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‘Londoners turn tough stuff into success stories’ London buy of Janice the week The Morley living’s easy in W5

IT IS NOT unusual in London for a huge £595,000: in Ealing’s charming conservation area, opposite leafy Trophy home of the week regeneration project to be launched on 30 Montpelier Park in W5, this neat, acres. In Wapping it means a stunning new detached house has been recently You’ll be expecting Mr Bond… extended and renovated. Picket quarter with 1,800 new homes. It is not fences enclose an easycare faux- £22.5 million: you might need a modest defence budget to unusual in this diverse city for Hackney’s turfed garden, while the home’s afford this swish penthouse on the 16th and 17th floors of the London Embroidery Studio to tackle a smart new interior showcases a landmark Riverwalk scheme in Pimlico SW1 — but just look palette of pale greys and white at that view. The block sits opposite MI6 HQ and has already daunting project: one in celebration of the throughout a dual-aspect 14ft proved a bit of scene stealer in the Bond movies. The flat World Cup that creates an epic 650-panel reception room. An impressive contains gadgets galore across 6,471sq ft of living space with Shaker-style kitchen has dark grey 360-degree views over the river and the city. There are five journey through football, a sporting Bayeux cabinetry and underfloor heating. bedroom suites, a Boffi kitchen and a 2,500sq ft south- Tapestry. It is not unusual in this city to find Two double bedrooms with fitted facing roof terrace. Through Savills (020 7828 3007). a brave young family in search of a home wardrobes and a spa-inspired luxury bathroom are upstairs. For prepared to buy without planning and take sale chain-free through Hamptons on a rat-infested old gin distillery in (020 8012 1530). Lifechanger of the week Well worth the cab fare Whitechapel — one so grim not even £750,000: it’s amazing what can come property developers wanted it. They turned out of a former industrial building, it into an award-winning home. Because it especially one used to build the first 17 London taxis until 1907, in the village of is not unusual in this city for Londoners to Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. It was tackle the tough stuff and turn a crazy idea bought in 1997 by a local architect who into a success story. transformed it into a sleek, three- bedroom eco-home. Green credentials include recycling irrigation water tanks, VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our lime render to walls, underfloor heating usual promotion rules. When you respond to promotions, and cedar doors, while wow factor offers or competitions, the Evening Standard and its comes from an impressive atrium filled sister companies may contact you with relevant offers with tropical plants set around an and services that may be of interest. Please give your indoor pool, plus high vaulted ceilings mobile number and/or email address if you would like to in a fab living/kitchen/dining room receive such offers by text or email. leading out to landscaped gardens. A separate office, ripe for conversion, Editorial: 020 3615 2650 could make the perfect Airbnb and is Advertisement manager: Ann Finan available for an extra £150,000. Advertising: 020 3615 0538 Through Carter Jonas (01223 787088). By Faye Greenslade Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT. Generation Rent is quitting the city

ENERATION RENT is moving out of expensive London flats to better- value and quality rentals in the home counties Gwhere, even when commuter fares are added in, they are still better off. Twenty- and thirtysomethings, who once only moved out of London to buy, now need cheaper rents if they are to raise the deposit for their own home, the exclusive research by Hamptons International shows. Young marrieds, meanwhile, are £1,250 a month: Spelthorne’s more popular towns, moving out for more space and a a two-bedroom take 48 minutes to London and an better quality of life for their children, flat with a patio in annual season ticket costs from but at the same rent. Staines Road East, £2,432. But this cost is countered by a Most of these exiles, thought to Lower Sunbury. typical local two-bedroom flat costing number about 50,000 a year, stay Through Dexters £1,200 a month to rent, with a four- within the M25. More than two thirds (020 8255 8899) bedroom house at £1,800-£2,000. of all homes rented in Spelthorne, a swathe of Surrey along the M3 ⬤ Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story and discover the Top 20 corridor, went to people leaving out-of-town rental destinations at homesandproperty. London. Trains from Sunbury, one of co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018
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SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR and her father and Crafts-style property £1.5m hit Robin clearly have similar taste in bears a distinct homes. The singer, pictured, bought a resemblance to her to move dilapidated five-bedroom house in dad’s five-bedroom Turnham Green near Chiswick with place, above, in on with husband Richard Jones, bassist with Berwick, East The Feeling, and they turned it into Sussex, which he Kate their dream home. The Victorian Arts has now listed with Homes Winkworth at £2.35 million. It sits in two acres with a

gossip XKATIEWRIGHT/INSTAGRAM swimming pool. Amira Hashish By RIO FERDINAND took a price hit but the age of 34. The lavish home has a has found a buyer for his home in swimming pool, Jacuzzi and a gym Got some gossip? Alderley Edge, Cheshire. The former with floor-to-ceiling windows, and Tweet @amiranews England and Manchester United overlooks rolling hills. Ferdinand, 39, football star, above, now in Russia as a is dating Kate Wright, 27, who quit BBC World Cup pundit, was asking The Only Way Is Essex last year after £4.5 million for the seven-bedroom their relationship began. She regularly house but sold it for £3 million. posts Instagram snaps at the home, He’d lived there with wife Rebecca above. She gave up her own home in Ellison. Mother of his three children, Essex to move to Cheshire but the pair she died of cancer three years ago at are now house hunting in London.

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PATTERN HOUSE in Clerkenwell earned its name from its past incarnation as a pattern factory for Loved-up Ariana finds a futuristic Vogue magazine. The building, which was also once a flat in Hadid’s New York palace warehouse for Ingersoll watches, was bought by publisher Condé Nast in POP PRINCESS Ariana Grande, left, heart attack aged 65 in 2016. Grande, the Fifties. These days it is home to and her Saturday Night Live star fiancé 25, and actor-comedian Davidson, 24, industrial-style flats and the latest Pete Davidson are the latest celebrities reportedly engaged after a whirlwind one on the market is worthy of a to move into a futuristic 11-storey New romance, are thought to have moved fashion shoot, with exposed York apartment block designed by into a £12.05 million, 4,000sq ft five- brickwork, original steel girders, big acclaimed British architect Zaha Hadid. bedroom flat with a much-coveted Crittall windows and iron radiators. room. As well as the 2,000 sq ft of In a prime position on the High Line private terrace. Residents have access The open-plan master bedroom internal space, there is a shared roof linear park, 520 West 28th Street was to an Imax cinema, a spa and 75ft pool. ensuite resembles a modern garden with panoramic views across the last residential building Hadid Ariana and Pete’s famous neighbours Moroccan hammam, while an the city. It is listed with The Modern

GETTY designed before her death from a include Sting and wife Trudie Styler. oversize hammock spans the living House for £1,999,999. 4
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes

Cityscape: London Dock homes and businesses are being set among east London landmarks old and new — the scheme’s Cashmere Wharf will be one in its own right Wapping makes a splash

One of the capital’s largest projects pierces the skyline with a 26-storey tower set in 30 acres among 1,800 new homes, discovers Lee Mallett

ASHMERE WHARF is chosen to relate to those used in unveiled this week, the nearby historic landmarks the Tower THE POWER latest phase of the of London and Tower Bridge, while its TOWER ambitious 1,800-home, height will provide a new navigation From £835,000, mixed-use London Dock landmark within Wapping. The look homes with one, Cdevelopment. One of the largest will be mid-rise blocks, built from two or three projects in the capital, London Dock west to east across 30 acres. bedrooms at will transform the social and A smaller public space, Arrival Cashmere Wharf, economic life of Wapping. Square, in Vaughan Way, forms the a 26-storey tower The signature building of developer main public gateway to London at Wapping, east St George’s scheme, Cashmere Wharf Dock’s western end, leading on to London, near will be a 26-storey bevel-edged tower Gauging Square. Local children put Tower Bridge. with 141 flats of one, two or three Gauging Square’s timed fountain It’s part of the bedrooms. feature to good use at a recent London Dock Architects Patel Taylor designed it to community event. scheme that’s form the eastern side of Gauging Architect Andrew Taylor says this bringing a total of Square, the E1 development’s main fresh piece of the city has been 1,800 homes plus public piazza, so named as a nod to masterplanned to bring in new east- restaurants, bars, the imported “diamonds, tortoiseshell west and north-south connections, workspaces, a and bears’ grease” that were weighed public gardens, a market square and gym, film room on this spot from the early 1800s until long east-west promenades, knitting and public the Sixties. London Dock back into the squares, where Prices in the tower start from surrounding neighbourhood after media magnate £835,000 for a one-bedroom flat, 200 years of isolation. Rupert Murdoch’s £1,245,000 for a two-bedroom flat and Along with 1,800 homes, eventually News £2.35 million for a three-bedroom flat. there will be 210,000sq ft devoted to International Cashmere Wharf’s appearance, the restaurants, bars, workspaces, a gym, plant once stood colours of its materials, have been heated pool, squash courts, private EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018
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Forging links: this new piece of the city has been masterplanned with public areas and amenities intended to knit London Dock back into the surrounding area after 200 years of comparative isolation

