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Special effect Wood-clad extension wins the planners’ hearts: Page 26 DAVID BUTLER DAVID London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News The ‘Prince of Wales’ stalls Earl’s Court plan Trophy home of ROTESTERS have succeeded the week in halting part of the £8 billion watch Big Earl’s Court redevelopment Ben from rooftop gym in their quest to save two local pub buildings and a street of to time your workout Pworkers’ cottages from the bulldozer. The Prince of Wales and the Imperial Arms in Lillie Road, both now closed £19.95 million: once you have made a mint down, are part of a block which has and found a safe seat in the shires, your next been bought up by Capital & Counties priority as a newly elected MP will be to find a Properties plc — Capco — the developer suitable home near the Palace of Westminster. behind the huge regeneration pro- And here it is. gramme. Designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1911 and sitting Demolition was to have begun at the opposite the magnificent Baroque church of start of this year. But local residents St John’s — now a classical concert hall — have stalled Capco’s plans by success- Mulberry House commands a prominent fully applying to get the Prince of Wales position on the corner of Smith Square and — where the future King Edward VII is Dean Trench Street with views of Big Ben from reputed to have wooed actress Lillie its top-floor gym and roof terrace. Langtry — listed as an asset of commu- The refurbished, Grade II-listed, 11,720sq ft nity value. An application to demolish Officially an that application. The entire block, which home offers entertaining space on a grand the upper floors, reached by a sweeping, all the buildings on the site was refused asset: the former also included a handful of shops, as well scale, including a vast drawing room, a wood- cantilevered staircase and a lift, while a staff by Hammersmith and Fulham council Prince of Wales as houses in Empress Place, has now panelled library and a dining room lined in flat can be found on the lower-ground level. in December pending the outcome of pub, Lillie Road been boarded up for several months. Travertine stone. Seven bedroom suites span Through Hathaways (020 7222 3133). Linda Wade, who chairs the Earl’s Court Area Action Group, hopes Capco will rethink its plans. Editor: “Empress Place was a very nice little Lifechanger Janice enclave of Victorian terrace houses, Morley built for people who worked on the of the week canals and for the Metropolitan Rail- way,” she said. “The Prince of Wales start a B&B VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ was a local landmark, one of the differ- rules for details of our usual or open a little ent layers of history which make Lon- promotion rules. When you don so unique. It is almost as if that respond to promotions, offers or shop in the competitions, the London Evening history is being eradicated. Are we just Standard and its sister companies going to become a series of modern Cotswolds may contact you with relevant blocks? Progress is one thing. Eradica- offers and services that may be of tion is another.” £650,000: The Trumpet is a interest. Please give your mobile As part of Capco’s grand scheme, the splendid five-bedroom number and/or email address if site will see 1,300 new homes built in Cotswolds find in the ancient you would like to receive such the next few years. Capco said: “The upmarket market town of offers by text or email. former Prince of Wales pub sits outside Minchinhampton in wood-burning stove in the would also have a good of the consented Earl’s Court Masterp- Gloucestershire. 34ft sitting room. chance of converting the Editorial: 020 3615 2524 lan which is progressing well and will Once a pub — hence the You could continue with the workshop into a nice little Advertisement manager: deliver a vibrant new part of London, name — it’s now an antiques shop or run a little B&B, or holiday let. Waterloo is just Jamie McCabe including over 7,500 new homes and shop offering plenty of pursue another business an hour and a half away from Advertising: 020 3615 0266 improved community amenities. The character and flexibility, plus using an existing office and a nearby Stroud station. Homes & Property, Northcliffe decision by the council in relation to the the usual array of exposed completely separate Through Jackson-Stops & House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, former pub does not affect our plans.” stone walls and beams and a workshop in the garden. You Staff (01285 653334). London W8 5TT. O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week riverside pubs and trains a stroll away... the perfect Chiswick package

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ÉTHE manor house Brad Pitt and Hollywood couple, inset, needed Angelina Jolie called home when most of the 10 bedrooms. Priced at visiting Scotland is available to rent. £5,702 a night with Holiday Lettings, Carnell Estate, above, an imposing the pet-friendly retreat has a 10-acre 16th-century country house in garden that has starred in magazines. Ayrshire, is perfect for lavish parties. Brangelina are now said to be renting

With their six children in tow, the an eight-bedroom Surrey property. GETTY 6 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes

ONDON has more green space than most world cities. As well as eight immaculate Royal Parks with ornamental and boating lakes, there are Naturally, thousandsL of acres of heath and common land, 600 traditional garden squares, numerous public parks such as London Fields, plus nature reserves and well-kept community spaces we love tucked away in unlikely pockets of the inner city. Being able to get away from the noise and pollution of busy roads into an open green space provides instant the park relief, and is crucial for young families. Every £1 invested in green space con- tributes £30 towards health and wellbe- New homes beside London’s ing, and £23 towards community safety, according to an independent many parks and commons are survey commissioned by the Land being launched for the summer. Trust charity. Homes overlooking parks do cost David Spittles reports more, easily 20 per cent. But affordable properties are springing up alongside parks and even within some of them — often as part of wider regeneration programmes and attention to the natu- ral environment, as city planners pro- mote clean air and the amenity value of open spaces. The new riverside district being built between Vauxhall and Battersea Park promises a “green corridor” running through it, while the new 3,385-home Royal Wharf in Docklands incorpo- rates three parks and an on-site gym. London Mayor Boris Johnson’s Great Outdoors initiative is aimed at improv- ing the quality of 80 neighbourhoods in the capital, while the Royal Institute of British Architects sponsors a “forgot- ten spaces” competition for the imagi- native re-use and adaptation of neglected plots, encouraging designers to work with local groups and residents

