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‘Rapid change like this at all levels is crucial to our city’ Life changer of the week Just Janice the venue for your Morley arty new venture

EDITOR £1.5 million: this fine Regency affair is minutes away from A bus trip this week was the start of a Cheltenham’s Michelin-star journey that will change many lives. restaurants, concert halls and art Trophy home of the week Perch by a Wren church gallery and would lend itself to a Transport giants Network Rail and TfL variety of uses: an exhibition £1,995,000: you might find your calling at a divine penthouse within St Olave’s Court, set between took investors on a tour of the land they space, a concert venue or a Ironmonger Lane and Old Jewry in the City and forming part of an historic conversion of a former plan to unlock for 15,000 rental, private boutique B&B perhaps. church built by Sir Christopher Wren. The penthouse spans two floors covering 2,088sq ft, with It has five floors with potential three bedrooms, three bathrooms and an upper floor transformed into an ultra-modern, open-plan sale and affordable homes by 2021. The to create a separate flat on the living/kitchen/dining space lit by French windows that open to two terraces. A private entrance vision is for new neighbourhoods and the lower ground level. There are two and lift complete the package. Through Hamptons International (020 3151 9432). reception rooms that open into a regeneration of towns and stations. large single room, a gorgeous Clapham Junction, the busiest interchange kitchen and five bedrooms, with four en suite. Guests can also London buy of the week Cast-iron in Europe, which has 57 acres, will become enjoy a courtyard garden and a new London district. Even little there’s plenty of parking space for guarantee of a cool new flat in vibrant SE8 Twickenham will have a new station, 115 visitors. Through Savills (03339 873503). new homes and shops. Rapid change like £430,000: it’s over to hip, vibrant, this, at all levels, is crucial for the Deptford in SE8 for this sleek, one- bedroom pad at Deptford Foundry, sustainability of our city. once the home of a thriving Victorian metal works. This rich industrial history has informed the design of new homes VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our here, set around communal usual promotion rules. When you respond to promotions, landscaped gardens and workspaces offers or competitions, the Evening Standard and its and attracting creative types including sister companies may contact you with relevant offers artists and designers. and services that may be of interest. Please give your Bright, open-plan living/kitchen and mobile number and/or email address if you would like to dining spaces feature high-spec details receive such offers by text or email. and glass doors to a decent-size balcony, while light and space continue Editorial: 020 3615 2650 in the bedroom and bathroom. Both Advertisement manager: Ann Finan New Cross and Deptford DLR stations Advertising: 020 3615 0538 are a stroll away. Through Knight Frank Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, (020 8012 7536). By Faye Greenslade Kensington, London W8 5TT. No medals for affordable homes

THE number of affordable homes pledged to Londoners on the site of the 2012 Olympic Games fell woefully short of its target last year. The London Legacy Development Corporation, responsible for leading the transformation of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into new neighbourhoods, has come under fire

from the Mayor’s Office, accused of ALAMY delivering only 74 of the 455 affordable homes annual goal. New district: housing committee questioned why In fact, only half of the 1,471 new East Village, the housing targets last year had “failed” homes planned for the 650-acre area former 2012 to be met, especially on affordable/ last year were completed. Olympic Athletes’ social homes. More than 6,000 homes have been Village, Stratford. “In last year’s report you anticipated built on the Stratford site, which The wider Queen a lot of planning permissions coming stretches from Hackney Wick down Elizabeth Olympic through in 2017, in fact only 38 per to Pudding Lane station, since the Park site is at the cent of applications were granted,” corporation took over as planning centre of an said chairwoman Sian Berry, adding authority in 2012. A further 4,200 are affordable homes that the corporation had fallen short under construction on the park which targets storm on both grants and completions. includes new housing schemes such as Chobham Manor, Wick Side and ⬤ Read Anna White’s full story at Sweetwater. However, the Mayor’s homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018
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Italian Job starring Michael Caine, and with Lurot Brand for REID REBECCA also for Paddington. The four-bedroom £2.25 million, the home is in the best part of Portobello, interior is renovated Sewell of the Standard’s other treasure Notting Hill, near Westbourne Grove’s — but outside the cobbled lane looks much as it did in Homes THE Evening Standard’s celebrated has been acquired by smart the 1969 crime art critic Brian Sewell, above right, developer West Eleven, which has caper when Sir left an impressive art collection when gained permission from Merton Michael’s character gossip he died in 2015 — and now his home council to create nine luxurious Charlie Croker, in Wimbledon Village is proving a homes on the site. Work will begin above, lived there. Amira Hashish treasure, too. Caley House, above, in this summer on four mews houses in By Leopold Road, where dog lover what is currently the garden, with Sewell wrote his Outsider memoirs, five apartments in the main house. Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews Be neighbours with Meghan and Harry

GREAT TEW ESTATE in the Cotswolds is hot property since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle signed a two-year lease on a home there. The newlywed Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in glittering company, with the Beckhams’ country house and super-stylish celebrity haunt Soho Farmhouse, a Shakira shimmies away from Miami Beach favourite of Meghan’s, sharing the same 4,000-acre spread belonging BELLY-DANCING pop star private swimming pool and an on-site to millionaire landowner Nicholas Shakira has put her hotspot gym. Shakira loved being involved in Johnston. Miami Beach home on the the interior design and pays homage to Now if you fancy a bit of celebrity market. her Colombian-Lebanese roots with address-sharing, Franklyns Cottage, The Hips Don’t Lie singer, left, handmade decorative mirrors and a above left, which sits on the edge of has owned the six-bedroom hookah lounge. the neighbourhood, has popped up property, above, for 17 years The majority of her furniture is for rent. The cosy two-bedroom but is now asking £8.7 million bespoke and she sourced the wooden cottage has the area’s signature for it. flooring herself, from Spain. golden stone façade, beautiful Covering more than There is a newly landscaped garden wooden beams on the ceilings and a 20,000sq ft, it has wonderful views and terrace with a stunning alfresco pretty garden. Listed for £985 per

of the Miami waterfront, plus its own dining area. GETTY month with Flowers Estate Agents. GETTY 4
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A whole new neighbourhood: Network Rail will help to create 400 extra new homes in the second phase of building at Kidbrooke Village in Greenwich borough An important shopping trip for Londoners

Thousands of acres of central London land will become new homes, villages and stations by 2021, says Lee Mallett

