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£600,000: right on the village BRITAIN’S biggest festival of cycling takes place green at Finchingfield, near Trophy home of the week Period detail and chic this weekend, in some ways giving us a snapshot Braintree in Essex, is this lovely house and antiques shop. The modernity blend perfectly in this Victorian beauty of life to come. There are 140km of London cycle property has several showrooms paths under way, with work starting this month and a workshop to handle and display your cleverly selected £3 million: let’s face it, there is something effortlessly classy about a handsome Victorian villa on Cycle Superhighway 4 from Deptford to auction finds, while the house has standing confidently in one of London’s largest conservation areas, in this case Mapesbury in NW2. Tower Bridge. It’s all part of a £2.3 billion project three reception rooms, a pretty The generous rooms in this lovely house have been completely refitted, resulting in a bright, airy orangery-style kitchen/breakfast kitchen/dining space lit by a bespoke glass extension that includes a whole wall of sliding glass to expand the capital’s network of safe cycle room opening to a roof terrace doors to a gorgeous 100ft garden — just right for summer soirées. French oak parquet floors routes. A government report tells us that people and three bedrooms. Permission continue in a spacious reception room with high ceilings edged in original cornicing. Five living in modern cities benefit from cycling and is in place for further expansion bedrooms including a lofty guest suite span the upper floors. Award-winning Mapesbury Dell Park — we suggest a cute little is truly one of Cricklewood’s hidden gems, and it’s just a short stroll away. Through Marsh & walking. Air pollution, climate change, traffic teashop might go down well with Parsons (020 8012 0423). congestion, stress, obesity, asthma, all the rotten your browsing customers, who will love all the beams and stuff we suffer (brought on by problems we exposed brickwork that your London buy of the week Browse the downstairs created in the first place) will diminish, it architect will want to exploit. promises. Developers are listening, building Through Savills (01279 756800). gallery, then throw an arty party on your roof terrace homes near cycle routes. Yet if cycling is to be a £775,000: this corker of a flat tops the universal remedy there need to be rules. Seventy striking Arthaus in London Fields E8, a former art storage warehouse that’s per cent of cyclists are men aged 25 to 44 who, now a great mix of homes, two popular the moment they put on go-faster Lycra… go restaurants and a cutting-edge art gallery in the lobby. Engineered timber faster. So, London needs cycle tracks not floors, sleek lighting and floor-to- racetracks — safer for all, not just cyclists. ceiling glass doors open to a decked roof terrace off the kitchen/dining/ living room. The two bedrooms have VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our fitted wardrobes and full-height usual promotion rules. windows, while the bathroom is all polished quartz and high-end fittings. Editorial: 020 3615 2650 Broadway Market, coffee shops, bars Advertisement manager: Ann Finan and a Picturehouse cinema are close. Advertising: 020 3615 0538 Call Fyfe Mcdade (020 8012 6345). By Faye Greenslade Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5EE Think before cohabiting, Boris and Carrie

AS BORIS JOHNSON and Carrie Symonds prepare to become the first cohabiting couple in Downing Street, the spotlight is falling on the millions of other unmarried couples in the UK who live together but risk losing everything when their other half dies. The cohabiting culture is growing, according to a new report. One in eight adults in England and Wales lives as half of an unmarried couple and this proportion has risen every year since 2004, to six million people now. Half of them co-own property and financial assets including cash and shares but the perception of their But in fact, if one cohabiting partner Blazing a trail: rights when a partner passes away is dies without leaving a detailed will, the the new Tory PM “severely skewed”, according to the survivor won’t automatically inherit the Boris Johnson and study by financial analysts Farewill. estate, and that includes any part of partner Carrie The survey shows almost a third of us the shared home. Symonds will be wrongly believe that living in the same “The law as it stands isn’t set up for Downing Street’s house for more than five years or the modern family,” warns Farewill first cohabiting raising children together entitles chief Dan Garrett. couple people to ownership of property and investments when the worst happens. ⬤ Read Anna White’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 3 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes Property

Jamie presents a hot property TELEVISION and radio presenter Jamie Theakston, inset, who co-hosts the Heart Breakfast show with Amanda Holden, is selling his four-bedroom house in Barnes after a complete renovation. In Cardigan Road and listed with Winkworth for £2.75 million, the period property, above, has been given a Homes modern twist through Theakston’s Prinston Property Gorgeous supermodel Gandy was here Partnership development and design company. There’s now a blush pink bathroom, retro furniture and glazed doors from gossip A VICTORIAN conversion flat in Ryan Reynolds. DJ Annie Mac and the kitchen out to a cute garden with a mature magnolia tree. Poplar where supermodel David Davina McCall have also worked on Amira Hashish Gandy, above right, is among many campaigns at the two-bedroom, two- By an A-listers to have posed for the bathroom duplex. It has been cameras, is available for hire. recently renovated but retains its Got some gossip? The 3,000sq ft apartment in a warehouse look, with exposed brick Tweet @amiranews converted dog biscuit factory has walls and quarter-sawn reclaimed featured as the backdrop for photo oak flooring. It is available via shoots and movies including The sprattsfactory.com with the price Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017) starring depending on enquiries.

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DAVID and Victoria Beckham have splashed out on a plunge pool for their Cotswolds home — and son Cruz is its biggest fan. The 14-year-old, right, posted pictures on his Instagram account of the timber tub on the lawn in front of the garden “igloo” sauna at the family’s barn conversion near Soho Farmhouse in Chipping Norton. Scary £2.4m price cut The garden is the focal point of the Beckhams’ country base. They enlisted AFTER two years on the market, a Chelsea Flower Show winner to Scary Spice Mel B has finally found a create a fairytale theme with an buyer for her Hollywood Hills home. The orchard, natural swimming pond and a four-storey house sold for £4.5 million — barbecue area. Friends are saying that nearly £2.4 million less than the original asking they are now eyeing up a £36 million price. It went on the market during the singer’s condo in Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand divorce from film and TV producer Stephen Museum building in Miami. David is Belafonte. They paid £3.5 million for it in 2014. moving part-time to the city to launch The master suite has private terraces his Major League Soccer team there, so overlooking downtown LA and there’s a cinema, they will need a home from home. They gym and recording studio. The outdoor were seen at the 62-storey tower only swimming pool and entertainment space also

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HIS weekend 100,000 cyclists, from small children with stabilisers to professional riders, will take part in the UK’s biggest Tfestival of cycling, the Prudential RideLondon. On Saturday a seven-mile stretch of central London will be closed to cars allowing families to bike past the capital’s landmarks in safety. This precedes Sunday’s 100-mile race which starts at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, runs through the Surrey Hills and finishes on The Mall. In some ways, this is a snapshot of life to come. With 140km of London cycle paths under construction or in planning, road-by-road the bike is being prioritised over the car. Work started this month on Cycle Superhighway 4, a route for commuting cyclists that will run from Deptford in south-east London to Tower Bridge, with new pedestrian crossings and a redesign of Rotherhithe roundabout — a notorious accident blackspot. It’s part of a Transport for London £2.3 billion project to expand the capital’s network of safe cycle routes to encourage more people to choose two wheels over four. This new