wherever possible. ALAMY From £1.05 million: 27 luxurious apartments have been created at Wellington Increasingly, too, developers are tar- Row, Wimbledon Hill Park, on a former hospital site next to Wimbledon Common geting parkland sites on the fringes of “London’s village greens”: La Baita Canal and railways, which lowered the London where listed convents, hospi- coffee shop on Clapham Common tone. The area went downhill and lost tals, colleges and country mansions are is cachet — until the latter part of the the centrepiece. as 32 apartments with high ceilings, 20th century when it became fashion- At Royal Connaught Park in Bushey, marble fireplaces, parquet flooring and able again due to bohemian London Hertfordshire, originally the Royal Corinthian columns. Quirky duplex getting rich. Masonic School for Boys, homes have penthouses with secluded roof terraces Today it is a coveted neighbourhood been created in the grand Edwardian have been created in the Welsh-slated of tree-lined avenues with stucco- buildings, and new ones, designed to turrets. Prices from £750,000 to fronted houses, popular with writers, be in keeping, have been built in the £2,975,000. Call 020 3428 2222. actors and musicians. It has a “village” landscaped grounds. Prices from centre with bistros and boutiques. But £525,000. Call 01923 222 292. THE PRIMROSE HILL SET the highlight is 110-acre Primrose Hill Wimbledon Hill Park, on the site of Earl Camden’s attempt in the late 18th itself, which has a magnificent east-west a former hospital, is a 25-acre walled century to make Primrose Hill a sort of panorama from the summit. estate with 94 homes next to wonder- Belgravia of north London was frus- Joseph and Davida Williams, both 37, ful Wimbledon Common, which trated by the arrival of the Grand Union discovered their Primrose Hill home stretches all the way to Putney Vale. Prices are high — from £1.05 million. Call 020 8003 6139. THE COMMON TOUCH “Commons are London’s village greens,” says Robin Chatwin of estate agent Savills. Families who opt to stay in London rely on park life. When built in 1860, Thornton Place, overlooking 220-acre Clapham Com- mon, was one of London’s smartest addresses, rivalling the mansion-lined streets of Kensington and Chelsea. Comprising a pair of classical French- style turreted buildings, each block had five individual residences with up to 12 bedrooms, spectacular 50ft-long drawing rooms and elaborate architectural detailing. During the 20th century the buildings slipped into disrepair, despite being listed, ending up as a down-at-heel Room to breathe: open space is an integral part of the plan at Royal Wharf in bed-and-breakfast hotel. But they have Flats from £429,950, houses from £1.15 million: Cambium in Southﬁelds offers Docklands, where 3,385 homes come with three parks and an on-site gym been restored and brought back to life eco-friendly homes, some with roof gardens, plus an urban meadow and play area EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 7 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes| Homes & Property JAMES BALSTON JAMES BALSTON JAMES From £750,000: ﬂats at Thornton Place, Clapham, overlook the common and are close to the cafés and shops of Old Town

From £450,000: Embassy Works, a former laundry near Vauxhall Park and From £4 million: apartments at gated historic Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, has been converted into 39 loft apartments St Edmund’s Terrace, Primrose Hill while watching their son play in a traditional four-storey townhouse in. Buyers pay a hefty sum for the pleas- a new lake and café, play and picnic designed around a 200-year old oak Sunday football match. The couple where you spend a lot of time sepa- ure of living here — from £4 million. Call areas, 90,000 new plants and trees, and tree. The 110-home scheme includes an noticed a hoarding for St Edmund’s rated from your family, and walking up 020 7861 5483. a wildlife garden. The area, on the cusp urban meadow and children’s play area. Terrace, a luxury apartment develop- and down stairs.” of Zone 1, is a good hunting ground for Some of the houses have rooftop gar- ment being built on the site of a former The gated scheme of 36 flats has three THE GIFT OF A GARDEN cheaper homes close to central London. dens and garages. Flats cost from Thames Water reservoir and running “pavilion” buildings linked by land- “Public parks are the garden for fami- Flats at Harvard Gardens start at £429,950. Houses from £1.15 million. alongside the Hill. scaped courtyards and a glass-covered lies who cannot afford one,” says Cathy £450,000, and four-bedroom houses Call Lend Lease on 020 3817 7000. “It was pretty much there and then walkway, below which is a spa complex Lloyd, director of developer L&Q, cost from £950,000. For many decades, Embassy Works, that we realised it was where we with swimming pool and gym. Clad in which has unveiled Harvard Gardens The same developer has launched next to Vauxhall Park, near the historic wanted to live and raise our two boys,” Portland Stone and bronze, the stylish, — 71 homes by Burgess Park, a 113-acre Bolingbroke Park, Cockfosters, where Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, was a laun- says Davida. “We had been renting in modern architecture fits neatly into its expanse running between Peckham two-bedroom flats cost from £475,750. dry. The warehouse complex has been the area for nine years and enjoyed leafy surroundings. and Walworth. Call 0333 0033 637. converted into 39 loft apartments with many hours in the park as a family, with The Williams’s new home is an open- Recently upgraded, the park has a Cambium, in Southfields, offers exposed beams and brickwork. Prices no care in the world. We love the neigh- plan, 3,000sq ft apartment with full- listed Victorian church, library and something fresh — distinctly modern from £450,000. Call Jackson-Stops & bourhood but didn’t want to buy a height glass walls that invite the outside baths, almshouses and artisan cottages, and eco-friendly new-build townhouses Staff on 020 7664 6649. 8 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Commuting

A beer by the P TO 50,000 Londoners Thames: as well will quit the city this year as some of the to become countryside country’s best commuters and if you are pubs and considering joining their restaurants, ranks,U you probably ought to get to Henley offers know South Oxfordshire. good schools and This swathe of rolling country lies independent between Oxford and Reading. Not par- shopping ticularly known as a commuter choice, this 260 square mile patch contains just four towns — Didcot, Henley, Thame and Wallingford. The rest is open countryside, notably the Chiltern Hills, dot- ted with lovely, low-profile villages and hamlets that are surprisingly accessible to London by train. Just-published research by Halifax compared the quality of life in 121 rural areas across Britain, and South Oxford- shire was found to be the best non- urban location to live in the whole of the UK. Start your property search now.