NEW housebuilding project the Westway Trust post-Grenfell and Network Rail land: above, a site, next to Canning Town Tube Modern gateway: the masterplan for creating neighbourhoods cycling road safety, for years,” says mixed-use block with 291 homes station, for a new neighbourhood Twickenham station’s transformation and regenerating areas Hendy, who drives the bus, while in Wyvil Road, Vauxhall, in the with 1,500 homes, of which 600, or 40 includes 115 new homes and a plaza the across London is being Murray dons a conductor’s cap. Nine Elms and Battersea per cent, will be affordable. “The size of five tennis courts launched by Network Rail “We’ve seen what local authorities, Opportunity Area notion is a variety of villages and andA Transport for London. The plan is developers and architects are doing. towns, with a station at their centre,” to make a big dent in the Mayor’s It was about time we showed them says Craig. “We can reshape London’s target of 66,000 new homes a year by what Network Rail and TfL are up to.” town centres; our focus is COMING UP building about 15,000 on land that the Even at £250 a head for this latest bus increasingly on Zones 3 to 6. Twickenham station: “A good two transport giants control. It’s a tour, both decks were full. A fare deal: below from left, “We are taking a 30-year view, so example, with a new station and 115 target that would dwarf the ambitions In the last financial year major Network Rail’s property build-to-rent and private rented new homes and three new shops. We of even the largest private landowner TfL made 22 sites managing director David Biggs sector schemes, which are attracting have a 50 per cent stake in a joint housebuilders. available for 3,850 homes. It will and chairman Sir Peter Hendy investors, particularly around venture company called Solum with Crucial to the scheme will be release enough land in 2018/19 for up with Graeme Craig, the transport nodes, will provide an Kier Property,” says Biggs. Solum was wealthy partners who can help to to 4,000 homes and is working Transport for London income stream. We work with the set up with Kier in 2008 as a multi- develop the sites, so Network Rail towards 15,000 homes by 2021, commercial development best global talent and also with the site joint venture vehicle. Then in chairman and former TfL boss Sir London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s target. director Mayor’s 50 design advocates to 2016, developer Capco offered to buy Peter Hendy, a Routemaster owner, “The task is increasing because ensure quality.” a 50 per cent stake in Solum. Kier will invited developers on a bus tour of we’re also responsible for delivering TfL has a team of 70 to achieve this. continue to look at smaller-scale tasty opportunities in central London the 12 over-station developments for “If you own 5,500 acres of land, you schemes, while Capco, via its stake in to whet their appetites. the Elizabeth line,” says Graeme are a property company,” adds Craig. Solum, will look at larger schemes. “Peter Murray [chairman of New Craig, TfL commercial development “Our remit is to address lack of London Architecture] and I have been director. “We’ll hit 3,000 homes this affordable housing and to provide Clapham Junction: the busiest doing these tours for non-profit financial year (2018/19) and are new workspace, light industrial space, interchange in Europe will eventually causes, such as community work by hitting our target of 50 per cent being and cultural space. We can bring provide 57 acres for development — affordable.” forward about 12 sites every year, to the size of King’s Cross. “Clapham is TfL is progressing more than 50 deliver at least 3,000 homes with an opportunity to create a whole new sites, from those aimed at small and partners, and generate 10,000 homes part of London, with a new station, Looking for a medium-sized builders and by spring 2021. and Crossrail 2,” says Biggs. new-build home? Community Land Trusts, through to “We’ve got sites ideal for modular Half of the 31 major schemes new neighbourhoods for 1,000 homes construction, such as decking over Network Rail is looking at are in Start your or more. “A nice example is the car parking, where we need lighter London. Most of the main London redevelopment of Morden station in and quicker methods than traditional termini have been developed, but search on partnership with the London building. We can create appropriate further development is planned at Borough of Merton, to reshape a new construction skills.” Paddington, Victoria and Waterloo. A whole town centre.” The scheme Network Rail has a national target to developer is also now in place for the could deliver 2,000 homes, improved deliver 12,000 homes by 2020, of redevelopment of Euston to transport facilities, shopping and which 5,000 are in London, and of accommodate HS2. A major over- community uses. One of TfL’s 12 which it has delivered 1,400, says station scheme is planned for

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West Hampstead: on Network Rail/ Ballymore Group land, a scheme includes 198 new homes, 45 of which are classed as affordable, plus office and retail space and a new square

of the station. Plans are also being put in place to develop Waterloo, where heritage and the local context are all- important. “How do we make the station a great enabler for more development and enhancements, to The Cut, for example?” says Biggs. Network Rail is also putting together a second batch of smaller sites, having disposed of five for 300 homes in the last six months. Biggs’s team also has its eyes on Surbiton. “It is an absolutely lovely listed Art Deco station. We have a car park next door… could we develop homes above it?” he wonders. Network Rail is also disposing of 2,400 railway arches in London, part of its national portfolio of 5,000, but TfL is hanging on to its London arch portfolio. The winner of the current bidding process should be announced “later this year”. “Disposal of the arches will enable more investment,” says Biggs. “We’ve demonstrated how some of the arches can be regenerated. They are so important to communities and small businesses and we’ve asked bidders to demonstrate they understand the potential and are prepared to invest.” Sir Peter Hendy’s bus tour is a popular charm offensive to woo the property industry: “We need partners. We’re looking for good ideas. We think there are great opportunities over the next 15 years. None of us would say we’ve finished Part of £8 billion White City regeneration: TfL wants to exploiting the more suburban develop 31 disused railway arches between Wood Lane Tube stations.” station and the A3220 at West Cross for retail and business units 6
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Regeneration Future London Barking A New York state of mind They think big in Barking. The plan is to create an east London ‘destination’ on Manhattan lines with high-rise homes and a central park. By Ruth Bloomfield

ROM the awnings fluttering cent” of the properties will be sold at above the market stalls to a 20 per cent discount to buyers gaggles of children feeding priced out of the local market. The ducks in the local park, there five-acre site will also have space for a is something very British new primary school, a 300-capacity Fabout Barking’s version of suburbia. music venue, a cinema and a hotel. Which makes this dreary, run-down At present Vicarage Fields holds spot, in the depths of Zone 4 on about 50 shops. The new London’s eastern fringes, an unlikely development will have “slightly setting for a multibillion-pound, fewer”, to make space for more skyscraper-studded mini Manhattan. restaurants and cafés. The aim is to Yet the capital’s latest regeneration attract a generally more upscale and hotspot is being billed as just that. interesting cross-section, mixing Barking & Dagenham council is well-known high street brands such determined to think big and reinvent as Foot Locker and Pret A Manger Barking town centre along the lines of with “boutique” chain restaurants central New York, complete with such as Franco Manca and Pizza hosting a community festival and thousands of new high-rise homes, a Pilgrims, as well as “plenty of helping to fund The Bath Haus “loose grid” street layout, a central opportunity for start-ups and locals”. (bathhausspa.com), a unique park, a redesigned station and a Outline planning permission was community spa run by Rachelle rejuvenated shopping centre. granted last year and development Moulai, who cut her teeth with brands It is interesting not simply because managers Londonewcastle, with such as Four Seasons Hotels. of its scale but because the council is property investors Benson Elliot, are The site behind Barking Library is a attempting to create more than an hammering out the fine details with very long way from one of Moulai’s affordable dormitory for people who the council. It is hoped work will start previous gigs, in the Seychelles, but work in central London. It wants to in early 2020 and take between three the treatment list is much the same — turn Barking into a thriving and five years to complete. massage, beauty therapy, yoga, sauna destination with more to offer than and homeopathy — if a lot cheaper. commuter links to somewhere else. FRESH WHARF : NEW HOMES An hour’s hot stone therapy costs BEGIN IN THE AUTUMN £60, a half hour of deep-tissue BARKING RIVERSIDE The other Big Bang element of massage is £35, with facials from £40. AND A NEW TOWN CENTRE Barking town centre’s rebirth is Fresh Individuality is important to Just as plans for Barking town centre Wharf. This collaboration between Barking. The council wants to are being finalised, so work is already housebuilder Countryside and upgrade Barking Market and well advanced at the adjacent housing association Notting Hill establish floating gardens at the Barking Riverside, an industrial Housing will see just over 900 houses houseboat moorings on Barking swathe of land where almost 11,000 and flats built for sale and rent, as Creek, where the Rivers Thames and homes are being built. well as cafés, restaurants and shops, Roding meet. Over the next 10 to 15 years, up to 10 minutes’ walk from the centre of Meanwhile, overlooking the creek, a 30,000 people will move to Barking Barking and beside the River Roding. former warehouse has been Riverside and a report on the area by The centrepiece of the development converted into The Boathouse, the council wisely points out that is a half-acre park which will augment providing workspaces for artists and more is needed than roofs over heads: Barking Park, a 75-acre Victorian park small creative businesses, with an on- “It is critical that Barking becomes a complete with ornamental lake and site café and exhibition space and a desirable destination for these tennis court. Planning permission for 150-seat performance studio. residents,” reads the report. “The the first phase of Fresh Wharf was Eventually, it is hoped, this area will town centre needs to become a more granted in February, and work on an become a thriving cultural quarter desirable destination for shopping initial 531 homes starts this autumn. serving Barking’s new community. and leisure with a more interesting Homes will go on sale in January and mix of brands and non-retail uses to the first residents will move in during WHAT CAN I BUY NOW? foster an enjoyable community life autumn next year. The development Barking is good value for a family throughout the day, and an evening will be completed by 2026. home or a starter flat. There is already economy to attract people from all some new build to look at, led by 360 backgrounds and those who live and THE SPA WILL BE A SMART Barking a quartet of towers up to 26 work here.” ACCESSORY storeys in Cambridge Road, and the Central to this dream is a plan to Intervention elsewhere in Barking is closest thing this area currently has to replace Vicarage Field shopping smaller-scale and subtle, but no less a skyscraper. CBRE Residential has centre, a depressing Eighties mock- necessary. Using its own money plus one-bedroom flats priced from Victorian mall, with a funky-looking funds from the Mayor and the £308,000 and two-bedroom flats mixed-use scheme designed by National Lottery, Barking & priced from £385,000. Help to Buy Studio Egret West, featuring about Dagenham has spent some London is “coming soon”, which will 855 flats in towers of up to 36 storeys. £3.5 million making the area smarter, cut the deposit requirement down to A spokesman said that “at least 10 per with better signs and shopfronts, a minimum five per cent. The flats, EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018
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Left: central to the Barking Riverside scheme is a funky new mixed-use plan with shops and 855 high-rise homes to replace dowdy Vicarage Field shopping centre. Above: new waterfront flats and houses at Fresh Wharf on the River Roding go on sale in six months