infrastructure also fits with the JED LEICESTER/PRUDENTIAL political push to create healthier Go for it: this weekend 100,000 cyclists will take part in Prudential RideLondon A city fit for cycling streets. According to a government riverside in Greenwich, with views of Olympia to Brentford. The report on Active Travel, published This weekend London hosts the UK’s the Cutty Sark. Prices start from programme also includes a host of earlier this month, the modern urban £487,500 for a one-bedroom flat. For “quietways” — meandering leisure crises of congestion, air pollution and biggest cycle festival and unveils 140km more information visit thamesstreet. routes that follow leafy back streets climate change, physical inactivity, co.uk or call 0333 003 3770. blocked to stop cars nipping through. depression and stress can all be of new cycling routes, with new homes tackled by the simple act of walking SUPERHIGHWAYS YOU RESIDENTS RESIST and cycling to the shops or to work. alongside the network. By Anna White CAN ALREADY USE The Cycle Superhighways were Seven other Cycle Superhighways driven by then-Mayor and now-Prime JOIN THE NETWORK have been created and consist of Minister Boris Johnson. His ambition TfL is aiming to increase the along Cycle Superhighway 4. Made up of eight buildings and one either blue lanes running along the was to make cycling in London safer, proportion of Londoners who live Homeowners at Deptford Foundry, tower, it has 276 private homes with road or separate lanes with kerbs faster and more appealing. In part within 400 metres of the cycling for example, will have quick passage one, two or three bedrooms. Prices either side. CS1 runs from Tottenham this has been achieved, although network from nine per cent to 28 per to the City. start from £405,000, contact JLL on to the City, with CS2 from Stratford to authorities have fallen short of the 11 cent by 2024. There are new Deptford Foundry is on the site of a 020 7526 9229. Also close to the route Aldgate and CS3 from Barking to highways pledged. residential developments well-placed former metalworks dating from 1831. is L&Q’s Thames Street on the Lancaster Gate. “The initiative was disparate across CS3 runs right by Ropemakers Yard the different boroughs with no in Stepney E14, new apartment blocks overarching vision,” explains set in landscaped gardens. Prices consultant Susan Claris of start from £410,000 for a one- masterplanners Arup. bedroom home. Visit lggroup.co.uk or City Metric writer Adam Becket call 0333 2341165. says: “For every well-built stretch of Cyclists can also use dedicated bike superhighway there is a poorly boulevards from Oval to Pimlico (CS5), managed part,” for example where King’s Cross to Elephant & Castle cars are parked in the blue lanes. (CS6), Merton to the City (CS7) and Some local authorities have blocked Wandsworth to Westminster (CS8). routes running through their Residents can see the Oval-to-Pimlico neighbourhoods. In June Kensington lane which runs over Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea council rejected from the top of Sky Gardens Nine proposals for a £42 million Cycle Elms. This new tower has communal Superhighway between Wood Lane gardens on the eighth and 35th floors. and Notting Hill Gate. From £580,000 for a one-bedroom flat. Small businesses claimed that the Call 020 3072 0040. cycle lane would damage trade, while There are one-, two- and three- local residents feared that trees would bedroom apartments available at be lost. Battersea Exchange by Taylor “Local residents feel the Wimpey, between Battersea Park and superhighways are commuter routes Queenstown Road and close to CS8. bringing people from outer into The scheme has a 24-hour concierge central London with no benefit to service, residents’ gym and cycle the communities they are cutting storage. Prices start from £600,000. through,” says Claris. Call 020 3504 7992 or visit In response, Transport for London batterseaexchange.com. is planning to rebrand the More of these dedicated bike routes superhighways and quietways as are in planning, including Cycle cycleways, in an effort to make them Superhighway 9 from Kensington seem less like intrusive racetracks. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes Property

From £575,000: new and heritage homes at Trent Park, above, will be linked to Enfield town by new cycle paths From £410,000: above right, flats at Ropemakers Yard in Stepney E14, with landscaped gardens and CS3 running close by Wheelie healthy: morning cycle commuters on Blackfriars Bridge, left. A new government report finds active travel cuts stress

TFL as well as pollution

A LONG WAY TO GO to nearby Trent Park, a 413-acre One million people have now used estate that is being converted into the east to west Cycle Superhighway new homes. Residents will have a 3. However, there is still a widespread tennis club, orangery and gym and fear of cycling in the capital. prices start from £575,000 (trent- “Cyclists are often seen as fast and park.co.uk). intimidating,” says Claris. Lorry cabs The Ultra Low Emission Zones, due have been redesigned for better to cover the area between the South vision and drivers are undergoing Circular and North Circular roads, are cycling proficiency tests to heighten also expected to deter drivers. awareness. These interwoven policies and Improvements are under way to 32 projects are — like a network of cycle dangerous junctions, such as paths — designed to promote healthy Highbury Corner and Old Street bodies, healthy streets and a healthier Roundabout, and TfL aims to stop planet. cycling fatalities by 2041. “There is also a gender imbalance,” Claris adds. Of the cycling commuters, 70 per cent are men aged between 25 and 44. A recent report by the charity Sustrans shows that women, disabled people and the elderly in UK cities did not see people like themselves cycling, or were put off by a negative experience. THE BIGGER PICTURE The growing cycle network is no longer a strategy in isolation. It links to the pedestrianisation of the From £600,000: apartments at capital. Battersea Exchange, close to Cycle The City of London Corporation Superhighway 8 plans to narrow roads and widen pavements for walkers, while the West End Project is a radical overhaul of traffic and public realm. One-way systems and traffic on Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street are being removed and streets are being closed to create parks and new squares. In March Enfield was one of the 11 boroughs to win Liveable Neighbourhoods funding to boost From £487,500: apartments at Thames active travel and reduce traffic. New Street in Greenwich, handy for the new cycling paths will link Enfield town Cycle Superhighway 4 2 6 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Homes near good schools homesandproperty.co.uk powered by

ONDON parents face a double whammy of challenges if they need to buy a family home while simultaneously finding a 2020 great school for their children The class of L to study for GCSEs or A-levels. If private schools are not an option Wise parents are already planning their move to be near and a money-saving move out of the capital to the home counties is not on top-performing secondary schools by this time next year. the cards, parents need to know where they can afford a home near a In the ﬁrst of a new series, Ruth Bloomﬁeld seeks out top-performing London state school. With summer flying by and the well-priced family homes in key catchment areas admissions deadline of the end of October just three months away, parents who want their kids in the right classroom come September next year need to get moving now. In the first of a new series on where to find fantastic schools plus quality houses at a variety of price points, Homes & Property seeks out top locations with potential for parents of secondary school-age children. BUDGET UP TO £600K Unassuming Wallington, 11 miles due south of central London, possesses perhaps the capital’s most concentrated collection of high-achieving senior schools. The grammar school system is alive and kicking at London’s border with Surrey, with Wallington County Grammar School and Wilson’s School, both for boys, and Wallington High School for Girls all enjoying top marks from the Ofsted schools watchdog and producing stellar exam results. All three scored perfect or near-perfectly at GCSE, for the number of pupils getting at least five passes at A* to C grades. Wilson’s sixth form followed this up with three quarters of A-level pupils getting at least two As and a B. Samuel Watson, director of Cromwells Estate Agents, estimates that around 70 per cent of the houses he sells are to families seeking proximity to Wallington’s schools. Many come from trendier Streatham, Balham or Clapham. “They are selling a two-bedroom flat and they are amazed at what we can give them for the same price,” says Watson. A budget of £600,000 would buy a £525,000: a £560,000: a three-bedroom Edwardian or three-bedroom four-bedroom Victorian semi to the south of the bay-fronted terrace house in town centre, or a four-bedroom terrace house in Bridge Road, Thirties semi in the centre of town. Shelbourne Road, Wallington, The compromise is that Wallington Tottenham, N17, Surrey, close to is ultra-suburban, with none of the near Tottenham “outstanding” nightlife and vibrancy that more Hale Tube and Wallington County central Londoners might be used to. Harris Academy Grammar School But Watson says investment is free school, rated for boys. Through coming. Wallington Square, a small “outstanding” by Andrews (020 mall plus apartments, is a recent Ofsted. For sale 8012 2094) arrival, and new shops and cafés are through Tilson & popping up on the High Street. Spencer (020 8012 Trains from Wallington to London 6907) Bridge take from 26 minutes, and an annual season ticket costs £1,820.

