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OMEBUYERS are turning said Bob Weston, managing director of their backs on overpriced Weston Homes, known for thoughtfully central London and head- designed developments. ing across the river and “They don’t have large amounts of out to the suburbs for surplus cash and they rely on equity space,H value and good design. being released from their existing prop- Europe is full of well-designed, ingen- erty. For this reason we factor in iously financed and properly managed speedy completion timelines, which new urban and suburban areas that help eliminate uncertainty and smooth satisfy the needs of their residents. Well the chain.” land-managed, London’s suburbs could double in density, fully meeting READY AND WAITING £1,395,000: homes in Argyll Place, a smart new scheme in North Kensington the demand for 400,000 new homes “Seeing is believing, that’s our mantra,” £3.6 million: for the ultimate in ready- over the next 20 years. said David Smith, director of developer to-move-into flats, head to the City The Land Registry’s latest data shows Octagon. “Rarely do we release a home and the 2,300sq ft homes at The Heron this message is getting through to to the market until it is completely people who want to live in London — finished, which means decorated, priced from £1.3 million. Call St George but not at any price. Sixty per cent of carpeted and sometimes fully fur- on 020 7610 9693. families who sold up during the 12 nished, plus gardens that are planted The Panoramic Collection of 13 apart- months to April did not move to the and communal areas ready.” ments occupies the top floors of The country, preferring to stay within the So smart were the two show homes Heron, a new tower in the City. These London area — up a third on the years at Octagon’s Wootton Place scheme lateral flats range up to 2,300sq ft and of the previous decade. in Esher that they were snapped up have superb wraparound terraces of Some are discovering up-and-com- ahead of the other five houses, prompt- more than 1,000sq ft with double- ing districts. Cross-river moves are a ing the developer to bring forward two aspect views. Prices from £3.6 milllion. growing trend, according to estate more show homes, each featuring a Call 0845 533 800. agent Winkworth, which has the larg- marble-floor entrance hall and a base- est branch network in London. The ment with home cinema. Prices from DO THE SPLITS main flows are from north and west £2.75 million. Call 01372 460117. Roehampton House is one of only London to south London, where two Grade I-listed London properties homes are significantly cheaper, and JETTY-SETTERS to be converted to residential use — the where new Overground stations are Riverside Quarter sits on a bend of other being St Pancras Chambers, for- improving the appeal of places such the Thames known as the Wandle merly Midland Grand Hotel, at King’s as Brockley, Forest Hill, Dulwich and Delta, a noted wildlife habitat, and Cross. The rare Palladian mansion is at £3.95 million: Octagon has large five-bedroom villas ready in Esher Park Avenue Crystal Palace. looks north across the river to leafy the heart of a new 14-acre walled estate New homes in core central London Hurlingham Park. Development began called Queen Mary’s Place. There are areas are geared towards wealthy buyers a decade ago and the scheme has 22 apartments in the restored mansion. and overseas investors purchasing off- matured into one of the city’s most Prices from £950,000 to £1.85 million. plan. A high proportion, about 40 per attractive riverbank projects. It has Elsewhere on the estate are eight new cent, of new-build homes on the market moorings and pontoon jetties, land- five-bedroom semis, each with a in London are for sale in this way. scaped squares, restaurants, a conven- ground-floor “super-room” for family But Londoners who want to see what ience store and river taxi pier for local living, a sun terrace on the upper floor they are getting for their money go to residents. The final phase has been and a utility room with separate exter- less expensive places outside the launched — 121 flats ready for immedi- nal access, a practical solution for centre where they can get on with ate occupation, with floor-to-ceiling children and pets with muddy feet. their lives and buy a property they can glass walls and generous-size balco- Residents have exclusive access to a move into straightaway. nies. Prices from £650,000. Call 020 restored formal rose garden and there With ready-to-move-into homes, buy- 8877 2000. is a private shuttle bus to East Putney ers have the advantage of being able to Chelsea Creek is a new dockside Tube station. Prices from £1,675,000. see and touch what they are getting and estate sandwiched between fashionable Call 020 8246 6748. can synchronise the sale of their exist- Chelsea Harbour and the giant Imperial When Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ing home with the purchase of the new Wharf residential complex. St George, Dowding set up Fighter Command one, to plan for a new school term or the developer, has created a new navi- headquarters at the start of the Second to be in by Christmas. “People are most gable waterway linked to the Thames. World War, he chose Bentley Priory in From £839,000: flats and townhouses at Bentley Priory, the converted Fighter happy and able to buy a new home Doulton House, one of the dock-facing Stanmore, north-west London, because Command HQ of the Forties, in the super-suburb of Stanmore, north-west London when it is complete or very close to it,” blocks, has three-bedroom apartments of its elevated position offering sweep- EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 5 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

£2.3 million: homes with crisp lines and five bedrooms at Mulberry Mews, Islington

ing views of the capital. From here in GETTING THE DESIGN RIGHT ment in East Sheen are ready to move £650,000: 121 spacious flats are 1940, Fighter Command co-ordinated Modern townhouses with versatile London’s suburbs could into. Prices from £1,395,000. Call finished at Riverside Quarter, which the efforts of the 3,000 pilots who won layouts and exciting design elements double in density, meeting Featherstone Leigh on 020 8876 4567. looks north to leafy Hurlingham Park the Battle of Britain. Today, the location are the number one choice of more and New townhouses at Argyll Place in appeals to commuters, being at the end more young couples moving out of flats demand for 400,000 new North Kensington offer a chance to live ground floor that could be used as a of the Jubilee line, and is one of 20 when they start a family. Growing homes in the next 20 years around the corner from the Cameron self-contained studio, plus basement “super-suburbs”, according to estate families, too, are bypassing gentrified family home, which is currently let parking. Prices from £1.3 million. Call agent Savills. As well as grand apart- terraces in favour of wow-factor rise apartment blocks and houses set while the Prime Minister occupies Strutt & Parker on 020 3667 5566. ments in the converted mansion, there new-builds that chime with the way around a gated, tree-lined square. Downing Street. Buyers may be able to strike a deal are new- build flats and townhouses in they live. Houses have up to five bedrooms and The charming St Quintin Estate is a with a developer at bigger schemes the grounds, most with views across 57 Mulberry Mews, close to Highbury two underground parking spaces. Prices tree-lined conservation area of Edward- where the last few homes remain. Often acres of parkland. Prices from Fields in Islington, has crisp, clean-line from £2.3 million. Call 020 3667 5577. ian terraces. Taylor Wimpey is building developers are keen to close down the £839,000. Call 020 8950 5079. architecture, with white-rendered low- Four eco-houses at a gated develop- a line of 20 houses, each with a lower- site and move on to the next project.

