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EGENERATION begins to make a difference far more quickly in some areas than others, but perhaps nowhere in London has the pace of changeR been faster than in Borough. In the blink of an eye it has gone from fringe to fashionable — and not just the atmospheric food market but the wider area, a wedge of the SE1 postcode between the Thames and Elephant and Castle. This is the Tate/Globe/Shard hinterland, a superb central address whether it is the Square Mile or the West End that looms large in your life. When Borough “arrived” as a prop- erty hotspot about a decade ago, new homes were niche, mainly small ware- house and office conversions, snapped up by loft-loving locals who had a long affiliation with the area. High-speed internet: “online development” Two Fifty One in Southwark Bridge Now Borough is firing up for a second Road, with 335 flats, offers fibre optics and a wifi-enabled homeworking lounge boom as its web widens, ensnaring bigger-budget buyers from posher parts of town, while a second wave of development hits the streets. The latest launches are a step change, reflecting demand for more upscale homes, including glamorous high-rise flats for City slickers. THE WIFI GENERATION Two Fifty One, in Southwark Bridge Boomtown Road, is Borough’s first residential skyscraper, though there are more to come. The 41-storey tower has 335 Borough apartments and is trumpeted as an “online development”, with high-speed fibre optics plus a “Get Connected” wifi-enabled business and homework- ing lounge, a relaxed refectory-type space at the base of the building along- Delicious city side a private cinema club, gym and other amenities. “The building responds to the way the internet is shaping people’s lives,” says Mike Bickerton of selling agent living — with a DTZ. “More than a third of Londoners work from home for some time on a weekly basis.” Residents will arrive at a double-height foyer with concierge desk and use a pre- touch of spice programmed swipe card that directs the lift to their floor. Views from the upper floors are spectacular and many Still trendy and edgy, SE1 is growing up with apartments have glazed winter gardens. Completion is due in 2017. Prices from glamorous new homes to lure City workers £390,000. Call 020 3468 9251. In the shadow of Despite its growing cachet, Borough and West End fans, says David Spittles the Shard: Crest might still be described as a “discount Nicholson is district”, meaning buyers have not don, a bit alternative, and this is what flats, pretty Victorian terraces, charita- From £715,000: schemes in the pipeline,” says James among big missed the boat. Typically, new homes gives it a special quality. Where else can ble and church housing, well cared-for The Music Box, Ball of estate agent Daniel Cobb, one of builders getting in the area start at about £400,000 and you buy zebra steaks, sip a flat white council estates, factory and warehouse below, offers 41 the first to spot the area’s potential by into Borough, range between £750 and £1,000 per from one of the world’s best lofts, and live-work homes for creatives. flats above the opening a branch in the Nineties. with its Melior square foot, lower than most Zone 1 coffee shops and take in a Shakespeare “We are consultants for no less than 15 new home of the These projects include The Signal, Street scheme, neighbourhoods. Borough has always play? Part of the area’s charm is its development projects in Borough and National Youth in Newington Causeway, where two- below been slightly outside mainstream Lon- urban residential mix: swish riverside the inspiring thing is the variety of Jazz Orchestra bedroom flats are priced from £595,000 and penthouses from £1,295,000, while The Valentine, in Long Lane, has 19 flats with large balconies offering clear views of the Shard. Prices from £680,000. Call 020 7357 0026. Check out Great Suffolk Street, which runs alongside a railway viaduct all the way to Trinity Church Square, the latter a splendid Georgian conservation area popular with Guy’s Hospital surgeons and barristers. For many years, this patch was deemed the wrong side of the tracks but architects and design companies are moving into refurbished railway arches while small plots are getting redeveloped into flats. In Glasshill Street, conversion of an old bookbinders’ warehouse has cre- ated eight boutique apartments next to historic almshouses. Prices from £850,000. Call 020 7357 0026. Bear Lane derives its name from the ghastly “sport” of bear baiting, popular in Elizabethan times. Nine flats, includ- EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 7 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property ALAMY

Foodie heaven: ing a vast penthouse with roof terrace, Borough Market, have been built on the site of a small above, claimed Victorian warehouse. From £575,000. by some to date Call Cluttons on 020 7407 3669. back to the 11th century, is a MAKING SWEET MUSIC wholesale and retail concern Big-name volume housebuilders have renowned for its also descended on Borough. The artisan food Music Box, by Taylor Wimpey, is a stalls and wide funky scheme of 41 flats above the new choice of cafés home of the London Centre for Con- and restaurants temporary Music and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Prices from £715,000. Call JLL on 020 772 7722. From £390,000: Crest Nicholson has three projects on flats, left, the go, including redevelopment of including some Brandon House, a prominent corner with glazed building opposite Borough Tube station winter gardens, that will bring 100 flats and townhouses. at 41-storey Another scheme in Melior Street, residential tower moments from the Shard, has 37 flats. Two Fifty One, in To register, call 020 3640 7555. Southwark Even the historic food market is Bridge Road. The expanding, with plans for opening up Shard now towers more courtyard space on “hidden” over Borough but land alongside Vinopolis, the wine for many, the museum and eatery, and the splendid food market, listed Hop Exchange, which has far left, remains restored Victorian office suites, rein-

REX the star carnated for small businesses. 8 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Commuting NEW SERIES: GET THERE FIRST Here comes Crossrail New-build homes are already going up along the west-east rail link that will cut commuting times into London. David Spittles looks at the opportunities on the route in a major seven-part series