NEW CAFÉS, HOMES AND BUSINESSES? BRING IT ON

FOR Hassan Munir, 24, change can’t come quickly enough to Barking. Born and bred in the area, he and his friend Waqas Javaid, 26, left, set up their own digital agency, helping local firms with social media, marketing and advertising, in 2016. Last year they felt established enough to move their start-up operation, named 2310, to The Boathouse. Hassan lives with his family in Barking and says there is not enough to do. “There are a few places to eat and a couple of coffee shops but if you want to go shopping or go out, then Westfield in Stratford is really the nearest place you’d want to go.” He welcomes the coming new shops, restaurants and local businesses — the big chains for convenience, with independents to turn the area into a

JULIET MURPHY JULIET “destination”. designed by Studio Egret West, will be homes around Barking town centre. move-in ready early next year. Carter & Willow has a five-bedroom For low rise, Bellway’s Caspian terrace house in Park Avenue, guide Quarter development in Minter Road, price £475,000 to £500,000. Douglas Barking Riverside, has one-bedroom Allen has a three-bedroom terrace in flats in its current phase from Harpour Road, offers over £400,000. £249,995, two-bedroom flats from There are also some two-bedroom £304,995 and three-bedroom flats cottages, a great alternative to a flat from £344,995. Help to Buy London is for buyers who’d like a freehold home available. The area’s Thirties semis or with a garden. Next Home has a two- terraces also suit families. Bairstow bedroom brick end-of-terrace in Eves has a three-bedroom terrace Eldred Road, now being renovated, house in Cecil Avenue for £500,000. for offers in excess of £274,000. Old purpose-built flats are value for BE WARNED money at £250,000 to £290,000 for a Gentrification is still a way off, and two-bedroom flat in good condition, much of the existing older stock looks while the grand-looking former East bedraggled, with ugly Seventies faux London Uni campus in Longbridge stone cladding. But there are a few Road is now flats. Bairstow Eves has a streets of Victorian and Edwardian two-bedroom flat, guide price £300k. 8
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Investment holiday homes The recipe for rental success

EAGLASS is a very special south Cornish house. Its Cathy Hawker finds stunning UK and heated outdoor shower but coastal-chic interiors and location is key,” he says. “Guests are wonderful location, perched holiday homes that will earn their spellbound by the 180-degree view directly over the Atlantic on where the sun sets into the sea. WhitsandS Bay, are instantly appealing. keep when you’re not using them Whitsand Bay still retains the charm More notable is the income it earns. and rustic appeal of a small Cornish Last year the one-bedroom property bought the derelict chalet and its night sky. The build’s eco-credentials community.” of just 376sq ft earned a staggering large plot in 2013, obtained merited a gold award from Green Adam became a local lifeguard £125,000 gross, turning a pure profit permission for a new-build home and Business Tourism. Katherine, 44, a while at Plymouth University, later of £60,600 after all taxes, rental created Seaglass. The timber building professional garden designer and joining the RNLI in Poole, first as management costs, maintenance, has full-length bifold doors on two keen cook, planted the gardens and head of lifeguards, then becoming insurance and housekeeping. Its sides to maximise uninterrupted sea worked with a designer from rental head of coastal safety. With Katherine Selling up: Katherine and Adam Wooler owners Adam and Katherine Wooler views and a large deck to watch the experts Unique Home Stays on the and their daughter Ella-Rose, five, he compact interior. She chose Fired toured New Zealand for two months, Views to die for: Earth glass mosaic tiles, cow parsley fell in love with its natural beauty and perched above stencilling and a fully fitted kitchen. strong community spirit and took a glorious Whitsand Seaglass opened for its first rental job as chief operating officer with Bay in south on New Year’s Eve 2013 and has been Surf Life Saving New Zealand. Cornwall, Seaglass pretty much full ever since, achieving Miles Kevin, of estate agent is booked 44 an average 44 weeks each year. The Chartsedge, acknowledges the 14 per weeks every year. couple only rent through Unique cent gross rental Seaglass earns is Holidaymakers are Home Stays, which has been exceptional — but says it’s not unique. spellbound by the instrumental in securing this high “The ideal Cornish rental pad should Atlantic panorama level of bookings, says Adam, 52. have a sea view and be walking “Seaglass has everything from the distance from a beach, close to all largest plot on the cliff to a hot tub amenities with a good local pub within two miles,” he says. “It should be kitted out and decorated to the highest standards and needs flexible accommodation that works for families in summer, yet is cosy for romantic breaks in winter.” Seaglass is now on the market for £895,000 through Chartsedge. “We are reluctant to sell Seaglass but our new life, home and business are in New Zealand,” says Adam.

⬤ Chartsedge: chartsedge.co.uk ⬤ Unique Home Stays: uniquehomestays.co.uk/

GORGEOUS LITTLE EARNERS

THE COTSWOLDS £360,000: CHICHESTER THE caramel-coloured stone houses of above left, THIS cathedral city is a sailing hotspot the Cotswolds attract weekenders all Honeypot and its surrounding villages are close year round, with many choosing to rent Cottage, with enough to London for an easy weekend for longer periods. Popular villages superb rental getaway — yet rural enough for a include Swinbrook, Southrop and potential, is in the complete change of pace. those close to Soho Farmhouse in heart of a village There are sailing clubs at Itchenor, Chipping Norton and Daylesford south of Burford. Bosham, Emsworth and Hayling Island, organic farm near Kingham, says (Butler Sherborn) with walks on the South Downs and Vanessa Carter, head of lettings at traditional bucket-and-spade holidays. Butler Sherborn’s Burford office. £995,000: West Wittering has one of the south “Spacious, well-presented three- to above right, Gull coast’s best sandy beaches while East five-bedroom family houses that rent Point, a modern Wittering attracts windsurfers. from £2,000 a month are snapped up waterfront four- “The coastline south and west of as soon as they become available. The bedroom house Chichester has a wonderful variety of market for smaller Cotswolds cottages near Chichester sailing, surfing and fishing locations and also holds firm. Landlords’ returns (Strutt & Parker) those golden beaches ensure a steady have stayed fairly constant for several stream of holiday home buyers each years at around three per cent net.” year,” says Paul Machell from Strutt & Manor Farm and Enever House, both Parker in Chichester. “There is huge substantial Grade II-listed homes in a demand for rentals, especially around small village two miles from Bourton, local events such as Cowes Week, are both for sale at £895,000. Two- Goodwood and the Festival of Speed. bedroom Honeypot Cottage in a small Many buyers with a second home here village south of Burford is £360,000. rent their properties through Airbnb with great success.” ⬤ Butler Sherborn: butlersherborn. co.uk ⬤ Strutt & Parker: struttandparker.com 10
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Zone 1 option: Piccadilly line Earl’s Court station on the Piccadilly line. Two-bedroom flats rent locally for just over £3,000 a Have a cool month journey home. And ALAMY a fast one

