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UK’s young designers Out to conquer the world Page 22 PATRICK QUAYLE PATRICK 4 WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: now you can cuddle up with your car Property search The car as art: this Knightsbridge house, priced Trophy buy of the week £16.5 million, is following a US steer for those harbour lights craze for glazed integral garages £9.95 million: your Chelsea Harbour neighbour, actor Sir Michael Caine, may be moaning about Labour’s threatened mansion tax but this jaw-dropping penthouse THE dream home for a wealthy car enthusiast has come with 2,500 square feet of lateral, white gloss-tiled on the market in London — a £16.5 million Knightsbridge entertaining space is surely worth the pain. end-of-terrace house with an integral glass-panelled It has a wraparound terrace with 360-degree views, garage that allows the buyer to drool over their prized including over the harbour, while the master bedroom O Visit homes motor from the comfort of the study. covers 1,000sq ft and comes with a divine en suite cinema screen and air conditioning throughout. There are andproperty.co.uk/ The concept of car-as-artwork comes from America, bathroom, wet room and central bathtub. The apartment three further en suite bedrooms and secure underground trophychel where houses regularly feature glazed car parking areas, has direct lift access, 24-hour security, a 132in drop-down parking for two cars. Available through Foxtons. but this is a first for London. O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week a roomy London homes: garden flat in sought-after Stroud Green bag one for under £250,000 £475,000: leafy Stroud Green is well spacious reception room/open-plan worth a look if you want to live in a kitchen that’s lit by a large bay window What’s the conservation area with good transport and door out to the private garden. The catch?: a studio links and green open spaces — it sits airy feel continues in two bedrooms flat in this next to vibrant Finsbury Park. You’ll laid with plush grey carpet, and handsome find good solid Victorian proportions bathrooms with high-spec fixtures. Chelsea mansion at this garden flat in a sought-after A variety of shops, restaurants and block for road. A sleek new refit has resulted in bars is a short stroll away. It’s for sale £140,000 dark wood floors and white walls in a chain free through KFH. sounds too good to be true Life changer move in and O Visit homesand property.co.uk/ launch a holiday rental firm buyoftheweekstroud £850,000: there’s nothing to do to this Cornish gorgeous WITH the housing market cooling down, now could be a Georgian set in two acres surrounded by farmland, a few great time to bag a good-value home ready for the new miles from Truro. There are four big bedrooms and two year. We have found first-time buyer flats and homes for bathrooms upstairs, three lovely reception rooms and a second-steppers across London, all with price tags of less glorious kitchen/breakfast room that opens to the gardens, than £250,000. We’ve even found a mansion block studio plus a one-bedroom annexe you could rent out. There’s also apartment in prime Chelsea for only £140,000 — but with earning potential from stables with planning consent to be By that one, we must admit there’s a catch... turned into holiday homes. Through Jackson-Stops & Staff. Faye O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/hothomes250 O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechangertruro Greenslade

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ICKNAMED “New South Our garden’s Bank” and even “Hong Up in the blue: Vauxhall Sky Kong on Thames”, Nine Gardens, a 35-storey tower of 204 in the sky Elms is on the radar of flats at Nine Elms with interiors by everyone looking for a Yoo and communal gardens on SOME of the tallest towers are newN central London home or an invest- the higher floors being built at One Nine Elms, a ment. This once-forlorn industrial strip homes-and-hotel scheme with between Battersea and Vauxhall is 436 flats. The first of the two rapidly turning into the capital’s big- striking buildings is 56-storey gest new neighbourhood, attracting City Tower. Much is being made buyers, renters and investors from of its dramatic architecture and across London and the globe. stunning views plus the five-star Covering 480 acres, the area between hotel services available to Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea Bridge, residents. But amenities come at sandwiched by the Thames and Wands- a cost — higher service charges. worth Road, is five times the size of Completion is in 2018. Prices , with a mile and a half from £795,000. Call Strutt & of riverfront and up to 30 projects Parker on 020 7629 7282. either under way or poised to start. Nine Elms Point, right, a As the distinctive residential towers complex of 593 flats, is being built shoot up and the neighbourhood takes beside the new Nine Elms shape, buyers are becoming more Tube station in forensic about the design, size and Wandsworth Road. A new price of the homes on offer, as well as Sainsbury superstore is part of local amenities, and are deciding pre- the project. Two-bedroom flats cisely where they want to live. After all, start at £883,000. Call Barratt on Nine Elms will be a construction site 0844 811 4334. for at least another 10 years. Vauxhall Sky Gardens is rising The rough masterplan envisages a on a plot opposite the Tube collection of micro neighbourhoods — station. The 35-storey tower high-rise, low-rise, riverside and inland, includes communal gardens on each with a distinct identity. There’s a the higher floors, while the design wide spectrum of homes and prices, of the “rococo-style” entrance and resales are already appearing. It lobby is inspired by historic takes about half an hour to walk through Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, from the heart of the district, so proximity to 1729 a centre of art and one of two new Tube stations coming architecture for 200 years. Two- to the area is likely to be a big factor for bedroom flats with interiors by many buyers. A railway line, parallel Philippe Starck’s Yoo company with the river, cuts through it, giving rise cost from £980,000. Completion to judgments about homes on the in 2017. Call 020 7437 1000. “wrong side of the tracks”. NEW TOWERS Five times the size of Canary Wharf, with two new Tube stations and a business park, Nine Elms is shooting skywards, discovers David Spittles