S THE capital’s biggest and square feet of new office space, plus most important transport shops and homes built above and upgrade since the expan- alongside the stations, along with sion of the Tube network greatly improved public spaces. 100 years ago, Crossrail, King’s Cross St Pancras has shown theA new west-east line, will change the that redevelopment of a major railway lives of millions of Londoners and sub- terminus and surrounding land can urban commuters when it opens in have spectacular results. A once-grimy 2018. Forward planning, to make a area, the King’s Cross of today has sensible property investment based on become a desirable address. what is a momentous infrastructure Crossrail hotspots have already Connected: Crossrail at Canary Wharf change, is always a sensible strategy. emerged and, inevitably, the scheme will bring a direct link to Heathrow Already the £14.8 billion project has will lift the veil on some areas while cemented itself into the consciousness bringing others in from the cold. Abbey company predicts the Crossrail factor of Londoners, not least because of the Wood, on Crossrail’s southern spur will add a further 13 per cent — or upheaval its construction is causing. into Greenwich borough and currently £60,000 — over and above wider Many are weighing up Crossrail’s likely a dreary, isolated south London out- growth by 2018. In central London, the impact and making plans about how post with some of the capital’s cheapest overall increase will be closer to 20 per they can benefit from it. homes, is one example. “Crossrail cent, typically adding £100,000 to the The 75-mile route from Reading in the value of each property. Analysis by west to Shenfield in Essex takes in 40 Hamptons suggests areas around outer stations, including 10 new ones, and suburban stations could see some of provides the first direct connection the greatest gains, especially along the between all of London’s main employ- western section of the route because ment centres and Heathrow airport. of the more pronounced reduction Up to 24 trains an hour will run in travel times. From Maidenhead, during peak periods, carrying 200 Outer Shenfield Taplow and Burnham, journey million passengers a year and London times to central London will be boosting London’s rail transport Reading cut by up to 40 minutes. capacity by 10 per cent. Slashed The key factor is the extent to journey times are the great Inner which Crossrail improves a loca- reward — 1.5 million more people London Abbey tion’s current accessibility. Far- will be placed within a 45-minute Heathrow Wood ringdon station in Clerkenwell is commute of the key business poised for huge growth, with a districts. Forward-thinking home projected sevenfold increase in buyers and savvy investors are start- commuters. It will be the only Lon- ing to focus on the neighbourhoods don terminus with integrated north- being thrown into the spotlight by the south (of the river) and east-west routes; new route, and our Crossrail series over the only one allowing passengers to the coming weeks will help you to board Crossrail, Thameslink — also identify these areas of opportunity. being upgraded — and Tube trains. It throws the area into a new demand will provide direct links to Gatwick, ADDING TO VALUES bracket, as it morphs into a serious Heathrow, Luton and London City air- Nothing boosts the value of homes commuter zone,” says Johnny Morris, ports as well as to Eurostar services at more than a major transport upgrade, head of research at estate agents Hamp- St Pancras and Brighton on the south and Crossrail is already proving a huge tons International. coast. catalyst for regeneration. Since Crossrail was approved in 2008, It is the first transport project in the the value of homes around the stations GETTING IN EARLY UK to integrate comprehensively with along its route has grown by 20 per cent Crossrail “awareness” has kicked in at other developments, helping to create more than underlying capital appre- a much earlier stage than is customary new neighbourhoods and commercial ciation in London and the South-East, with transport upgrades. Take the zones — an awesome three million says property consultant CBRE. The recent Overground improvements.

Nip downstairs to catch the train: hundreds of new flats have been launched above Woolwich Crossrail station, left, and far left, Farringdon station is set for a sevenfold increase in commuter numbers EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 9 homesandproperty.co.uk with Commuting Homes & Property

Poised for growth: right, a new station for Abbey Wood, which now offers some of London’s cheapest homes

FOLLOW THE MONEY Though owned by Transport for Lon- don, Crossrail is being partly funded by developers. At Royal Arsenal Riverside in Woolwich, Berkeley Homes has con- tributed £30 million towards the £100 million Crossrail station, which was not part of the original masterplan for the ing works. Some people have had to be site. Land values have been given a huge rehoused, properties in the way of the boost as local residents will be able to bulldozers have been compulsorily get to Canary Wharf in eight minutes, purchased, and hundreds of homes the City in 15 minutes and Heathrow in will need better sound insulation. For 47 minutes. And the local council is lob- sellers in the affected areas, the project bying TfL to make Woolwich, currently shows up on conveyancing searches in Zone 4, a Zone 3 station. and may make buyers hesitant. Once an armaments factory, the In general though, Crossrail is seen waterfront estate will have more than as an enormous bonus for London, a 5,000 homes. Berkeley has launched vital piece of infrastructure that fosters 394 flats in five towers above the Cross- civic pride for a city with a fast-growing rail station. Prices from £345,000. Call population. 020 8331 7130. To help solidify Crossrail in the public Canary Wharf is tipped as another mind, an arts programme called The Crossrail winner. For the first time, it Culture Line has been unveiled. This will have a direct link to Heathrow, brings together renowned artists, while the new station will be one of the architects and engineers to create exhi- Most people only woke up to the ben- station, not least because the project is Integrated: Crossrail will be part of a largest on the route, with six storeys of bitions and permanent works at new efits once this new London orbital route a huge stimulus for new homes, espe- new transport hub at Paddington shops, plus restaurants and cafés and stations, in the tradition of the Moscow was up and running. A property boom cially around the new central London a landscaped park. About 10,000 new metro. The first commission is A Cloud in better-connected areas such as Forest stations and interchanges — Paddington, bought in Stratford after the Olympics homes in Docklands are also in the Index by Spencer Finch, which will be Hill, Sydenham and Peckham quickly Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, were awarded to London in 2005. One pipeline. embedded within a spectacular 400ft- followed. Despite being four years off Farringdon, Liverpool Street, issue for home seekers is that develop- Of course, the scale of Crossrail con- long glass canopy above the concourse completion, Crossrail is very much on Whitechapel and Canary Wharf. ers may be factoring in future price struction means disruption for resi- at Paddington station. people’s radar. One in 10 homes bought Early investors can expect to benefit growth when selling homes now, either dents, such as those in north Mayfair, last year were within a mile of a Crossrail long term in the same way as those who off-plan or move-in ready. affected by the complicated engineer- O Next week: Reading to West Drayton

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New money’s coming From £350,000 to £650,000: apartments at Redwood Park, a and a Zone 2 train Barratt development of 212 homes beside Russia Dock Woodland. The link now serves this latest phase was released this month neglected spot. Buy Ofsted, while for seniors, Bacon’s here while you can College is considered “good” by the watchdog. Most property is made up still get a bargain. By of flats but there are a few family houses. Three storey, three-bedroom Ruth Bloomfield townhouses are priced from about £600,000, while a two-bedroom SIDE from its tunnel terrace home will cost £500,000 to under the Thames — an £550,000. There’s a handful of engineering marvel when streets with dock workers’ cottages it opened in 1908 but a built in the Forties and Fifties. These traffic-clogged purgatory three-bedroom terrace homes, on forA rush-hour commuters today — streets including Acorn Walk and Rotherhithe in south-east London Swan Street, sell for £500,000-plus. has few claims to fame.