Find family-friendly districts as well as hipster hotspots along this West End/City

link. By Ruth Bloomfield ALAMY

OMMUTING on the Above right: of neat Victorian houses, along with Piccadilly line is set to Turnham Green is Myddleton Road, the beating heart of become a far more a relatively the area. With resident-organised pleasant experience, with affordable west street markets, independent shops, new walk-through air- London choice on cafés, and restaurants, Myddleton cooledC trains promised by Transport the Piccadilly line Road gives this part of N22 a real for London. focus and a community feel. As well as making journeys less The neighbourhood is a magnet for hellish during hot summer rush parents — the local senior school is hours, these state-of-the-art trains, rated “outstanding” by Ofsted — as due to be introduced in 2023, will well as for City workers. In addition to increase capacity and allow TfL to Piccadilly line services to the West create a new timetable with more End there are trains from nearby frequent, faster services across town. Bowes Park railway station to Renters keen to experience a more Moorgate in 24 minutes. civilised journey to work — and who Chris Davenport, senior group also want fast access to the West End consultant at Hobarts estate agents, — have ample choice along the line, says renters tend to gravitate towards which runs from Cockfosters in far the area after being priced out of north London to Acton Town in the posher options including Highgate west where it splits, with one line and Crouch End. “You are not paying terminating at Heathrow airport and for the postcode here,” he points out. the other at Uxbridge. He agrees the district’s main roads aren’t its best selling point. “But once NORTH LONDON you get into the quieter roads you can BOUNDS GREEN see that it has got everything you In north London the star station-stop need, with a real resurgence of options include Bounds Green in interesting little shops and cafés,” he Zone 3, a family-friendly Victorian adds. suburb where a two-bedroom home rents for just over £1,400 a month, KING’S CROSS VIBE according to exclusive research for CALEDONIAN ROAD Homes & Property by Rightmove. £650 a week: Renters who like the style of Renting a three-bedroom house costs a very pretty regenerated King’s Cross but can’t just under £1,962 a month. two-bedroom afford one of its contemporary flats or The North Circular road is the noisy Victorian cottage period houses (a typical two-bedroom northern boundary of this area, which in Castle Place, King’s Cross flat rents for £2,629 a is unfortunate, and Bounds Green Turnham Green. month and a three-bedroom house at Road lacks kerb appeal. But explore a Through Fletchers £3,931) could move one or two stops little further and you will find streets (020 8742 4100) along the line and make big savings.

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For a King’s Cross vibe without a King’s For a King’s Cross price: save Cross vibe big-time on the without a King’s rent when you slip Cross price: save just into Zone 2 on big-time on the “the Cally” — the rent when you slip up-and-coming just into Zone 2 on Caledonian Road “the Cally” — the up-and-coming Caledonian Road ALAMY

For well-heeled renters: this three-bedroom apartment in Nevern Square, Earl’s Court, rents for a hefty £1,300 a week — but it comes with a roof terrace and private parking. Through TLC (020 7370 4000)

RENTAL RATES ON THE PICCADILLY LINE

Property Average Tube station Zone type monthly rent Park Royal 3 2-bed flat £1,636 Park Royal 3 3-bed house £2,243 North Ealing 3 2-bed flat £1,680 North Ealing 3 3-bed house £2,378 KING’S CROSS Ealing Common 3 2-bed flat £1,743 AND EARL’S COURT Ealing Common 3 3-bed house £2,421 Those who would like to rent along Northfields 3 2-bed flat £1,551 the Piccadilly line’s Zone 1 route are Northfields 3 3-bed house £2,069 going to need big budgets. The South Ealing 3 2-bed flat £1,806 cheapest option is King’s Cross, South Ealing 3 3-bed house £2,124 followed by Earl’s Court. No longer a Acton Town 3 2-bed flat £1,673 cheap option for backpackers, a Acton Town 3 3-bed house £2,483 typical two-bedroom flat in Earl’s Turnham Green 2 2-bed flat £2,308 Court costs just over £3,000 a month Turnham Green 2 3-bed house £2,906 and a three-bedroom house more Hammersmith 2 2-bed flat £2,556 than £5,750 a month. Hammersmith 2 3-bed house £3,072 Barons Court 2 2-bed flat £2,327 AFFORDABLE WEST LONDON Barons Court 2 3-bed house £3,370 TURNHAM GREEN Earl’s Court 1 2-bed flat £3,036 For a more pocket-friendly west Earl’s Court 1 3-bed house £5,751 London address, prices drop Gloucester Road 1 2-bed flat £3,601 dramatically as you move into Zone 2. Gloucester Road 1 3-bed house £6,922 In Turnham Green a two-bedroom South Kensington 1 2-bed flat £4,087 apartment typically costs around South Kensington 1 3-bed house £7,615 £2,308 a month, which is £700 a Knightsbridge 1 2-bed flat £6,551 month less than in Earl’s Court. A Knightsbridge 1 3-bed house £9,016 three-bedroom house could offer Hyde Park Corner 1 2-bed flat £6,060 better value for sharers, with a typical Hyde Park Corner 1 3-bed house £9,996 example coming in at just over Green Park 1 2-bed flat £6,345 £2,900 a month, close to half the Green Park 1 3-bed house £9,656 price of an Earl’s Court home of the Piccadilly Circus 1 2-bed flat £5,408 same size. Piccadilly Circus 1 3-bed house £8,938 Erica Whitehead, sales manager at Leicester Square 1 2-bed flat £4,620 Fletchers Estates, says renters in the Leicester Square 1 3-bed house £6,163 area tend to be couples, single Covent Garden 1 2-bed flat £4,454 corporate tenants, or families lured Covent Garden 1 3-bed house £6,203 by the good local schools and Holborn 1 2-bed flat £3,899 proximity to the many bars, cafés, Holborn 1 3-bed house £4,557 shops and restaurants along nearby Russell Square 1 2-bed flat £3,080 Chiswick High Road — including an Russell Square 1 3-bed house £4,001 outpost of the Soho House chain. King’s Cross /St Pancras 1 2-bed flat £2,629 There is also the lure of the King’s Cross/St Pancras 1 3-bed house £3,931 attractive streetscape, dotted with Caledonian Road 2 2-bed flat £1,981 trees and commons. Caledonian Road 2 3-bed house £2,916 Homes are mostly period, streets Holloway Road 2 2-bed flat £1,929 are leafy, and as well as the Piccadilly Holloway Road 2 3-bed house £2,639 line Tube there are rail services from Arsenal 2 2-bed flat £1,869 nearby Chiswick to Waterloo which Arsenal 2 3-bed house £2,732 take from 15 minutes. Finsbury Park 2 2-bed flat £1,747 The M4 is also handy, as is the River Finsbury Park 2 3-bed house £2,644 Thames and the Royal Botanic Manor House 2 2-bed flat £1,783 Gardens at Kew. Manor House 2 3-bed house £2,198 “You are in London but you have got Turnpike Lane 3 2-bed flat £1,461 so much greenery around you,” says Turnpike Lane 3 3-bed house £2,009 Whitehead. “There are loads of nice Wood Green 3 2-bed flat £1,435 restaurants, you always see people Wood Green 3 3-bed house £1,916 sitting outside having a coffee at all Bounds Green 3 2-bed flat £1,413 the cafés, and there is High Road Bounds Green 3 3-bed house £1,962 House which is always rammed. It has lots to offer.” 12
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Events

UPGRADE Until June 30, Hoxton Square, N1 Five things to (skipgallery.com; @SkipGallery) UPENDED in a skip in Hoxton, this “house” was made by Shoreditch do in June artist Richard Woods, left. The skip is in fact a gallery run by London artists Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker. RECLAIM LUXURY WITH THE RECYCLED CANDLE CO “We bring unexpected eruptions June 17-23, 67 York Street, Marylebone W1 (67yorkstreet. into the urban landscape,” says com; 020 7258 0159; #CandleAmnesty @recycledcandles) Borowski. “Skips are affordable, ENVIRONMENTALISTS Richard Hills-Ingyon, left, and portable, ubiquitous and mundane Sargon Latchin are coming from Devon to show London and their contents eminently how to reuse old candles. Bring your wick-ends to their disposable, which adds irony to the pop-up shop or they’ll collect from churches and eateries. art.” This month’s offering, entitled First 50 people to donate will get a free candle worth £9.50. Upgrade, continues Woods’s Buy candles made from recycled wax then learn how to do preoccupation with houses, seen last it at home in a workshop programme, with one hour for summer in Folkestone with five

ALUN CALLENDER ALUN £30, two hours for £50. Go to eventbrite.co.uk to book. models of seaside bungalows around the town and one floating in the sea, controversially questioning the impact of holiday homes on the

ALI TOLLERVEY neighbourhood.

ANTIQUES ANONYMOUS June 24, 11am-5pm, Church Street, Marylebone NW8 (antiques anonymous.london) AN ANTIQUES happy hunting ground, Church Street has 80 established dealers, with the much- loved Alfies four-floor emporium at its heart. On this occasion, each dealer has invited a fellow trader to sell in the street outside their store for just one day. Treasures of all periods and styles, below, will be piled up on trestles and pavements. Enjoy street food and live music.