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ENTS in the capital have risen strongly in recent years and now stand at an average £1,118 a month, up six per cent in a year, accorRding to LSL Property Services. James Wright, 25, lives in Clapton, east London because his friends live there and it is (relatively) affordable. He and his boyfriend share a two-bed- room flat with a flatmate and the three each pay £433 a month. Clapton attracts renters priced out of more central parts of Hackney. “We only moved here in March but I’ve been noticing new pubs opening and trendy hairdressers popping up,” said James, a senior account executive at a public relations company. “Our rent hasn’t gone up yet but I can imagine that it will, in which case we’ll have to move.” CHASING A CHEAPER RENT When that day comes, the couple will have to do some careful research. James can cycle to work from Clapton, saving £116.80 a month on fares. A good rent is a combination of an affordable rent and a cheap commute. So where

could they move to? Here are some REX FEATURES suggestions. Value: Alexandra Park has arguably better transport links than pricier Muswell Hill HARINGEY Carla Ingram, lettings manager at Kin- leigh Folkard & Hayward, suggests Alexandra Park, less than two miles from desirable Muswell Hill. Be a step ahead in Admittedly it is not as blessed with smart shops as its neighbour but it has the eponymous park, with Alexandra Palace at its heart, plus arguably better the rental game transport links from Bounds Green or Wood Green stations (Zone 3). Property: Victorian, and Ingram When the boutiques COMPARE BOROUGHS estimates a two-bedroom flat would THE COST OF RENTING cost from around £300 a week, com- and brasseries move A TWO-BEDROOM FLAT pared to £350 in Muswell Hill. in, it’s time to move Inner London: BEXLEY out to the next area Travel costs (Zone 1 and 2 travel The cheapest London borough is card, monthly): £116.80 Bexley, with average rents of £864 a set to become cool. month for a two-bedroom flat. But add Camden £2,044 in a £213.60 travel card and the loca- By Ruth Bloomfield City of London £2,004 tion, plus the long commute, starts Hackney £1,601 looking less of a great deal. Hammersmith & Fulham £1,770 looking elsewhere is smart — particu- Haringey £1,224 STRATFORD larly in south-east London if you don’t Islington £1,517 Ed Phillips, director of lettings at Fox- mind using buses or the London Over- Kensington & Chelsea £2,275 tons, says James should analyse the ground. Cycling is even better. Lambeth £1,213 market. In an area where there is loads Lewisham £950 of renting property there is more WENDELL PARK Newham £950 choice. Over the next year in Stratford Philip Davenport, lettings manager at Southwark £1,249 thousands of rental flats will come on John D Wood, suggests Wendell Park Tower Hamlets £1,797 stream. At present a two-bedroom in west London, a mile north of Chis- Wandsworth £1,615 property would cost from £275 a week, wick High Road and walking distance Westminster £2,604 says Phillips, compared to £375 plus in to Turnham Green station. The area is Canary Wharf, around a mile away. As leafy with quality Victorian homes, and new homes become available in Strat- although amenities aren’t right on the Outer London ford supply may even start to outstrip doorstep rents are significantly cheaper Travel costs from £136.80 (Zones 1 demand, bringing prices down. than Chiswick. Davenport recently let to 3) to £213.56 (Zones 1 to 6) Studying a Tube map, Phillips says a three-bedroom house in the area for most renters want to live close to £635 a week. In Chiswick he estimates Barking and Dagenham £908 Northern and Central line stations so it would have cost £850. Barnet £1,257 Bexley £864 £635 a week: the Brent £1,406 likely rent for a Bromley £1,011 three-bedroom Croydon £965 house in Wendell Ealing £1,280 Park, compared Enfield £1,108 with £850 a week Greenwich £1,178 typically in Harrow £1,128 nearby Chiswick Havering £875 Hillingdon £1,283 Hounslow £1,283 Kingston upon Thames £1,251 Merton £1,341 Redbridge £1,009 Richmond upon Thames £1,540 O To search for Sutton £976 homes to rent, visit Waltham Forest £1,037 homesandproperty. Source: Valuation Office Agency

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Shared ownership: flats VICTORIA PARK • E3 at The Lexicon, left, on City Road near Angel

£225,000: flats at Gunmakers Wharf (right), Bow, an area that is on the up Stylish homes bring young London to the waterside

ANALSIDE regeneration is keeping alive the Regeneration of the capital’s canal network homebuying dreams of young Londoners, with is bringing smart new homes to peaceful, developers unlocking watery settings, discovers David Spittles derelictC sites in cheaper, up-and- coming areas. Many of the locations are still raw, keeping new homes affordable — but not dull. Imaginative architecture is helping to create congenial canalbank communities that are car-free, with less pollution and noise, and which become more desirable as they mature. Gunmakers Wharf in Bow sits on the Hertford Union Canal, alongside leafy Victoria Park, one of London’s best: a 200-acre space boasting lakes and tennis courts, a bandstand and cafés. The neighbourhood is going STYLE ON THE from strength to strength and has acquired “village” status, due to the cluster of boutiques, bistros and CANALSIDE bars that have appeared around Lauriston Road. Frontline apartments have frameless glass balconies and views MARKETING SUITE across the water to the park. There is a bridge across the canal and the & SHOW APARTMENT NOW OPEN towpath is being upgraded, a boon for cyclists as there are quick routes, From £284,950: balcony flats at Brentford Lock West, on the way to Heathrow flat and safe too, to Canary Wharf and the Olympic Park. Prices from estate bordering the canal. Hyde other wildlife. Lexicon is one of A stylish collection of studio, £225,000. Call A2 Dominion on 0800 Housing association is creating a several new apartment schemes 7832159. complete new neighbourhood, with being built at City Road Basin, Angel. 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments 798 mixed-tenure properties Of the 307 apartments, 69 are for A CUT ABOVE grouped around landscaped public shared ownership through Affinity on Victoria Park’s canalside If you are up for an autumn walk, the squares and a park. The Axis is the Sutton housing association. Call best way to discover these forgotten latest phase of private homes, priced 0300 100 0303. and just minutes from buzzing waterways and spot the new housing from £405,000. Call estate agent is to put on your hiking boots. Currell on 020 7226 6611. GREEN SHOOTS East London and the City. Sometimes the access is difficult but Haggerston is a place to watch. Lee Navigation runs from Bow Creek it is surprising how far you can go. Sandwiched between bar-packed to Hertford via the giant reservoirs Grand Union Canal is the main Hoxton to the south and Islington to and nature reserves of north-east APARTMENTS FROM £245,000 inland waterway in the capital. It the north, the pace of gentrification London. Along the route, factories comes in from the west, through has been slower here. Broadway and mills are being redeveloped. Brentford and on to Paddington Market, from London Fields to Industrial eyesores remain but this is before joining up with Regent’s Canal Regent’s Canal at Haggerston, has a remarkably green swathe of the To book an appointment call us and running into the Thames at changed with the times but retains capital, with parks and unexpected Limehouse. some of its old down-to-earth, street- conservation areas. Pavilions is part on 020 8981 4484 or email Here, Limehouse Cut spins off in a trader character: Cooke’s pie-and- of a 12-acre waterside village at different direction, heading north- mash shop now serves cocktails. Tottenham Hale, one of the capital’s [email protected] east through Hackney Marshes and City Mills is the district’s largest main transport interchanges. Prices Walthamstow. The Boatyard, new development — 350 apartments, from £184,995. Call Bellway on 0845 Poplar, is a scheme of 75 canalside many with sweeping views of the City 548 8038. GUNMAKERSWHARF.COM apartments. Prices from £240,000. skyline. Two-bedroom flats start at Brentford Lock West on the way Call Telford Homes on 01992 £390,000. Call 0844 406 9289. to Heathrow in the west, has 530 flats 809800. Kingsland Basin, part of Regent’s and townhouses, part of an 11-acre Islington and Hackney are the focus Canal in Shoreditch, is being turned scheme on the banks of the Grand of much activity, especially the into a smart new waterside Union Canal. As well as commercial section of canal between City Road community with 207 new homes, a and leisure space, new moorings, Basin and Kingsland Basin. health centre, shops and offices. pontoons and a footbridge are being Back from the canal are tranquil Restoration of two listed stable created, the towpath widened and terraces and garden squares with buildings will create studios and Art Deco warehouses refurbished. gastropubs and small independent workshops for small businesses. Homes have “green” credentials: Sales & Marketing Suite, Gunmakers Wharf Old Ford Road, London E3 5QB shops making these attractive, The canal is being opened up for high energy-efficiency ratings, Computer generated image of Gunmakers Wharf. rounded neighbourhoods. recreational use, with eco-zones on rooftop allotments and solar panels. Price is correct at time of going to print. Packington Square, near Angel, is a the edges of the basin planted with Prices from £284,950. Call 0202 redevelopment of a former council native species to attract birds and 8569 7449. 8 WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Homes abroad homesandproperty.co.uk with