Though this former dockyard on ALAMY WEALTH OF GREEN SPACE the south bank, facing towards Rotherhithe is surprisingly green, Wapping, Limehouse and Canary Momentous voyage: Rotherhithe’s flats. The residential schemes are autumn and the whole project will be dotted with parks such as Stave Hill Wharf, was redeveloped in the memorial to the Pilgrim Fathers, who improving the infrastructure, which finished by December next year. See Ecological Park and Southwark Park. Eighties, it hasn’t experienced the started out on their epic journey there attracts better commercial rentals.” barratthomes.co.uk. Greenland Dock has a marina, the kind of gentrification that is sweeping These schemes include Barratt Sellar Property Group, which built Surrey Docks Watersports Centre southward. This means prices are London’s Redwood Park, 212 homes the Shard, plans more than 1,000 offers sailing and kayaking, and there quite low, though Rotherhithe’s years. A two-bedroom flat in the beside the Russia Dock Woodland homes at Surrey Water, designed by is a city farm with a great café. fortunes maybe about to change. village would cost from about park. Early phases of the scheme leading architect David Chipperfield “I have worked here 14 years and I “Prices are on average 35 per cent to £700,000, though penthouses have almost sold out, 85 per cent to and including a 40-storey tower, have gradually seen a massive change 60 per cent lower than neighbouring overlooking the Thames are priced at UK buyers, with a strong emphasis cinema and shops. in the people living locally,” says parts of SE1, such as Shad Thames,” anything up to £4 million. on investment buyers. The next Michael Petherbridge, branch says James Hyman, head of residential The area has character and a couple phase was launched on October 4 TOP-RATED SCHOOLS manager of Oliver James estate agents. agency at Cluttons. of good pubs, notably The Mayflower with prices starting at £350,000 for a One thing Rotherhithe already has is “It is all professional people now who Uninspiring flats were thrown up in in Rotherhithe Street, which stands one-bedroom flat, ranging to good schools. St John’s Catholic fall in love with the river, green space, Rotherhithe 30 years ago, and the near the landing steps where the £650,000 for a three-bedroom flat. Primary School and Redriff Primary the docks, and the prices. But nobody neighbourhood has a reputation for Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New Residents will be able to move in next School are rated “outstanding” by here is going to say, ‘Come to being deprived and depressing, with World via Southampton in 1620 Rotherhithe for a night out’, so people little going on locally. On the plus aboard their ship, The Mayflower. £289,999: you don’t get to know the area.” side, however, the East London line The village also has a local café — not can still find Petherbridge is right when he says extension has given Rotherhithe a the sort that goes with café culture — two-bedroom Albion Street, Rotherhithe’s high Zone 2 train link to Canada Water. but lacks independent shops. Rotherhithe flats street, is a depressing drag of shops This, says Hyman, has encouraged a for £250,000, protected by graffiti-scarred metal new wave of buyers and more GOOD VALUE TO BE HAD though river shutters. It is not a place to hang out interesting house building. The real property bargains are to be views carry a and browse — although the latest He believes Rotherhithe today is found in Rotherhithe itself, in the premium. This Metropolitan Police data says crime split into two sides: the slightly streets on the peninsula overlooking studio is at rates are around average for London. ambitiously titled Rotherhithe Limehouse and Canary Wharf. Here, Windsor Court, Agents say Rotherhithe will take a Village, and plain old Rotherhithe. says Cluttons’ James Hyman, you can King & Queen turn for the better when it gets a The “village” covers the streets pick up a two-bedroom flat from Wharf, SE16. leisure centre, higher-end shops, close to the station and landmark St £250,000. attractive bars and bistros, for Mary’s Church, where high-end “Surrey Quays shopping centre has O Visit homes residents of flats — that are the only warehouse conversions and smart improved greatly over time and all and property.co. thing now being built locally — to flats have appeared in the past few the light industrial is now becoming uk/wind spend their money in.


   

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UTUMN’S misty mornings in Hinterglemm near Saalbach from mean it’s time to dig out £311,700. Available through Alpine Mar- Perfect buys for the ski goggles and gloves keting, both have a rental obligation, and prepare for winter on which is a standard requirement in powderhounds the slopes. For those look- Alp yourself much of the Austrian Alps. ingA to invest in a permanent Alpine Savills Alpine Homes has flats and FRANCE base there are new developments from Rules on building holiday chalets across southern Austria from France to Austria, including in Switzer- £111,000. One- to three-bedroom flats land where proposed draconian rule homes in top ski resorts have in a refurbished hotel in Mayrhofen, changes on new second homes appear south-west of Salzburg, start from to have softened. eased and, as the slopes shape £254,500. “Prices have remained flat across much of the Alps this year and there is up for the season, THE SWISS ‘BELGRAVIA’ a fair amount on the market, especially resale homes,” says Jeremy Rollason Cathy Hawker “The strongest demand in Switzerland of Alpine Homes. “Confidence is at present is for Verbier, which remains returning. We have completed twice takes the snow the Belgravia of the Alps,” comments as many sales this year compared with Jeremy Rollason of Alpine Homes. “Lim- last, as vendors become more realistic train from ited stock and high demand means on price. Buyers can find good prices should only continue to rise.” From £180,000: apartments in the deals.” St Pancras However with chalet entry prices close centre of Tignes, one of the largest to £4 million, Verbier has effectively and most prestigious French FRANCE IS FAVOURITE priced itself out of the market for the resorts. Through MGM vast majority of buyers, which is why Quite simply, France is our favourite. neighbouring resorts which share the AUSTRIA It is where 70 per cent of British skiers same ski area are performing well. head for holidays either at resorts with Chalet Catherine in Veysonnaz, with vast, well-connected ski domains — four bedrooms, a wraparound balcony think Tignes and Méribel — or to with wide Alpine views and direct ski- smaller, family-friendly centres. France in-and-out access has a more reason- offers more than 200 resorts, most of able price tag of £1,067,000 through which are straightforward to reach by Alpine Homes. Or new one- to three- car, plane or by high-speed, regular bedroom apartments at Chalet snow train directly from St Pancras Ambience in La Tzoumaz, one lift away station. from Verbier’s slopes, start from Location is crucial, says Laurent £346,000 including underground Hallez of French developer MGM. parking for £35,500 with Investors in “Buyers want a hassle-free holiday Property. From £311,700: three- to five- home providing an active mountain “The new law restricting the con- bedroom detached chalets in Wald lifestyle where they can either clip on struction of second-home apartments im Pinzgau, near the Kitzbühel their skis or catch a bus to the ski lifts is out in draft and is not as severe as Alps. Through Alpine Marketing. directly from their front door.” predicted,” says the company’s Simon MGM is building second phases at Malster. “We think it will include a SWITZERLAND existing developments in Tignes, Val- ‘warm bed’ exception, so as long as morel and Châtel. Prices start from property is rented out for part of the £143,000 — excluding VAT at 20 per year, the authorities will issue a build- cent, which is not applicable on homes ing permit. We expect the new law to bought through France’s well-estab- be detailed fully before the end of this lished leaseback scheme. year.”