BUDGET UP TO £750,000 £430,000: this students were celebrating impressive Liverpool Street in just 14 minutes. Tottenham Hale is probably best three-bedroom results, with 40 per cent going on to An annual season ticket costs £1,020. known as a regeneration zone. Argent terrace house in Russell Group universities, while 74 Related, the firm behind the spectac- Guy Road, per cent of its GCSE students got five BUDGET UP TO £900K ular rebirth of King’s Cross, has now Wallington, or more passes at Level 4 or above. Lower Clapton, with its fast train turned its attention to north-east Surrey, has been Another local Ofsted “outstanding” links, period houses, proximity to London with plans for more than beautifully option is Gladesmore Community Hackney Downs, Hackney Marshes, 1,000 new homes, shops, offices, a refurbished and School. Stoke Newington and Hackney health centre and open spaces. The given a smart rear Tottenham Hale has some streets of Central, also has a duo of cracking six-year, £500 million project will give garden. It is close period terrace houses. Expect to pay Ofsted “outstanding” senior schools, this tired area a massive boost, and to a variety of state £500,000 to £550,000 for a three- in the form of Clapton Girls’ Academy family-sized three-bedroom flats at its schools scoring bedroom property. One health and co-ed The City Academy. All latest phase, 1 Ashley Road, start from top marks with warning: this area has yet to have its Clapton Girls’ students passed their £685,000. The development is in the the schools Farrow & Ball revolution, so buyers A-levels last summer, 85 per cent at same road as Harris Academy watchdog. It’s on might need to do some cosmetic grades A* to C, making it among the Tottenham, an all-through school the market with upgrading. But to compensate for top performers in England. At The rated “outstanding” by Ofsted. Last Paul Graham (020 evenings spent doing DIY, the City City Academy students progress summer its first group of A-level 8012 3503) commute is super-fast, with trains to quickly; more than one in four of last EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 7 Homes near good schools | Homes Property

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£845,000: a four-bedroom property in Chatsworth Road, E5, with a rear garden, close to Clapton railway station and the Overground and also to Clapton Girls’ Academy, with an Ofsted “outstanding” rating. Keatons (020 8012 3872)

years’ A-level candidates went on to a cafés and the area feels almost Russell Group university. village-like in summer when locals Clapton has no Tube station but it converge on the Downs. If you’ve the is well served by the London energy to walk a bit further, there’s Overground. Depending on which Victoria Park. A budget of £900,000 side of Lower Clapton you live, the would buy a three- or four-bedroom nearest stations are Clapton to the period terrace house on streets north or Haggerston to the south. which are mainly pretty leafy. Both are in Zone 2, with particularly “There has been a ripple out east good links to Canary Wharf. generally over the last 10 years, and Clapton has changed almost the schools have definitely created a beyond recognition. Ten years ago, buzz around Lower Clapton,” says Joe Upper and Lower Clapton Roads Earnshaw, associate director of were known as “murder mile” thanks Savills. to the number of fatal shootings. “Hackney has got really good green Today, Caribbean supermarkets sit spaces, its schools have come on in beside new coffee shops, Chatsworth leaps and bounds and it is a more Road is lined with restaurants and affordable option.” 8 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | First-time buyers

OR decades Clapham has been the convenient go-to location for new graduates with a first job in London. Throw in Clapham for less demand from affluent families F and Clapham property prices have increased by well over 150 per cent since 2000, to an average today of more than £600,000. According to Rightmove, the typical than £100,000 starter flat in SW12 now costs more than £497,000, and aspiring buyers would need almost £50,000 just to provide a basic deposit. But a new This south London hotspot is no longer just for scheme in South Clapham offers first- time buyers the chance to move in for rich kids. Ruth Bloomﬁeld ﬁnds good-value homes less than £100,000, with a deposit of less than £5,000. that are part of a huge regeneration programme SO Resi Clapham Park (soresi.co.uk) sits to the south, between Clapham Junction and Streatham Hill, in walking distance of Clapham Common, Stockwell Park, Balham and Tooting. The compromise is that the nearest station, Clapham South, on the Northern line in Zone 2, is a 20-minute walk away. But if you don’t mind that, this scheme represents a very rare chance to buy into one of south London’s most expensive suburbs for less than six figures. ALAMY Open-plan one-bedroom flats start Get the party started: South West Four music festival on at £99,500 for a 25 per cent share. Clapham Common, one of many events to draw a young crowd Buyers will need to put down a deposit of £4,975 and monthly costs are just under £1,300, including rent of £684, mortgage repayments of about £498 and service charge of £96. Two-bedroom flats start from £145,875, again for a 25 per cent share. The deposit for a two-bedroom flat starts at £7,294 and the monthly costs add up to just under £1,840. This includes rent of £1,002.89, mortgage repayments of £730.72 and service charge at £104. All homes have a private balcony or terrace.

“We expect the homes to be a huge hit with first-time buyers who aspire to live in Clapham but never imagined they could afford to do so. Buying through shared ownership makes this possible,” says Esaiyas Mollallegn, head of marketing at housing association Metropolitan Thames Valley. The homes are part of a massive ongoing regeneration of the Clapham Park estate which eventually will include 2,500 homes on its 89-acre site, plus a new park, community centre, school and shops. Some 500 new homes have already been built. And while there are scant really on- the-doorstep things to do, Brixton Hill is a 10-minute walk away, and from there you can work your way through many bars, pubs and restaurants all the way to Electric Avenue. From £99,500: 25 per cent of a one-bedroom flat at SO Resi . Clapham Park, top and above WHAT ELSE CAN I BUY? The average first-time buyer budget of about £420,000 doesn’t go awfully far in SW12 but it is possible to get in — just — with a one-bedroom period conversion apartment priced between £400,000 and £450,000. Lauristons estate agents has a split- level flat in a Victorian house in Hearnville Road, within an area known as the “Nightingale Triangle” and less than 10 minutes’ walk from Balham Tube. The asking price is £425,000. Buyers with less to spend could look a quarter-of-a-mile eastward, towards Tulse Hill and Streatham Hill, where period flats are significantly cheaper. In Mount Ephraim Road in SW16, Brooks Estate Agents has a one- bedroom, split-level flat priced at £300,000. Call 020 8012 4704 for full £300,000: a split-level, one-bedroom starter flat in Mount details. Ephraim Road, Streatham Hill. Through Brooks (020 8012 4704) 10 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property |Renting

A renter’s guide: Hammersmith W6 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Go-to spot for young professional renters PICK OF THE RENTALS Great pubs, theatre, markets and parks are just 15 minutes from central London