OW far would you go for a game of golf? How about a 12-hour flight to the Indian Ocean where the French and English-speak- Hing island of Mauritius is becoming the golf destination du jour. Homes cost from £220,000 and Britons are buying. Tropical Mauritius is the size of Surrey — 42 miles long — but crams in 10 top golf courses designed by names such as Bernhard Langer and Ernie Els. There’s horse riding, mountain biking and water sports, ensuring this island — best known as a high-end honey- £410,000: Amalthea new homes at moon destination — is winning new Anahita, an established golfing and fans for its quality leisure activities. leisure resort in the south of Mauritius Mauritius is easily accessible by direct Fairway to travel for some of the world’s best golf Beautiful blue: an aerial view of La Place Belgath at Anahita, with its long, empty beaches and stunning scenery

flights from the UK and is one of Africa’s a notable Four Seasons Hotel with the certain apartments, along with two Get out your clubs — success stories, with a stable, diversi- highest occupancy rate on the island. years free green fees. fied export-based economy. Its good The 213-hectre IRS resort has a “We have seen strong demand for or enjoy mountain infrastructure includes an airport that planned density, when all 325 homes Indian Ocean property this year,” said biking, water sports easily handles the 960,000 visitors a are built, of less than 10 per cent. Jo Leveret of Savills, Anahita’s sales year from Europe and South Africa. The resort is a 45-minute drive from agent. “Mauritius is the best known of and horse riding on Foreigners have been allowed to buy the airport and 31 miles from the capital the islands there from a property buy- since 2002, when the government intro- Port Louis, a little too remote for some ing perspective and Anahita is well this virtually tax-free duced the Integrated Resort Scheme buyers who want the bright lights of established with 150 properties sold (IRS). Buyers had to spend at least tourist-centric Grand Baie on hand. and an active resale market.” Indian Ocean island, £315,400 on homes in pre-approved For its many fans though, Anahita is five-star resorts. In return they got well-worth travelling halfway around AFFORDABLE HOMES says Cathy Hawker residency and low levels of taxation: the world. Opposite is L’Isle des Cerf, Mauritius currently has nine RES and 15 per cent income tax, 10 per cent a sandy island with long empty beaches seven IRS projects. On the protected capital gains and no inheritance tax. and another golf course. north coast, in the tourist hot spot of In 2007 this was extended through The newest phase is Amalthea, 63 Grand Baie, newly launched Le Parc the Real Estate Scheme (RES) to include two- and three-bedroom apartments de Mont Choisy is on a beautiful long smaller developments with fewer and detached villas, priced from beach with a planned golf course and facilities and no minimum purchase £410,000 and £711,000. 198 homes, from £377,995 for a two- price. Owners on RES schemes do not These will be light, modern homes bedroom beach home through Savills. automatically qualify for residency. beside the golf course with bleached Nearby apartments in the second phase Active breaks: David and Laura slate roofs, landscaped grounds and of Cape Bay east of Grand Baie cost from Rich-Jones with their children ESTABLISHED RESORTS private or communal pools. £286,000 through Pam Golding. Anahita, on a truly lovely four-mile Apartments start from 1,582sq ft and Azuri, 30 minutes from Port Louis, stretch of coast in the wind-prone villas from 2,150sq ft with annual main- is nearing completion with 272 apart- Anahita holiday south-east, started selling homes in tenance about £365 a month. ments and townhouses priced from 2006 and opened its doors two years A full concierge service will manage £347,000. The resort aims to create a home is perfect From £347,000: Azuri apartments, later. Today it has a lush Ernie Els golf the property. Rental yields of four per year-round community: 103 apart- 30 minutes from capital Port Louis course, excellent sports facilities and cent are guaranteed for three years on ments are only available to local buy- for all the family ers. Because it has no golf course or DAVID and Laura Rich-Jones from From £415,000: major sports facilities it plans to keep Putney are not golfers but that %-$0 0  Mauritian maintenance costs to £200 a month. didn’t stop them buying two plantation-style apartments at Anahita at the start two- to four- CONTACTS of development. The couple, with bedroom villas Anahita and Mont Choisy through their children aged from five to 14, at Villas Valriche Savills: savills.co.uk (020 7016 3740) had holidayed in Mauritius and golf resort in the Azuri: azuri.mu loved the range of sports on offer. south of the Cape Bay through Pam Golding: “There’s tennis, the spa, gym, island pamgolding.co.za kids’ club and watersports at Anahita which appealed to us as a family,” said David who runs a property and outsourcing company. “Off resort we can swim with dolphins, quad bike in the mountains and go sailing.” The family visit for up to four    #0
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Artists: architect and sculptor Lawrence Lek and Art Licks founder Holly Willats at new festival venue The White Building, left, run by SPACE, in Hackney Wick. A plywood pavilion built using plywood “and thrift”, far left GRAHAM HUSSEY

Imaginative: Lawrence Lek installation in a courtyard behind Bedford Square in central London, right Art Licks feeds a taste for talent

