachael Doran and south London”. Waitrose opened its moments from Streatham Hill train charity worker Ross Price, below, first store in the area in 1955. station, incorporates the Art Deco both in their thirties. The couple used Steep decline came in the Eighties. listed façade of the former local the low-deposit Help to Buy scheme Discount retailers landed and notable cinema. Many of the apartments have to purchase a two-bedroom home for buildings languished empty. But in the a large balcony or terrace overlooking £600,000. Previously they were past two years Streatham has become an inner courtyard garden, and renting in Clapham. “the new darling place to move to in there’s a concierge, gym, cycle “Streatham has been a revelation. south-west London”, says estate agent storage and underground parking. There’s a real buzz about the place John D Wood. Streatham Playhouse, a new theatre and it’s clearly on the up again,” says Coffee shops, delis and patisseries, space, forms part of the scheme and Rachael, who works for a firm of bistros, jazz clubs and dance venues architects at Angel, Islington. continue to sprout up along the “We feel very connected to central bustling High Road, which is claimed London. Trains to Victoria take 17 to be the longest in Europe. minutes and to London Bridge it’s Show apartments at London Square less than 30 minutes, while Brixton Streatham Hill are open for viewing. Tube station is a short bus ride away. Call developer London Square on We’re getting married soon and it’s 0333 666 2131. REX The bravest of Dunkirk’s little ships is next door

FILM fans inspired by the new movie gallantry awards for crossing the Dunkirk, starring Fionn Whitehead, Channel a record seven times to inset, and retelling the remarkable rescue 7,000 men during the 1940 story of the Allied evacuation from evacuation. She’s one of several northern France during the Second maritime heritage attractions, World War, may want to look for a including a floating art gallery, at the home at Victory Pier, above, a new former Gillingham dockyard, where waterfront address in Kent where the new flats from £255,000 are drawing Medway Queen is moored. The London-bound commuters and first- steamer, above right, won four time buyers. Call 01634 776544. AP New arrivals: buyers Rachael Doran and Ross Price say Streatham has a real buzz