£1,350 a month: a one-bedroom UNNING her own marketing RENTING IN HAMMERSMITH top-floor flat in a period property in company and working with (Average renting costs per month) Bridge Avenue, W6, close to the clients based across the One-bedroom flat £1,983 Tube. Aston Rowe (020 8012 5938). capital means living in Two-bedroom flat £3,301 central London is vital to Two-bedroom house £2,489 R Aimee Long, writes Ruth Bloomfield. Three-bedroom house £3,517 And so, 18 months ago, she left the Four-bedroom house £3,817 suburbs — Putney to be exact — and Source: Rightmove.co.uk moved to a one-bedroom modern flat in Hammersmith, just west of ADRIAN LOURIE PHOTOGRAPHS: Hammersmith station, so she can zip Retail therapy: Aimee is an online Enjoying life: Aimee Long’s rent could cover a mortgage but she prefers the freedom into central London in about 15 shopper, but locally the Broadway minutes. shopping centre on Hammersmith Studios is an arts, performance and £575 a week: a two-bedroom “It is just so convenient, and it feels Broadway has almost two dozen chain live events space, set to reopen later unfurnished house in Shortlands, like a safe area which is important to stores, and there are more all the way this year after redevelopment. close to Hammersmith Tube. me as I live on my own,” says Aimee, along King Street. There aren’t many Green space: Hammersmith isn’t the Through Dexters (020 8939 6062). founder of marketing agency The more interesting shops, although the leafiest postcode, although Brook Whole Project. During her down time London Vintage Fashion, Textiles and Green has its own long, skinny open there are loads of local bars and Accessories Fair at Hammersmith space which is small but pretty. restaurants to explore, and two of Town Hall is a joy. However, as Aimee points out, with central London’s best parks are Eating and drinking: Aimee Holland Park and Hyde Park both within easy walking distance. recommends Pergola, a newly opened within walking distance, she isn’t Rents in this neighbourhood are not restaurant perched atop Olympia short of wide-open spaces. cheap. Aimee, who is 26, pays just London exhibition centre, as well as The area’s flats are popular with over the average price for her flat, at her local Gail’s Bakery. For pubs she young professionals, including many £2,250 a month. particularly likes The Hand & Flower Popular: pedestrianised Lyric Square, working locally for multinationals With this kind of budget she could, gastropub. “The same people are home to food markets and live theatre Disney, General Electric and L’Oréal. £4,500 a month: a four-bedroom, of course, afford a mortgage. “Renting always in there — it feels like being three-bathroom house in Iffley Road, is just so convenient,” she explains. “I back up in Yorkshire,” she says. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY W6, with a cellar and garden. Call can just move when I need to. Also On the other side of Hammersmith Douglas & Gordon (020 8012 3794). you need a huge deposit to buy a flat. there is Brackenbury Village, with Best streets: Jonathan Bird, head of between £425 and £600 per week, Renting means I can live how I want cute cafés including Pekoe Mellow lettings at Finlay Brewer estate agents, while a five-bedroom house could cost to and enjoy life.” Tea House and cosy pubs such as the nominates the small, leafy enclaves of up to £3,000 per week. For the ideal Commuting: Hammersmith residents Andover Arms. Brackenbury Village and Brook Green, Downsides: the Hammersmith Bridge are spoiled for choice with two Zone 2 Cultural life: the two heavy hitters are the former for good pubs and proximity closure has cut off the area from south commute, start stations and four Tube lines: District, the Eventim Apollo and the Lyric to Ravenscourt Park, and Brook Green London, while Hammersmith your rental Circle, Hammersmith & City and Hammersmith. The Art Deco Apollo for its open space and “incredible Broadway shops are somewhat dull. Piccadilly. There is also is best known for live music, but also sense of community”. However, renters For Bird the main disadvantage is cost. search on Hammersmith Bus Garage. “It has has comedy and entertainers such as pay a premium to live in both areas. A “It is now an expensive area, which really good disabled access which is illusionist David Blaine. The Lyric is typical two-bedroom flat would cost does cut a lot of people out.” important to me because my dad is one of London’s most respected disabled and we can just get on a bus producing theatres, and also has a and go anywhere when he is in restaurant with a terrific roof garden. For more on renting in Hammersmith and for our renting guides London,” says Aimee. Close to the river, the Riverside to other areas, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/renting 12 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Homes abroad First, choose your favourite island … Greece has 6,000 of them, says Cathy Hawker, who ﬁnds bolt holes for sun lovers from just £147k

LUE FLAG beaches, a long summer season and the Dream escape: warmest welcome in the Med: IKOS Aria, the new the appeal of Greece is as all-inclusive five- legendary as its history. With star resort on Kos, B more than 6,000 islands split between the second-largest the Ionian and Aegean Seas, no other of Greece’s magical European country offers quite the Dodecanese same variety and appeal. Islands, is a great Greece’s financial problems were base from which reflected in its property market where to house hunt prices fell by more than 40 per cent between 2008 and 2017. In an attempt to kick-start the market the Greek government introduced an investment programme in 2013 offering residency to non-EU nationals. However, the country still faces strong competition from similar programmes in Spain and Portugal. CORFU: THE IONIAN ISLAND The ITV series The Durrells put Corfu, in the Ionian Islands, back on the map for four million regular viewers who were dazzled by the brilliant Greek light, clean waters and green hillsides. “Corfu has a long history in tourism and is one of the best-known Greek islands,” says Fani Dritsa of Savills Greece. “It has vivid year-round life and a wonderful mountainous, green landscape, quite different to the Cyclades for example.” The Ionian Islands lie off the west coast of Greece and have milder summer temperatures. Mass tourism five-bedroom villa with a big garden, has overtaken parts of the south but infinity pool and large terrace is A PLACE TO STAY the steep slopes of the quiet and £720,000 through Sotheby’s. A three- delightfully unshowy north-east hide bedroom villa built in 2017 high above beautiful villas with only three hotels the sea and less than a mile from the on the prime eight miles between the beach at Vliha is £540,000. fishing villages of Nisaki and Kassiopi. Typically prices in the north-east THE PELOPONNESE: are £400 to £540 per square foot. A MAINLAND LIVING detached and private three-bedroom The Peloponnese an hour west of villa seven miles north of Corfu Town Athens is often overlooked by Britons with mature gardens and a pool is rushing to the islands but insiders £400,000. Close to Kassiopi and also know it captures the very best of with three bedrooms, sea views and a Greece. This agricultural peninsula private pool, a property that can be stretching from the Ionian to Aegean extended is £350,000. Both homes are From £2.8 million: deluxe and super-size two-bedroom villas Seas is Greece’s largest wine and olive on the market through Savills. in the east Peloponnese (aman.com/resorts/amanzoe/villas) producing region. Historical sites include the former capital Nafplio, From £230 a night: double rooms at IKOS Aria, a newly RHODES: THE the amphitheatre at Epidaurus and opened five-star all-inclusive resort in south-west Kos DODECANESE ISLAND Olympia, birthplace of the Olympics. Rhodes and Kos are the best-known Nafplio is an especially beautiful IKOS Aria, Kos of the especially sunny Dodecanese seaside town in the eastern NEW BA summer flights from Gatwick to Kos go three Islands, hugely popular holiday Peloponnese with grand squares and times a week. Kos has had more than its fair share of destinations and a good choice for narrow, characterful streets. At the tourism, but a handful of upmarket hotels should home buyers with budgets under entrance to the delightful Old Town a introduce a new clientele to the second-largest £800,000 says Savvas Savvaidis, renovated three-bedroom house of Dodecanese Island. IKOS Aria is the first to bring a managing partner of Greece 1,455sq ft over three floors with full stylish new vibe with its 47-acre beachfront resort close Sotheby’s International Realty. air conditioning is £340,000. to the airport in the south-west. IKOS has mastered the “Rhodes provides great value Five minutes from the sea and close upmarket all-inclusive holiday and Aria, its fourth resort, compared with other areas in the to Stoupa in the remote Mani region continues the IKOS reputation for excellence and Med, with average prices of £270 to £720,000: modern furnished five-bedroom sea view villa with in the centre of the Peloponnese, a wonderful attention to detail. £540 a square foot against £810 on pool in Lindos on the south coast of Rhodes (sothebysrealty.gr) charming and peaceful two-bedroom There are 374 rooms, eight restaurants and nine bars the Spanish island of Ibiza,” says village house fully restored by a local including a nightclub. Guests can easily find peace Savvaidis. “Its rich history and strong stonemason is £147,000 with Mani between five pools and an 850-metre beach, while cultural heritage, vast landscape of Homes. Or on the west coast close to multigenerational families will love the 24-hour gym, mountains, sandy beaches and pine Kalamata airport, newly released two- tennis courts, spa and watersports. forests, buzzing towns and villages bedroom apartments start from Thoughtful décor of elegant white and gold and direct flight access attract visitors £540,000 at the attractive golf, leisure punctuated with sea-breeze turquoise, pale blues and year round.” and beach resort Costa Navarino. soft greens, make it easy on the eye. The successful IKOS The south is traditionally in highest template of high-quality food, luxurious contemporary demand and especially Lindos, ⬤ Mani Homes: manihomes.gr/en/ accommodation and professional yet always genuine Pefkos, Vliha and the Old Town, while home Greek service, is alive and well at IKOS Aria. buyers looking for a peaceful escape ⬤ Greece Sotheby’s International are increasingly considering the less- Realty: sothebysrealty.gr ⬤ Double rooms at IKOS Aria start from £230 a night commercial west coast. In Lindos, ⬤ Savills: savills.com fully inclusive, based on two people sharing. Visit surrounded by the rocks of St Nicolas £350,000: three-bedroom house with sea views and a private ⬤ Costa Navarino: costanavarino.com/ ikos-aria.com (+30 23730 95300). Bay with sea and mountain views, a pool in a rural plot, with opportunity to extend (savills.com) residences 14 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Outdoors