RTISTS often colonise an New festival moves area long before the estate agents move in. This week- into homes and end spot the rising talent in east and south-east Lon- businesses on the donA at the Art Licks Festival at more than 70 venues including galleries, private fringes of London to homes, on canal boats and rooftops. “People happily go along to the Tate, highlight creativity. Whitechapel or Serpentine on their weekends, but they have no idea By Liz Hoggard where to find the younger under- ground galleries,” said festival and pizzeria. Artists colonise founder Holly Willats, 26. fringe areas of London, making Funded by the Arts Council them very desirable. Estate and Jerwood Charitable Foun- agents take note. “When artists dation, the festival focuses on regenerate an area like Hackney areas along the East London or Peckham, galleries pop up,” line, from Bethnal Green and Willats said. Hackney Wick to Bermond- Lek, who originally trained as sey, Peckham and Forest an architect, added: “You get Hill. these tribes springing up all Gallery spaces include over London of artists who people’s homes (Peck- graduated from Leeds or ham’s 38b gallery is in a Camberwell art colleges and flat) and a former GPs’ they start working together in surgery at Elephant and a natural DIY sense, then that Castle’s Heygate estate snowballs.” — the very cool Hotel Best-known for creating Elephant. dramatic sculptural art Three years ago, installations in urban Willats set up the spaces, including the Art Licks website, Barbican foyer and a listing of events Bedford Square, Lek and exhibitions, has invited all the par- from her Peck- ticipating Art Licks ham bedroom, to spaces to send him promote emerg- their floor plans and he ing artists and is building a virtual not-for-profit tower online, so you can projects. Today, take an alternative digital patrons of Art Licks tour of the festival. “When include the Victoria you get all these galleries Miro Gallery and Eva together, it spreads out so much Rothschild. across London, it’s collectively New venue The White larger than the Tate,” he said. Building, in Hackney Wick, where “speculative sculp- O Art Licks, October 4-5, daily, tor” Lawrence Lek has a 11am to 6pm (artlicksweekend.com) studio, is by the canal, just opposite the Olympic Head turner: Lawrence Lek’s Stadium, with a lovely bar sculpture Prosthetic Aesthetics EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 11 homesandproperty.co.uk with Design Homes & Property

Timeless Furniture designer timepiece: Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton tells models his first Katie Law his Tate watch, designed for the Margaret Modern secret, how Howell fashion range and just he covets a £15,000 launched, £907 (matthewhilton. bicycle, and reveals com) that location is all when it comes to his home Attraction: Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Sunbury Antiques Market: get there early for the good stuff

WHERE I LIVE FAVOURITE GALLERY MOST BEST MARKET I live in East Dulwich in a first-floor I enjoy going to Tate Modern — but it COVETED I go to Sunbury Antiques Market at two-bedroom flat in an old Victorian is as much for its Turbine Hall as for OBJECT Kempton Park, which means getting house. It’s a typical London space, the art. It’s almost like an indoor I’d love a Moulton up at five o’clock to get there in time you know: stripped wood and white street, like the shopping arcade next New Series to buy the good stuff. I use what I find walls, light and large and airy, and to the Duomo in Milan, and it is what Double Pylon mostly for props for photography I’ve got lots of my own-designed attracts so many people. bicycle (below and trade stands, but then it creeps furniture in it. I live there on my own right) with space into my home, too. The best thing I except for when my 10-year-old son MY ESCAPE frame construc- found there was a French decorative comes to stay. I like getting on my bike round tion. Beautiful metal frame with an old foxed-glass The best thing about it is its Dulwich Park on the wide road that design, works mirror inside. It’s beaten up, but location. It’s within cycling distance runs around the outside. There are very well, hardy, beautiful (sunburyantiques.com). from my Brixton studio and very always lots of people running, light, fast and close to Lordship Lane, which is full rollerblading and cycling there. The with tiny wheels. of great shops, and there’s a swim- park itself is a lovely old Victorian one A very unusual ming pool and a gym round the with separate areas for football, bike and costs a corner. It’s not central London living. cricket and tennis, and then areas fortune. About It feels more like living in a small with little bushes and windy paths and £15,000, I think town in the best possible way. a lake, as if you’re in a forest. (moulton.co.uk). My designdesignign L ADRIAN LOURIE

MY SECRET SHOP MOST INTERESTING LAZY SUNDAYS Mint, just off Brompton NEW DESIGNER They don’t happen very often but Road. The owner, Lina Josh Bitelli is almost not a ideally I’d start with some exercise, Kanafani, is very on the designer, or certainly not in like ride a bike for a couple of hours ball and always has the way I am. Though he’s or swim, so I could feel I could then interesting things in her store, trained in design, he operates in an slouch about. I’d watch films. I watch which are not necessarily objects unconventional way, more like an a lot of films and I’ll happily go to I want to own but are always artist. He’s also very young, so I’m the cinema and then come home fascinating to look at, so I love not sure quite where he is going to go and watch a couple more on my popping in to see what’s new there yet. I bought some of his vessels Apple TV. (mintshop.co.uk). (pictured) made from welding rods I was surprised but I really enjoyed from his last show, which he called Behind the Candelabra recently. It Refreshing: a glass-topped dining 3D drawings. They’re very lovely was funny and touching and it had table from Mint (joshbitelli.co.uk). interesting casting. 16 WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Reader promotion homesandproperty.co.uk with

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1 This Flying Finish bespoke wall McLaren original Formula 1 engine, mural is from the Getty Images which came with a certificate from Gallery Collection at Surface View. Ron Dennis (head of the McLaren Priced £55 a square metre from team). It has a dual-toughened safety surfaceview.co.uk (0118 922 1327). glass top, engraved with McLaren and Marlboro logos, and costs £2,300. 2 The handmade Cobra Classic retro sofa costs from £669 and comes in 7 This Andrew Martin Grand various colours and trims to order. Prix cushion costs £60 from John Available from GSMotorsport.co.uk Lewis. See johnlewis.com or call (0115 9893488). 08456 049 049.

3 Racing car beds are popular with 8 Designer Grant Macdonald loves kids. This one is the Joseph Turbo, the “engineering excellence” of priced at £319, from click4beds.co.uk Aston Martins, whose carbon fibre bodies have inspired this Carbon 4 Vamping up a car scrapyard (and range of patterned china and silver. adding his famous logo) is French Dinner plates cost £150, with salad fashion doyen Jean Paul Gaultier, plates at £95. Mugs are £29.95, and a whose tough-looking Fangio fabric is tea cup and saucer costs £150, with in fact a soft cotton velvet. Price is coffee cup and saucer at £140. £119 a metre (in three colours) from Available from Harrods, SW1 or from Lelievre (020 7352 4798; lelievre.eu). grantmacdonald.com/astonmartin (call 020 7633 0278). 5 Enterprising engineer John Haigh picks over discarded car parts in the 9 Gearbox oil filters from a Red Bull Red Bull Formula 1 Milton Keynes Formula 1 racing car have been workshop to get the raw ingredients elevated into salt and pepper pots. for his unusual home design, Details include pressure relief valves, including floor lamps (pictured) filter end caps, dispensing inserts mirrors and vases. The engines have and carbon spacers. Price is £1,795 an “inner beauty,” he says. He can plus VAT. From Racing Gold (07786 add finishes that include chromium 066 222; racinggold.co.uk plating, or even gold, “but most people want the raw look of the 10 Set of Ferrari Shield espresso machine, oozing racing history”, cups, £29, from store.ferrari.com adds Haigh.