In super-smart Courchevel, loved by ALAMY the world’s wealthiest skiers, Knight Powder power: with Alpine property prices flat, bargains await you on the slopes CONTACTS Frank has newly unveiled plans for 38 O Alpine Homes: alpinehomesintl.com one- to four-bedroom apartments BARGAIN AUSTRIA much more to it than that,” says Jessica (020 7016 3740) priced from £304,600 to £1,913,000 at Delaney of Alpine Marketing. “Buyers O MGM: mgmfrenchproperties.com Carré Blanc in Courchevel Village. The undisputed star of recent years, choose it for three main reasons — good (020 7494 0706) There is direct lift access to Austria has traditonally been the value après-ski, a lower cost of living in most O Investors in Property: investors Courchevel 1850 and to the vast Trois choice for Alpine buyers. It provides resorts, and for nostalgia. Often, adults inproperty.com (020 8905 5511) From £346,000: apartments with Vallées ski region. The contemporary family-friendly, authentic ski resorts who first learned to ski in Austria love O Alpine Marketing: alpinemarketing. underground parking at La Tzoumaz, apartments of 462sq ft to 1,800sq ft are with knockout nightlife, but the prices the idea of returning with their own com (020 8455 0505) near exclusive Verbier’s slopes. in a traditional chalet-style building are the biggest draw. “Austria is still children.” New this season are flats in O Knight Frank: knightfrank.com Through Investors in Property. with spa and underground parking. viewed as good value but there is so the centre of Sölden from £225,700, and (020 7629 8171) 16 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Interiors homesandproperty.co.uk with

Right: Cumulus curtains, Deck Band sofa covering in Sunset, Red-hot styling framed Iznik Oasis Passion fabric, all 139cm wide and £65 a metre; Fuchsia microsuede wallcovering, 140cm wide, £149 O Red is great for warming a metre; Ancestorial cushions in Beet pure silk, 137cm wide, north-facing rooms £75 a metre. All by Diane von Furstenberg at kravet.com O Add red to a monochrome room for an immediate fashion fillip O Red makes surfaces seem closer — good for the end wall of a long corridor O Try scarlet in a dingy hall O Pictures look good against a red background, which was a popular 18th-century ploy. Hence the paint shade Picture Gallery Red at Farrow & Ball. O Red with white has a folksy feel — think gingham, hearts and cross-stitch samplers O Red with black is sexy and mature. Try varying textures and materials O Consider rich red leather as an alternative to tan

Above: stackable Parisienne chair in technopolymer Firecracker: Sanderson’s new active emulsion shade for plastic, £155.50 at walls, £41.50 for a 2.5-litre can. Visit sanderson-uk.com calligaris.co.uk DesigDesignDesigntrendDesignign trendstrentreendds ByB BBarbara b Chandler Ch dl

ED is the fashion fix colour Reds for this autumn and winter are prints or embroideries for a pick out red in small accessories, autumn colour. Get a wealth of this season as it glows from not the rich, heavy tones we’ve used contemporary take. “There’s perhaps a kettle or a juicer, or in advice on shades and paint at the the catwalk into the home before, with liberal doses of metallic definitely a trend towards lighter, crockery and red or pink assorted new showroom in New Cavendish — fresh, lively and flirty, and thick damask cloths. This warm fresher reds in interiors,” says cushions. Street, W1. Call 020 7935 8844. and teamed with fuchsia and luxurious colour has many Rebecca Craig, head of design at Upmarket paint makers have their American fashion designer Diane Rand orange. guises, from rich ruby, scarlet or Sanderson. “Go for the unexpected reds ready for winter. Sanderson is von Furstenberg, known for strong Pantone, the colour experts who flame to sexy Chanel lipstick red. and use red with aqua mint, and icy pushing Firecracker for its new active colours and bold prints, is making her point the way each season on top It is inspiring and romantic, and the blue, and throw in a geometric print.” emulsion, which, with just six per first foray into furnishing fabrics this shades for fashion and interiors, are new take, with fuchsia and orange, Downstairs, a fresh bright red is an cent sheen, is desirably matt yet season, and her sizzling collection for pushing a shade called sangria, billed brings an audacious clash of strong instant pick-me-up for the small particularly hardwearing for high- top textile brand Kravet has just as “an exotic, glamorous red”, paired colour blocks that Vogue says is ultra- rooms of a typical London terrace. traffic areas such as corridors, arrived at Design Centre Chelsea with aurora red, a pinker shade they dazzling. Also, pair red with blue or It makes a perfect dining room kitchens and playrooms. Little Green Harbour. Ikats, animal prints, promise will add “verve and spark”. turquoise, or serve it up in brilliant backdrop, too. In the kitchen you can has chosen Atomic Red as a key herringbone, stripes and florals are

 
      

  
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From £1,375: chair, left, in Brera Lino aubergine fabric and Boratti crocus velvet; right, in Brera Lino currant and Boratti scarlet. Hanging silks £100 a metre, cushions £55-£90. All Designers Guild from designers guild.com

Centre left: Nori fabric armchair, £250 from habitat.co.uk

Top: Nina Campbell’s glossy red Mahayana wallpaper, £56 per roll at Osborne & Little, Kings Road SW3

Above: cushions in silk mix from £95 a metre, linens from £88 a metre. Montana curtains £145 a metre. All at Colefax & Fowler (manuelcanovas.com) delivered in clashing combos of red, just arrived in the Osborne & Little pink and orange, with the sure touch showroom in King’s Road, SW3, of New York’s first lady of fashion. which has ready-made cushions now Finish with matching braid or trim. in the new designs. Across the street, Designers Guild has bed linen and INA CAMPBELL, our cushions in clashing reds and pinks. own decorating doyenne, At Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, is also travelling the red with a plethora of showrooms, get a route with her new free lesson in colour scheming with Cathay collection for the latest mood boards on the third NOsborne & Little. Inspired by travels floor of the North Dome. Browse more in China, Campbell has created an than 200 swatches in 102 showrooms. opulent red paisley damask, and a Coral, orange and copper feature glossy, lacquer-like wallcovering, strongly, as does the orange/pink loosely based on a kimono belt. clash. Call 020 7352 1900 or email Matthew Williamson, too, has added [email protected] to book red fabrics in prints and weaves to a free sourcing session to track down his autumn collection. All these have what you have in mind.

Left: embroidery and appliqué on linen and cotton, from £115 a metre, at Colefax & Fowler. Visit manuelcanovas. com (020 8877 6400)

Below: two-tone red stoneware pasta bowl, £7.50 from tesco.com 22 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Outdoors homesandproperty.co.uk with Make room for a little sweetie Harvest juicy fruits from mini trees that fit the garden, a patio Slender beauty: columnar plum tree Skyscraper has been bred to produce or even a balcony its dark, sweet fruit on short branches