From left: let your automatic irrigation system take the strain, from a range at gardena.com; a hip trug for all those dead heads (£7.99, burgonand ball.com); Gardena City Gardening Balcony Sprayer, £9.99, and 10m Terrace Hose, £26.49, both from robertdyas.co.uk ways to carry on blooming

with a new lease of life. If you’re going Alex on holiday, time it for just before you 5 leave and they’ll be looking better by Mitchell the time you get back. 2 WATER, WATER — BUT NOT EVERYWHERE E ALL go to seed Frequent watering in August is eventually, but it’d be unavoidable but lawns and nice if the garden established plants can be ignored. could last through Concentrate on potted plants and the barbecue season. new arrivals. Five minutes a day WIn August, just as we’re spending before or after work is a good routine. most time out there, our favourite Spray hoses are convenient but can flowering plants lose their oomph, be fierce. The gentle Gardena City providing no colour to complement Gardening Balcony Sprayer (£9.99, our new outdoor cushions. robertdyas.co.uk) won’t create a These five simple tips will keep your mudbath on your decking. garden flowering fabulously during For rooftops, terraces or balconies, this hottest of months, even if you can attach your sprayer to a 10m Terrace spare only a few minutes a day. Hose (robertdyas.co.uk, £26.49) which automatically rolls up after use. Or fit 1 GET SNIP-HAPPY an automatic watering system. If you WHEN a flower has faded, it turns haven’t an outside tap, the Gardena into a seedhead and the plant stops Adaptor for Inside Taps (homebase. producing any more blooms. Snip off co.uk, £3.50) lets you attach a hose to an inside kitchen or bathroom tap.

Deadheading’s 3 HOE, HOE, HOE a doddle: Don’t waste time pulling up weeds by Burgon and Ball the roots in summer. Chop off the Mini Snips (£5.99, tops with a hoe and leave them on the burgonandball. soil to shrivel up in the sun. A long- or com) short-handled razor hoe is small enough to avoid damaging plants (£29.99, burgonandball.com). faded flowers before they set seed so the plant keeps on flowering. Cosmos, 4 THE NEED FOR FEED marigolds, roses, Shasta daisies, Summer-flowering plants need a lift. California poppies, dahlias, rose Water on a general liquid plant food campion and zinnias will all reward such as Miracle-Gro All Purpose you with new flowers if you snip off Concentrated Plant Food (£4.42, diy. the old ones. Cut back to the next com) or a tomato fertiliser high in flower bud down. potash to encourage more flowering Break off the old flowers of your every couple of weeks. Next year add potted pelargoniums back to the a handful of slow-release fertiliser to main stem. If they’re ready, they’ll the compost when planting and you come off cleanly with a snap. Mini won’t have to bother to feed later. snips let you do the deadheading one-handed (Mini Snips, £5.99, 5 TIDYING CHEATS burgonandball.com). A Hip Trug Smarten up edges of lawns with (£7.99, burgonandball.com) will keep shears or a lawn edger. For a classy your hands free for tidy deadheading finish, do what professional as you go. As for hardy geraniums, gardeners do — make the edge of the shear them down to the ground now flower bed a little lower than the lawn in one go and they will bounce back to create a neat shadow gap. 16 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 Homes Property | My home Inspiration and imagination built this house

On an incredibly tight 30ft-square plot, this two-storey house packs an enormous punch with its bright interior spaces and clever detailing. We need more ingenious and affordable homes like this, says Philippa Stockley