6 Gergely Bajzáth, based in Rigside near Lanark in Scotland, makes coffee tables from old engines (enginecoffeetables.co.uk). It started with a BMW M3, and was followed by 9 a Ford V4, Subaru boxer, a Vauxhall 1600 and so on — 20 tables within a year. His customers are all over the country, and he has even shipped to Australia. 10 Powder-coating, glass cuttings and sandblasted engraving is outsourced to local specialists. Prices start from around £350-£500. Shown here is his most expensive table so far — a EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 23 homesandproperty.co.uk with Design Homes & Property

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Winning smile: the late British Formula One champion James Hunt, left, and as played by Chris Hemsworth, far left, in the new 6 movie Rush

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Outside in: Cordula Weisser, husband Philip Borel and their son Caspar, five, right, seated at the pivoted window-door to the garden at home in Hackney

Making light of family life

Faced with narrow, dark ACKNEY once had lots of pilastered Victorian villas Victorian rooms, architect set in streets with grand names to match — such as and mum Cordula Weisser Carlton and Leopold. The Harea was steeped in Pooterish respect- used glass, timber and ability, until Hitler’s bombs obliterated east London in swathes. dramatic black and white “Victorian houses used to be wasted on me,” German-born architect Cordula to add space and create Weisser, says cheerfully, in the sunny new larch-lined extension she designed a modern family home, for the rear of her Victorian house — a suvivor of the blitz — off Victoria Park. says Philippa Stockley “Now,” she concedes, “I love them. But while most architects tend to open everything up, I like to keep a lot of original elements.” The new room takes up the width of the plot, going right across where the side return used to be. A big, pivoted window-door opens to the garden, mak- ing it very bright. The room is divided into cooking and dining areas by a long, teak-topped island that holds cooker, sink, and drawer-dishwasher. There’s a nice relaxed, contemporary feel: you instantly know that the family practically lives in this room. “It’s brilliant being able to cook and chat to your friends at the same time,” Cordula says. IN LOVE WITH LONDON Cordula, 43, came to England to study architecture at UCL. She meant to go back home, “but I fell in love with Lon- don.” Then she met her future husband, Philip Borel, a student at LSE; now an editor at financial publishing company PEI. They bought a house in London Fields, but soon after the birth of their son, Caspar, now five, realised they needed a larger home. “We looked at this one eight times,” Cordula says. “It took three months to Functional but fun: the black-and-white brilliance continues in Caspar’s playroom
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Island girl: Cordula found the top for her kitchen island, left, complete with butler sink, in a Brighton skip. Now it divides her generous new room perfectly into cooking and eating spaces

Having it larch: the extension’s white-oiled tongue-and- groove larch lining continues outside as black-stained and varnished cladding, right

Nifty space-saving measures: the wardrobes are built into the wall in the master bedroom, right

decide. A family had lived here for 20 passers-by had to help us load it. But it CORDULA’S TOP TIPS O Big pivoted window/ years and had done nothing. There was A shuttered door marks the determined how the kitchen would FOR STYLE AND door by Culmax (culmax.co. a narrow, dark kitchen sticking out from boundary between old and look.” Under it, she designed purple MONEY-SAVING: uk) the back, next to a narrow side return. cupboards, all economically cut and O Always use an O Blue-and-white Victorian houses are long, deep and new, a bit like The Lion, the sprayed by one company. The doors on architect, it saves money bathroom tiles by made a dark. That was my main concern: could Witch and the Wardrobe the opposite side open with your foot: — and you get fresh ideas mano (madeamano.com) I bring light and width into it? Finally, very useful if you are busy cooking. O Put the job out to O Micro-tiles in main two years ago, we bought it for Caspar, unimpressed by this cleverness, tender and get two or bathroom by Waxman £850,000.” the garden but now opens into the exten- just uses his hands. more quotes from (waxmanceramics.co.uk) Next, Cordula, who admits to agonising sion. Cordula kept it to mark the bound- prospective builders O Larch timber cut by over detail before making preliminary ary between old and new — like HERE are intelligent changes O Insulate floorboards Vincent Timber Mill drawings, submitted a plan for an exten- something out of The Lion, the Witch throughout the rest of the and put underfloor heating (vincenttimber.co.uk) sion. The planners rejected it as too long and the Wardrobe. family home — such as build- for a cosy feel O Larch timber oiled with and too high. After she scaled it back, it The new section looks very modern. ing the master-bedroom O In small rooms put one white oil by Osmo (osmouk. went through. “I designed the profile of the tongue-and- wardrobes into the wall, good thing (for example, com) Cordula’s subtle, thoughtful skills as an groove larch and had it made in the West Tmaking a doorway through from there handmade tiles in the O Cupboards made by a architect show in this house. Since it is Country, then put white oil on it,” into the principal bathroom, and hiding second bathroom). specialist spraying company her own home, she has experimented, Cordula explains. “So that the room the big solar-gain boiler in the wall O Kitchen cupboards (ashleysmithfurniture.com) too. The white front room, with its crisp didn’t end up looking like a sauna.” between hall and bathroom, so you don’t sprung to open by foot are O Smart black nickel cornice and wooden floors, still feels like It doesn’t. The larch continues outside even notice it. Or, drawing light right up a boon when cooking socket plates by screwfix. a classic Victorian drawing room. But in as cladding, only stained black, then through the house from a glazed panel O Use cheap socket com fact, layers of beige wallpaper were protected with regular Ronseal over the new kitchen — it’s a glass floor plates, but get smart- O Drawer dishwasher by stripped off and the smothered cornice varnish. on the landing above — right up to a looking ones Fisher & Paykel painstakingly chipped away at. Mean- Velux window in the roof, so light cas- (fisherpaykel.com/uk) while, the floor was lifted, insulation put WHOLE NEW TAKE ON TEAK cades down the core of the building. HOW TO GET A SIMILAR beneath, the boards repaired and closed The extension’s fashionable concrete But the main work is the ground floor. Photographs: LOOK NEED TO KNOW: up, and a lye wash put on by hand, giving floor turns out to be just the structural “This new part give me most pleasure,” Charles Hosea O Architect: Cordula O Cost of the house when a pale white sheen. Pure lye is caustic, slab of the new-build, with underfloor Cordula says. “Philip couldn’t imagine Weisser at ZCD Architects bought in 2011: £850,000 but a thin wash, oiled after, is fine. heating. And the kitchen island has its any of it from the drawings, but when it O For more (zcdarchitects.co.uk) O Spend: an estimated Behind this, the old back room is now own story. “We saw the teak on a skip in was done he was, like, ‘My God this is pictures of this O General builder: £210,000 (including sleek in Farrow & Ball black, with long Brighton, thrown out by a geology lab,” amazing’. home, visit PG Construction architect’s fee) MDF bookshelves cantilevered along the Cordula says. “We gaffer-taped it to the “All we’ve actually added is eight homesandproperty. (07815931873) O Value of the family’s wall. The original house ends here in a top of the car. It still had a butler sink square meters, but it has completely co.uk/ O Ronseal varnish: house now: estimated at shuttered French door that once led to attached, and was so heavy that transformed the house.” hackneyhouse ronseal.co.uk £1.4 million
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By Barbara Chandler Five things to see in October