Getting to know you: the outdoor life in Gauging Square ST GEORGE ST

Building a community: children enjoy What’s on offer: community events at an event at the timed fountain in Gauging London Dock give foodie businesses a Square, main London Dock public piazza chance to show locals what they can do film screening room and other uses, have its own green space, separated much of it in historic Pennington from its neighbour by a variety of Street Warehouse — a quarter of a public spaces, each with its own mile long — and in the buildings character including a water garden, a surrounding Gauging Square and market garden and a market square fronting Vaughan Way. at the easternmost end. New covered north-south links A “Quayside” public promenade will within the warehouse provide access run for almost a third of a mile from to these areas and create routes Arrival Square in Vaughan Way, along between the scheme and Pennington the southern side of the warehouse to Street to the north. Tobacco Dock at the scheme’s eastern Some 486 of the homes, or 30 per end. A more secluded route will run cent of the total, will be “affordable”, along London Dock’s southern edge. part of the redevelopment of a St George is taking a cautious building fronting The Highway. approach to its build in a market Marcus Blake, development director dampened by increases in stamp duty at St George, is taking pains to build and Brexit uncertainty. up the scheme’s social and economic “We are selling three to four homes activity, so a sense of community, a week,” says a spokesman. “The bolstered by new amenities with changes in stamp duty have had more enough people to sustain them, is impact than Brexit. Buyers are taking created as phases are completed. longer to commit. But we are happy Each block, to be built one a year, will with the sales rate.” 6
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Active luxury: right, high season holiday rentals at The Lakes by Yoo near Lechlade-on-Thames in the Cotswolds, with plenty to entertain all the family, start at £3,600 a week (lakesbyyoo.com)

TEER clear of overpacked beaches this summer and head instead for some of the loveliest places the English countryside has to offer. SWithin a couple of hours of London, rolling hills and tranquil valleys offer endless opportunities for the simple pleasures that keep children happy —

ALAMY ALAMY especially if a good picnic is thrown Doing a Theresa: country holidays offer kids the chance of In touch with nature: Garland Day in in. Here are a few ideas to try. simple pleasures — though running through wheatfields, which Lewes, East Sussex, where summer also PM Mrs May confessed to doing as a child, won’t please farmers brings kayaking and music festivals LEWES EAST SUSSEX Why? In a postcard-perfect setting in the heart of the South Downs, Lewes has a distinctly bohemian, arty bent and is no sleepy, rural retreat. Once home to political activist Thomas Paine and, later, the writer Virginia Woolf, Lewes is close enough to Brighton to share some of its hipster air, yet retains a quintessentially English market town community and identity. What is there to do? Hardy young swimmers head for Pells Pool lido, built in 1860, the oldest freshwater outdoor public pool in the country (pellspool.org.uk; 01273 472334). In summer it has “starry skies” swims from 11pm to 1am, for over-16s only. The Lewes-based Kayak Coach offers kayaking and paddle boarding courses on the River Adur for ages eight and over (thekayakcoach.com; 01273 273519). There is a new independent cinema for rainy days, with week-long courses throughout August on film-making, animation and music video making, catering for anyone aged eight and over (lewesdepot.org; 01273 525354). Our perfect Music abounds. Apart from the celebrated Glyndebourne opera house, festivals include Lewes Live, a two-day music festival on July 28-29 (leweslive.com) and Proms in the Paddock on August 4, set in the heart summer of the town and overlooked by the historic castle. Child tickets cost £3 (promsinthepaddock.co.uk). To rent: next to the River Ouse, and in Keep the children busy in the open countryside, Brooks Lodge is a contemporary, sustainably the long school holiday at designed two-bedroom house. It stands a stone’s throw from the these country rental homes, Egrets Way, a safe cycle and walking route to Lewes. Weekly rental rates says Arabella Youens start from £805 (visit amberleyhouse- cottages.co.uk; 01798 877336) From £805 a enthusiastic Charlie Rosling of Strutt Like this spot a lot? The North Street week: below, & Parker in Lewes. “I get requests Quarter regeneration scheme is a 14- Brooks Lodge from buyers wanting to do B&B for acre site set to become the largest near Lewes visitors to the opera house.” new housing project on a brownfield (amberleyhouse Strutt & Parker is selling The Paint site within the South Downs National cottages.co.uk) Shop, a two-bedroom cottage in a Park. “Lewes is already a property From £969 a hamlet just outside Lewes, for hotspot for many families and week: below £395,000. downsizers but 416 new houses that right, a stone barn Getting there: driving to Lewes from the North Street Quarter are building in Evercreech, London takes about two hours. Trains will help attract more first- and Somerset (sykes from London Victoria to Lewes take second-time buyers,” says an cottages.co.uk) an hour and seven minutes. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018
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From £1,430 a week in high season: Orchard House, left, at Oddington near Stow-on-the-Wold (manorcottages. co.uk)

‘THERE IS SOMETHING TO DO TO SUIT EVERYONE’ LONDONER Stephen Ireton, seen on the left, spent many childhood family holidays in Cotswold cottages. Now chief operating officer for an investment club that raises money for City start-ups, the Cotswolds was an obvious choice for him to buy a bolt hole. He and his partner, Daniel Moore, pictured right, bought three-bedroom Orchard House near Stow-on-the-Wold in 2014. They visit up to seven times a year, family and friends stay, and it is rented out at other times. Stephen, 40, says: “There’s so much to do, from day trips to Oxford, Bath and Cheltenham, historic houses and gardens, gastropubs, cycling, walks, spas and horse riding, falconry, climbing, castles and playing football in the village.” ⬤ Through manorcottages.co.uk

BRUTON SOMERSET Why? Testament to this Somerset Music, fun and feasting in the Cotswolds town’s sparkling personality are the celebrities who live on the doorstep, CIRENCESTER including musical theatre producer GLOUCESTERSHIRE Cameron Mackintosh, actor Rhys Why? This pretty working town, Ifans, fashion designer Alice Temper- home of the Royal Agricultural ley and film-maker and photographer University, is described as “dignified Sam Taylor-Johnson. At the foot of the and doggy with a student bent”. Mendip Hills, Bruton was put on the What is there to do? There’s hipster map by the Hauser & Wirth walking or riding in the glorious modern art gallery opening in 2014. Cotswolds. Family-friendly festivals What is there to do? Mill on the Brue nearby include Wilderness (Aug 2-5; outdoor activity centre runs summer wilderness festival.com), The Big £360,000: three-bedroom Honeypot residential camps for eight to 15 year- Feastival (Aug 24-26; thebigfeastival. Cottage in Alvescot, near Cirencester. olds from July 8 until August 18, plus com), Cornbury (July 13-15; cornbury Call Butler Sherborn (01993 822325) Dangerous Days 4 Dads, with assault festival.com) and the free Phoenix courses, bushcraft and zip wires Festival in Cirencester itself (Aug 25- Like this spot a lot? Chris Grimes of (millonthebrue.co.uk). One-day 26; phoenix-festival.co.uk). Manor Cottages, specialising in events at Hauser & Wirth pavilion Cotswold Water Park nearby has Cotswolds holiday cottages for rent, include open-air storytelling wakeboard and waterski lessons says Greater London is his big (hauserwirth.com). For wild (lakeside-ski.co.uk) plus sailing, market. If you are not put off by the swimming, West Lyford is a pretty windsurfing, paddle boarding and extra three per cent stamp duty on 100-metre stretch of river running canoeing courses for ages 16-plus second homes, Butler Sherborn is alongside church lawns. (ukwatersports.co.uk). Visit selling three-bedroom Honeypot To rent: sleeping six, within a 12- Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens Cottage in the heart of Alvescot minute walk of pubs and shops, a (cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk) and the village for £360,000 (01993 822325). stone barn in Evercreech village is Cotswold Farm Park, owned by Getting there: an hour and 50 available from £969 a week in high Adam Henson of TV’s Countryfile minutes by car. Trains to Swindon season (sykescottages.co.uk). (cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk). take an hour from Paddington and Like this spot a lot? Since Hauser & To rent: voted best Cotswolds then it’s a bus ride to Cirencester. Wirth arrived, up to 40 per cent of holiday cottage in 2016, Orchard Bruton properties over £500,000 are House near Stow-on-the-Wold bought by Londoners, says Philip sleeps six from £1,430 per week in German-Ribon of Jackson-Stops. “The high season (manorcottages.co.uk). Looking to buy a town appeals to them with trendy Otherwise, rent a waterside holiday restaurants such as At The Chapel.” home at The Lakes by Yoo private holiday home? Jackson-Stops is selling a modernised, estate, with activities including Start your three-bedroom townhouse with a bushcraft at the Ben Fogle School of two-bedroom annexe in Bruton’s high Wild, kids club, zip wiring across the search on street for £615,000 (01935 810141). lake, outdoor trampoline, tennis and Getting there: the drive takes two every non-motorised watersport. hours and 20 minutes. Occasional “We’ve just launched a rugby camp,” direct trains from Waterloo take two says founder John Hitchcox. Weekly hours 28 minutes. More regular direct high season rentals start at £3,600 services to nearby Castle Cary take an (thelakesbyyoo.com). hour and 40 minutes. 8
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Renting Value beyond the fringe Renting on the Bakerloo line. By Ruth Bloomfield