ACH year the choice of fruit that is self-fertile and about half the size we can grow in our gardens, of a normal apricot tree, making it ideal on our patios and even our for pots. If you are adventurous, balconies grows ever larger. though, you could grow a pluot, a cross In the last few years, for between a plum and an apricot, a juicy, instance,E doughnut peaches and nec- peach-size, deep red fruit. A winner in tarines have become as popular in the taste tests is Pluot Flavour Supreme, shops as, well, Krispy Kremes. Now you from Pomona Fruits. can grow your own attractively flattened Lovers of mangoes might be disap- nectarines with just one tree that is self- pointed to learn that as yet, there is no fertile, so no partner for pollination mango tree that is likely to thrive in our needed. climate, but you could get the familiar These “flaterines”, claims Suttons, Cherry ripe: Pattie sweet, honeyed taste, and fragrance, of have rosy-red skins and sweet, juicy, suitable for the a ripe mango fruit by growing a Four- white flesh, but you will need to site the smallest spaces, Barron berry Orangesse. Fourberries are part tree in a sheltered, sunny spot, and Fruttini Garden of the ribes family and the fruit of vari- fleece it over winter, or grow it in a tub Bing will thrive in ety Orangesse is similar in size to redcur- and pull it into a porch or conservatory part shade rants, but of a vibrant amber shade, and for the cold months. ripens as early as June. Leave the berries Why not make your breakfast a little has launched a UK website so you can to hang on the bush for a few weeks, brighter with a handful of home-grown have Fruttini pear Obelisk, nectarine suggests Lubera, and they will dry to blueberries? Not the familiar, humdrum Alicecol, cherry Garden Bing or deep sweet, tasty raisins. navy blue, but a pretty and delightfully purple plum Skyscraper delivered in Strawberries are ideal for hanging novel shade of rosy pink. Ideal for con- hefty 10-litre pots direct to your terrace baskets, but you could also, believe it or tainers, new US-bred Pink Lemonade this autumn. not, grow a blackberry in a hanging has exceptionally sweet fruits, pink-and- basket. Forget long trails of prickly white blossom in spring and foliage that OU might want to save a little brambles — Lubera’s Arom’arctic is takes on orange and flame tints in space, though, for a Fruttoni thornless groundcover that grows in the autumn. Although blueberry plants Amber, a yellow-fleshed mini Arctic, so should thrive even through a usually need two to tango, Pink Lemon- peach that has the familiar cold English summer. With the promise ade, from DT Brown Seeds, is self-fertile, Small and strappy leaves of a peach, of violet-pink flowers in May and so just one pot will produce. special: Lubera’s butY the bush won’t exceed six foot. In a intensely aromatic fruits in a luscious Fruttinis sound like fruit lollies on a Fruttoni terracotta pot, even when clad with just berry-red from July, next summer prom- stick, and are not dissimilar. These Apricompakt is foliage, it makes a handsome addition ises to offer sweet pickings, even from columnar, short-branched fruit trees half the size to the patio and will fruit even in part a basket. have been developed to take up very of a normal shade. Reputedly hardy, it will still need little space yet produce abundant blos- apricot tree the warmth of a wall that is south or west FRUITY SOURCES som and respectable amounts of fruit. facing. The cultivar Diamond is its O SUTTONS: suttons.co.uk Ideal for patios or even balconies, they 100 years old and, because all the plants and weather-resistant. The breeder of similar, but white-fleshed, relative. O DT BROWN: dtbrownseeds.co.uk are the brainchild of Lubera, a Swiss have been bred and produced in the the acclaimed RedLove apple that is Another enticing option is Fruttoni O LUBERA: lubera.co.uk family-run fruit tree nursery that is over middle of the Swiss Alps, they are robust tinted red right through the fruit, Lubera Apricompakt, a reliable mini apricot O POMONA: pomonafruits.co.uk buy it See it: RHS Shades of Autumn Show Buy it: a plant of remembrance

GLEAN inspiration from the autumn AS PART of the First World War harvest on display next Tuesday, centenary commemorations, the Royal 10am-9pm and Wednesday, 10am-5pm, British Legion and Ashridge Nurseries at the RHS Halls in Greycoat Street, have compiled a selection of over 100 Victoria, SW1, when premier plant trees, shrubs and roses to be planted nurseries will present the pick of as a living memory for future seasonal foliage and flowers. Botanical generations. A minimum of 50 per cent art, photography exhibits and floral of the profits will go directly to the sculpture will feature, as well as an Legion to support its work. Some innovative 3D print exhibition exploring plants have a link to the Great War, gardens in miniature, with designs such as the Arthur Turner apple bush, from heavyweights such as Sarah named in memory of the breeder’s son Eberle and Andy Sturgeon. who died in the fields of Flanders, and The Royal Horticultural Society advice the scarlet Remembrance Rose, similar service will be on hand to tackle to the poppy which represents the gardening queries. RHS members free; lasting symbol of remembrance and tickets £8 on the door or £5 in advance peace. To order plants, see from rhs.org.uk/Shows-Events. Best blooms: admire prize dahlias on show next week centenarygardens.co.uk. Planting for peace: the symbolic Remembrance Rose 28 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Our home homesandproperty

Family space: at the back of the house, the bright basement now houses a television room with a huge sofa and garden views See-through: glass-balustraded stairs run down to a glass door

Uncluttered serenity: cooking pots and knives are all stored away in the light-filled kitchen, left A chef and his wife turned a tired Dulwich Victorian villa into a sleek and sensible family home — after spotting the potential in a huge, windowless basement perfect for conversion, discovers Philippa Stockley Going underground EW of us would buy a house for two boys, 11 and 14, and plenty of room with everything a chef needs — including island unit is perfectly placed so that the the basement, but it was a big for growing fruit and vegetables. And, lots of under-counter storage and a walk- five-burner cooker it holds can be used draw for former professional as the house was set on a slope, it had a in larder. For Tucker, the kitchen really from all sides. Everywhere, glass throws cook and restaurateur, Jack low basement, windowless at the front, is the heart of the home. They also light around the cooking and dining Tucker, when he and his wife full of bicycles, a washing machine and wanted wood burning stoves in the main section. There are no pots, no chefs’ andF children went looking for a bigger bins, with huge, space-wasting hearths rooms. “You can’t beat the sound and knives on display — it’s all put away. house just around the corner from their at its core. The couple felt they could do sight of an open fire.” Tucker was very particular about that, old one, in Dulwich. a lot with it. “It took up a quarter of the Next, they needed the right architect and it makes this kitchen very serene. Though only 12 minutes from Victoria floor space and was completely under- to realise their ideas — and they only had In the once-dingy basement, now dug by train, the Dulwich Estate, of 1,500 used,” says Tucker. to look next door to find one. Richard down to give a good ceiling height, huge leafy acres, has long roads with rose- It is hard to believe what changes lie Dudzicki had extended and remodelled steels replaced the supporting hearths, strewn Victorian and Edwardian houses, behind this front door, but the couple their neighbour’s home, which the Tuck- while the lightwell now has proper base- Heart of the and is incredibly quiet. Owners and ten- and their architect have proved just how ers liked so much that they hired him. ment steps, windows, and a hi-tech home: former ants have to maintain the outsides of flexible a brick building can be, and how Dudzicki understood the minimal, con- drainage system running under the restaurateur their houses in keeping with the area, adaptable to modern lives. temporary palette they liked, then added house. At the back, a big TV room with Jack Tucker in but are allowed to make changes inside Tucker and his wife, who works in the to the mix. Instead of an ordinary roofed- a purple velvet, family-size sofa looks the ultra-modern and at the back — which was key to the City, had pretty clear ideas. They wanted over side return, he suggested making directly out to the garden through floor- designer Tuckers’ decision to buy. to dig out the basement at the front and the whole thing a glazed box, with glass- to-ceiling sliding doors. It also has a kitchen-diner, Three years ago, the family found their give it a proper lightwell, and make a big balustraded stairs running straight down shower room — for grubby young foot- above, complete classic semi-detached Victorian family room at the back. At upper ground-floor to a glass door, which is exciting, as you ballers — and masses of storage tucked with an island Photographs: : villa with square rooms. The interior was level they wanted to roof over the side can see all the way to the garden. In the under those glazed stairs. And in the housing Tim Soar and tired and the conservatory exhausted. return, and open things up to create a kitchen-diner, wrapped in grey porcelain centre of the basement there is now a a five-burner Adrian Lourie There was a long garden for the couple’s light and airy kitchen-diner kitted out tiles on both floor and wall, the L-shaped utility room. cooker
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Great idea: rear of the house, showing the revamped side return