SUMMER MARKET Until July 1, Craft Central at The Forge, Westferry Road, E14 (craftcentral.org; @CraftCentralUK) GUESTS join up to 40 resident designer makers in this spacious GradeII-listed new home for Craft Central in the Isle of Dogs, originally part of the Victorian iron shipbuilding industry. On offer will be ceramics, such as plates, above, from Sally McGill Ceramics, jewellery, prints, textiles and decorative accessories, to buy direct from the makers, from £2.50 to £500. Workshops for all the family include making cactus pots and jewellery. A café will sell home-made cakes, tea and coffee.

HOUSE & GARDEN FESTIVAL June 20-24, Olympia, Hammersmith Road, W14 (houseandgardenfestival.com; enquiries 0115 896 0421; booking 0844 854 0501) A SINGLE ticket, £16 in advance, £20 on the door, is great value as it admits to several events, notably the Spirit of Summer Fair, with independent boutiques and designer makers, specialist food and drink, talks and workshops. You also get into House, spotlighting craftsmanship and design, Grow London, with ideas/products for outside space and The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia, until June 27.

HERE’S your chance to show least one image of your Show us London your home — but there finished project in any — or all are only two days left to enter. — of the categories. your home Our first London Home Entries close at noon this Design Awards showcase the Friday, June 8. project to imaginative and thoughtful The winning projects will be win £1,000 ways Londoners make the featured in Homes & Property most of their home space. on July 4 and at houzz.co.uk. in prizes We’ve teamed up with Prizes include a £500 Houzz renovation and design shop voucher to spend on Bang platform Houzz to recognise & Olufsen products and a £250 the best makeover projects by Tom Dixon voucher to spend in homeowners and renters the Houzz shop. across the capital in five Plus: we’ll be sending the categories: kitchen, bathroom, winners off to a £250 lamp- living room, bedroom and the making workshop at The garden. Factory in Tom Dixon’s new All you have to do is submit at King’s Cross flagship store.

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WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Design

Glass at 1 2 the cutting edge

Sensational design from boundary-breaking young makers is heralding a renaissance in British studio glass. Nicole Swengley selects some of the best

ELLIOT WALKER hand work. “The inspiration is nature ONE of very few glass artists to and how our perceptions of its 5 1create figurative sculpture, London- underlying structures and patterns based Elliot Walker works in molten inform what we perceive as beautiful,” glass. His unconventional forms she says. include this culinary still life, above, Larsen graduated from the Royal with chopped fish, priced £3,000; a College of Art’s ceramics and glass MA green-glowing Gothic skull, also in 2014 following a glass art degree at £3,000 and a café scenario with glass the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. chair and table at £11,000. Small pieces Her sculptural, one-off pieces, priced are priced from £430. from £400, are available at London “The process is very physically and Glassblowing and she also undertakes mentally challenging,” says Walker. residential commissions for site- “Once you begin a piece you have to specific wall installations, from £5,000. see it through to the end in one See Larsen’s work at Counterpoint, session. The pieces are not cast, carved an exhibition by 13 Mile Studio or ground into shape but modelled collective, at One Paved Court Gallery, from a cooling liquid, so that until the Richmond, from June 20-30. Visit very last second the sculpture is a onepavedcourt.co.uk for more. 6 moving entity, frozen in time as the ⬤ Monette Larsen, 401½ Studios, 401 glass sets.” Wandsworth Road, SW8 (07449 ⬤ Visit ewalkerglassart.co.uk. 823809; monettelarsen.com); London Walker’s work is available at Vessel Glassblowing, 62-66 Bermondsey Gallery, 114 Kensington Park Road, Street, SE1 (020 7403 2800; W11 (020 7727 8001; vesselgallery. londonglassblowing.co.uk). com) and London Glassblowing (londonglassblowing.co.uk). RICHARD ROBERTS ROBERTS’S aesthetic focuses on MONETTE LARSEN 3 reconnecting with nature as an AN UNDULATING Static Motion antidote to too much technology. 2 vessel by Monette Larsen wowed “Nature is more important than ever in visitors at Collect 2018, London’s our digital world,” says the West annual crafts fair. This joyous Midlands-based artist. Panels, such as representation of life and growth, Rain-Reveller, feature human figures priced £4,250, is skilfully created from interacting with elemental forces, kiln-formed glass. Larsen also while flying birds enliven fused-glass experiments with water jet-cutting, dishes. His sculptural pieces are kiln- combining precise digital cutting with cast in three-dimensional or relief EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018
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forms. Colourful trails and stringers reveal a sense of the history and add allure to blown-glass vessels, movement of a place”. The V&A priced from £50. This hand-blown bought his piece Ravine last year. glass vase is priced £160. Harrington graduated from the ⬤ Visit richardrobertsglass.co.uk RCA’s ceramics and glass MA in 2006 and won best in show at last year’s JAMES DEVEREUX British Glass Biennale. Collaborating FORMER RCA glass technician with interior designers, he creates 4 Devereux set up a Wiltshire glass bespoke work for residential clients. studio with Katherine Huskie in 2013 ⬤ Visit josephharrington.co.uk; work and works with hot glass, producing available at Contemporary Applied sculptural, solid forms and hand- Arts (caa.org.uk) and The New blown pieces, from £3,500. For the Craftsmen (thenewcraftsmen.com). Clovis Collection he chips hot glass as if it were stone to create monolithic SHELLEY JAMES pieces with smooth surfaces and FASCINATED by visual effects in fractured edges. Pictured is Triple 6 glass, James’s recent work Clovis in blue, steel and plum with emulates light-responsive molecular lacquered wood and steel base, structures. Each part is cast from a 3D priced £7,500. Form and texture are print, adapting a “lost wax” technique emphasised by subtle colouring. and assembled to create, for example, Inspiration comes from a love of this lit stellated dodecahedron, underwater shipwreck exploration. £20,000 including lightbox. ⬤ Visit devereuxandhuskie.co.uk; This Arts Council England and Crafts work available at Vessel Gallery Council-supported project grew from (vesselgallery.com). a residency at King’s College maths and natural sciences faculty in 2016. “I JOSEPH HARRINGTON worked with scientists to understand USING ice as a modelling the underlying principles and 5 medium, Surrey-based Harrington combined traditional glassmaking sculpts it with salt then casts it into with digital technology to interpret glass, capturing a “frozen” moment as these phenomena,” says James, who it melts and giving his pieces, from gained a PhD at the RCA in 2014. She £2,500, spontaneity and drama. also creates edge-lit glass panels Pictured is Canyon Falls II, £3,800 integrated in seating, room dividers from The New Craftsmen. His and lighting. Small framed glass landscape interpretations of jagged works start from £150. cliffs and eroded coastlines aim “to ⬤ Visit shelleyjames.co.uk 16
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Outdoors

Cool and secluded: left, contemporary-style table and benches beneath a canopy of pleached black mulberry trees, with shades of purple from Erysimum Bowles’s Mauve For a tumble of colour and scent: right, let New Dawn climbing rose scramble over trellis Far right: Claire Mee’s Highbury garden dining area, screened overhead by a canopy of pleached hornbeams Nosy neighbours are no problem Creative ways to preserve your privacy as you dine out in your summer garden