AIDA VALE really comes into its own in summer “I love the as one of London’s village vibe”: loveliest places to live, Dalton Butler with its wide, leafy rents a two- M streets, canalside pubs and easy walk bedroom house to Regent’s Park. in Queen’s Park It is also one of the capital’s more with a friend, expensive Zone 2 options, according each paying to new research from Rightmove into £550 a month the cost of homes along the Bakerloo Tube line. A typical two-bedroom rental flat costs £2,217 a month while a three-bedroom house in this delightfully family-friendly area will set you back an average of almost £5,200 a month. MOVE ONE STOP, SAVE £15K Smart renters move a single stop along the line from Maida Vale W9 to Kilburn Park NW6, known to many estate agents as Maida Fringes and also in Zone 2. True, it is a bit grotty ‘Queen’s with Edgware Road running through it, but a two-bedroom flat here will Park is cost just over £2,000 per month, which is a saving of well over £8,000 laid-back per year compared with living in Maida Vale. A three-bedroom house and so comes in at less than £3,900, making friendly’

an annual saving of £15,660. That WRITTLE MATT would go a long way towards saving up for a deposit on a home — or buying a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. DALTON BUTLER arrived in Queen’s all flashy. I know it is a cliché but it Kilburn Park has a historic Park by necessity rather than design. has got a very villagey feel.” reputation for crime and general However, he is thrilled that he made On sunny days all roads lead to unsavouriness but Anthony Wozniak, the move. Queen’s Park itself, a lovely open lettings director at Dexters, says that Some three years ago he got a new space with tennis courts, an outdoor as the South Kilburn estate is job as a senior designer for online gym, and facilities for kids including regenerated the swathes of grim post- letting agent Upad. Dalton was living a petting zoo. war social housing are gradually in Greenwich while his new office Salusbury Road is Queen’s Park’s being replaced by new-build flats. was in Queen’s Park. Within a month high street, with plenty of bars, Kilburn lies on the border of he had moved to north London, boutiques and cafés, as well as a Westminster and Brent — Kilburn renting a two-bedroom house with a couple of supermarkets. And Kilburn Park Road being the border between friend, each of them paying £550 a High Road is a 10-minute walk away. the two. Wozniak’s tip is to hunt for a month in rent. But Dalton has discovered the home on the Westminster side where “It is a very friendly part of town,” quieter Lonsdale Road with its own council tax is considerably lower. A says Dalton, 38. “We know our range of restaurants and cafés. period conversion will tend to be neighbours, the street is lovely with “On sunny days everyone spills out better value than a new-build flat but Victorian houses all painted different on to the street and it is just a real the latter is more likely to have a colours, it is very laid-back and not at hidden gem,” he says. balcony and en suite bathroom. Once in the area, says Wozniak, renters have everything they need on cannot necessarily afford Maida Vale at £10,000. For an urban buzz and their doorstep, with shops and pubs and who want a real neighbourhood better value, head to the current in Kilburn High Road, with slightly area rather than a city environment.” southern end of the line and more glamorous restaurants and Elephant & Castle, a Zone 1 address cafés in Maida Vale and Queen’s Park. SAVE IN ZONE 4 — OR SPLASH shedding its stigma, emerging from a “It is really well connected,” he adds. THE CASH IN PICCADILLY multibillion-pound regeneration like “If you jump on the Tube you can be The Bakerloo line runs south from a shiny steel-and-glass butterfly. in central London in 10 minutes.” Harrow in the suburbs of north A typical two-bedroom Elephant & Another great renters’ option, London, through the West End and Castle flat rents for £2,214 a month, Queen’s Park is just two stops on under the river to Elephant & Castle while a three-bedroom house would from Maida Vale station. A two- in SE1. Today’s Rightmove research be far better value for sharers at bedroom flat here rents for an finds that the cheapest option on the £2,850 per month. average £1,826 a month and a three- line is South Kenton in Zone 4, two bedroom house for £2,609. stops short of the northern end of the Ben Sloane, lettings director at line. This is where a two-bedroom flat Aston Chase estate agents, says will cost an average £1,273 a month Want to find a renters can typically look forward to and a three-bedroom house will be Edwardian properties — many about £1,777 per month. good-value converted into flats — in quiet, tree- The sky is the limit when it comes to rental flat? Start lined streets. the section of the line that runs “It is a real neighbourhood, with through the West End and under your search on coffee shops and the park itself,” he some of the most expensive real says. “There are plenty of places to go. estate on the planet. The costliest of The Alice House doubles up as a pub/ all is Piccadilly Circus, where the bar. There’s a very good restaurant, price of being overrun by tourists Chez Bob, and Gail’s Bakery. taking selfies is high. A two-bedroom “It is a real family area. You do also flat costs an average £5,413 a month, get some young professionals who and a three-bedroom house comes in 10
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Homes abroad

OST first-time visitors arriving on the glorious Spanish island of Majorca head to its family-focused beach M resorts. Yet the true charm of this Balearic island lies in its variety, with equal pleasures to be found inland: orange groves, vineyards, small villages and high mountains, all on an island measuring 40 miles north to south and 65 east to west. One delightful rural town is Alaró, 20 minutes inland from the capital Palma in the foothills of the Unesco World Heritage Tramuntana £433,800: a traditional three-bedroom home at the top of Mountains. It is an affluent, lively £2.58 million: this stunning refurbished six-bedroom “palacio” in the centre of Alaró Alaró with lovely gardens and a good-sized pool. AIM Property little place with sports facilities, a has a swimming pool and beautiful landscaped gardens. Through Engel & Völkers Majorca’s little secret