INDING a plot and waste drove them. Zoe earmarked four building a new architects online, to whom they frankly house is a big deal, explained why they needed to start at especially when once and stick to a timetable. One replied done at top speed, that they couldn’t start for more than a but for interior year. But another, Paul Archer, got the F designer and artist message. He told them to go and write a Zoe Papadopoulou brief. “I did it by the next day,” Zoe says. and her partner, Liz, it happened by The plot’s planning permission was for accident when they were simply looking a two-storey house in black brick, but to downsize. since this is a conservation area of tradi- The result is a stylish and striking two- tional yellow brick, Zoe wanted to use storey house with an ingenious perfo- that, but with a twist. She understood rated screen of yellow London stock there was no room for a traditional gar- bricks, an enclosed courtyard, a beauti- den. Inside she wanted a modern, open- fully designed open-plan ground floor plan look to suit the couple’s mid-century with a mid-century modern Californian furniture. And Cyprus-born Zoe also vibe, two neat double bedrooms and wanted a Mediterranean feel with an bathrooms and a generous open-plan Sense of privacy: Zoe Papadopoulou in her courtyard with a touch of the Med internal courtyard, lots of light and a kitchen and walk-in utility room. sense of privacy. She would do the inte- Filling a tight plot, it demonstrates rior design, using oak and a lot of what meticulous design can do, even white. on a tight budget. Costing less than many two-bedroom flats in the area this Paul quickly came back with a design would make a perfect model for London featuring an area of brick laid in a per- housing — especially if stacked into forated pattern, which the couple liked four-storey low-rise affordable homes. so much that they opted for it on two The couple owned a big Fifties house external walls. This brick screen would with a garden in Islington, but in 2014 go outside concrete block work, and Liz was diagnosed with terminal cancer, over windows, too. A simple boxy shape so they needed something smaller and was best for budget and to maximise easier to manage. Zoe had done major space inside. makeovers to five houses, so had an An application for a third storey was open mind about what might work. rejected, so the design was set at two Searching online, she noticed a plot — but Paul dropped part of the ground with planning permission for a two- Adding head-height: the architect decided to sink part of the ground floor three feet floor about three feet. This gives gener- storey house for sale by auction. Just ous head-height to the large seating area 30ft x 30ft with a disused workshop on that provides the focus of the ground Mid-century it, and a wall on the road side. Cut from floor. A few broad oak steps down to it modern vibe: the garden of another house, it was to and the high-walled, glazed courtyard, Above, the sunken be sold very soon. “I knew I’d be an idiot add drama. seating area is the even to think about it,” says Zoe, 45. Ground was broken in March 2015, focal point of the and the main build finished in spring ground floor, with But just before Christmas she found 2016. Sadly, Liz died at the end of 2015, drama added by herself looking up what it had sold for, but as she had wished, she knew exactly the oak stairs and and discovered that it hadn’t met its what Zoe’s home would look like. glazed courtyard reserve price of £500,000. One reason The builder fixed an upstairs room so Perfect blend: might have been that there were only a Zoe could move in over summer to right, perforated few months left to run on the existing oversee the interior fitout. Oak-blocked yellow London planning permission, or that the plot, floors add a Fifties touch, as does a sub- stock brick walls also in Islington, was so small. stantial oak balustrade screen on the work splendidly at She went to look. Behind its wall, the oak stairs. Well-considered tiling the end of the bit of land was at the end of a little enhances that desired Mediterranean/ Regency terrace in Regency terrace: “I could imagine a Fifties feel, while polished concrete for Islington house there,” she says, so she and Liz the kitchen and the sunken seated area went to the agent, offered the asking are dramatic and practical, with an price, and bought the plot. The knowl- attractive, warm tone. Zoe designed an Photographs: edge that they didn’t have a moment to Oak and white: the Fifties-cool stairway was given a substantial balustrade screen oak and white Corian kitchen — “I love Juliet Murphy EVENING STANDARD 17 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by My home | Homes Property

Corian, nothing marks it,” she says. The Notebook builder’s carpenters made the neatly joined kitchen, whereas she made a WHAT IT COST suppliers such as Viaduct (viaduct. Fifties-style sideboard with tiled top 30ft x 30ft plot in 2014: £500,000. co.uk) and The Conran Shop from an Ikea carcass. For the fitted seat- Build and fitout: £400,000 (conranshop.co.uk) ing, she had the smart green upholstery Estimated value now of 1,000sq ft ⬤ Kitchen table: by Zoe Works done bespoke. house: £1.3 million Indoors (as before) This surprising house looks much ⬤ White Corian worktops: corian. larger inside than its modest exterior GET THE LOOK co.uk implies. The brickwork makes an effec- ⬤ Architecture: by Paul Archer ⬤ Danish teak Sixties kitchen chairs: tive screen while letting in plenty of Design (paularcherdesign.co.uk) via ebay.co.uk light, as does the kitchen’s overhead ⬤ Interior design: by Zoe Works ⬤ Tiles: from Mosaic del Sur (cement- glazed section. Yet there is also a real Indoors (zoeworksindoors.co.uk) tiles.com) sense of seclusion. ⬤ Builder: B&A Woodworking ⬤ Pendant and wall globe lights: by London needs many more houses like (bandalondon.co.uk) Flos (flos.com) this one: space-saving; big enough for ⬤ Windows: by Velfac (velfac.co.uk) ⬤ Cushions: from twentytwentyone. a small family, affordable to build, eco- ⬤ Polished concrete and joinery: by co.uk logically sound and using good old Practical: a perforated brick “screen” builder (as before) ⬤ Purist bathroom crosshead taps: London brick and renewable timber. on two exterior walls lets in lots of light ⬤ Wire chairs: by Bertoia from from Kohler (kohler.co.uk) Flashy? No. Delightful and also affordable if built to volume? Yes. 20 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Design

Scatter them: garden cushions priced from £19.95 at West Elm (westelm.co.uk) Fabrics: awnings, cushions and tablecloth, all £54 a metre (vanessaarbuthnott.co.uk)

Main picture: get sale prices on folding bistro, table, £191, and folding chairs, £123 each (conranshop. com). Right: Tomato Collection ceramics, £12.60- £95 (bordallo pinheiro.com) Far right: grill £7,250, gas burner £2,000, fridge drawers £5,200, all plus VAT at Sub- Zero & Wolf (subzero-wolf. co.uk) Stay home — and eat out

CHOOL’S out, the and throws for keeping warm. An out- embroideries. These chuck-abouts There is so much glorious outdoor sun is out — so get door fire is an “essential luxury” in the withstand spills, kids and the weather, yourself outside. small south-west London garden of and most brands now have outdoor homeware in the shops this season. Alfresco eating is an Sarah Vanrenen (vanrenengwdesigns. collections. Use them for cushions, sun opportunity for a com). The interior designer echoes the loungers, parasols and dining tables. Layer up your patio with colourful style moment. Cover colours of her plants in floral fabrics S your table with and cushions. “Then I add natural mate- New-style outdoor rugs are similarly tablecloths, pretty plates and piles of lovely fabric, pretty rials such as cane, rope, terracotta and robust. Popular polypropylene is afford- glasses, bright plates and cutlery, throw stone.” At Habitat (habitat.co.uk), hand- able, durable and easy to clean. Jute and cushions — then invite everyone for the cushions around, pour the chilled made ceramics are reduced in price by hemp will add texture, and rugs from drinks, light the barbie and have fun. 70 per cent, and Ikea is always worth a recycled plastic are nevertheless soft. supper, says Barbara Chandler Emily Dunstan, home buyer at Heal’s browse. You can pick up surprisingly For hand-picked quirky tableware, visit (heals.co.uk), says treat your outside stylish basics from Sainsbury’s (sains- Summerill & Bishop, trading for 25 space like a real room, but with brighter burys.co.uk). years in Clarendon Cross. Famous for colours. “Zone a larger garden with an tablecloths and napkins, they also have outdoor rug or table. A mix-up of table- No grass? London yards and patios can hand-painted crockery and beautiful ware is bang on trend. Layer plates and be hard and bleak so soften up with glass for super-sophisticated outdoor bowls, and add pretty ceramics. A fabric tactile outdoor fabrics and rugs. New dining. They say: “Treat your table like cloth and napkins is a classy touch.” technology brings not just prints but a landscape and vary the heights with Come nightfall, add lanterns, tea lights outdoor velvets, weaves and even vases, lanterns and candlesticks as a EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 21 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Design | Homes Property