Alex Mitchell

VER felt you’re not alone in your back garden? Privacy is not easy to achieve in London gardens. Many are overlooked by neighbours in terraces or tall buildings. Indeed E in any city, it’s unrealistic to expect your whole garden to be entirely private — but you could create just one area where you can retreat, whether it’s a spot for dining or just for a seat to curl up in with a book. Designer Claire Mee was asked to create a A hedge on stilts: However, the most cost-effective way to cre- private dining area for a couple in Highbury, though it’s unrealistic ate privacy from above is to attach taut metal north London, whose garden was overlooked to screen every bit of wires across the width of the garden and on one side by a block of flats. Rather than this L-shaped plot in grow a grapevine or wisteria on them, or planting a tall screen down the entire side Highbury, Claire clematis armandii for an evergreen. Sit at of the garden which would have made the Mee’s square of your table below with bunches of grapes or space feel hemmed in and created too much hornbeams makes scented purple flowers overhead. Try Brandt shade, she made a small inner square of for shaded, private for a grapevine with red leaves in autumn. pleached hornbeam trees, like a hedge on alfresco dining If a proper pergola is more you, Harrod stilts, just around the dining area. Horticultural has a new range of modular When seated at the table, it feels airy and powder-coated aluminium pergolas which light. You look through the slender tree are great in small London gardens. At just trunks to beautiful hydrangeas against the over £1,000 for a two-and-a-half-metre- fence, while around your feet lavender and Photographs: square pergola consisting of four anthracite Mexican daisies thrive in the sun. But when Marianne grey or black uprights and horizontal wires, viewed from the upstairs flats next door, the they’re likely to be much cheaper than a tree canopy entirely encloses the space and Majerus custom-built wooden one, and won’t rot. shields the diners from view. It’s not just gardens, of course, that can feel Another way to create privacy from above the pressure of prying eyes. Roof terraces is by using roof-trained trees — umbrellas and balconies could often do with more in tree form — usually the mulberry Morus CONTACTS privacy. Claire Mee suggests growing fili- Alba Fruitless, or the lime (Tilia cordata). In BOOK gree-leaved mimosa acacia dealbata or the her book My Garden is a Car Park and Other ⬤ Commission olive-like shrub phillyrea angustifolia as Design Dilemmas, author Kendra Wilson Claire Mee: visit clipped screens to create barriers with shows how del Buono Gazerwitz Landscape clairemee.co.uk neighbouring terraces. Both are evergreen Architecture created privacy in an over- ⬤ My Garden is a and the phillyrea will put up with any man- looked London garden with four mulberries Car Park and Other ner of wind. For sheltered balconies, the planted in a square, their branches trained Dilemmas, by dwarf magnolia grandiflora Little Gem or to meet to make a giant natural pergola. Kendra Wilson: common myrtle kept clipped flat would also Trees like this are not only a style feature Laurence King work well and have lovely scented flowers. but give instant privacy. It takes years for a Publishing But Kendra Wilson says: “I think people nursery to train them into that shape and ⬤ Options and become obsessed with privacy, when really for that, you will pay. But a small magnolia, prices for the it’s a state of mind. A partial screen is just as acer or crab apple will also shelter you from Harrod Modern effective, and more light and cheerful, than upstairs views and create dappled shade, if Pergola System: being hidden away entirely. you are prepared to wait a few years for it to harrodhorticultural. “Growing a well-behaved climbing rose on grow. Or distract the people upstairs by com a trellis will distract you from negative planting a cluster of young sorbus or birch ⬤ For trees: thoughts regarding the neighbours peering trees to make a small glade, suggests Wilson, barcham.co.uk through. Madame Alfred Carrière and New with woodland-style planting below. Planted ⬤ For climbers Dawn have the kind of leaves that do not close together, the trunks will stay slender, including roses: block out the light and their pale flowers keeping a feeling of lightness at ground level. ashridgetrees.co.uk bloom on and off all summer.” 18
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 Homes Property | My home Don’t move, start future-proofing!

Julia Tayler took the chance to give her Islington maisonette an airy, modern makeover. Now ‘every inch is better used’, she can stay put to enjoy her retirement near her friends and her beloved Almeida Theatre. By Philippa Stockley

O OFTEN, she got on particularly well with Peter Londoners face a Morris. As Tayler explains, instructing dilemma when an architect is very personal because they retire: should you tell them a lot about yourself, so it’s they move house or crucial to trust and like them as well as stay put? When like their ideas. S Julia Tayler hit The Morris listened, then responded to Big Six-O two years what she wanted. She looked at his ago, she did some critical forward website, too. She liked what she saw, planning. Oxford educated and with a some of which resembled what she had career in education behind her that in mind. This homework is crucial. involved a lot of travelling, she now works in the charity sector and Morris made drawings in spring last spends far more time at home. Fit year to extend the flat over the down- and youthful, she decided to stay put stairs flat’s dogleg. He applied to and make some major changes. extend the full length to make an office Home was a two-bedroom, 1,000sq ft and extra bathroom, but the planners upper maisonette with a private garden would only allow going halfway. This in a pleasant Victorian street in Isling- setback meant the bathroom had to go ton, bought in 2004, with good shops elsewhere. And this is where a talented nearby and the Almeida Theatre, which architect’s ingenuity comes in. Morris’s Tayler loves, an easy walk away. inspired solution created both bath- Converted in the Eighties, the flat was rooms Tayler wanted at one stroke. quite dark, with fiddly circulation. The He took out the upstairs box room and hall had doors to a small bathroom, made two small bathrooms — a cute then another door to the small kitchen, one with a walk-in shower off the hall which had a wooden door to a balcony. for guests and a bigger one directly off In the other direction off the hall, a half- Fun and functional: losing dining room walls made space for a mezzanine lounge the master bedroom, with a sliding flight of steps led to a poky dining room sandblasted door between them. In the “used as a dumping ground”, and a nice master bedroom itself, which got a living room. The floor above had a stor- major glamming-up, he set a big egg- age room, then a large, bright bedroom shaped bath that Tayler sourced herself. out of which a shower room with mac- In fact she sourced most things and erating WC had been chopped. The enjoyed doing it. The macerator went stairs were gloomy. in the skip. Morris also put a big skylight above the staircase, making it bright. Tayler loves entertaining, but her On the main floor, he knocked out the friends always crowded into the dining room walls and put a glass bal- kitchen, where everyone fell over each ustrade instead, creating a mezzanine Above: Julia other. Her search for a bigger flat to lounging area. By losing the hall, a large, Tayler in her enjoy spending more time in quickly open living space emerged with loads enlarged kitchen- showed her “there was nothing I could of work surface. Best of all, Tayler’s living area. Now afford that I would like as much”. She friends, relaxing in the glazed mezza- she can chat to decided to call in an architect. nine, can chat with her as she cooks. guests as she Sensibly, she had already written her The future-proofing is very subtle. cooks, while they wish list, for a “fun, functional, welcom- Everything is easy to clean, from oiled relax in the ing place, cosy and stylish but not twee” wooden floors throughout (no trip-haz- mezzanine lounge — and designed for getting older in. ard carpet), to nicely detailed work Right: a brightly Most importantly, she wanted a bigger surfaces and bathroom tiles. The good- skylit study nook kitchen with more surfaces, along with quality taps have levers. And the cooker Far right: Tayler two proper bathrooms. Tayler could see is at eyeline, so no more scrabbling sourced an egg- that extending out over the lower flat’s about on the floor to get a cake out. shaped tub herself existing dogleg could help to make a There is plenty of storage, too. for one of the two bigger kitchen, while knocking down Tayler rented for the six months it new bathrooms on the dining room walls could make a took her “incredibly nice, respectful” her wish list split-level entertaining space. builders to do the job. When she moved The Royal Institute of British Archi- back in a month ago she was amazed tects has a database of architects by area by the sense of extra space, even though and project size. She found three who Morris had actually only added 100 Photographs: did smallish domestic work. Of these, A more sociable space: Tayler loves to entertain and now she can do it comfortably square feet. But “every inch is better David Butler EVENING STANDARD
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used”, Tayler says. “A week before moving in, I sat under the new sky- GET THE LOOK light and a plane went across the bright blue sky, leaving a perfect ⬤ Architect: Peter Morris (petermorrisarchitects.com) trail, and I thought, ‘I’m living in a ⬤ Builder: KNL Construction (knlconstruction.co.uk) work of art.’” ⬤ Engineered oak floors: jordanandrews.com A very positive person, she beams ⬤ Kitchen: Howdens Joinery (howdens.com) and adds: “The old furniture sud- ⬤ Composite worktop: granitetransformations.co.uk denly looked frumpy so I’m replac- ⬤ Tiles behind hob: Fired Earth (firedearth.com) ing all of it with modern stuff. ⬤ Reclaimed wood: from Bert & May (bertandmay.com) “For the first time in my life I feel ⬤ Pendant over kitchen table: Muuto (muuto.com) as if I’ve got a really grown-up ⬤ Kitchen table and striped bed cushions: all ikea.com home.” ⬤ Kitchen mixer tap: franke.com # ⬤ Slide&Hide oven/microwave: neffhome.com/uk WHAT IT COST ⬤ Pendant lamp in hall: angelos-lighting.co.uk Value of flat in 2016 before ⬤ Velvet on chaise longue: bluebellgray.co.uk renovation: £790,000 ⬤ Ceiling lamp in mezzanine: graceandgloryhome.co.uk Total cost of project, including six ⬤ Brook freestanding bath: watersbaths.co.uk months in a rental flat: £200,000 ⬤ Bathroom tiles: toppstiles.co.uk Value of the maisonette now ⬤ Bathroom taps and showers: crosswater.co.uk (estimate): £1.2 million to ⬤ White paint throughout: Wevet from farrow-ball.com £1.3 million 20
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Homes Property | Inside story Not-so-bored meeting with eco-friendly landlord