NETTLEBED Best for: families with school-age children. NEGOTIATOR Katie Baldwin, of Savills, says: “Top of the wish list for families moving out of London is good schools.” She likes Nettlebed, a village smack in the heart of the Chilterns but less than

ALAMY five miles north-west of Henley. It offers plenty of fresh air and endess countryside for city-born children to explore. Nettlebed Community School, a primary, is rated “outstanding” by Ofsted. Seniors can go to Gillotts School in the country town of Henley on Thames or Wallingford School, seven miles away. Both are rated good by Ofsted. Beautiful South There’s a good range of private schools within school-run distance, including The Oratory School in Woodcote and Reading Blue Coat School, as well as the Oxfordshire has excellent options in Oxford. Family days out at the Warburg Nature Reserve are fun — and free — come out of hiding while Checkendon Equestrian Centre ALAMY offers woodland trails for tinies. Wallingford has an outside heated ticket costs £4,396. Property ranges at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons but there pool, and teenagers love Henley’s busy from post-war houses to ancient cot- is a bustling community behind the Why was this rolling stretch of English vibe — with boutiques, loads of good tages, with some lovely Georgian- famous address, a good local school and shops and restaurants, a cinema, Wait- fronted homes in the high street. A plenty of activities on the village green,” countryside, less than an hour from London, rose and café culture — and Reading’s modern four-bedroom detached house says buying agent Nick Mead, a partner nightlife. would cost from around £400,000. at The Buying Solution. voted Britain’s finest rural location? It’s down For grown-ups there is a village pub, The local pub, The Bull Inn, is com- to good local schools, pretty hamlets and and a café and deli, and the homemade GREAT MILTON munity owned, and “a proper country cheeses from Nettlebed Creamery are Best for: an active social scene pub”, adds Mead. perfect village pubs, says Ruth Bloomfield hard to resist. FOR those looking forward to immers- “The buzz of Oxford isn’t far away London workers can commute from ing themselves in village life, Great and lots of Londoners appreciate the Henley. Trains to Paddington take just Milton could be just the place. “It might cosmopolitan nature of Oxford.” James over an hour, and an annual season be renowned for fab [expensive)] food Shaw of buying agency Prime Purchase

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DORCHESTER ON THAMES Rural bliss: Best for: reluctant commuters open skies and THIS is another village with masses to riverside do. It has a delightful timber-framed meadows have high street, 17th- and 18th-century cot- helped to make tages and two great pubs. South Damian Gray, a partner at Knight Oxfordshire Frank, says: “In the village there is a Britain’s best local shop, a range of other stores, a rural location in sailing club which hosts events which to live throughout the year and of course, the River Thames for water sports. The village also hosts a festival which runs for 10 days every other May.” Perhaps more importantly for many, Dorchester on Thames is a 15-minute

drive from Didcot Parkway station, ALAMY from where trains into London Pad- dington take a do-able 40 minutes. The annual season ticket costs £4,832, and expect to pay about £700,000 for a Culinary star: cottage in Dorchester, or about £1 mil- Belmond Le lion for a farmhouse. Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons luxury MARSH BALDON hotel and two Best for: a picturesque setting Michelin-star IF YOU believe that looks matter, restaurant, choose the small and lovely village of founded by Marsh Baldon, five miles from Oxford. Raymond Blanc GETTY Mark Charter, head of residential at at Great Milton Carter Jonas’s Oxford office, says “Marsh Baldon is very pretty, 20 minutes to the south-east of Oxford and surrounded by glorious countryside. “Beautiful period houses nestle £1.85 million: a around a delightful village green and large four- picturesque cricket pitch. There’s also bedroom a good general mix of pretty period apartment at cottages, barn conversions, manor Wyfold Court, farmhouses and larger, more contem- right, Kingswood porary houses. near Henley on “There’s a primary school, a very Thames. The good community-owned pub on the house is set in village green, and a fantastic gastropub 180 acres and in the nearby hamlet of Toot Baldon, comes with The Mole Inn.” The village hall hosts residents’ tennis drawing classes, exercise classes, wine- courts. Savills tasting courses, toddlers’ groups and (01491 901013) youth clubs. Commuters must first drive the eight £310,000: right, agrees Great Milton is one of the most For the reluctant commuter: it’s a miles to Didcot Parkway to pick up a beautifully active villages in this region. short drive then a 40-minute train to Paddington services but for many this renovated To the school and the pub he adds the Paddington from picturesque journey will be rewarded once the two-bedroom amenities of a post office and shop, tod- Dorchester on Thames — and the Elizabeth line launches in 2018 and Grade II-listed dler groups, kids’ sports clubs, amateur village has two great pubs they will be able to travel directly to the cottage in the dramatics, quiz nights, and football, West End and the City. high street at tennis, cricket and athletics teams. homes are modern and on the outskirts However, the village’s present popu- Dorchester on Commuters head to Haddenham & of the village, priced at around larity means high prices. A small 17th- Thames. Thame Parkway station, eight miles £300,000 to £400,000 for three- to or 18th-century cottage costs about Available away, for services to London. Trains to four-bedroom houses. A two- to three- £450,000, with four-bedroom family through Marylebone take just over half an hour bedroom cottage would cost £500,000 houses from £1 million to £1.5 million. Winterbrook. and an annual season ticket is £4,676. to £700,000, while a farmhouse would A grander manor house will give you Call 01491 The most affordable Great Milton set you back about £1.25 million. no change from £2 million. 901017

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Mr Poly-cotton: DJ Alan “Fluff” Freeman was the Seventies TV face of bargain bed linen makers Brentford Nylons. The factory is now The Market Building — 44 loft-style ﬂats

From £300,000: flats at The Market Building, carved from the old Brentford Nylons factory, are of a generous size and have Crittall-style windows, underfloor heating and movable walls for flexible space Now it’s Brentford-tastic HEAP and nasty bed sheets Cheap sheets central has been with a static charge from the factory of Brentford Nylons reborn with homes for young helped put this corner of west London on the map in Londoners, says David Spittles Cthe Seventies. Back then, despite the electrostatic crackling and the cheesy TV ads fronted by DJ Alan “Fluff” Free- man, Brentford Nylons was one of the UK’s most recognised retail brands. The business went bust but the factory lives on as 44 new loft-style flats that will appeal to young Londoners seeking a home not too far from the West End — Brentford is eight miles from Charing Cross — and content to live with some aircraft noise from Heathrow. Regeneration is set to wake up the high street and open up the River Brent waterfront. Up to a dozen residential From £462,500: 74 new-build flats at developments are under way, and even Heritage Walk in Brentford, next to the local football club is getting in on London Museum of Water & Steam the act, building a new stadium complex that includes 648 new homes. West is a scheme of 530 flats and town- Starting at £300,000, homes in the houses on the canal banks. One of the former bed linen factory, now The development partners is Canal & River Market Building, cover from 398sq ft Trust, formerly British Waterways. As to 1,114sq ft, with movable walls, tall, well as commercial and leisure space, Crittall-style windows and underfloor new moorings, pontoons and a foot- heating. Developer Verve Properties bridge are being created, the towpath has replicated the ceramic and con- is being widened and Art Deco ware- crete cladding of the original Fifties houses refurbished. A new phase is building and picked up on mid-century launching soon. Call 020 8569 7449. interior design. Heritage Walk is another Brentford There is a 15-seat private cinema and new build, with 74 flats next to the Lon- residents’ club room, an open court- don Museum of Water & Steam. From yard with living green walls and giant £462,500. Call St James on 020 3740 pebble seats, and most of the flats have 1397. Meanwhile, in Great West Road, outside space. The penthouses, at WestSide offers 137 flats arranged £575,000, are light corner units with around courtyard gardens. Prices from floor-to-ceiling glass walls. Call estate £504,995. Call 0333 2025149. agent Quilliam on 020 8847 4737. A TASTE OF THE AREA The scheme lies between the High Street and The Butts conservation area with its historic market square dominated by the old town’s listed former magis- trates court, built in 1850, which has been refurbished into nine flats, a café and restaurant. Visit the Sunday farm- ers’ market for a taste of the area, and the National Trust’s Osterley Park and House for local grandeur. Brentford sits at the confluence of the Thames and the River Brent, while the Grand Union Canal also runs through. Coming next year is 900-home Brent- ford Waterside, by developer Bally- more, which is taking on a neglected