Above: zoned space, by Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam Lisbon range: hi-ball £3.25; dinner plate £3.50; side plate £3; Below: Maria Portugal Terracota tableware from £9 (heals.com) scatter cushions from £8; floor cushion £30 (sainsburys.co.uk)

centrepiece, mixed with bowls and plat- plates and matching napkins. A multi- Left: Grigio tea John Lewis, online at johnlewis.com. ters around the tables. Fill bowls with coloured outdoor rug is £30, while eco- trolley, £99, from Good for London balconies or taking to ice and floating flower heads” (100 Port- plates made from biodegradable palm Cuckooland the park is the portable Everdure by land Road, W11; summerillandbishop. leaves provide “a lovely rustic, neutral (cuckooland.com) Heston Blumenthal, £149. At The Con- com). look” and involve “no chemicals, ran Shop a summer success is the Bar- Oliver Bonas is reliable for stylish bleaching, glues, bonding agents or row BBQ fire pit on wheels “for portable basics, with more than 70 stores nation- plastic or wax coatings”. Priced £6.50 ambience”, with stainless steel grill and wide. Reuse and mix up is the Bonas (talkingtables.co.uk). Robert Dyas has fire bowl, £799 (conranshop.co.uk). And mantra: “We have masses of cushions a 12-piece bamboo tableware set for flying out at Robert Dyas is the Outback on relaxed rattan furniture from Ikea, £39.99 (robertdyas.co.uk). Portable Stainless Steel Charcoal BBQ, with plenty of light folding side tables especially now it’s reduced to £29.99. for safe and stable cocktails. We love an Happy hipsters in the park love the new old Seventies Formica hostess trolley Hydro Flask wine bottle for keeping Finally, lighting counts. Sally Storey, for serving summer salads and sharing wine at perfect temperature. It’s stain- lighting designer at specialist King’s plates of antipasti” (oliverbonas.com). less steel so no flavours migrate and Road store John Cullen Lighting, says: costs £35.06 at freezeproshop.com. At “Light your paths or steps to lead you Talking Tables is the go-to website for home, you can build a garden bar, using safely through your garden.” Her essen- brilliant paper goods for large parties. a kit from Wickes (wickes.co.uk). tial caveat: “Beware of extension leads The tropical trend goes on, says founder For many, it’s the barbecue that counts and check and install garden lighting Clare Harris, who has monstera-strewn and there’s an excellent guide from using a qualified electrician.” 24 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Property searching Spotlight on Uxbridge BoJo’s constituency has new homes, a new school and a park where wartime history was made. And you’re sure to get a seat on the Tube, says Anthea Masey

URELY it must be a source of great pride for our new Today in Uxbridge Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, that his Uxbridge Rightmove has and South Ruislip Sconstituency was where his hero Sir 612 homes to BUY Winston Churchill first uttered the and 105 to RENT famous words: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” The wartime premier was speaking on August 16, 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, during his visit to RAF Fighter Command’s No 11 group bunker at RAF Uxbridge. The stirring sentiment was repeated a few days later in his speech “The Few” to the House of Commons. RAF Uxbridge, a short distance from University, based in Kingston Lane, to make peace with Oliver Cromwell’s Historic heart: in Windsor Street, 15th- the town centre, was closed in has more than 12,000 undergraduate parliamentarians. However, it is three century St Margaret’s Church is known January 2012 and its redevelopment is and postgraduate students and listed 20th-century buildings that for its beautiful hammer beam roof now nearing completion. There are marked its 50th anniversary in 2016. distinguish today’s Uxbridge. more than 1,300 new homes, some in In addition, Bucks New University has The station, with its curved Art Deco and is one of London’s most converted former RAF buildings and a campus in Oxford Road. façade and imposing concrete remarkable town halls. Its red-brick in listed Hillingdon House, others Brunel University was built on the columns and beams, opened in 1938 walls are broken up with a series of new build. There is also a new site of a 199-acre nursery once famed and is the work of architect Charles arches and pitched roofs, echoing the primary school, a hotel, a 32-acre park for growing chrysanthemums. Lowe Holden who designed many of the domestic architecture that arrived in and the Battle of Britain Bunker & Shawyer was established in 1868 stations along the Piccadilly line. Uxbridge in the Twenties and museum and visitor centre, which but closed in 1958. Its famous From the same era and in the same Thirties, but with a bulk which makes opened in March last year in the “mums” featured on the coat of arms streamlined Art Deco style, Randalls it an early example of English post- restored bunker. of Uxbridge borough council but department store also opened in 1938 modernist architecture. It had a The west London town of Uxbridge failed to make it on to the new coat of but closed in 2015. It is currently pioneering open-plan layout and the is at the furthest westerly reach of the arms when it was subsumed into being redeveloped as one- and two- councillors who commissioned it Piccadilly line, close to the M25 and Hillingdon council in 1965. bedroom apartments with shops and travelled to Sweden to look at open- the A40 with the M4 not far away. On Among Uxbridge’s oldest buildings, restaurants on the ground floor by plan working at the Volvo HQ in a particularly scenic section of the the 16th-century Crown and Treaty Inland Homes, which is also restoring Stockholm. Grand Union Canal, it is one of the pub in Oxford Road closed in April the façade. Fifteen miles west of central Mayor of London’s 13 Metropolitan last year and has not yet found a new Hillingdon Civic Centre in Uxbridge London, Uxbridge has Denham to the Centres, putting it on a par with operator. It is where during the High Street opened in 1978 and was north, Northolt to the east, Hillingdon Stratford, Croydon and Kingston. It is English Civil War, Charles I in the listed in April last year. It is the work and West Drayton to the south and also a major university town. Brunel early months of 1645 tried and failed of architect Sir Andrew Derbyshire Slough to the west.

WHAT THERE IS TO BUY

£645,000 £575,000 £1,395,000 £1 MILLION A TWO-BEDROOM detached bungalow in Packet WITH views over Grand Union Canal, a three- A FIVE-BEDROOM detached mock-Tudor period THIS handsome four-bedroom detached house in Boat Lane, Uxbridge, with a very large secluded bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse duplex flat, house in The Close, Hillingdon, with six Charnwood Road, Hillingdon, has a modern garden and a range of outbuildings including a including two parking spaces, in Kings Mill Way, bathrooms, an outdoor swimming pool and a kitchen, off-street parking and good private garage/workshop. Call Cameron (01895 601058). New Denham. Through Coopers (01895 601078). garage. Through Coopers (01895 601044). gardens. Call Gibbs Gillespie (01895 601097).