Simplicity works: light and bright, with a minimalist palette

O OFFSET all this modernity, used once more on walls and floors in to be dug out. However, that wasn’t the Get the look the rest of the house has been the bathrooms, with shallow trough worst. Halfway through works the first treated more gently, tying it basins and walk-in glass showers. It’s all builder went bust. As Tucker says, it was O Architect: Richard O Kitchen design: by to its historic past. In the hall, crisp and cool. Even the boys’ top floor, like having a half-baked cake and need- Dudzicki of RDAUK.com Poggenpohl.com baroque plaster architraves with their own bathroom “so they can ing a new cook to finish it — rather O Builder: Pawel Polowiec at O Porcelain tiles on walls Tover the two principal doors were kept, do what they want”, is elegant. quickly. general-building.com and floors: called Atlas but as you go up, the décor and style Nevertheless, there were disappoint- Luckily, their architect found them O Gardener: James Lee Concorde, they are from subtly streamlines. Shadow gaps replace ments. The ultra-sophisticated Ultima another builder for whom Tucker has Landscape & Garden Design worldsendtiles.co.uk cornices and there’s a slim palette of soft lighting system is, says Tucker, “too only the highest praise. “He really cared at jamesleedesign.com O Baths and basins: by grey carpet and pale grey walls. clever for its own good,” so if he was about what he did, and, like the archi- O Sofas: ligne-roset.co.uk duravit.co.uk The same slate-like porcelain tiling doing it again, he would try something tect, he is really conscious of a good O Five-burner hob cooker: O Paint throughout: by used in the kitchen and basement is simpler. And the first lawn died and had finish.” by gaggenau.com dulux.co.uk
34 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Design homesandproperty.co.uk with By Cathy Hawker My de de onon Tim Gosling INTERIOR DESIGNER

RAFTSMANSHIP, culture and collecting are just three reasons why interior designer and furniture maker Tim Gosling loves Cliving in London. Gosling, 48, studied theatre design at Central St Martins School of Art and Design and was a set designer on West End musicals Miss Saigon and Starlight Express before spending 18 years as a director at furniture design company David Linley. In 2005 he set up his own company, creating a bespoke contemporary design service based on classical Community ties: architecture. Past commissions Tim Gosling at include homes in Venice, private jets home in Clapham “My plaster room”: Gosling’s favourite room at home has his and yachts and rooms at The Savoy Old Town, where Deco Diamond Light rug, £82 per sq ft (therugcompany.com) and he has designed a range for he has lived for The Rug Company. more than 20 years among “an WHERE I LIVE amazing I have lived in Clapham Old Town for collection of more than 20 years. There is always arts-based

something interesting happening in BUTLER DAVID people” London and this makes a great base as well as having a strong BESPOKE     community with an amazing RETAILERS collection of arts-based people. Anya A group of us, including local Hindmarch’s resident Vivienne Westwood, saved Bond Street shop Omnibus, a purpose-built Victorian has a workroom, library and Clapham landmark, as a left, in full view high-end arts centre. of shoppers in the heart of MY HOME London’s most I live in an 18th-century house with expensive area. my partner Jonathon Coleman, a Her craftsmen sculptor. I bought an apartment in are making the house in 1995 and over two bespoke wallets decades have slowly acquired all but and bags, one floor of the building. My office showcasing and workroom are in a house across beautiful the road. materials and quality
  MY STYLE workmanship. My home features gold-leaf cornicing, Grecian urns and HISTORIC LONDON FAVOURITE mahogany inlaid tables, with rich My father [Raymond Gosling] was a MUSEUMS colours and deep velvets. On the member of the team who unlocked The Soane walls I have my own architectural the DNA code in the Fifties, and Museum, left, in line drawings — I always have a though my career is firmly in the Lincoln’s Inn pencil close to hand — and framed arts, I am fascinated by the historic Fields, the original letters from Samuel Pepys, overlap of arts and science. Victoria & Albert Robert Adam and Inigo Jones. London in 1820 had important and the British scientists, artists and architects and Museum are my 
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NASSUMING Forest Gate is named after the south- ern gate to Epping Forest, and there must be Spotlight something in that sylvan Uair because this east London neigh- bourhood has lived a little, as well as producing some of the country’s Forest Gate leading creative talents. £799,950 For a brief period in the Sixties the THIS eight-bedroom house in line-up of musicians appearing at the Disraeli Road, E7, has good-size Upper Cut Club in Woodgrange Road rooms and a private garden with a read like a rock’n’roll royalty roll call. studio suite. Through Foxtons. Started by boxer Billy Walker and his Priced out? O homesandproperty.co.uk/disraeli businessman brother George, the bill in the opening 10 days over Christmas 1966 included The Who, Eric Burdon and The Animals, The Jimi Hendrix This town’s Experience and The Spencer Davis Group, and when The Pretty Things failed to turn up on Boxing Day evening, John Lee Hooker stepped into the breach. the perfect Hendrix is even said to have com- posed Purple Haze while waiting to £315,000 perform at the club — an event in rock A TWO-BEDROOM nicely finished history now commemorated by the ground-floor flat in Capel Road, local council with a plaque on the wall Plan B close to Forest Gate railway station. where the club used to stand. Through Wilkinson Estate Agents. More recent inhalers of that forest You can still get a family house O homesandproperty.co.uk/cap air include the rapper Ben Drew, aka Plan B, whose song Rakin’ The Dead is under £350,000 in the rap star’s about a friend discovering a dead body on nearby Wanstead Flats, and the home town at the edge of Epping actors Idris Elba — who portrayed eponymous detective Luther in the Forest, says Anthea Masey BBC crime drama and Stringer Bell in US TV series The Wire — and Chiwetel Ejiofor, who starred in 12 Years A Slave, have seen a big change in the last couple Family fun, this year’s winner of the best picture of years with an influx of buyers from above right: Oscar. All three stars spent their form- north London who have come in search Katherine Igoe- ative years in Forest Gate. of a house they can afford.” Ewer, left, and £310,000 Eight miles north-east of central Lon- Petrina De CHAIN FREE, this three-bedroom don, Forest Gate has Stratford just a mile WHAT THERE IS TO BUY Gouttes at Forest house in quiet South Esk Road, E7, and a half to the west, Leytonstone and Forest Gate has plenty of Victorian Gate Fun Palace, has been completely refurbished . Wanstead to the north, Ilford and Bark- houses, some detached, some semis, entertaining Through Easymove . ing to the east and West Ham to the some terrace. The most expensive children, at the O homesandproperty.co.uk/esk south. Trains to Liverpool Street take 13 house now for sale in Forest Gate is in Saturday market minutes and the Overground stations Hampton Road in the Woodgrange in the centre connect with the District and Hammer- Estate conservation area, on the mar- of town smith & City Tube lines at Barking, while ket at £899,950 (see homesandprop- the neighbourhood is due for a big boost erty.co.uk/hamp). The ground floor when Crossrail opens in early 2019, is currently arranged as a club, while Plenty of local when trains to Tottenham Court Road the upper floor is a three-bedroom flat. open space: will take 17 minutes. The building demonstrates the quality Wanstead Flats, Affordable house prices and the immi- of architecture found in the conserva- right, is a magnet nent arrival of Crossrail have put a tion area, where attractive glass cano- for sporty rocket under Forest Gate property, says pies and porches feature. youngsters estate agent Ben Britton from Spencers. In the same road, a four-bedroom The area known as “The Village”, the detached double-fronted house in need Photographs:: £585,000 roads running up to Wanstead Flats, has of renovation is £580,000 (homesand- Graham Hussey A REFURBISHED four-bedroom become very desirable. “We have five property.co.uk/woodgrange). Victorian terrace house in Field or six people bidding on each house and Close to Wanstead Flats, The Village, (homesandproperty.co.uk/latimer). Romford Road, needs updating and is Road, E7, with a good-size garden three-bedroom terrace houses that sold with roads named after the Oxford It is still possible to buy a three-bed- for sale at £340,000 (homesandprop- and a dining room (WJ Meade). for £350,000 two years ago are now martyrs, is even more popular. A three- room Victorian terrace house in Forest erty.co.uk/hend). O homesandproperty.co.uk/field selling for £560,000.” According to bedroom, attractively renovated house Gate for under £350,000. One such Garden flats in converted Victorian Britton, Forest Gate is changing fast. “I in Latimer Road is for sale for £550,000 property, in Henderson Road, south of houses start at about £200,000. A