bank and shops that have been in the same ownership for generations, and Enjoy the prices of homes in Alaró, a with a population of just 5,300. Residents meet up at the Saturday delightful small town only 20 minutes market, gathering at cafés in the town Cathy Hawker square while buying organic from the sea, says vegetables, cheese and olives for the weekend. This languid lifestyle has brought European holiday homeowners to come to make the effort to mingle, for one of the island’s best fiestas, with Charming little Alaró for several decades, says long- the friendly atmosphere and natural two weeks of music, fireworks and town: affluent time resident Dominic Shapeero. setting.” parties. There’s year-round demand Alaró in the “People who buy holiday homes Alaró is 20 minutes from good for rental homes, says Kim Power of foothills of the here choose to be away from the beaches and half an hour from the AIM Property. glorious £547,000: Engel & Völkers is offering this modern house on crowds,” he says. “It is also better airport. At the heart of Majorca’s “Properties are always fully booked Tramuntana the outskirts of Alaró with six bedrooms, a garden and a pool value than the coastal areas. People vineyard region, every August it hosts in the summer but it is perfectly Mountains EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018
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houses on the outskirts of Alaró which sell for £52,600 to £83,000. Instant “Most measure 430sq ft to 530sq ft appeal: Emma and some have no electricity, but Boardman and owners put in a mezzanine-level bed son Luca at platform and add solar panels,” she home in adds. AIM Property is selling a “authentic, modern three-bedroom apartment, buzzing” Alaró, one of 16, with communal pool and Majorca garden in Alaró centre for £172,000. This first-floor apartment has annual service charges of just £260 and would rent for £660 a month long- ‘There’s term or £700 a week in peak summer months, says Power. always a Eye-catching value for anyone willing to do some renovation — mainly fiesta in cosmetic — is a traditional three- bedroom home at the top of Alaró with Alaró’ wide mountain views, for sale at £433,800. The delightful garden, laden with lemon and orange trees, has a AFTER 15 years living in Kensington innovative children’s language prize feature in the shape of a good- High Street and a brief spell in learning company, and runs the sized pool and covered terrace. suburban Surrey, Emma Boardman franchise from home. “Alaró is in high demand with and her husband Nick moved to “Alaró is authentic, buzzing all year foreigners and the surrounding area Alaró with their son Luca, now six round with a mix of every nationality is dotted with large estates,” says years old. alongside Mallorquina and Spanish Christina Deutsch of Engel & Völkers. “We wanted a bright spacious families,” continues Emma. “There’s “As this area is under Unesco home with a garden and plenty of always a fiesta about to happen.” protection there are very few plots for entertaining space within 20 minutes Favourite local restaurants include new-build properties.” of the airport so that Nick could La Bufala for wood-fired pizzas, Es

ALAMY Engel & Völkers is selling a commute weekly to Guernsey where Verger lamb restaurant and La Isla characterful townhouse with five he runs a local airline, Waves,” says Gelato for homemade ice cream. bedrooms over three floors and a Emma, 44. “Most special for me is the lovely pool surrounded by mature “We saw properties across Majorca community of incredible people who possible to achieve 44 weeks apartment with a good three- or four- shrubs for £429,000, and a substantial from golf villas to cliffside modern are now our friends,” says Emma. annually,” she says. “Alaró appeals to bedroom home with a swimming 100-year old stone farmhouse on the homes. Alaró instantly appealed to “We’ve connected with more like- families and artists and is particularly pool renting for about £1,310 a week. edge of town requiring extensive us and we bought the second minded, engaging, creative and popular with cyclists and hikers who renovation for £608,000. property we viewed, a country villa interesting people than anywhere want easy access to the Tramuntana A HOME IN ALARÓ with modern interiors, landscaped else we’ve lived.” Mountains.” Typical rental rates start Particularly popular with British ⬤ AIM Property: aim-property.com gardens, pool and tennis court.” from £350 a week for a one-bedroom cyclists, says Power, are small stone ⬤ Engel & Völkers: engelvoelkers.com Emma founded Bambini Lingo, an ⬤ Bambini Lingo: bambinilingo.com 12
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Design

Oh no!: the BBC’s animated 2018 World Cup trailer features the infamous moment when Frank Lampard’s crucial equaliser was disallowed in England’s last-16 clash with Germany in the Fifa World Cup in South Africa in 2010

WORKSHOP in Hackney scored a goal for British design and craft when it embroidered 650 panels in three weeks for the BBC’s Atrailer for the World Cup, inspired by Russian art. Completing this tapestry tour de force was the London Embroidery Studio, set up in 2007 by RCA graduate Andy Kenny, whose couture clients include Louis Vuitton and Victoria Beckham. The studio uses a flatbed digital machine, custom-built in Japan and installed by crane into its premises near Broadway Market (londonembroiderystudio.com). The trailer’s director of animation was Nicos Livesey of production company Blinkink (blinkink.co.uk), with Alex Halley as producer. “We worked 23 hours a day in two shifts,” says Kenny, who recruited 14 extra embroiderers, mainly from the London College of Fashion, dragooned by senior embroidery designer Lucie McKenna, one of a resident team of three. “We were playing a sort of Bayeux football.” And this feat does indeed make you think (nationalfootballmuseum.com). The explore modern life, from natural of that tapestry depiction of the Battle machine did the heavy stuff. But first disasters, pollution and war to nature of Hastings in 1066. the artwork for every panel was and country life. Weaving New TV’s stitch-up of the World Cup programmed into stitch, then came Worlds, a free exhibition at the starts with Maradona’s infamous World Cup’s hours of screen work by computer- William Morris Gallery (wmgallery. “Hand of God” goal against England savvy embroiderers, followed by org.uk), includes a double portrait of in 1986, and ends with a dramatic laborious cutting of threads to finish Kim Jong-un by Londoner Pat Taylor. clash between Lionel Messi and off, and adding details by hand. “It Morris himself loved to design and Cristiano Ronaldo. In between comes took me five days to get Gary Lineker weave tapestries. Copies of some a barrage of iconic moments — the right,” says Kenny. The finished woven by the Victorian designer in England win; Gazza’s tears; all sewn up panels then went back to the France are sold by long-established Cameroonian Roger Milla’s animators to be painstakingly firm Hines of Oxford (hinesofoxford. celebratory dances; Frank Lampard’s photographed for the final film. com), in widths up to around three devastating disallowed goal in 2010; A Hackney workshop stitched 650 panels metres, while his works are put on to Gotze’s 2014 winning goal, and TAPESTRY GETS TO THE wallpapers and fabrics at Morris & Co Vikings celebrating Iceland’s first for the BBC’s stunning tournament POINT IN WALTHAMSTOW (stylelibrary.com). ever World Cup qualification. See it In Walthamstow 16 women artists Tapestry and stitch have long been a on bbc.co.uk with sections of the trailer. Now London is hooked on from the UK, US, Japan, Norway, mirror of contemporary events, says tapestry itself on view at the National Canada and New Zealand have used expert Polly Leonard, editor of Museum of Football in Manchester embroidery, says Barbara Chandler traditional slow-woven tapestries to London’s Selvedge Magazine. “The EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018
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Where to start: left, sign up for a workshop at Ekta Kaul textile design studio, Cockpit Arts Holborn Right: a new exhibition at William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, Weaving New Worlds is the work of 16 international women artists, reflecting the modern world in tapestry BBC/BLINKINK

World Cup is a perfect example.” Also Above: award- large digital machine and is stitched were the banners that up to winning London currently stitching paper — “my 30,000 women carried nationwide on textile designer modern Chinoiserie” — for dramatic recent marches for the 100th Ekta Kaul works wallcoverings. “I’m inspired by anniversary of women getting the by hand and with diverse cultures and changing urban vote. “Tapestry and embroidery machines to environments,” she says. The koi connect us to the handmade, adding create bespoke carp in her latest work are protective handle and texture for a satisfying wall art and quilts symbols in Japan. Stitched paper is a experience where you can work at Below: exquisite traditional art in China, perfected by your own pace.” work of Lora London’s Fromental silk wallpapers Lora Avedian, a recent graduate of Avedian, who company for delicate, modern the RCA, stitched a large wall hanging stitched a wall florals and traditional Chinoiserie. at Howe in Pimlico Road for London hanging for May’s In Margate, Tracy Kendall Craft Week (loraavedian.com). London Craft (tracykendall.com) hand-stitches “Textiles are emotive,” she says. “You Week. Avedian calligraphy and trimmings on to feel their weight, texture and colour.” says textiles are wallpaper, while Chiswick’s Ekta Embroiderer Jacky Puzey of Bristol “emotive. You feel Kaul uses hand and machine to turn is working on tapestries of Saxon their weight, stitch into commissioned “story kings for All Saints Church in texture and maps” personalised for emotive wall Kingston (jackypuzey.com). She has a colour” art, quilts and more (ektakaul.com).