stretch of the High Street to integrate ALAMY with the waterfront. Brentford Lock Waterside living: Brentford Lock West, on Grand Union Canal 12 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | UK holiday homes

E ARE in the middle of exceptional countryside between the Lakes and the Yorkshire Dales,” says Ashley WReece, co-founder of luxury eco-homes builder egg Homes, who lives in Cumbria. “The sea is one mile away and the M6 is within 15 minutes. The location is perfect for active families. There are plenty of good schools nearby, many of £895,000: eight-bedroom house in them undersubscribed.” 12 acres at Staveley, Kendal (Savills) Sustainability, thoughtful architecture and luxury living do not always go hand STRONG RENTAL RETURNS in hand with a rural setting but get it THE Lake District in Cumbria is right and you are on to a winner. That’s England’s largest National Park. what egg Homes discovered when it Established in 1951, it is a walkers’ launched on a 12-acre site in Viver paradise, boasting 244 fells within Green. Phase One properties sold out

885 square miles stretching up to within a week last year with those six GETTY Scafell Pike, England’s highest peak buyers, all full-time residents, due to Gentle walking option: head 1,000ft up Loughrigg Fell for stunning lake views Moving in: Viver Green buyers Sam at 3,208 feet. move in this summer. Now Phase Two and Nathan Sayers, with son Isaac The wettest part of the UK, it still is released, for October delivery. attracts 16 million visitors a year, Peaceful Viver Green will have 19 four- according to Cumbria Tourism — and five-bedroom freehold homes on The great Lakes enough to ensure strong rentals of generous plots priced from £445,950 to ‘We love the design up to 40 weeks for the best £800,000, mostly detached and in six properties. Many local families styles. All have balconies, garages and In the wilds of Cumbria, Cathy Hawker finds and the green side choose to live in or close to Kendal, attractive finishes including top-grade outside the National Park with Burlington Slate and A-rated eco-cre- a luxury eco-retreat for cosseted Londoners is important to us’ good local facilities. dentials. The site is 10 minutes’ drive Local agent Arnold Greenwood from Oxenholme station where trains but these should be maintenance-free SAM and Nathan Sayers, a school has a handsome five-bedroom connect directly to Euston in two hours homes with low running costs. The secretary and company MD, say: stone townhouse in central Kendal and 40 minutes. Kendal, gateway to the developers are aiming for accreditation “We couldn’t find anything we for sale at £390,000, while Savills is Lake District, is 10 minutes away and through the independently assessed liked locally — then we saw Viver selling an eight-bedroom house in Windermere is within half an hour. Home Quality Mark, a new national Green. We thought there must be 12 acres of outstanding countryside Homes will have superfast broadband, standard for well-designed, well-built, some mistake. You just don’t get at Staveley, Kendal, for £895,000. solar panels, solid upper-floor insula- healthier, energy-efficient homes. homes like that around here. We tion, intelligent controls and a high love the design and the eco-side is O Arnold Greenwood: thermal envelope. All this comes at a O egg Homes: egghomes.uk (01539 important to us.” They bought a arnoldgreenwood.co.uk higher than normal buying cost for the 760577) four-bedroom house and move in O Savills: savills.com area — Rightmove puts the average From £445,950: six house styles are O Home Quality Mark: with son Isaac, nine, and five-year- detached Kendal house at £313,250 — available at Viver Green near Kendal HomeQualityMark.com old daughter Daisy in June.