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newly converted one-bedroom flat in CHECK THE STATS Avenue Road, close to Wanstead Park Overground station, is for sale for £275,000 (homesandproperty.co. ■WHAT HOMES COST uk/ave), while a first-floor flat in Capel BUYING IN FOREST GATE Road with views of Wanstead Flats is (Average prices) on at £315,000 (homesandproperty. One-bedroom flat £184,000 co.uk/capel). Two-bedroom flat £218,000 Two-bedroom house £339,000 SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS Three-bedroom house £379,000 The area around the clock tower and Four-bedroom house £452,000 the station is giving local residents hope that their high street shopping Source: Zoopla.co.uk scene is improving on the current offer- RENTING IN FOREST GATE ing of pawnshops and chicken takea- (Average rates) ways. A popular local food and crafts One-bedroom flat market started by residents is held £964 a month Two-bedroom flat there now on Fridays, Saturdays and £1,227 a month the last Sunday of the month. Two-bedroom house £1,288 a month Coffee7 is a popular vegetarian coffee Three-bedroom house £1,564 a month shop and there is another coffee shop, Four-bedroom house £1,714 a month Kaffeine, on the other side of the road. Source: Zoopla.co.uk The Forest Tavern, near the station, was recently taken over by the ever- expanding Antic pub group. For a shot of retail therapy, Westfield Stratford GO ONLINE FOR MORE City is two stops away by train. O The best Forest Gate schools The Wanstead Tap, a microbrewery O The lowdown on the rental scene and café under a railway arch in Winchelsea Road, hosts the E7 Supper O All the latest local housing Club, a pop-up restaurant hosted by developments MasterChef semi-finalist Michael Sand- O How Forest Gate compares with ers, while fishmonger Seafoods ‘R’ Us the rest of the UK on house prices in Woodgrange Road is popular, and O How the postcodes break down The Old Slate Yard in Sebert Road O Smart maps to plot your property Fast trains: clock tower and station, with Liverpool St links houses a florist and building materials search reclamation yard. Meanwhile, the WI is For all this and more, visit going strong in Forest Gate. homesand OPEN SPACE property.co.uk/ The district backs on to the wild, open spotlightforestgate spaces of Wanstead Flats, the most southerly part of Epping Forest. West Ham Park on Ham Park Road, by con- Balaam Leisure Centre in Balaam trast, is famous for its displays of bed- Street, Plaistow, and the East Ham ding plants, now a rare sight in Leisure Centre in Barking Road. London’s parks. Both are run by the Corporation of London. Plashet Park TRAVEL LINKS in Plashet Grove is a local park with a There are frequent fast trains to Liver- bowling green, tennis court and café. pool Street, and the arrival of Crossrail The new Queen Elizabeth Olympic in early 2019 will bring cross-London Park is in nearby Stratford. trains to Forest Gate with a journey time of 17 minutes to Tottenham Court Road. LEISURE AND THE ARTS Wanstead Park and Woodgrange Park Stratford’s cultural quarter has the are on the Overground with trains to Theatre Royal Stratford East, a Picture- Gospel Oak and Barking. All stations are house multiplex cinema and Stratford in Zone 3 and an annual travelcard to Circus, an arts performance space. Zone 1 costs £1,472. There is a Vue multiplex cinema in Council: Newham council is Labour- Westfield. The two nearest council- controlled and Band D council tax is Flourishing: the town centre market, started by residents owned swimming pools are at the £1,244.63.