STITCH IT YOURSELF LONDON stitching workshops reflect the demand for those wanting to learn the craft. ⬤ Check out classes at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace. Current show is Animals in Embroidery — 80 of them, handmade. Pre-booking is essential. Visit royal-needlework. org.uk for details. ⬤ Selvedge Magazine has an ambitious workshop programme headed up by leading artists. An exotic venue this summer is Château Dumas, near Toulouse in France (selvedge.org). ⬤ A new outfit in Hackney, The London Loom teaches “free-style” weaving (the londonloom.com). ⬤ Try The London Embroidery Studio (londonembroiderystudio. com) or kewstudio.org for courses. ⬤ In central London, learn with the celebrated Hand & Lock (handembroidery.com) or at londonembroideryschool.com 14
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Art fair

Right: a rare Fifties desk in wood and metal designed by Piero Fornasetti and Gio Ponti, £150,000 (Sinai and Sons) Below: early 19th-century polished steel and leather French armchair, £30,000 for a pair (Perrin Fine Art)

Above: detail of David Hockney’s lithograph, Celia with Green Plant (1981) £30,000 (Sims Reed Gallery) Right: Roy Lichtenstein’s Untitled Head (1995), screenprint on Lanaquarelle watercolour paper (courtesy Long-Sharp Gallery)

HE title of this leading art Sinai and Sons, while 88 Gallery jug at Rupert Wace and a Roman fair may set the bar high but shows the Triennale standing lamp by aubergine glass kantharos, (mid-1st Masterpiece London, which Angelo Lelii for Arredoluce (c.1955) century BC) at Kallos Gallery, new to opens tomorrow at the and a pair of Roberto Menghi Masterpiece this year. These pieces Royal Hospital in Chelsea, is Masterpieces upholstered metal armchairs (1958.) demonstrate that such simple but Ta wonderland of treasures, from Old David Gill recreates a room based on beautiful ancient objects work well in Masters to furniture by Zaha Hadid; the home of surrealist champion a contemporary setting. Chinese ceramics to Victorian silver. Edward James with contemporary They sit well with contemporary Everything, in fact, from spoons to A rich feast of artefacts and art tempts artists’ work including a Mattia fine art such as never-before- sideboards, armchairs to artefacts, to Bonetti armchair, Elle & Lui (2017). exhibited Fifties fashion drawings by modern and fine art. buyers and browsers to this year’s There’s more contemporary Andy Warhol; Bridget Riley’s Right The 160 international exhibitors are furniture from Sarah Myerscough. Angle Curves Study No. 4 (1966) and selected by reputation to give buyers Masterpiece show, says Corinne Julius Blackened or scorched wood is a Roy Lichtenstein’s, Untitled Head, confidence, while everything on theme, with new works such as John (1995) at Long-Sharp Gallery. There’s display is vetted by specialists. Prices Makepeace’s scorched oak Black more from all three artists at Sims reflect the items’ status, but less Trine Table (2018), scorched cabinets Reed Gallery, plus works by David affluent visitors shouldn’t be put off, Left: a rare pair of gilded brackets by David Gates (2018) and Joseph Hockney and Howard Hodgkin. as it’s a wonderful learning opportu- attributable to celebrated British Walsh’s ebonized walnut and lacquer Hauser & Wirth, new at the show nity. Dealers looking for sales are also architect William Kent (1685-1748), Cleft Cabinet (2017). The contempo- this year, offers yet more keen to chat to visitors, who can view £45,000 (Apter-Fredericks) rary approach continues at Katie contemporary work in its cabinet of museum-quality objects close up. Below: copper alloy Patinated Jones, who specialises in Japanese curiosities, bringing together a Oscar Graf features Victorian and Kuromido Three Legs Vase (2016) craft, and at Adrian Sassoon. He selection of pieces by Paul McCarthy, Edwardian British furniture, by Japanese metal artist Koichi Io, shows Hitomi Hosono’s delicate new Louise Bourgeois, Phyllida Barlow, including works by EW Godwin, £4,200 (Katie Jones) floral vessels with hand-applied Anj Smith and Subodh Gupta, Christopher Dresser and Charles jasper ornamentation for Wedgwood, alongside 18th- and 19th-century Rennie Mackintosh. It’s interesting to as well as a combination of modern furniture. compare these with an early 19th- ceramics, metalwork, glass and century pair of polished French steel jewellery, alongside 18th-century ⬤ Masterpiece London, tomorrow until armchairs, at Perrin Fine Art. For French porcelain, especially Sèvres. July 4 (11am to 9pm weekdays, 11am to lovers of the later 19th and early 20th John Whitehead also serves up 7pm weekends at South Grounds, centuries, H Blairman & Sons’ display historic fine porcelain, including a Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3 (Bull this year includes a Donemana carpet Sèvres chocolate service (1773). Tea Ring Gate on Chelsea Embankment. (c1898) by CFA Voysey. drinkers will find an extraordinary Pedestrian access via Barrack Gate, Mid-century modern European silver Ouseley tea urn at Koopman Chelsea Bridge Road.) Tickets £35. furniture includes a rare Fifties desk Rare Art. But the delights on offer go Daily half-hour highlights tours depart by Gio Ponti and Piero Fornasetti at back much further, with a late-Roman at noon from the Information Point. 16
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Design Be first with the best Buy or commission work by new designers brimming with talent at this annual Islington show, says Barbara Chandler

HE top new talent in British from adventurous designers who TEXTILES design, craft, interiors and started up just a year ago or less. INSPIRED architecture arrives in Rheanna Lingham is curating One BY THE Islington today for the New Year In for the fourth time. She has GREY Designers show, which runs her own fashion, accessories and LIGHT OF forT two weeks and will feature the homewares store, Luna & Curious, in THE NORTH work of more than 3,000 graduates Shoreditch (lunaandcurious.com). from 200 design courses nationwide. “There is no other show in the UK Event director Chris Hall says: that offers such a good platform for HAYLEY MCCRIRRICK, from the inspire her work. She is showing “Since 1985 it has been an annual start-up businesses,” she says. Scottish Borders, studied textile large-scale floor cushions at £170, showcase for the people, products This year’s One Year In will be the design at Heriot-Watt University in each one unique, handprinted using and trends that will define our design biggest yet, with more than 90 Edinburgh, graduating last year. a special dye technique. Also on view future.” The event is open to all. Make designers showing. Week One covers Now she makes small runs of hand- will be large canvasses: “I’m a beeline for the agreeably air- jewellery, textiles, metalsmithing, dyed and screen-printed textiles at subverting screen printing,” she conditioned balcony — most of the ceramics, glass, craft and fashion. her studio in a converted coach explains. “I don’t follow exacting Victorian glass-roofed venue does not Week Two is devoted to furniture, house in Selkirk, which looks out ‘repeats’ but embrace irregularities have air con — and explore the graphic design, illustration, upon a loch. “The ragged horizons so that no two prints are the same.” section called One Year In. Here are animation and product design. Here’s and beautiful grey light of the north” See hayleymccrirrick.co.uk goods to buy now or commission, our pick of the young creatives.

SUSTAINABLE PRINTS CERAMICS WITH MYSTERY WOVEN FABRICS LUCY GRAINGE, 23, is from VERITY HOWARD, 25, a ceramic artist, MAJEDA CLARKE, 47, a woven textile Manchester, living in Glasgow, with a graduated from Manchester School of artist born in Bangladesh, has lived in BA in Communication Design from the Art in 2015. She shares a studio in her London for 25 years. Her studio is at prestigious Glasgow School of Art that home town of Hereford, exhibiting her Cockpit Arts in Deptford, where, after was sadly gutted by fire this month. slab-built sculptures nationally and graduating, she spent two years on a Her work, above, focuses on dyslexia, internationally. She will bring eight to Clothworkers/Cockpit Arts Award, which she has experienced from an FINE FURNITURE door sideboard with mustard yellow New Designers, at prices from £400. weaving and sampling all her designs. early age. She is showing stencil-based ANDY KING, 40, from Bristol, trained doors, handmade in solid English oak Howard is inspired by Alfred Watkins, She makes bespoke scarves and risograph prints — “an affordable and as a fine furniture maker in 2015 and and “blending a Seventies retro revival a Hereford naturalist of the early 1900s window panels and her blankets are sustainable way of printing” — priced set up his company with business with Art Deco”. A similar bedside table who recorded local ley lines. “I am woven in a Welsh mill. “Woven motifs from £15, plus tote bags and other partner Rob Webbon last year. is £995. responding to his photographs and and patterns are often very familiar,” textiles. Grainge has also produced a “I make free-standing and fitted An updated school desk has maps,” she says. “There’s a sense of she says. “The challenge is to adapt book, titled A Different Way of Brain furniture with simple shapes elevated traditional sliding dovetail joinery that stillness and mystery with something them in a contemporary way and also Processing, and is looking for a by texture and colour.” On show are reveals generous storage with moving of a sinister undertone.” Visit reflect my multicultural upbringing.” publisher. See lucygrainge.com bespoke commissions such as this two- dividers. Visit kingandwebbon.com verityhowardceramics.com Visit majedaclarke.com 18
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 Homes Property | Our home It took more than a large gin to make this work