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1 PICK ME UP GRAPHIC ARTS FESTIVAL From April 21 to May 2, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, Strand, WC2 (pickmeup. somersethouse.org.uk). Open daily 10am-6pm, Things late nights Wednesdays & Thursdays until 9pm. Tickets £10, concessions £8, festival pass £17.50. THIS buzzing 12-day festival is fun for all ages, a to see in April fabulous forum for illustration, animation, 3D installations, ceramics, stationery and more. See By work by emerging and established artists, buy Barbara Chandler artworks and limited-edition prints from as little as £5, and get them framed on site. Renowned house that was originally an “arts and crafts typographer Alan Kitching — featured in a separate settlement” where the rich helped London’s poor. Life in Letterpress retrospective, above, at Somerset Find textiles, glass, ceramics, wood and metalwork, House — will complete a Utopian-themed artwork plus fashion accessories, and drop into the café in the live over several days. walled garden. We like these cushions in machine- Also see contemporary ceramics from the new Clay knitted British-spun lambswool by Prilly Lewis. Enjoy Collective of Hackney Downs. Join resident artists in free talks and demos from West Dean College, and workshops for bookbinding, sign painting and maybe book for a short art or craft course. Thebestseat calligraphy. Typeset your own poster, make your own stickers, and/or decorate a skateboard (for more 4 THE LONDON COFFEE FESTIVAL ideas, see Just Your Type on Page 24). Tomorrow until Sunday at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, E1. Tickets £14.50 online, in the house 2 CERAMIC ART LONDON 2016 £20 on the door. This Friday until Sunday at Central Saint Martins, COFFEE is now our national drink. We enjoy 3.2 cups 1 Granary Square, N1C (ceramics.org.uk). Tickets a day as against 2.4 cups of tea, and a quarter of us from £12, concessions £8. say we couldn’t get through the day without our Java CERAMICS are perhaps the strongest arm of current fix. London celebrates with a massive beano in the craft. See why in this impressive international round- brick-lined caverns of the Old Truman Brewery. up, in its 12th year and in a new venue in revitalised Find more than 250 artisan coffee and gourmet King’s Cross. There are 68 UK exhibitors (including food stalls, see demos from world-class baristas, Emily Gardiner, pictured), but artists also come from taste blends galore, sip coffee-based cocktails, check all over Europe and from Japan, Australia and Korea, out coffee machines and join workshops, talks and totalling 88, all carefully vetted for artistic and debates. Learn how to pair different coffees with the technical excellence. Buy direct from makers. Prices right foods — oysters and espresso anyone? Also start from £30 for a small bowl/mug. London’s Sue enjoy live music with DJs, art exhibitions, the School Paraskeva’s porcelain vessels are £250 each and of Chocolate, and much more. Barry Stedman’s large thrown earthenware platters cost £230. Check out a full programme of talks, 5 LONDON EDIT demos, performances, and tours. Open now until April 28 at Harrods, 87-135 Brompton Road, SW1 (harrods.com) 3 MADE LONDON: BLOOMSBURY CAN you judge a home by its postcode? Harrods has a The Design and Craft Fair, April 29 to May 1. Open go this month, with a London edit by Annalise Fard, 10am to 6pm at Mary Ward House, 5-7 Tavistock director of Harrods Home. In lavish store windows in Place, WC1 (madelondon-bloomsbury.org). the Brompton Road and in room settings on the third Tickets £10 on the door, under-14s free and fourth floors of the store, you will find, for MEET up to 100 British designer makers at this new example, the Chelsea Townhouse, with a cool mix of selling event in stunning Edwardian rooms in a listed neutral shades, marble and metallics, to introduce exclusive furniture by US interior designer Kelly 5 Wearstler. Also explore the eclectic Hampstead House, " left, in calm blues, where furniture at the cutting edge " sits happily amid period details. The Notting Hill Villa is “British bohemia”, with colourful Duresta sofas by Matthew Williamson set " against a backdrop of huge palm leaves. Lastly, go east to the Shoreditch Loft, with Italian leather furniture and ! ! ! a giant Anglepoise lamp. Launching this month is Harrods Interiors, a design " " service for a pair of curtains… or a whole home. 18 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design My de de onon By Liz Hoggard Gabriele Finaldi DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY

FTER 13 years at the Prado in Madrid, Gabriele Finaldi, 51, moved back to London to become director of the National Gallery in August Alast year. His name points to his Italian heritage but he grew up in Catford, south-east London, where his parents ran a language school. He attended Dulwich College and was converted to art aged 16 when he saw Rembrandt’s rosy-cheeked Girl at a Window (1645) at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Later he stud- ied at The Courtauld Institute of Art, playing keyboard in a jazz band to help support himself. WHERE I LIVE After 13 years we are back in Catford. We lived in East Dulwich when we were REX first married. Then we bought a house in Catford before we moved to Spain. Catford is very important for us Fine collections: Gabriele Finaldi loves because my parents and brothers and Dulwich Picture Gallery, inset above, sisters are close by. One of my two mar- and the British Library, above far right ried daughters is here — it has become a Finaldi enclave. We bought our house BEST CULTURAL HOTSPOT in a pretty dreadful state. There were The Wellcome Collection museum has 17 leaks so we called it “Leak House”. a great building. They put cushions on We did it up and rented it out. Now we the staircases for students to sit and do are doing it up again. their notes, and it’s always very interesting. At the Imperial War Museum I was MY HOME STYLE quite astonished to find the bombed-out

Ours is still very much a functional car from Iraq that the artist Jeremy GETTY house, because we’ve got children liv- Deller took on tour around the ing with us and people coming to stay. US. I’ve a lot of admiration for There are quite nice things on the walls, my old schoolfriend Jeremy, mostly paintings and prints I brought he’s an original thinker. back from Spain. One favourite piece is from Seville, a picture of Rest on the SECRET SHOP Flight into Egypt, painted on glass. Gennaro, a wonderful Italian deli in Lewisham, used to be run

FAVOURITE OBJECT by the family of friends of mine. GETTY When I was first going out with my wife It’s like walking into an Italian ver- she bought me a reproduction of a sion of a Middle Eastern emporium. The perfect pop-up: Gift Horse, above, The library building was hated by many Secret Shop: Cycladic figure that was so well done by Hans Haacke on Trafalgar Square’s people at first but I like it and its wonder- Gennaro’s deli in you might have thought it was real. I’ve COVETED DESIGN OBJECT Fourth Plinth, is a “brilliant way to ful collection — from the Codex Sinaiti- Lewisham. Above still got it 30 years on. She has lost her An illuminated manuscript from the connect art and people”. Left, a cus, the world’s oldest Bible, to the right, Catford feet now — the figure not my wife — she Book of Hours from the 15th century, replica Cycladic ﬁgure — now without Beatles manuscripts — is a real sweep of Centre’s giant has aged with us. that you can see at the British Library. feet — is a treasured object at home history. ﬁbreglass cat

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Cultural hotspot: artist Jeremy Deller bring people closer to the National Gal- MY ESCAPE at the Imperial War Museum with his lery’s collection. London remains a green city and that’s bombed-out Baghdad car installation very exciting. As a family we love Black- MY LONDON INSIDER TIP heath and Greenwich Park which is so FAVOURITE GALLERY Walk into a church, for music and won- rich in history with The Queen’s House I consider Dulwich Picture Gallery to derful architecture. It is a very special and the Maritime Museum, and the be my local. I love the beauty of the London combination: the brash moder- Royal Observatory. And of course the collection and the way it fits together nity of the city and the little churches river forms part of the experience of with the architecture, and the very you find on nearly every street corner. the park as well. skilful extension. The Wallace That is something that has Collection is marvellous, too, and improved — the way the city relates Leighton House Museum. I was to the Thames. In the past London also thrilled by the Geffrye lived with its back to the river, but Museum and the way it looks at now it embraces it. You can do a how your identity is bound up fantastic walk past Southwark Cathe- with the place you live in, the dral and the Globe and Bankside and shape of the house and how you the Tate. At Blackfriars Bridge the decorate it. new train station is really exciting. BEST APP BEST POP-UP