several years of representing the series of one- and two-bedroom team, we’ve been shortlisted as an homes, the landlord has set up a Diary of an exclusive collective of three agents hassle-free utilities scheme that who will be looking after the estate allows tenants to move in with Estate Agent ongoing, as its new directorship everything already set up, including embarks on a strategy to reinvigorate broadband. In our global city, a high- the area. speed internet connection can make It’s a big win for the team and I make or break a tenancy. I leave confident MONDAY a note to buy an extra round during that these flats will fly off the shelves. After a weekend spent putting the our Friday drinks. finishing touches to a new business During an afternoon of viewings I FRIDAY pitch, my week begins in a rather am testing out my secondary school After a quick coffee in The Good Life, formal boardroom with the Portman French with a charming couple who I meet with a relocation agent who is Estate, pitching to market are moving from Paris to work in the looking for homes for four couples Marylebone’s first Passivhaus. West End’s thriving tech scene, when moving to London from New York. As one of London’s most energy- they smile politely and start They are all set on Marylebone’s efficient homes, the property, located conversing in flawless English. village-type feel and its host of in Gloucester Mews, is a compelling In an attempt to hide my blushes, I artisanal shops and trendy proposition and one I know will create proceed to wow them with the restaurants, which are apparently huge interest with tenants. I’m remarkable views from a tenth-floor reminiscent of Greenwich Village. particularly struck by the hi-tech spec, penthouse. High-spec furnished flats are the not to mention the e-car charging order of the day and we matchmake point outside. WEDNESDAY two tenancies on the spot. Back down to earth, I stop off at our From France to the US, and I spend an Later at the office, we learn that local florist on my way back to the hour on the phone this morning we’ve had a record year in lettings, so office. Our admin team has been helping a young tech entrepreneur we crack open the champagne. As fizz knee-deep in data cutting and analysis grapple with what it takes to rent and conversation flow, talk moves to for the past fortnight and I am keen to through an institutional landlord. how we will spend our away-day this demonstrate our appreciation with a Straight down the line, six-month year. I leave mid-debate, as the trendy beautiful bouquet. break clauses are off the table and THURSDAY and my wife is particularly impressed. team members weigh up the benefits rent must be paid on the first of the Walking into the office I’m distracted Marylebone is a bit of a hotbed for of going to Flight Club for darts, TUESDAY month. by a small kerfuffle outside our celebrities and I recount the time Swingers for crazy golf — or Chiltern Marylebone is home to great estates We manage to negotiate a rental shopfront. It transpires that our temp Dustin Hoffman ended up in our Firehouse for a swish night out. and portfolio landlords — so yesterday agreement that works for both parties has spotted James Arthur of X Factor office after losing his spectacles. it was the Portman and today starts and it’s not long before I am running fame and has lured him inside for a After lunch, I head over to St ⬤ Andrew Walker is a partner and with some good news from the to The Ivy Café in Marylebone Lane selfie. I barely recognise him and start Christopher’s Place to see 24 flats we head of lettings at Carter Jonas in Howard de Walden Estate. After for a client lunch. to feel my age — but I get a selfie, too, are preparing to launch to market. A Marylebone (020 3553 9489). 28
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Property searching Spotlight on Bermondsey With its tasty food markets, this hipster haunt is on to the build-to-rent trend. New affordable flats are joining stylish warehouse lofts. By Anthea Masey

NLY three miles as the landowner, the Duke of Westminster, crow flies from Trafalgar and his property company Grosvenor Square, Bermondsey want to transform the factory and bounced from a 17th- regenerate the locality with a century garden suburb £500 million plan to turn the 12-acre Oto a Victorian slum of such dire site into a new neighbourhood, with poverty even Charles Dickens found 1,218 new rental homes. it hard to convey its filth and stench, Grosvenor, which hopes to hear though its beggars and pickpockets about its application in weeks, says it inspired his novel, Oliver Twist. aims to meet the needs of those By the early 20th century it was locked out of the housing market and Open space: in this urban area of tightly packed streets, Tanner Street Park, a prized little populated mostly by factory and dock create a thriving centre, integrated green pocket of Bermondsey, draws lunch-eating local workers on sunny summer days workers, while today it is a hipster physically, socially and economically haunt and one of London’s leading with the rest of Bermondsey. foodie destinations. However, A secondary school is planned, plus Bermondsey was known as the Larder new routes through railway arches of London long before 1991 when Sir and a tree-lined avenue linking A foodie fave: Terence Conran opened his riverside Bermondsey station with The Blue above, railway restaurant Le Pont de la Tour in the Market in Southwark Bridge Road. arches are home shadow of Tower Bridge. New public open spaces are planned, to popular Maltby It was home to Peek Freans biscuits, too, but some locals complain that a Street Market Hartley’s jam and Courage Brewery cluster of three buildings of eight to Ropewalk but these factories faded away and 28 storeys at the heart of the site is Right: Christophe now a new generation of food market out of keeping with the surrounding Lechevalier, fans makes its way to Bermondsey low-rise buildings. There are also owner of Street, then to the railway arches complaints that only 27.5 per cent of Lechevalier wine around Maltby Street, Druid Street the homes will be for discounted rent. shop in Tower and Spa Terminus in Dockley Road. The rich history of this proud Bridge Road, Johnny Male of Daniel Cobb, the working-class community can be stockist of first estate agent to open in traced through its street names. conventional, Bermondsey Street 18 years ago, says Leathermarket Street and Tanner organic, natural he spotted the potential. “We sold one Row refer to the leather industry that and biodynamic of the first developments from our once thrived around Bermondsey wines from Kennington office and could see Street; Jacob Street is the location of around the world Bermondsey was changing, with most Jacob’s Island, a once-notorious of the old industrial buildings being riverbank slum; Spa Road is named converted into flats.” It’s an exciting after an 18th-century spa; Abbey time to live in Bermondsey but for Street starts on Tower Bridge Road over 100 years it was known as Biscuit near the Benedictine Bermondsey Photographs Town, and it was a major blow to the Abbey, and the Neckinger is a long- area when the Peek Freans factory buried river that runs into the Daniel closed in 1989. Now Britain’s richest Thames at St Saviour’s Dock. Lynch

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£850,000 £1.5 MILLION IN A former textile warehouse in Blue Anchor A BIG open-plan living space and four bedrooms Lane near Bermondsey station, a two-bedroom feature at this loft-style flat in Grange Road, conversion flat. Stirling Ackroyd (020 8012 2405). London Bridge. Call Dexters (020 7650 5100).