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46 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Ask the expert homesandproperty.co.uk with Can you solve my dilemma over deeds? Fiona WHAT’S MY MARRIAGE is ending and I’m having to YOUR contemplate moving out of the home we McNulty PROBLEM? Q bought with my wife’s parents’ help. I need to IF YOU have a move out but can’t afford to rent and also pay OUR LAWYER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS question for my share of the mortgage, which I understand I have Fiona McNulty, to do or risk forfeiting my share of the matrimonial please email property. My wife’s parents have offered to buy my I BOUGHT my house in legalsolutions@ share which would give me some capital for a new 2000 without a mortgage standard.co.uk home, but how do I do this while making sure my wife Q and I hold the title deeds. or write to Legal is not then entitled to half of what I buy? I feel stuck in Now that I am selling it, Solutions, Homes emotional and legal limbo. Please help. will I need to update copies of my & Property, title documents, or will those I London Evening MOVING into rented property and then not obtained in 2000 be enough? Standard, 2 Derry paying the mortgage does not necessarily mean Street, W8 5EE. A you will forfeit any interest in the family home. YOUR buyer’s solicitor will We regret that There are many factors in deciding how to divide want to see up-to-date copies questions cannot assets on marriage breakdown. These include the length A of the Land Registry be answered of your marriage and any period of cohabitation before it; documents, not those lodged individually but the ages of the parties; the needs of any children; your in 2000. You bought with cash, so we will try to respective incomes and income capacity; pensions and there is no mortgage from that year feature them inheritances; standard of living during the marriage; any but you might have taken out a here. Fiona disabilities; contributions made to the home or welfare of mortage since then to raise some McNulty is a the family, and much more besides. funds, or you might have sold off a bit partner in the Contributions from parents can often be a tricky area. It of the garden or changed the residential is important to recognise the difference between money boundaries in some way — all of property, farms gifted to you both to help buy your home and money which will have been registered. and estates team loaned to help purchase it. Once you reach an agreement If there are references in the at Withy King LLP with your wife it should be included in a legally binding registers of title to documents and (withyking.co.uk). document between you, so that if you buy somewhere there is a note saying “copy filed”, else, that property is not the subject of a further claim. your buyer’s solicitors will want to Take legal advice at an early stage. see those documents. If you have the Registry fees for obtaining official approvals and original guarantees for originals or certified copies of those copies. works done, such as timber or damp More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on documents among the title deeds, The title deeds may also include treatments, which will be useful for Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. you may be able to use those — which copies of any relevant planning your solicitor to include in the Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar will save you having to pay the Land consents or building regulations contract package. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor.

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MONDAY only he had some trousers on... To In 15 years of working in the West End Diary avoid any embarassment she makes a I have seen so many changes. Charlotte sharp, silent retreat, planning to head Street is a hub of fantastic restaurants, of an back later in the day. the area is cool, with media, production, design and hair and beauty shops estate THURSDAY aplenty adding to the feel. This street A grateful customer is treating me to used to be quiet at the weekends but agent lunch in Soho. We meet at Andrew now it buzzes. Today is a celeb-spotting Edmunds, a restaurant that has never day, with someone on every corner it had its name outside, yet is always seems. I’ve seen Stephen Fry, John busy. We get talking to some guys sit- Bishop and Kelly Brook so far — that’s ting at the next table as they overhear just what it’s like. our property chat. It turns out one of them is the owner of a few freeholds in TUESDAY the area. We exchange numbers and Down in Covent Garden today, I am on arrange to meet up. a property tour with a recently retired couple. Most of the properties here are FRIDAY bought as pieds-à-terre, with one-bed- I read this morning that Crossrail, room flats being most popular. Buyers which is located in the heart of the are typically 50-plus, live within three areas we cover, is predicted to increase hours by train or car of London, and property values locally by a further have cash to spare. This area is just so 36 per cent by 2020 — on top of the convenient for the shows and the res- huge gains of the last 10 years in our taurants offering pre- and post-theatre immediate area. However, I can see dining, and it has changed so much that percentage being higher still in this since I used to come to the West End part of town. as a teenager. I don’t know what it is about Fridays at 4pm around here. It seems the world WEDNESDAY O Jonathan and his wife are in Charlotte Street My colleague is off to preview a newly Hudson is enjoying the unseasonably sunny, warm vacant flat, so that she can highlight director at afternoon and sipping champagne out- its best points when she conducts a Hudsons side the Charlotte Street Hotel. Bustling viewing later on. She knocks first and Property, based pubs with people spread across the enters. To her surprise, a man is at the in Charlotte pavements is amazing for October. This end of the corridor vacuuming and Street, W1 (020 place never stops — but I am determined obviously hasn’t heard her knock — if 7323 2277). to head straight home. 54 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with By David Spittles SmartSmart momo Join Hackney’s You’ll love going to the dogs in new-look Catford upward march CATFORD starts where while the new-builds inner London stops, right include one-bedroom flats O WONDER projects helping to on the South Circular. The from £187,000. Call 0844 Hackney is change what is still a local dog track closed six 5566 166. the London gritty heartland around years ago but has been In Zone 3, Catford is a borough that Mare Street, where the reincarnated as Catford 15-minute train commute has seen the old town hall and famous Green, above, with 415 flats from Charing Cross and Nbiggest percentage Hackney Empire are the in 13 buildings, plus shops has a popular Art Deco increase in property main hub. and community facilities. theatre, good community prices during the past Hackney Square, right, Along with neighbouring schools and playing fields. decade. It has been sounds as if it is one of the Ladywell, Catford is being Barratt, developer of the transformed by clever borough’s Georgian discovered by central old greyhound stadium, is regeneration, first enclaves but it is a London workers, young paying for “public realm” thanks to the 2012 completely new address, couples and families, improvements that will Olympics, then through a low-rise scheme of drawn to its relatively upgrade adjacent Ladywell the extension to the East 47 flats set around a cheap Victorian and Fields and the banks of the London line. landscaped courtyard. interwar terraces. Sturdy Ravensbourne River, Its march forward Prices from £365,000. three-bedroom houses start which runs through this appears to be relentless, Call Telford Homes on at less than £450,000, 54-acre green expanse. with a host of new 020 3620 8005. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014 55 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property Family homes near great schools just an hour away MOST families leaving — trains to London in London in search of a under an hour. Royal better-value home want a Wells Park, left, is a Read more: visit quick commute to the prestigious new address in capital and an area that has richly landscaped grounds, our new online good schools. Kent is just half a mile from the luxury section popular because of the station, shops and relatively high number of amenities. Large flats and HomesAndProperty.co.uk/luxury selective grammars, which thoughtfully designed can offer a top education houses with up to five that is also free. bedrooms are for sale, and The county’s handsome the classical-style old spa town of Tunbridge architecture is pleasing. Wells has three such Prices from £440,000. Call schools plus the crucial developer St James on ingredient for commuters 01892 239051.

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YOU can’t get more City fringe than so-called Walkie Talkie building and Aldgate East. It butts right up against the Cheesegrater feeling almost within the City borderline but the ancient touching distance. Four penthouses walls are no longer visible and with have been unveiled by developer the drift of office development from Redrow. These large, lateral the heart of the Square Mile, this apartments of up to 2,800 square feet lively patch has to all intents and have a light-filled open-plan main purposes become part of the space, right, featuring a sleek Bulthaup financial district. kitchen. Each home also has two Views from the higher flats at underground parking spaces. One Commercial Street, a shiny Prices start from £3.4 million. On the apartment tower above the Tube South Bank, the same sort of space station, are proof of this indeed, with would be twice the price. Call DTZ on modern-day skyscrapers such as the 020 3296 3895.