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► Pentreath & Hall’s Alphabet brush pot, £40. Visit pentreath- hall.com 26 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Our home BEND IT LIKE BEN A steam-bent timber Victorian Gothic at the front: in a extension was just conservation area, the extension at the good idea the the rear had to remain hidden Wow factor at the back: Ben Perl and planners wanted. By Amanda Kendrick now enjoy an Philippa Stockley extended kitchen-living room and a new bedroom and en suite bathroom

UCCESSFULLY adding a new consultant recommended a few archi- two-storey section to an old tects, who Perl invited round. “Simon house is a bit like a marriage. Gill,” he says, “risked losing the job by So says Ben Perl, 44, who lives telling me what I didn’t want to hear, with his girlfriend, Amanda which was that the newly refurbished Kendrick,S 41, in pretty Roehampton upstairs bathroom would have to be village, just beyond East Putney. ripped out, because it was the only With its steepled church, green, and sensible route into the new bedroom.” Victorian Gothic cottages, the village Instantly impressed, he hired him and is a setting for a BBC costume drama. gave him “carte blanche”. It’s a conservation area, too, so the fronts of the houses can’t be altered. CONSERVATION OFFICER Any addition has to be at the back, and THROWS A CURVED BALL if it’s visible from anywhere, the con- Gill did drawings of a two-storey tim- servation officer must be satisfied that ber-clad, timber extension that flared it is in keeping. This meant that the out at one side to make a bit more couple’s architect, Simon Gill, had to room. It would be built on site. On the rethink the look of their double-height, outside, Gill designed vertical Siberian larch-clad extension — and their build- larch cladding. Larch is a sturdy soft- ers had to learn new skills. wood that weathers well. Then the design fell foul of the con- AN EXACTING WISH LIST servation officer, who insisted that the London-born Perl trained as a sur- boards must be horizontal, like old veyor. In 2010, living in a flat in Fulham local clapboarded properties. Since with a former girlfriend, he decided it Gill had designed an interesting curve was time to buy a house. He was a plan- on one side, this now meant that the ning consultant by then, and able to timber would need to be heat-treated ride around London on his scooter to to curve round it. No mean feat. look at contenders. His wish list was Perl had hired the same builders who clear. “Top price £700,000, a period had done the now-condemned bath- house with a garden, in a varied terrace room. They were brothers, one a skilled in an area with character, charm, and joiner. When it came to bending the a community feel. But I didn’t mind timbers, something they had never where in London.” done, Gill sent a handmade steamer He had already seen 40 houses when “that looked like a long coffin” down he spotted the little Roehampton house from Norfolk, from a boat-building online. His Putney agent hadn’t shown friend. Into the steam went the larch it to him, thinking he wouldn’t be boards, out came pliable wood that had interested in the area. Perl booked a to be quickly curved and fixed. “We viewing. broke quite a few at the start,” Perl A three-storey family home for 25 admits. years, the slate-roofed 1870s house had been extended sideways in the Eight- HE build began in June 2014 ies, absorbing a path. It had also had a and was completed in an “bog-standard” timber conservatory impressive three months. In added in the Nineties, which was now place of the conservatory, leaking and genteelly rotting. Other- Perl and Kendrick now have wise, the house was largely original Tan extended kitchen-living room — also inside, with a lawned garden with an with timber linings. Upstairs is a quiet apple tree and rose bushes. bedroom with exposed roof timbers and The minute he saw it, Perl knew it thought, why not forget all that and put WHAT IT COST email — ALScontractors@ an en suite bathroom. would be hard to beat, particularly with a proper room with another floor on House in 2010: £705,000 yahoo.co.uk Outside, the architect paid a lot of green space front and back, and the top, holding a bedroom and en suite? Works including architect Solid oak kitchen units: attention to detail. The timber curves atmosphere of the area, He bought it, After all, the front bedroom was noisy and planning consultant: Howdens Joinery at are attractive, and a sort of timber flying had the old carpets taken up, sanded because of the buses that roared past £122,000 howdens.com buttress adds interest. Punctured by the floorboards, refurbished the — a problem unknown to Victorians. Value now: £1.3 million Off-white handmade well-placed windows, the double exten- upstairs bathroom, and moved in. Ever pragmatic, Perl called in a plan- metro tiles: firedearth. sion is light, practical, and warm. By 2013, now going out with Kend- ning consultant. Most of us don’t even GET THE LOOK com Working with a joiner was crucial, for rick, a play therapist, Perl decided it know they exist. “He saved me thou- Architect: Simon Gill at Olsen engineered wooden the detailing of the wood is very neat, was time to sort out the conservatory. sands,” he says. simongillarchitects.co.uk windows: olsenuk.com and it is just such things that make or “As well as being rotten, it was boiling “I described what I wanted, and he Planning consultant: David Skylights: velux.co.uk break a marriage of old and new like in summer, freezing in winter.” He considered it from a planning angle, Lamont at dlblack.com Osmo white oil: osmouk. this one. Ben Perl’s house has been considered rebuilding it. Then putting Photographs:: particularly the question of overlook- Builder: ALS Contractors via com nominated for an Architects’ Journal a proper roof on it. Then he sensibly David Butler ing.” Finding no significant issues, the small projects award. 28 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Interiors homesandproperty.co.uk

Perching prettily: embroidered British Familiar favourites: jaunty garden Wade right in: designed and black velvet. Size 43cm birds add detail to this Fauvisimo linen/ birds perched on telegraph wires made in the UK, this cushion square, with a removable viscose weave, £62 a metre at Harlequin. feature on Birds wallpaper by designer is adorned with a godwit — zipped cover and duck The showroom is at Design Centre Louise Body. It costs £60 for a 10-metre one in a series of three feather pad. Priced £25.95 at Chelsea Harbour, Lots Road, SW10 roll in a choice of three colourways wading bird cushions in Coastal Home (coastalhome. (0845 123 6805; harlequin.uk.com) (louisebody.com; 07889 465 552) woven tapestry backed with co.uk; 01625 578105) Feather your nest Flocks of birds inspire spring’s fabrics and wallpapers, discovers Barbara Chandler