A rat-infested old Whitechapel gin distillery needed two very brave and creative Londoners to turn it into an award-winning family home. Philippa Stockley discovers how they did it

AISE a glass to would stay. Luckily the building wasn’t Rupert Scott, his in a conservation area or listed. “It had wife Leo Wood and been on the market for ages and the their daughters, planners were glad someone was taking Evie, five, and it on. It was so grim and densely over- Frankie, two, in looked that developers didn’t want it.” Rtheir converted The couple themselves wanted light, gin distillery in that outdoor element, “and natural Whitechapel, now a sunny and super- materials — concrete, brick, timber, stylish two-storey home. steel”, Leo says. Rupert decided to rein- What they bought in 2014 was a state the elegant lost windows and turn mangy brick building used as a social the alley into a secluded side garden. club. The gin was long gone, along with In the darkest corner at the back of any charm the distillery might have the property he saw he could drop an had. The plan of the building was a tri- internal roof terrace at second floor angle with its front point lopped off, level, which would also bring light into widest at the back. It had a corrugated the house. He’d site a bespoke steel and roof, a mezzanine, a concrete floor and timber staircase next to it, creating a a side alley full of fridges. Big windows sunny core. And since the upper floor had been bricked up and a couple of was to be set back at the front, it made nasty small ones had been bunged in space for another terrace, for big pots and barred. with low-maintenance plants. “It was dark and dank, with rats,” says Rupert, 42, founder and director of “Because this site was so difficult, I Hackney-based Open Practice Archi- went to pre-planning with almost fully tecture. “Forbidding and frightening,” worked-up designs,” he says. That was Leo adds. On the plus side, there was a another risk, because it might have been small, high-walled front yard. wasted effort. Fortunately, the planner The couple were living in Rupert’s was enthusiastic and “very helpful”. 1805 cottage in a leafy enclave nearby They liked his retention of brick walls, and had been on the lookout for a reinstatement of windows and care of renovation project since marrying in the historic exterior, along with a mod- 2012. Leo 35, a former theatre producer It’s a winner: at home, Rupert Scott, wife Leo Wood and daughters Frankie and Evie ern inside. It was a huge upgrade, and who now runs co-working spaces for planning went through without any start-ups, has a talent for interior design changes required. design. They started looking outside The couple scrabbled the cash London, but when Rupert saw the pic- together: Leo sold her own small flat ture of the old distillery in an estate and they put a buy-to-let mortgage on agent’s window, he realised he had their cottage. Works started in spring walked past the place. 2016 and finished a year later. “Gutting it took just two weeks,” Leo says. All that He and Leo liked its “hidden” quality, was left were the walls and the concrete tucked behind its tall wall, but because floor — a useful base for underfloor their cottage had a garden, they were heating and insulation, beneath a pretty determined to include one in whatever polished concrete surface. project they might take on. In the end Now with its huge kitchen-living room, they created four outdoor spaces at this spanned by an impressive 25ft steel enviable home, which won a prestigious beam, the ground floor is both dramatic Royal Institute of British Architects and surprisingly cosy. Concrete wall London Award this year. panels are dappled with light. Crittall Rupert knew that buying commercial windows throw beautiful sun squares space without planning permission to across the floors, and the white Corian convert was a gamble, but he figured and steel kitchen is elegant. Throughout he could always sell it again. The the building, deep exposed joists add a moment they got the distillery in late pale golden glow. summer 2014, he began designing. This A cosy family room-cum-playroom at was a genuine blank canvas because the back also acts as a spare room, with only the brick walls and concrete floor Dramatic: the bright kitchen area is filled with natural light via its Crittall windows velvet sofa bed and a clever flap to hide EVENING STANDARD
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PROJECT TIPS ⬤ Rupert’s top tip: allow 20 per cent for contingencies, not 10. Keep it as simple as possible by using only one main contractor — that way you will have just one contract, and one person to talk to. ⬤ Leo’s top tip: leave some design decisions until you’ve lived in your new home for a while. We initially planned storage that we didn’t actually need once we lived here. WHAT IT COST ⬤ Commercial warehouse, 1,760sq ft, in 2014: £310,000 ⬤ Money spent (excluding fees, with the couple doing much of the sourcing: £410,000 ⬤ Value of the home now (with 1,490sq ft inside space): £1.25 million GET THE LOOK ⬤ Rupert Scott: founder/director at Open Practice Architecture (openpracticearchitecture.com) ⬤ Contractor: Evoke Projects (evokeprojects.co.uk) ⬤ Structural engineer: Constructure (constructure.co. uk) ⬤ Exterior zinc cladding at upper level: by Vmzinc (vmzinc.co.uk) ⬤ Bespoke steel and ash staircase: by contractor (as above) ⬤ Pine throughout: from English Woodlands Timber (englishwoodlandstimber.co.uk) ⬤ White wood wax: from Osmo (osmouk.com) ⬤ Polished concrete floors: steysonconcretefloors.co.uk ⬤ Double-glazed steel windows: from Crittall (crittall-windows. co.uk) ⬤ Front door and shuttered window in bedroom: simonbirtwistledesign.co.uk ⬤ Corian kitchen with steel work tops: by Dickinson Woodworks (dickinsonwoodworks.co.uk) ⬤ Concrete interior panels: concrete-beton.com ⬤ Wood-burning stove: from Jetmaster (jetmaster.co.uk) ⬤ Green sofa bed in living room: by Innovation Living (innovationliving.com) ⬤ Vintage pieces: from Frances at Mar-Den (mar-den.co.uk) Above: the open- the TV. This back area, which includes ⬤ Dining table: from Belgian plan kitchen-living a bathroom, has big sliding doors to company Rform (rform.eu) area features a divide it from the main living area. ⬤ J77 dining chairs: by Danish polished concrete Upstairs, Rupert and Leo’s room looks company HAY (hay.dk) floor and a steel out to the pot terrace while the girls’ ⬤ Ceiling and kitchen wall lights: staircase room has built-in beds with lots of pull- by Delta Light (deltalight.com) Left: four outside out storage beneath. ⬤ Steel switch and socket plates: spaces to this In the family bathroom off the stair- from Mr Resistor Lighting (mr- RIBA award- well, a cut-out unglazed opening draws resistor.co.uk) winning home in plenty of light from the courtyard ⬤ Sofa bed in family room, and include a pot garden on the other side of the open- master bed: from Love Your terrace and an tread stairs, but sensibly has shutters. Home (love-your-home.co.uk) internal roof Because of Rupert’s smart design, you ⬤ Antique bath and bath terrace don’t at first realise that otherwise the restoration: antiquebaths.com Right: the golden bathroom would have no external win- ⬤ White oblong prismatic wall glow of the natural dows. None are allowed this side of the tiles: from Walls and Floors Ltd wood ceiling building, because of overlooking. (wallsandfloors.co.uk) warms the Every bit of this house is now bright, ⬤ Fake grass: easigrass.com monochrome exquisitely finished, easy on the eye and ⬤ Large terracotta pots: décor — crucial in a home with two scamper- evergreenpotsandsoil.com ing tots — easy on the ear. Its ingredi- ⬤ Planting: by Tom Dawson at Photographs: ents of concrete and steel are countered Bagendon Gardens by wood and brick, softening sound (bagendongardens.com) David Butler beautifully. It’s a winner. 20
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WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Property searching Spotlight on Chislehurst A French emperor, Russian royals, King of Pop Michael Jackson… they all chose this prized village, says Anthea Masey