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homesandproperty.co.uk THE PROPERTY SCENE powered by UXBRIDGE was developed mainly House is the conversion of the after the arrival of commuter trains Queen Anne-style former Post in 1904, so many parts of the town Office building into 37 studios, one- and surrounding area are typical of and two-bedroom flats. The studios Metro-Land, the term coined by start at £249,995, with one-bedroom STATS CHECK poet Sir John Betjeman to describe flats from £289,995 and two- the massive expansion of London bedroom flats from £394,995. What homes cost into the countryside along the There are two remaining one- Metropolitan line. bedroom flats available at Twenties and Thirties houses Panorama in Harefield Road, some BUYING IN UXBRIDGE predominate but there are also with views over Fassnidge Park. (Average prices) houses built in every decade since. Prices start at £339,995. Lovell One-bedroom flat £249,000 Uxbridge is a good place to look for House is another office-to- Two-bedroom flat £318,000 a family house and it is still possible residential conversion in the High Two-bedroom house £370,000 to buy a three-bedroom Thirties Street next to the Civic Centre, with Three-bedroom house £496,000 semi for about £450,000, while for one-bedroom flats starting at Four-bedroom house £702,000 downsizers there are plenty of £314,995. For all Howarth Homes bungalows to choose from. developments call 01895 233999. RENTING IN UXBRIDGE There are also Victorian workers Dolphin Bridge House is the (Average rates) cottages in the Rockingham Bridge conversion of a former office One-bedroom flat £1,040 a month conservation area between building into 41 studios, one-, two- Two-bedroom flat £1,296 a month Fassnidge Park and the town centre and three-bedroom flats in Two-bedroom house £1,241 a month which has the picturesque Frays Rockingham Road overlooking Three-bedroom house £1,580 a month River running through it. Grand Union Canal. One-bedroom Four-bedroom house £2,102 a month The most expensive house flats start at £279,000. Call Gibbs currently for sale is a five-bedroom Gillespie on 01895 272742. Source: Rightmove modern detached home in the classical style in The Drive in nearby FIRST-TIME BUYERS Ickenham. The road also contains AND SHARED OWNERSHIP the most expensive flat, a three- Housing association Catalyst has bedroom penthouse at £1.85 million one remaining one-bedroom in the converted Georgian Harefield shared-ownership flat in St Place set in eight acres with a gym, Andrew’s Park. Call 0333 444 3500. sauna and swimming pool. Help to Buy is available at Dolphin Office-to-residential conversions Bridge House, Waterloo Wharf, in recent years and canalside Panorama, Lovell House and Above: the Battle developments have brought new Windsor House (as before). of Britain Bunker commuter flats to the town centre. museum and TRANSPORT RENTAL HOMES visitor centre; left, NEW-BUILD HOMES Developer Annington has built 207 the museum’s St Andrew’s Park, the development homes to rent at PinnPoint military history of former RAF Uxbridge, will overlooking Dowding Park at St curator Dr Rachael provide 1,300 new homes and is Andrew’s Park. One-bedroom flats Abbiss with now nearing completion. Developer are available at £1,195 a month and volunteer Andy St Modwen has three-bedroom two-bedroom flats at £1,350 a Cridford houses starting at £569,995 and month. Call 01895 545650. Right: manager four-bedroom houses from Letting to students is big business Graeme Mitchell £600,000. Call 0330 058 4220. in Uxbridge with shared houses at Barnard’s Persimmon is selling one-bedroom renting for between £400 and £750 Bookshop in CLOSE to the M25, M40 and M4, flats from £320,000, two-bedroom a month for each student. Windsor Street Uxbridge station is the westerly flats from £355,000, two-bedroom Otherwise in Uxbridge, studios terminus of the Piccadilly line and the houses from £485,000 and three- start at around £650 a month and Uxbridge branch of the Metropolitan bedroom houses from £545,000. one-bedroom flats at about £900 a line. It is in Zone 6 and an annual Call 0844 243 4800. month. The most expensive flat is a travelcard to Zone 1 is £2,568. Nearby Howarth Homes has a number of two-bedroom home in Century West Drayton will be on Crossrail developments in the area. Waterloo House, a new scheme of nine flats Photographs: when it eventually opens, when the Wharf in Waterloo Road in in Swakeleys Road, Ickenham, Daniel Lynch journey to Bond Street will take 24 Uxbridge Moor conservation area is available to rent for £2,200 a month. minutes. a canalside scheme of studios, one-, Houses range from about £1,000 a two- and three-bedroom flats. The month for a one-bedroom house to remaining one-bedroom flats start £5,500 a month for a seven- at £349,995 and two-bedroom flats bedroom detached house in sought- are priced from £444,995. Windsor after The Drive in Ickenham.

Left: in Uxbridge Modern face of High Street, Uxbridge: left, sculptor Anita homes in St Lafford’s bronze of Andrew’s Road. a woman, two The town is children and a dog getting new is entitled homes on a Anticipation. number of sites, Commissioned by notably 1,300 at St Hillingdon Arts Andrew’s Park, the Association, it was development of unveiled by the the former RAF Queen and Prince Uxbridge site, Philip in 2002 which is nearing completion 26 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Art events

Happy landings: family yoga under artist Luke Jerram’s moon replica at the Art in Natural History Museum in SW7 GOODNIGHT MOON residence THE perfect way to introduce young ones to the moon landing has to be artist Luke Jerram’s six-metre replica Kate of the moon, complete with detailed Nasa imagery and sound. The Gordon sculpture has toured the world since 2016, and it’s now making a home at the Natural History Museum. Founder, London Art Studies Morning family yoga, for children aged five to 11, takes place under the moon throughout August. ⬤ Visit nhm.ac.uk

Still life for today: see Keith Tyson’s ART ON THE MOVE Life Still exhibition, intended “to reflect AFTER 15 years in Carlos Place, global connectivity”, at Hauser & Wirth Mayfair, Timothy Taylor gallery is moving to Bolton Street, just off If you can’t make it to Sherman’s is the making”, and is revolutionising Piccadilly, where a two-year FLORAL FANTASY current exhibition at the National the group’s Berkeley Square fair to renovation project has increased the IT’S A challenge to recreate the Dutch Portrait Gallery, until September 15, promote a new generation of dealers, showing space from two to five floors. “still life with flowers” genre of the check out her wearable art online: the makers and collectors. Taylor says the new gallery space 17th century for London today, but artist’s Instagram images have been The new Apprentice category is for will reflect how artists and collectors artist Keith Tyson has used cutting- re-sized and made into jewellery by dealers with galleries less than three have evolved since he started in edge technology to produce his 25 craftsmen in Italy. As Swig says: “They years old. They’ll be matched with business almost 25 years ago. flower paintings, now on view at the are both art and jewellery pieces.” more experienced mentors, and pay a Director Tarka Russell has plans for Hauser & Wirth gallery in Savile Row, For more on Cindy Sherman and a reduced membership fee to Lapada. the new dining room, where she W1. Tyson’s a techie himself, referring comparison of her work with that of Also new this year is a collaboration hopes visitors will discuss and view to paint as “programmable material”, Cameo role: Cindy Sherman’s art Caravaggio, no less, visit London Art with Sarabande, the foundation the art. The gallery is opening its and has been intrigued by data and becomes jewellery in a new collaboration Studies and see the free video, established by late fashion designer library one morning a week for coding since his youth. exclusively for Homes & Property Alexander McQueen, which works students, with booking in advance. If the Dutch still lifes portrayed new THE ORIGINAL SELFIE readers — Reflections: Then & Now. with exciting young talent. For Stop by after September 24 and until and exotic plants for the emerging THE cameo is the original selfie. ⬤ londonartstudies.com collectors, there’s a super-glam gala October 19 to check out the Annie merchant class, today’s still lifes, he Traditionally carved in stone and dinner with auction works by Maggi Morris sculpture in the garden, says, should reflect global dating from ancient Greece, cameos COLLECTORS’ HEAVEN Hambling and Antony Gormley, paintings by Pierre Soulages and connectivity. have been reinvented for today by FREYA SIMMS, head of art and among others. Simon Hantaï and sculptures by ⬤ Keith Tyson’s Life Still runs until artist Cindy Sherman in collaboration antiques dealers’ association Lapada, ⬤ Lapada Art & Antiques Fair, Berkeley Antoni Tàpies. September 7 (hauserwirth.com). with designer Liz Swig (lizworks.net). says “collecting is as much of an art, as Square, Sept 13-18 (lapadalondon.com) ⬤ Visit timothytaylor.com 28 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Ask the expert All these bikes are blocking our hall again

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