1 RIBA FORGOTTEN SPACES 4 PAD LONDON From Friday to 10 November at October 16-20, Pavilion of Art and Design, Somerset House, WC2 — enter from the Berkeley Square, W1 (pad-fairs.com) southern side at Victoria Embankment FILLING a spacious tent, built (somersethouse.org.uk) around the tree trunks of this COULD Londoners have a new zoo in London square, are 60 galleries the empty gas holders of Bromley-by- showing upmarket modern design, Bow? Could we splash in a platform such as silversmiths Juan and Paloma pool at abandoned Aldwych Tube? Garrido’s extraordinary Rotation Or maybe the River Fleet could flow Armchair. These pieces often end up once more through Camden’s St in museums, or in the private Pancras Gardens? These ideas and collections of the very rich. The rest 23 others are the pick of a Royal of us can go to gawp. Despite the Institute of British Architects £20 ticket price (students £10), it’s competition to find uses for the well worthwhile. capital’s neglected spaces, and are laid out in Somerset House’s own 5 ANTIQUES & hidden spaces, from its Great Arch FINE ART FAIR Hall through to its courtyard October 11-13 at Esher Hall, Sandown lightwells. Admission is free. Park Racecourse, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey (01797 252030; 2 MIDCENTURY esherhallfair.com) SHOW EAST THOUGH much smaller than the Sunday 13 October, 10am to 4pm at huge shows in town, this “boutique” Haggerston School, Weymouth Terrace, fair yields everything from Russian E2 (modernshows.com) and Oriental textiles and carpets and BROWSE the last-century treasures Art Deco pieces, to 18th-century from 50 European dealers (this cool Swedish furniture. This Swedish office suite is from the Rocket gallery Rococo commode is £4,000 from in Shoreditch) and tour this recently D Larsson Interiör & Antikhandel. refurbished school designed by Erno Tickets cost £5, and there’s plenty Goldfinger, who also designed west of free parking. London’s Trellick Tower. Entrance is £8 on the day, or £7 web-booked before Sunday. 5

3 DESIGN NATION PRESENTS Open now until the end of the month at the Southbank Centre, SE1 (southbankcentre.co.uk) LEARN the stories behind Britain’s best contemporary crafts, as leading members of the promotional group Design Nation fill the Festival Hall with their latest work. We love Carly Dodsley’s cocktail coasters (£6 each) and Gillies Jones’s spectacular “landscape study” glassware. This bowl is £3,500. “We want people to appreciate these beautiful objects and to understand why they cost what they do,” said Adam Thow, of the Southbank Centre Shop. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 33 homesandproperty.co.uk with Outdoors Homes & Property Let’s uproot the lot and start afresh Give your tired pots a colourful makeover with the right kind of compost and new plants that will bloom until spring Pattie Barron

OU know what? Those win- dow boxes have had it and the pots have popped it. There are no prizes for drag- ging pelargoniums through winterY or coaxing past-it petunias back into bloom again. These plants are strictly summer stock, so pull them out, along with their compost, which has nothing left to give except possibly a few pests and a lot of disease. Relish the fresh start and the chance to practise a little creative window dressing for the new season. A bag of John Innes No 2 compost has enough

nutrients to keep plants happy and has STRAUSS GAP PHOTOS/FRIEDRICH more guts than a lighter, multipurpose compost. You will need to provide Autumn bounty: drainage, so make a base layer of Carex grass adds polystyrene packing chips. a flourish, above, to cyclamen, ENDURING BEAUTY dwarf asters and The new season’s bedding is built to cheery, black- last, so that whatever you buy should faced pansies bloom, on and off, until early spring. What makes great sense is to invest in Fiery foliage: a basic backbone of evergreens — vari- contrasting egated euonymus, bay, lime-green leaves and bright dwarf conifers, upright rosemary, even berries, left, bronze grass Carex comans — that can make a vibrant

stay in year-round, providing a good DESIGN BOB PURNELL BOLTON, GAP PHOTOS/MARK container display foliage contrast to frothier flowers. Best to avoid box, because of the potential pansies are surprisingly robust, and — avoiding white, which tends to turn blight problem. Use ivy with care, snip- need regular dead-heading; avoid the brown at the tips. ping it frequently: a trail or two of tempting plums and violets because it dainty birds’ foot ivy looks pretty, is the paler colours such as sky blue, BULB ESSENTIALS whereas a cascade looks funereal. tangerine or navy-blotched white that Winter bedding will not spread as For front-of-house chic, white or ice- will light up dark, wintry days. Smaller much as summer bedding, so plant pink cyclamen is unbeatable; the dinky violas have country-garden appeal, and more closely, but leave enough space size looks pretty at close quarters, but are better suited to patio containers. to shoehorn in — and in fact a shoehorn the larger blooms have more pavement Include berries for bright colour, but is useful for this — a handful of bulbs, appeal. Senecio foliage will enhance gaultheria, a long-living dwarf shrub, deep into the compost. My choices are Gardening cyclamen, making a lacy, silver ruffle. has the edge over more popular scarlet- blue grape hyacinth and Narcissus problems? Ornamental kale, with their frilly heads berried skimmia, with larger, china- Tête-a-Tête, which generously pro- Email our RHS of lilac, pink, fir green and white, are bead berries in colours from milk white duces several golden flowers per stem, expert at: novel, but they can outstay their wel- to sugar pink and crimson; contrast the thus providing, come spring, the essen- gardenproblems come, emitting school-dinner scent; mass of berries with the upright flower- tial host of golden daffodils, albeit on @standard.co.uk they are cabbages, after all. Universal ing spires of tough-as-old-boots heather a small scale.

RHS London Harvest Festival Show JOIN apple tasting sessions, admire fruit and vegetables from the UK’s finest growers and boggle at exhibits in the heaviest pumpkin competition, at the RHS annual autumn show next Tuesday and Wednesday, at Lindley Hall, Greycoat St, SW1. Celebrate the season on Tuesday evening at the Harvest Festival Late party from 6pm- 9pm, with fruit cocktails from the Midnight Apothecary, home-made cider from RHS Garden Wisley and beer from Hobgoblin, plus By Word of Mouth’s pasties and the Garlic Farm’s dim sum. Live music and a seasonal campfire set the scene. Tuesday 10am- 6pm; Wednesday 10am to 5pm; tickets £8 at the door or £5 advance booking at rhs.org.uk/Shows-Events 36 WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Property searching homesandproperty.co.uk with A creative village just £349,950 THIS one-bedroom flat in Denton Road, close to Haringey station, comes with a large private balcony and is for sale through Winkworth. a short trip O homesandproperty.co.uk/denton from the bright lights £1.15 MILLION Crouch End is easily accessible from central A FIVE-BEDROOM house, packed with period features in Park London but maintains a secluded feel that Avenue North, close to Alexandra Park. For sale through Foxtons. the locals love, says Anthea Masey O homesandproperty.co.uk/park