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SHAD THAMES, the riverside area County Street is a Bankside Group to the east of Tower Bridge, is an development of seven studios, one- established neighbourhood of two- and three-bedroom flats that are STATS CHECK warehouse conversions with move-in ready. Studios start at What homes cost names such as New Concordia £450,000 with one-bedroom flats at Wharf, Cinnamon Wharf, Vogans £575,000, two-bedroom flats at BUYING IN BERMONDSEY Mill, Tea Trade Wharf and Wheat £650,000 and three-bedroom flats at (Average prices) Wharf, plus some modern £1.1 million. Contact Hamptons on One-bedroom flat £505,000 developments including the 020 3451 1544 and Kalmars on 020 Two-bedroom flat £786,000 recently listed China Wharf 7940 7980. Two-bedroom house £679,000 designed by architect Piers Gough Boatman House is a development of Three-bedroom house £1.01 million of CZWG. Here the best six one- and two-bedroom flats in Four-bedroom house £889,000 conversions can command prices Jamaica Road. The remaining two- of up to £2,000 a square foot. The bedroom flats start at £650,000, for RENTING IN BERMONDSEY most expensive warehouse completion next month. Call Kinleigh (Average rates) currently for sale is a three- Folkard & Hayward (020 3792 1841). One-bedroom flat £1,825 a month bedroom penthouse in Butler’s London Square launches London Two-bedroom flat £2,322 a month Wharf on sale for £4.75 million. Square Bermondsey, a development Two-bedroom house £2,071 a month There are more warehouse of 406 apartments, including 135 Three-bedroom house £2,334 a month conversions in the maze of streets affordable, in Grange Road on the site Four-bedroom house £3,120 a month around Bermondsey Street. of a former Crosse & Blackwell Source: Rightmove Elsewhere, the area offers a mixed factory next to the iconic Art Deco picture of new developments and Alaska Building, for off-plan sales in estates of social housing, with just the autumn. One-bedroom flats start a few of streets of period houses, at £600,000 with two-bedroom flats including Page’s Walk and Grange at £800,000 and three-bedroom flats Walk. The Thorburn Square at £985,000, ready to move into in conservation area between Lynton 2020. Call 0333 666 4343 for more. Road and Southwark Park Road is a little-known enclave of Victorian AFFORDABLE HOMES terrace houses. A four-bedroom Housing association Wandle New house in Lynton Road is currently Homes has two remaining three- TRANSPORT for sale for £975,000, and a three- bedroom shared-ownership flats at bedroom house is on the market Bermondsey View in Rotherhithe for £830,000. New Road, priced £130,625 and BERMONDSEY is on the Jubilee line £133,750 for a 25 per cent share of with trains to Canary Wharf and Bond NEW-BUILD HOMES flats with a market value of £522,500 Street. South Bermondsey has trains to The Taper Building is a Shape and £535,000. Call 0300 2000 120. London Bridge. Both stations are in Real Estate development of 65 Zone 2 and an annual travelcard to one-, two- and three-bedroom HOMES FOR RENT Zone 1 costs £1,364. flats on the corner of Long Lane Bermondsey has a busy rental market There are plans to open an and Weston Street. One-bedroom and currently there are more than Overground Station, called New flats start at £670,000, with two- 500 flats to choose from. The most Bermondsey, between Queens Road bedroom flats from £775,000 and expensive are in the Shad Thames Peckham and Surrey Quays as part of three-bedroom flats at £1,175,000. area which has easy access to the City, the New Bermondsey development in Visit thetaperbuilding.com or call a short walk away over Tower Bridge. south Bermondsey around the Millwall Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward on For example, a three-bedroom flat in football stadium. The scheme is 020 3846 2250. Concordia Wharf in Shad Thames is stalled but Lewisham Mayor Damien Skyline@Corio is a Linden for rent for £1,200 a week, whereas a Egan is hosting renewed talks between Homes development of one-, two- one-bedroom flat on an estate of New Bermondsey developer, Renewal, and three-bedroom flats in social housing rents for about £250 a and Millwall Football Club in an Grange Walk. Remaining flats, week. Lettings agent Lia Girandola of attempt to get the two to agree to which are move-in ready, start at Daniel Cobb says most of her tenants move the development forward. £749,950 for a two-bedroom flat are young professional singles or Two new stations along the Old Kent and £899,950 for a three-bedroom couples working in the City or Canary Road are planned on the Bakerloo line home. Contact Linden Homes on Wharf. But she says more young extension. 01883 787 237. Trinity Lofts in families are staying in the area.

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WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes Swish Richmond flats with a river view RICHMOND is famous for its riverside setting, its wonderful Royal Park and panoramic views protected Smart moves by an Act of Parliament. Less well- known is the legacy of small industry that sprouted up after Henry VII built By David Spittles a palace there. Brewing has a long tradition in the area. Richmond Brewery Stores, right, in Petersham Road dates back to 1882 when it was built as a beer bottling plant. Later, the building was taken over by the Royal British Head up the hill Legion and became the country’s first poppy factory, then changed again to a toy-making factory producing model trains. The handsome red-brick building is to Streatham now designer offices for a tech company and forms the “plinth” for seven swish duplex apartments above. Sitting two floors above street lightwells and slim-framed sliding RIXTONITES are heading council was shamed into action and level, the homes are designed to give doors. up the hill to Streatham, its efforts resulted in a Met Police a view through to the river on Off-street parking is a bonus. Prices where prices are lower and a award for best public open space in entering, with the light, open-plan from £1.45 million. Call Banda Mary Portas-backed town the capital. Gentle gentrification has the only solution. Then I discovered space enhanced by glass balconies, Property on 020 7937 9600. centre upgrade is helping to brought new eateries and bars, jazz this really fab development on Bre-establish the area as a welcoming and dance venues and comedy clubs. Streatham Hill, moments from the inner suburb. Vanessa Woodgate, 31, is one of the train station, where Help to Buy was No-deposit rentals in Stratford’s village In its Fifties heyday, Streatham was new residents. She works for a digital available. The homes are a step up for RENTAL deposits have been which manages more than 1,500 a fashionable shopping and leisure media company in Victoria and her the area, with good-quality interiors.” scrapped for tenants at East Village homes at East Village, the former district, with a Locarno ballroom, commute takes 30 minutes. She She paid £445,000 for a one- in Stratford, London’s biggest rental 2012 Olympics Athletes’ Village, also theatre and ice rink. The very first bought at London Square Streatham bedroom home. Many of the flats neighbourhood. Private renters offers longer-than-usual tenancies for Waitrose store opened here, a tell-tale Hill. The scheme of 214 flats have a large balcony or terrace usually have to pay a six-week deposit periods of up to three years, giving sign of its former cachet. Decline set incorporates the listed Art Deco overlooking an inner courtyard at the start of their tenancy, which renters more security. in and reached a low point in the façade of a former cinema, a new garden. There is a concierge, gym, can cause them cash-flow headaches Rents in this well-connected new Nineties after the closure of Pratts, an theatre and a Marks & Spencer food cycle storage and underground and provide unscrupulous landlords district range from £1,100 to £2,400 old-style department store that grew store and café. parking. Two-bedroom flats start at with the chance to hold on to the per month. Another rental village is from a Victorian draper’s shop. “I was renting in Brixton and wanted £599,000. Call developer London deposit at the end of the tenancy. being built at Elephant & Castle. Call Stung by an allegation that its High to get on the property ladder,” says Square on 0333 666 2131. Streatham Now landlord company Get Living, 020 3944 0975. Road was the UK’s scruffiest, the local Vanessa. “Shared ownership seemed is surprisingly leafy. City merchants EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018
33 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes Property Discover your creative talent in neighbourly Nine Elms A CHRISTIE’S fine art storage warehouse was bulldozed to make way for The Residence at Nine Elms, the latest apartment scheme launching in this bit of Battersea. To keep the cultural link alive, the scheme incorporates new showpiece premises for Matt’s Gallery, relocating from Bermondsey. Wandsworth council likes to trumpet this fledgling district’s community arts programme, so to celebrate the occasion a tapestry has been unveiled, devised by artist Richard Grayson in collaboration with local people. The cross-stitch work, right, comprises 43 A3-size sections, each designed by a member of the public or a neighbourhood amenity group. Looming over the new US embassy, The Residence is less glitzy than nearby Battersea Power Station and the homes are a little cheaper, starting at £615,000 for a one- bedroom apartment. There’s an on-site gym, cinema room, business suite, 24-hour concierge and underground parking. Call Bellway on 0845 548 8035. STREET ART MEETS ART DECO A DIFFERENT sort of art installation is flats is carved from the original council Heritage homes in Acton being rescued at Acton Gardens, chamber. Prices from £400,000. Call “It’s a quality established estates there 200 years where developers are saving part of a 0344 800 8043. development”: ago. Henry Tate, the sugar magnate 125ft-high mural. The UK’s tallest, it Vanessa and arts benefactor, lived in a adorns a Sixties council tower block Woodgate in her mansion overlooking Streatham that’s due to make way for new homes. one-bedroom flat Common. Today it is a gated estate The work, by popular graffiti artist Thinking of at London Square with apartments and Regency-style Stik, will then be auctioned to raise at moving? Streatham Hill, townhouses in six acres of grounds. least £150,000 for local community where two- A “golden triangle” between Kings arts projects. The entire 52-acre estate Start your bedroom flats are Avenue, Atkins Road and Streatham is being redeveloped, bringing 2,500 now available Hill has big Edwardian houses that new homes with prices from £455,000 search on priced from would cost up to twice as much in the and rental flats from £1,375 a month. £599,000 best parts of Wandsworth. Elsewhere Call L&Q on 020 8853 6937. there are cottages, mansion flats, Also yielding new homes is The Old purpose-built Seventies blocks and Town Hall, left, Acton’s handsome Victorian two-up, two-down terraces. listed Art Deco former civic hub with The cheapest part is Streatham Vale. its distinctive clocktower. One of the 71