RITISH birds have inspired a captivating flock of fabrics, papers, ceramics and even lamps this spring, bringing a welcome breath of the outdoorsB into London’s urban homes. Just launched is Woodland Chorus wallpaper and fabric, hand-drawn and painted in watercolour by Alison Gee at the Sanderson studio. Her fantasy “tree of life” includes a green woodpecker, a wren, a robin, a thrush and a pair of blue tits on their nest of eggs, to sit, with butterflies and bugs, amid a distinctly un-botanical mix of foliage from different trees. Though taken from an 18th-century archive print, production is digital to capture the exquisite detail and subtle tones of the original artwork (sanderson-uk.com). By contrast, Fauvisimo, a new and very bright collection at Harlequin, expresses the bold, thick brush strokes and brilliant colours of early 20th- century French art. But the details are very British, with birds, flowers and landscapes. Designer Becky Brown remembers childhood walks along the River Itchen (harlequin.uk.com). Louise Body started screen-printing her bird paintings by hand on to wallpaper in a studio in Brighton over 10 years ago. Printing is done in a traditional mill in the North of England (Louisebody.com). In Scotland, Timorous Beasties gives Fantasy tree of British birds the surreal touch so typical life: Woodland of the brand. Paul Simmons, a bit of a Chorus wallpaper twitcher himself, is one of half of the Chirpy: Louise Body’s and costs £60 for a 10-metre from Sanderson, design duo that runs the company, and Pavilion wallpaper, top, roll. Visit louisebody.com or £58 per 10-metre says the aviary of favourites includes: comes in two colourways call 07889 465 552 roll. See it at the “Goldfinch, nuthatch, tree creepers, Sanderson goshawk, long-eared owl, jay, bullfinch, Swoop on it: wheeling above above, from £119 — shown showroom, and blackbird. And the golden oriole, Brighton’s Palace Pier, a here with a crystal glass Design Centre with only 20 nesting pairs surviving “murmuration” of starlings base handmade in Norfolk. Chelsea Harbour due to the felling of poplar trees in the inspired artist Anna Jacobs Limited edition prints are (as before) Thirties to make matches.” and this lampshade pattern, £120 (annajacobsart.com) EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 29 powered by Interiors | Homes & Property

Flash of blue: a brilliant Surreal singers: British Birds shimmering kingﬁsher, wallpaper, top, by Timorous above, embroidered on to Beasties, is available in a linen/viscose weave fabric, choice of colourways and is £62 a metre, part of the priced £280 for a 10-metre roll. Fauvisimo range, trimmed The London showroom is at here with Barletta Bobble 46 Amwell Street, EC1 (call Feather-light: bird-printed linen voile is both beautifully lightweight and eye-catching. Priced £58 a metre, it’s from the braid at £32 a metre. Both 020 7833 5010 or visit Fauvisimo collection at Harlequin (as before) or visit the Sanderson showroom at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, SW10 from Harlequin (as before) timorousbeasties.com) 32 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Outdoors

Pattie Double delight: the Traffic Light plant from Dobies, left, is the result Barron of two red and orange peppers grafted on to one rootstock

OR time-poor Londoners who Oliver and Nigel Slater. Used for dress- love to grow edibles, baby ings and drizzles in smart restaurants, plants that just need to be it resembles a mandarin-shaped lemon settled into soil or compost and tastes like a cross between the two. are the way to go. The choice Foodie pioneers might also like to try Fhas never been wider, and many are Dobies’ new Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. bred especially for small spaces and It looks darling, small, rounded and

JONATHAN BUCKLEY JONATHAN containers. scarlet, but don’t be deceived: the Scor- Frills from France: Descartes and Seurat lettuce rosettes Runner beans, for instance, no longer pion, rated off the heat-measuring need an eight-foot wigwam to produce Scoville Scale at Volcanic Plus, is the a prolific crop. New Jackpot Mix, from hottest recorded chilli pepper. Dobies, is a runner bean that has been Aubergines are having a moment in crossed with a dwarf French bean and the sun. From Dobies comes the Meat- Raise produces large yields of full-size beans ball, recommended as a meat substi- from bushy, compact plants. tute due to its dense, meaty, seedless Sarah Raven’s eight-strong seedling flesh, while Suttons’ Pinstripe is the beautiful collection of frilly French lettuces, Des- showcase aubergine for pots and raised cartes and Seurat, form rosettes in beds. It’s a dwarf variety that is surpris- bright green and deep beetroot that are ingly prolific and has the prettiest fruits perfect for pots. What’s more, you don’t of pinky-purple streaked with white. babies need to pull the whole lettuce but can cut-and-come-again, so you don’t spoil the symmetry. You can even grow a PACE-SAVING gardeners will With just a container and some pumpkin in a pot — several, in fact — if be keen to know they can you share Dobies’ view that with pump- grow aubergines and potatoes compost you can grow a feast in kins, size isn’t everything. The Windsor on the same plant — Thomp- a small space is a non-sprawler so is ideal for contain- son & Morgan’s Egg & Chips, ers, and you can expect a supply of fruits theS successor to last year’s Tomtato, a with a useful 15cm diameter. grafted plant that produces tomatoes Although peas might be easy-peasy to above soil and potatoes below. The grow from seed, it’s tempting to buy 15 two-for-one veg is here to stay, and can garden-ready plugs of Petit Pois plants look rather attractive. Witness Dobies’ that promise to deliver those finer-tast- Traffic Light, a sweet pepper duo of ing, smaller French peas. Mangetouts scarlet and orange snack peppers on are equally simple, but plants of Golden the same rootstock, as well as T&M’s Sweet mangetout offer pale green chic black-and-white combo of Indigo )*-3-+5 leaves, red leaf nodes, those gorgeous Rose and White Cherry tomatoes. mauve flowers and, as contrast, lemon- Turbo plants are another major trend, ' green pods. All from Suttons. in which the fruiting plant is grafted on to a super-strong rootstock, for vigorous ! FOR FOODIE PIONEERS growth and higher yields. To see what Cordon tomato Mountain Magic is the fuss is about, try Suttons’ robust Thompson & Morgan’s vegetable of the Orange Paruche, cherry tomatoes with year because it has such good resistance the flavour of both lychees and passion- to blight, wilt and just about any disease fruit. Hopefully there’s a hint of tomato that affects tomatoes in the UK. Now we taste in there, too. just need a tomato that will be unaf- fected by the average British summer. SEED COMPANIES If you have a greenhouse, you could try O Suttons: suttons.co.uk; 0333 043 T&M’s Gigantomo, the largest variety of 0700 beefsteak tomato. Each fruit weighs up O Sarah Raven: sarahraven.com; 0345 to 1.3kg and measures 20cm across, so 092 0283 the plant needs serious scaffolding. O Dobies: dobies.co.uk; 0844 967 0303 Ethnobotanist James Wong adds two O Thompson & Morgan: thompson- citrus plants to his range of global good- morgan.com; 0844 573 1818 ies for Suttons: caviar lime — which tastes of lime and grapefruit, its innards O Garden queries? Email our RHS expert resembling translucent fish roe, making at [email protected] it ideal for dolloping on fish dishes — and Fruity beauty: Thompson & Morgan’s Gigantomo is the O For outdoor events this month, visit yuzu, a superfood championed by Jamie largest commercial variety of beefsteak tomato homesandproperty.co.uk/events