ROUCH END in north on sale at local framers and art gallery London is not the easiest Frameworks, tells the Crouch End place to reach. Hidden away story. It covers everything from the W7 between Finsbury Park and bus, the community’s connection to Muswell Hill, its charm lies the outside world via Finsbury Park Cin its relative isolation. Maybe this Tube, and downstairs comedy nights accounts for its self-sufficiency; with at the King’s Head with Jack Dee and everything from butchers, bakers and Eddie Izzard, to former Hornsey Col- greengrocers all still thriving in the lege of Art students Anish Zapoor, £849,950 busy shopping streets around the land- Richard Wilson and Richard Went- A SPLIT-LEVEL flat in Crouch Hall mark clock tower, why would anyone worth — not forgetting Ray Davies of Road with four bedrooms, a study want to leave? the Kinks, who established Konk music and a kitchen/dining room. Ever since the heady days of student studios in Tottenham Lane. Through Hamptons International. protests at nearby Hornsey College of O homesandproperty.co.uk/crouch Art in 1968, Crouch End has had an arty WHAT THERE IS TO BUY reputation. Locals like to call it London’s Many of the mainly late-Victorian and Creative Village and the success of the Edwardian houses were split into flats Crouch End Festival, launched two in the Fifties and Sixties when students years ago and held each June, indicates were drawn to Crouch End by cheap that in spite of house prices and rental rents. A good number of these proper- Spotlight levels that now put the neighbourhood ties have been turned back into family beyond the reach of struggling artists, houses, though plenty of conversions there is still an appetite for the experi- remain. The most expensive houses on Crouch End mental and the zany. currently for sale are in Christchurch The Crouch End collage map con- Road, Fairfield Road and in Crouch Hall ceived by local artist Lucy Atherton, Road, where Kinleigh Folkard & £550,000 A TWO-BEDROOM, split-level garden Hayward (020 8348 8181) is selling a flat in Carysfort Road, moments To in Crouch End, visit three to four-bedroom maisonette for from Priory Park. Through KFH. find a home £849,950. Local price per square foot O homesandproperty.co.uk/ ranges between £700 and £850. carysfort homesandproperty.co.uk/crouchend The area attracts: Barrington Dutton, manager of Crouch End’s Kinleigh

Old and new: the area boasts traditional pubs, such as the King’s Head, left, and also modern restaurants, including Spiazzo, right EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 37 homesandproperty.co.uk with Property searching Homes & Property

Saddling up: Shane Cawley, CHECK THE STATS right, decides to ride so his mum ■WHAT HOMES COST: Julia can wheel BUYING IN CROUCH END her new standard (Average prices) lamp home down One-bedroom flat £264,000 The Broadway Two-bedroom flat £416,000 Two-bedroom house £525,000 Three-bedroom house £603,000 Four-bedroom house £868,000 Source: Zoopla.co.uk RENTING IN CROUCH END (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,192 a month Historic: a clock Two-bedroom flat £1,561 a month tower, left, Two-bedroom house £1,499 a month dominates Three-bedroom house £2,069 a month The Broadway, Four-bedroom house £2,654 a month Crouch End’s Source: Zoopla.co.uk main shopping street GO ONLINE FOR MORE O The best schools O The best streets — including the most expensive — in the area O The latest housing developments O How Crouch End property prices compare with the rest of the UK O The local renting scene

For all this and more, visit homesand Magnet: bustling property.co.uk/ Tottenham Lane spotlightcrouchend will soon boast a new ArtHouse cultural centre WHAT do you like about Crouch End? Have your say at ESHomesAndProperty Folkard & Hayward branch, said the SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS reviews. On the homes interiors front, area has always had an arty feel. It feels as if there is a higher concentra- the French country house and shabby- “The village-like atmosphere is popular tion of coffee shops in Crouch End than chic look is catered for by Floral Hall, and people go out of their way to sup- anywhere else in the country — and Of Special lnterest and Little Paris, port local businesses. The excellent they all appear to be thriving. while Indish stocks brands including primary schools are also a big draw. There is a Starbucks, a Costa and a Marimekko and Alessi. There is a strong local property market, Harris + Hoole — part-owned by Tesco with people trading up and down, but — but there are independent cafés as OPEN SPACE families move in from all over London well, such as Haberdashery, Coffee Priory Park has a children’s play- and when they arrive they are very Cake, Sable d’Or and Coffee Circus. ground, paddling pool, café and tennis well-informed. Dunn’s is a long-standing bakery courts. The small Stationers Park has “Parents know exactly which primary where as well as fashionable cupcakes, a stream, a waterfall and a children’s schools they want their children to get a simple iced bun can still be bought. climbing castle. But the area’s best-kept into, and will have whittled down their There is a fishmonger, Walter Purkis, secret is the wild, overgrown Parkland choice to a handful of roads. For the and two butchers (Morley cures and Walk along the four and a half miles of first time, Crouch End is attracting City smokes its own gammon) as well as the old Finsbury Park to Alexandra TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE bonus money.” branches of Waitrose, M&S Simply Palace railway line. It’s a favourite with

BARRY PHILLIPS BARRY Staying power: Crouch End is the kind Food, the Co-op and a branch of dog walkers and joggers, and feels HOW is Crouch End connected with of place people tend to stay — which Budgens that grows vegetables on the remote and rural. Highgate Wood, one of the world’s most-repeated Peace and quiet: can lead to a shortage of properties for roof. Banner’s is a long-standing res- Queen’s Wood, Alexandra Park and urban myths? There is a clue in the Parkland Walk, sale. taurant with strong local support. Hampstead Heath are all nearby. picture. Find the answer online at along a disused Postcodes: the area falls within the N4 St James is an all-day brasserie, wine homesand property.co.uk/ railway line, is Hornsey postcode, which also includes and cocktail bar, while Riley is a popu- Photographs:: LEISURE AND THE ARTS spotlightcrouchend great for a stroll roads at the northern end of the lar ice-cream parlour. Esteban, a newly Graham There is much excitement locally about — or even a jog Harringay Ladder. arrived tapas bar, is getting good Hussey the imminent opening of ArtHouse, a new cultural venue, in the former Travel: Crouch End’s main lifeline to Tradition: Jade Salvation Army hall in Tottenham the outside world is the W7 bus to Fins- Stavin, 27, runs Lane. It will have a cinema run by the bury Park Tube station, from where it Scarlet Rage Curzon, a theatre, café, and a bar serv- takes 10 minutes to Oxford Circus on Vintage which iced by its own delicatessen. There is the Victoria line, and 15 minutes to Pic- supplies pieces a small fringe theatre at the Moors Bar cadilly Circus on the Piccadilly line. for hit TV drama in Park Road, which also offers occa- The No 91 bus goes to Trafalgar Square Downton Abbey, sional film nights. and Whitehall. among other The Crouch End Festival Chorus, Other options to get about from customers. which celebrates its 30th anniversary Crouch End include the Northern line The shop is on next year, is one of the country’s lead- from Highgate Tube station, and trains Topsfield Parade, ing symphonic choirs. Prestigious dates from Hornsey (20 minutes to Moor- just off Crouch in its diary include Sunday, October 13, gate) and Crouch Hill on the Over- End Broadway when it will perform with baritone ground north London line. All stations Sir Willard White in Mendelssohn’s are in Zone 3 and an annual travelcard Elijah at the Barbican Centre. The to Zone 1 costs £1,424. chorus also sings locally in Crouch End, Council: Haringey council is Labour- Muswell Hill and Highgate. controlled, and Band D council tax for The Park Road Leisure Centre, the the 2013/2014 year is £1,487.32. local council-owned facility, is about to undergo a face lift. It offers both an THANKS to all who suggested indoor swimming pool and a heated Crouch End. Is there an area one outside. There is also a swimming you would like us to Spotlight? pool at the private Virgin Active club Tweet us @homesproperty in Tottenham Lane. 42 WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Ask the expert homesandproperty.co.uk with