NE of the greenest suburbs in the capital, Today in Chislehurst pretty Chislehurst, only Rightmove has 239 10 miles from central London, is known for its homes to BUY and 52 surroundingO commons and National Trust-owned land. Local estate agent to RENT Adrian Lawrence, of Hunters, calls it “the nicest village in the borough of Bromley”, adding: “Half suburban and half countryside, it has good schools and easy access to the city.” The commons were saved from development by an Act of Parliament in 1888 after a residents’ campaign. streets of Chislehurst, and Queen More recently, the Chislehurst Victoria attended the funeral in the Society bought the freehold of the small Catholic church. Chislehurst’s commons, which had been in private most famous almost-resident was Expert advice: Michael Sim deals in fine English furniture, antiques and art in Royal Parade ownership for 900 years, for £160,000 King of Pop Michael Jackson who from a Russian royal, Princess June rented 24,000sq ft Foxbury Manor, a Lobanov-Rostovsky. Victorian gothic mansion, ahead of Chislehurst’s most famous resident his 50-night planned residency at the Napoleon III lived in exile at Camden O2, due to open in July 2009. He died Place, a house restyled like a French the month before, aged 50. château, from 1871 until his death in Adrian Lawrence says the village 1873. His wife, Empress Eugenie, who has changed little in 20 years, except lived to 94, stayed on at Camden for the greater range of shops, cafés Place until 1888. In 1879 her son and restaurants in the High Street. Prince Louis Napoleon was killed Chislehurst is close to the A20 with aged 23 in South Africa in the Zulu New Eltham and Mottingham to the War. Some 400,000 people watched north; Sidcup to the east; Orpington as the cortège passed through the to the south and Bromley to the west.

Heart of the village: above, Chislehurst High Street has a mix of independent shops and popular restaurant and coffee bar chains Left: Chislehurst has pretty ponds and plenty of green, open space

WHAT THERE IS TO BUY

£875,000 £1.15 MILLION A SMART four-bedroom house in A SPACIOUS gated four-bedroom house in Walden Road, Heatherbank, a quiet cul-de-sac close Chislehurst, fully refurbished and with a good-size garden, to Chislehurst railway station. Through plenty of parking plus a garage, less than half a mile from Langford Russell (020 8012 2639). Elmstead Woods station. Call KFH (020 8012 2744).

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BUYING IN CHISLEHURST (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £286,000 Two-bedroom flat £424,000 Two-bedroom house £429,000 Three-bedroom house £562,000 Four-bedroom house £843,000

RENTING IN CHISLEHURST (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £930 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,298 a month Two-bedroom house £1,347 a month Three-bedroom house £1,670 a month Four-bedroom house £2,329 a month

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Cut me a large TRANSPORT slice please: left, Gaynor Wetherall, café proprietor at COMMUTERS from Chislehurst station Wrattens gift and have the choice of half-hour trains to homewares shop Charing Cross that call at London in Chislehurst Bridge in 20 minutes and Waterloo High Street East in 25 minutes, or Cannon Street Far left: at trains taking 27 minutes that also stop Bloxhams Florists at London Bridge in 20 minutes. in the High Street, Passengers starting their journeys owner Hannah from Elmstead Woods, the next station Gingell and floral up the line, can shave a few minutes designer Daisy and a travel Zone off their journey. Clayton Chislehurst station is in Zone 5 and an annual travelcard costs £2,328, while Elmstead Woods station is in Zone 4 and an annual travelcard is £1,960.

THE PROPERTY SCENE

WITH Bromley’s biggest conservation Road at £2.75 million, the other with social rent and five shared ownership. area, Chislehurst homes range from five bedrooms in Leesons Hill for Four-bedroom terrace houses remain period cottages to Victorian and £1.1 million-£1.2 million. in phase one, at £685,000. Phase two Edwardian houses and smaller launches next year (01689 499 756). terrace homes. Arts and Crafts houses NEW-BUILD HOMES by Edward J May and Ernest Newton McCarthy & Stone’s retirement flats AFFORDABLE HOMES are sought after. There are large at Shepheard’s House in Manor Park Housing association L&Q launches modern mansions in leafy streets Road are proving popular. The first shared-ownership one- and two- where older houses have been phase is selling off-plan, with one- bedroom flats next year at Excalibur knocked down and rebuilt; Thirties bedroom homes from £447,950 and in nearby Catford, where there will be detached houses, some in the mock two-bedroom flats at £553,950. Call 371 new homes (excaliburse6.co.uk; Tudor style by renowned local builder 0800 201 48211. register interest at lqpricedin.co.uk) Frederick Love; detached and semi- In New Eltham, near Chislehurst, detached houses built in every Linden Homes is building Waterford HOMES TO RENT decade since the Twenties including Place in Avery Hill Road, with 135 Chislehurst is not a large rental area, Sixties townhouses, and modern flats. two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom with five times as many homes for The most expensive house for sale homes, including 43 affordable. Four- sale as there are to rent. At the now is 10 years old and has six bedroom semi-detached houses start moment homes to rent range from a bedrooms, an indoor swimming pool, at £749,950. Call 020 3811 4895. one-bedroom period conversion flat gym and sauna. In Wilderness Road, London Square Orpington in Photographs: in Kemnal Road for £900 a month, up it is priced at £4.95 million. There are Broadwater Gardens offers 116 one- Daniel to a five-bedroom detached house in two Frederick Love houses for sale, and two-bedroom flats and three- and Norlands Crescent for £2,800 a one with six bedrooms in Chislehurst four-bedroom houses, with 10 for Lynch month. 26
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Ask the expert It’s just a little place for granny, honest…

contrary to our solicitor’s advice. This is only because we haven’t got around to it, to be honest. My sister and I are both single and have no children. I travel a lot. What happens to my share of the house if I die before I get this Will thing settled?

AS YOU hold the property as tenants in common, on your death A your share in the house would pass By Fiona McNulty under the rules of intestacy if you do not OUR LAWYER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS have a valid Will. The rules of intestacy dictate how your estate would be divided up. These rules WE WANT to buy a house to live are complex — but basically, upon your in where we can add a granny death a trust would be created and your Q annexe in future, if necessary, More legal Q&As: personal representatives would have for my mother. Can you give us any visit homesand power of sale, which means they can use pointers as to what we should be taking property.co.uk the assets of your estate to pay for your into account when property hunting? We funeral, testamentary and administration don’t want to find we suddenly need the expenses and to pay any debts you may annexe but aren’t allowed to create one. if you are planning a more self-contained is listed, you will need listed building have. annexe — for instance, one with a living consent for the work. And do not forget The balance after these payments have YOU will need to ensure any area, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom — building regulations approval. been deducted is called the residuary property you are interested in is planning permission is likely to be If you are going to need mortgage estate. A not subject to restrictive covenants needed. funding for the purchase, make sure that The rules of intestacy provide that the that would preclude it from having a WHAT’S Planning permission for a you inform your proposed lender about residuary estate is divided between granny annexe. For example, the addition YOUR PROBLEM? granny annexe often includes your plans. Check with the local authority various family members in a particular of any external structures or extensions to Email legalsolutions@ conditions that prohibit its regarding a council tax exemption for a order. In your case as you are single and the main house may be prohibited. standard.co.uk or write to Legal use by anyone other than granny annexe. have no children, your residuary estate If you are thinking of creating a granny Solutions, Homes & Property, family members, would pass to your parents if they are alive Evening Standard, 2 Derry Street, annexe that would really be no more than W8 5EE. Questions cannot be dependants or guests of the I HAVE a house that I bought and would be divided equally between an extra room in the house, then it may be answered individually, but we will try owners/occupiers of the with my sister a couple of years them. considered to be incidental to the main to feature them here. main house. Q ago. We hold the property as If your parents are deceased, then your house and therefore could be built under Fiona McNulty is a solicitor Additionally, if the property tenants in common but neither of us has sister would inherit your residuary estate, permitted development rights. However, specialising in residential you eventually end up buying made Wills or a declaration of trust, or failing that, her children. property. 28
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Inside story Race to put a roof over 24 heads in Covent Garden