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BOUT a year ago I took a thought I might need to renovate the punt on a tenant who The accidental flat before re-letting it. However, this failed a credit check and time round I had a dozen enquiries offered me less rent than within 48 hours and I showed nine another guy who was also landlord couples round in back-to-back interestedA in the flat. viewings the following Saturday. I accepted his lower offer because he By late that afternoon I had two was so enthusiastic about my And not only has he left the flat in offers. Of course, the additional property. I wasn’t too worried about just as good nick as when he moved interest might have been down to him failing the check because he in, but he has also left it full of changes in the market, or the fact explained he was only recently self- fabulous furniture. The guy had a that last time I was advertising in employed so had no proof of income. great eye for design and he managed February, generally a tough month £440 a week: Faron Sutaria has a one-bedroom furnished It sounded very plausible to me. to source really cool pieces for to find tenants. But I think a lot of it flat available to rent in Alexandra Mansions, King’s Road, Mind you, just so you don’t think I peanuts. He found a gorgeous sofa was down to the flat’s presentation. SW3, close to Sloane Square Tube (020 8012 2442). am entirely soppy, I also signed up being given away on Gumtree, his mum as guarantor, just in case. bought a cheap but stylish dining Y SWEETHEART of a He had only just moved in when he table from Ikea and got a great deal tenant was also emailed to ask if he could get rid of on some chairs to go with it. present for some of the some of the furniture, including an Instead of throwing out the chests viewings, so that might old sofa and a couple of old chests of of drawers I’d left, he painted them have helped, too. He drawers. I wasn’t thrilled because I with Farrow & Ball, transforming Mtalked up the flat, telling everyone he didn’t want to have to buy more them from drab to fab. The way he had loved living there and was so when he left, but I agreed because, styled the place was so good that sorry to be leaving. well, they were a bit dowdy. when he told me he was leaving, He was already in my good books A year later I can say that accepting instead of using my old photos to re- and then, as he was packing up his his offer was one of the best advertise the flat, I took some new stuff, his girlfriend decided right at decisions I’ve made as a landlord. In ones with his cool furniture in situ. O Victoria the last minute that she didn’t want fact, he turned out to be my second- It made a huge difference. When Whitlock lets four any of the furniture in their new flat favourite tenant — first place goes to I’d last advertised the property it properties in — so he offered to leave it all behind. a guy who rented from me for five took me ages to get any interest. south London. To Maybe I was just lucky, but I think years and never once complained. Even the letting agent I eventually contact Victoria this proves a tenant doesn’t have to Now, though, my second favourite appointed only managed to bring with your ideas tick all of the boxes to be one of the £450 a week: in a period building in Oxford Gardens, North has departed, having decided to round a couple of viewers. Back and views, tweet best. However, it is still a good idea Kensington, W10, John D Wood has a bright, one-bedroom move out west with his girlfriend. then, I was so disheartened that I @vicwhitlock to sign up their mother, too. flat with wood floors available to rent (020 8012 0865).

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MONDAY to the phone for the rest of the day and been instructed to let a five-bedroom It’s 7am and I am already sitting at my I end up receiving a call with the news house in Park Langley, Beckenham, on desk. To be honest I’m in this early that we have been instructed to sell a short-term basis. It is a stunning prop- most mornings so that I can work another three-bedroom semi-detached erty, and I imagine it will quickly get through all the lettings admin while the house in Shirley, where our office is. snapped up. phones are quiet. Once my team is in The week is getting better. I am booked to go out on valuations we go through the volume of sales, for the rest of the day. We give away a which we are pleased to say are on the WEDNESDAY free “Proctor”, our company piggy up. In the last month we have seen We’re off to a shaky start today. I am at bank, with every market appraisal. Our valuations increase sixfold — which a development to see one of the flats marketing team has given Proctor a means our diaries have been extremely but I don’t quite make it, as the lift sud- makeover with our 70th anniversary busy. A great start to the year. denly stops dead between floors. I’m logo, so he’s ready to celebrate. We have some fun in the afternoon sharing the lift with a heavily pregnant by video calling a few friends on Skype woman. She is French and doesn’t FRIDAY to practise our skills. Not all the staff speak English so I try a feeble smile and First meeting is with Susie from our are Skype savvy — me included — but keep calm for both our sakes. Thank- new homes department to discuss the we need to be able to identify clients fully there is an emergency button. I launch of a development in Croydon. abroad as part of the new Right to Rent press it and within 15 minutes we are There are five homes under construc- legislation checks that are in full back on the move. tion, which, so far, seem to be on swing. My next meeting is back at the office track. and fortunately it is lift free. The meet- Next up, I put my writing skills to the TUESDAY ing is with our account manager at test. I have some quotes to write for a A colleague from our land & develop- Rightmove. We discuss expanding our newspaper article on top tips for choos- ment department joins me for a meet- presence on the website with a prop- ing a tenant. Then — great news — we ing with a national property company’s erty sales micro site, which we agree agree a sale on a six-bedroom house, representative to discuss an opportu- to do. She leaves happy. on the market for £1.95 million in nity for a large-scale project in south- Shirley Hills. The vendors are very east London. THURSDAY happy so as it’s Friday I celebrate with Back in the office, I’m straight on the There is a birthday in the office today. a little cha-cha-cha and a glide around phone to return a number of calls Bryce has been with our branch for the office. Did I mention I have a gold regarding a two-bedroom flat to let in over 20 years, and still sits in the same medal for dancing the cha-cha-cha? Beckenham. This flat is in a prime spot seat. We celebrate in the morning with in the area so I am not surprised it is a birthday breakfast before it’s back to O Nick Vincent is a director at Proctors proving very popular. My ear is glued some serious hard work. We have just in Shirley, Croydon (020 8777 2121).

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