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AFTER a seven-year planning battle, a residential tower block, above, overlooking Lord’s Cricket Ground has been given the go-ahead. KSR Architects’ contemporary- design scheme of stone, glass and steel features double-height lateral apartments, some with vast terraces and views into the ground, pictured below, and across Regent’s Park. Construction will start next year. Contact developer Marcus Cooper Group on 020 7586 5060. The scheme of 84 private flats and 47 affordable homes in a separate low-rise block comes as Regent’s Park homes are regaining parity with those in neighbourhoods ringing Hyde Park, according to James Simpson of estate agent Knight Frank. Values have doubled during the last three years and now reach £3,000 and £4,000 a square foot. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 45 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

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A PENTHOUSE with a bird’s-eye view of the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace may not please the Queen’s security staff — but it will delight those who want the cachet of being the monarch’s nearest neighbour. Part of a new development of 14 apartments, the 1,750sq ft penthouse has three terraces and is priced at £3.25 million. Call Jones Lang LaSalle on 020 7201 6699. £3.25 million: see into the Queen’s back yard from your neighbouring penthouse

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FULHAM is a development hot spot, with builders snapping up riverbank commercial sites and back-street plots for smart new housing. Imperial Wharf, the giant waterfront estate built on the site of an old gas works, started the ball rolling. Following on is Fulham Riverside, right, between the green acres of polo-playing Hurlingham Park and sought-after Peterborough Estate. The 8.25-acre scheme replaces a supermarket depot and will have 463 homes either side of a central piazza and boulevard leading to the river. Prices from £525,000. Call Barratt on 0844 8114334. swish new homes have sprouted up cafés, the pond and gift shops Coming soon is Hurlingham Gate, on derelict sites. Twentysomethings attract yummy mummies from the with 13 four-bedroom houses and 68 like the gyms, the cinema and the Northcote Road side of the apartments. Call St James Homes on Tube links, while the child-friendly common. 020 8246 4199. . . . and the Fulham renaissance seems to be spreading

DEVELOPER London Square’s Farm Lane scheme on the site of an old stables in Fulham is set to become a traffic-free retreat with 40 homes. Residents will be able to park in an underground private garage with direct access to their homes. Building is under way. Call 01895 627 300 for details. Ten flats at 120 Broughton Road, below, between the river and fashionable Parsons Green, are priced from £500,000. Call Haus Properties on 020 7751 0400. Boutique apartment schemes are a Clerkenwell staple and the latest is The Yard, a dozen homes on the site of a former timber merchant’s on Warner Street, close to the Mount Pleasant postal depot, where a masterplan is being drawn up for a new urban quarter. Prices from £850,000. Call Stirling Ackroyd on 020 7749 3810. 46 WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Inside story homesandproperty.co.uk with

MONDAY I’m doing a half marathon in three weeks — that means no alcohol and long, Property — and early morning runs in Regent’s Park and Hyde Park. My son was born with pyloric stenosis, a muscular disorder half marathons affecting digestion, and at six weeks old was successfully operated on at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital, so I am running to raise money for them. — are good bets After my run today, my first appoint- ment is with a client who bought a building not far from our office. I meet for the long haul him on site and he asks for advice about how best to develop the place. I tell him I’d recommend splitting it into flats, as flat overlooking the Royal Opera House there is little or no outside space, and Diary of with very unusual decoration themed also because that way he won’t be on living in Northern Cyprus. He is putting all his eggs in one basket. determined to find the right buyer as It’s great to be involved at such an an estate these flats do not come up very often. early stage and in this case the architect Robert is known for being in the right has been forward-thinking, having agent place at the right time and getting already supplied drawings. instructions from unexpected sources. foreign money still pouring into A few years back his hairdresser told TUESDAY London. However, that’s what we all him of a client (a popular club singer Another early start. At 8am I meet an thought in 2007. Ultimately, you can in the Sixties) who had a flat to sell. net worth individuals, one of whom is the Government’s scheme. We agree it applicant for a new position in our com- never predict the top of the market. A Within a week, Robert found a buyer huge in property development, and we is a good thing — but also that it’s wise mercial division at the Charlotte Street rising market sees people keen to buy, who wanted it for accommodation for exchange business cards. for them to leave headroom in their Hotel. It turns out he is doing the same so it’s a good time to sell, too, especially his staff in a nearby restaurant. When I get home I find out that my budgets in case interest rates rise. half marathon so we exchange training if you think an increase in interest rates I leave work a little early today to son, now almost six, has been made I check up on the Cyprus-themed tips before beginning the interview. or another downturn might put you meet a neighbour who works at an school councillor for his year. Covent Garden flat and Robert already I am often asked whether I think the under pressure. My advice is either to embassy. He is going to introduce me has two offers, including one at the full market is too hot, and today is no excep- cash in while you are ahead or, if you to the head of property there, which I FRIDAY asking price. It’s great delivering good tion. I believe all the signs are that it will can afford it, hold on for the long term. am looking forward to, as the property I complete my longest run, 12½ miles, news for our client for the weekend. continue to grow. Money is cheap to After all, history has shown property to he has accumulated over the years will around Regent’s and Hyde Park this No team drinks for me tonight. I keep borrow, there is still a housing shortage, be a great investment. be very interesting. morning, which makes me feel more telling myself it will all be worth it… more land is not being made available, confident about the race. I could have only 16 days to go. and new Bank of England Governor WEDNESDAY THURSDAY gone further but I have to work. Mark Carney is committed to keeping Robert Burwood, who heads up our This morning I go to the new Ivy Club As I hobble into the office with stiffen- O Jonathan Hudson is a director of interest rates low in the short-to- busy Covent Garden department, has in Covent Garden, which has a ing leg muscles, the team are talking Hudsons Property, based in Charlotte medium term. Plus, there is a lot of just been instructed on a two-bedroom spectacular glass lift. I meet lots of high- about help for first-time buyers under Street, W1 (020 7323 2277).


 

 
  

 
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