admin. There has been no feedback yet from the relocation agent and our Diary of an client is getting anxious. My mind is taken off the waiting by Estate Agent an afternoon viewing tour with a lawyer who is relocating from overseas to London with her family and is looking to rent in Covent MONDAY Garden. She is completely taken with With the start-the-week team meeting the final property I show her. It’s a and the catch-up after the weekend, penthouse overlooking the Piazza and along with organising all the new it certainly has the “wow factor”. She viewings, Mondays are always hectic makes an offer this evening. in the office. Today I also get a call from a THURSDAY relocation agent who needs to find I hear back from the relocation agent accommodation for 24 employees in who says she is keen to set up a Covent Garden. We have just been meeting with the landlord and her instructed on a new project which clients to discuss a potential deal. I could be perfect for the job, so I set up start work on an agenda to make sure a viewing for tomorrow. we can cover everything, then I am off to take a look at a new apartment near TUESDAY Tottenham Court Road. I must say, it We’re making an early start with the has some of the most luxurious, high- relocation agent. Most of the quality amenities that I’ve ever seen. development is finished, but we need to comply with Health and Safety FRIDAY regulations and wear protective gear, The big day has arrived… and I’m not so this means hard hats and high- talking about the World Cup. It is the visibility jackets. The viewing goes meeting with the landlord and the well — fingers crossed, we will have relocation agent — ta-dah! The found a home for the 24 employees. meeting is a success. We negotiate a price and work up a rough set of WEDNESDAY terms for the proposed lease to send is finally agreed and the deposit taken has been a good week. Now, time for ⬤ Jonathan Rogers is a senior lettings Paperwork is piling up on my desk so to the solicitors this afternoon. There but it all looks promising. Getting the the team to head to our local pub to negotiator with CBRE in Covent I plough through the backlog of will be weeks of work before the deal deal done is the best part of the job. It watch the football. Garden (020 7420 3012). 32
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Letting on I told you right to rent was wrong

HEN it became £2,400 a month: in Walled Garden The accidental compulsory in 2016 Close, in a gated scheme in Beckenham, for landlords to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house check tenants’ right with garden and parking is available to Landlord to live in the UK, I rent through KFH (020 8012 2715). foresawW problems. I’m not surprised to learn that more than half of while neither has caused me any Victoria Whitlock landlords now say they’re reluctant to serious problems so far, they have let to non-EU tenants. made me a little nervous. welcomes a A High Court judge recently agreed The first, a student from South to allow a judicial review of these Korea, said she’d renewed her visa, judicial review of right to rent checks after the Joint which expired halfway through her Council for the Welfare of 12-month tenancy, but she didn’t send the law that forces Immigrants successfully argued that me any proof. I was so worried that I’d the policy has made it harder for non- accidentally ended up with an illegal landlords to check EU nationals to find accommodation. immigrant that I called the Home The joint council claimed to have Office Landlords’ Helpline (0300 069 their tenants’ right evidence that 51 per cent of landlords 9799). I was told I only needed to do a are now less likely to consider renting follow-up check once every 12 to live in the UK to tenants who don’t hold an EU months, so it was fine for her to stay passport, with 42 per cent less likely until the end of her contract, during on penalty of a to rent to non-UK passport holders. which time she produced a new visa. Clearly such discrimination is even imprisoned for up to five years, UK and one from outside the EU, it’s The second is a Brazilian whose visa fine — or even jail wrong but wasn’t it obvious there if they let to an illegal immigrant. understandable they will choose the expired three months into his would be problems from the minute In reality, no landlord is going to one that’s the most straightforward. tenancy and he hasn’t yet applied for Prime Minister Theresa May, in her end up behind bars as long as they Another problem is that landlords a new one. I’ve double-checked with previous role as Home Secretary, can show they’ve checked that the looking for long-term tenants will be the Home Office and I don’t need to announced this bonkers plan to turn tenant has the right to reside in the less likely to consider someone with a take action for another nine months, landlords into involuntary, untrained UK, which in practice means taking a time-limited visa, even if the tenant but if he is still visa-less then, I’ll have immigration officials? photo or photocopy of their passport intends to apply for an extension to evict him. I’m not suggesting no I think it’s totally understandable and, if they’re from outside the EU, a because if the extension is refused, checks should be made on illegal ⬤ Victoria Whitlock lets four that landlords don’t want to run the copy of their visa, and keeping these they’ll have to evict them, which can immigrants, but I hope the judicial properties in south London. risk of letting to non-EU or non-UK on file. However, it adds risk to the be an unpleasant, expensive process. review decides these should no To contact Victoria with your ideas passport holders because of the lettings process and if a landlord has I’ve taken two tenants from outside longer be carried out by untrained, and views, tweet @vicwhitlock danger they’ll be fined, and possibly to choose between a tenant from the the EU since right to rent came in and unqualified landlords like me. 34
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes

Sutton scents a Smart moves crop of eco-minded By David Spittles first-time buyers

SUTTON, the outer London borough, had a purple patch in the 18th and 19th centuries when its High on life lavender fields, feeding off the chalky, free-draining soil of the North Downs, grew to become the centre of a worldwide industry. Today the focus is on this suburb’s in Highgate town centre, which despite a conservation quarter, lost its allure ACROSS the Heath from Hampstead, six miles north of in the Seventies thanks to some truly central London, ancient Highgate Village has offered hilltop awful planning disasters. fresh air to prosperous Londoners since Elizabethan times. In travel Zone 5, Sutton is The village is still recognisable as such, with independent affordable territory for young first- shops, “country” pubs, the famous school and cemetery and time buyers who want a quick impressive Pond Square, a pocket of mainly Georgian commute into central London: 25 properties where the Highgate Society, one of the capital’s minutes to Victoria or 33 minutes to most active amenity groups, is based. Blackfriars. An extension to Sutton of There are few better views than from the top of Furnival the Croydon to Wimbledon tram House at the peak of leafy Cholmeley Park. The building service is on the agenda, along with would slot comfortably into rural Surrey or Berkshire. What some serious regeneration. looks like a red-brick Edwardian Baroque mansion was built as Sutton Point, pictured, right next a hostel by the Prudential Assurance Company in 1916 as to the train station, is one of the key domestic staff quarters for workers at the Holborn HQ. new projects, offering 332 high-rise Refurbished and internally reconfigured, Furnival House, flats plus shops and offices, a hotel pictured, now has 15 flats including a spectacular three- and a fitness centre grouped around bedroom penthouse. All homes come with a Bulthaup kitchen, a new public square. A spectacular white marble bathrooms and a Creston system that controls rooftop garden has been created on heating, lighting, home entertainment and security. There’s a one of the buildings, too. Prices from grand entrance portico, two acres of landscaped communal £280,000, with Help to Buy gardens and underground parking, plus a whole floor for spa, available. Call CNM Estates on 020 sauna, steam room, gym and pool. Prices from £1.25 million to 8390 9265. The local council’s £5.5 million. Call Knight Frank on 020 3432 6859. mission is to make Sutton borough EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018
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GARDEN SQUARE Gorgeous Georgian conversion brings Scandi-style flats

GRACEFUL Georgian Clapton Square, historically the home of senior merchants and financiers, is the second-largest square in Hackney, with a central garden surrounded by elegant, listed period houses, some of five storeys. One of these large properties, right, has been split into apartments, including duplexes and three- bedroom family flats. The restored double-height entrance with original skylight and grand staircase provides a sense of arrival, while interiors, below right, have a hint of Scandi design, with wide oak plank flooring, Corian worktops and Philippe Starck- the “UK’s first sustainable suburb, designed Duravit sanitaryware. one of the greenest places in the Prices from £735,000. Call 020 country to live”. BedZED, a 7749 1380. Looking for a showpiece zero-carbon housing Clapton has a different feel to the new-build project shortlisted for the prestigious gritty Hackney heartland. It was Stirling Prize for architecture, built on ground rising up from the home? Start showed the way. Lea Valley and is one of the New Mill Quarter, being built cheapest parts of the borough, your search on beside the River Wandle, follows in despite lying alongside the this tradition, a new neighbourhood impressive open spaces of Hackney of 750 homes moments from Downs, Springfield Park and Hackbridge train station and with its Millfields. In the past, train links own district heating system. From were poor. However, today it is £283,995. Call David Wilson Homes connected by the tentacles of the on 0844 7770057. Overground.