VAUX POP shops and pedestrian-friendly spaces. Start your home search at the district’s First phase completions from 2019. Call eastern end, by MI6 headquarters, Knight Frank on 020 7861 5411. where a cluster of developments is under construction. This patch, amid PARK PEOPLE Vauxhall’s fast-gentrifying streets, is A linear park linking the river and closest to the central London action various developments including the and likely to appeal to younger buyers US embassy will be the pedestrian working in the City and West End. spine of the new district. This “con- Vauxhall Cross, currently a giant tinuous car-free green corridor” will traffic swirl, is set to be transformed by run from Vauxhall Cross to Battersea a development of the same name: two Power Station. It will be a focal point skyscrapers designed by architects for recreation, entirely open to the Squire and Partners that will “dovetail” public. The edges of this important with the bustling transport hub, bring- community facility will be lined with ing 291 apartments plus a hotel, offices, shops, cafés and restaurants, appealing

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in the power station itself have sold for premium prices, with studios fetching £800,000. “There are buyers who want to be in the power station and nowhere else,” says Kieran Chalker of local estate agent Garton Jones. One of the area’s two Northern line stations will be within the 40-acre complex, expected to be a vibrant, 24-hour neighbourhood. While the born-again power station will open up the waterfront, closed to the public for generations, the back end of the development in Nine Elms Lane is less enticing. The industrial legacy is still evident here. Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is an incongruous presence, while the land is criss-crossed by railway tracks. Gas holders are being decommissioned for new housing, called Battersea Gardens, by developer St James. Battersea Park East, a scheme by OF LONDON Taylor Wimpey, seeks to enhance the area by transforming derelict railway arches and building 290 homes plus a to families and those seeking to relax new pedestrian bridge across the new primary school, and is perhaps a and shake off the sweat of the city. Thames to Pimlico. Prices from chance to buy into a hot district at a A key section of the park will snake £800,000. Call 020 7870 9620. lower price. To register, call DTZ on through what is now New Covent Gar- 020 3296 2222. den Market, a 57-acre industrial estate POWER PLAY To date, developers have been aggres-  ,' for London’s fruit and vegetable trad- Awesome Battersea Power Station, sively marketing homes and raising ers. The site will become a new Bor- close to Chelsea Bridge, will be the prices with each new phase. Since 2011, (+( ough Market-style food quarter with district’s commercial heart, its town the average value of a home in the Nine  "((!&!$(). stalls, space for start-up businesses and centre. The £8 billion power station Elms zone has jumped from about £800 .    up to 3,019 homes. redevelopment will provide three and to £1,400 per square foot, while spec- Embassy Gardens, next door, is one a half million square feet of shops, tacular river-facing flats are fetching of the more advanced projects, a offices and restaurants, as well as 3,800 more than £2,000 per square foot. complex of 1,982 homes that will form homes, the first of which will be ready It is a good idea to compare resales a horseshoe around the new American in 2016. with off-plan prices. Garton Jones has -!& #(&-!(& (-  embassy. The apartment blocks are Two phases of apartments were an a number of resales priced from more sober and arguably more consid- instant sell-out and the third phase, a £699,000 to £2.9 million. Call 020 7735 ! !( (  ered than those at Vauxhall Cross. Built series of dramatic, tumbling, titanium- 1888. of brick rather than glass and steel, they clad blocks by “starchitect” Frank With many more flats becoming avail- are of varying height and character, Gehry, has just been unveiled, with able, and property market sentiment   (! (-!%)!(!    influenced by Manhattan’s historic prices starting at £495,000 for a studio changing ahead of next year’s general              Meatpacking District. and £3.2 million for a four-bedroom election, it is possible that prices may      ! ($(!+( *  Developer Ballymore has also deliv- townhouse. Call 020 7501 0678. Flats plateau, at least in the short term. - (       ! +   ered classy, contemporary-design interiors. +($(& -(  (!(   The first residents move in early next        year. On-site extras include a spa, yoga studio, library, cinema suite and 24- hour security. Coming later is one of @LQHomesForSale London’s biggest Waitrose stores. Show flats are open for viewing ahead of the  $(&  phase two launch next spring. Call 020 7062 8940. Behind Embassy Gardens, ware- www.lqgroup.org.uk/pricedin houses formerly owned by fine art auctioneer Christie’s are being rede- veloped by Bellway into 513 homes, while Nine Elms Parkside, currently Registered Society 30441R Exempt charity. Details correct at time of a Royal Mail depot, has planning con- going to print 11/14. Your home is at risk if you fail to keep up repayments sent for 456 homes, sports pitches and on a mortgage, rent or other loan secured on it. Please make sure you can a primary school. Riverlight has six afford the repayments before you take out a mortgage. FOR FULL TERMS & CONDITIONS please see www.lqgroup.org.uk/pricedin for details. waterfront pavilions with 813 homes and is well-located for the proposed Window on the world: panoramic view at Vauxhall Sky Gardens (020 7437 1000) 8 WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Commuting homesandproperty.co.uk with

OWHERE along Crossrail’s route will the new train service’s impact be more marked than around its southern spur, from NWhitechapel to Abbey Wood in south- east London. In terms of the transforma- tive effect on areas and enhancing their desirability, each of the five districts dotted along the spur is set to be driven into a different housing bracket. A new station is being built at each stop and at peak times, 12 trains an hour will take passengers to Docklands, the City and the West End. STATION STORIES CANARY WHARF: this new station will be one of the largest on the Crossrail Game changer: Woolwich’s new Crossrail station will vastly improve connections network, a spectacular design that has from what is one of London’s cheapest areas to live — for now. Rail journey times been likened to a docked cruise ship, to the City, Canary Wharf, the West End and Heathrow airport will be slashed with six storeys of shops, a cinema, restaurants, bars, a landscaped park and a roof garden above the tracks. PART 5: Crucially, for the first time, Canary Wharf will have a direct link to Heath- TO ABBEY WOOD row, slashing the journey time to the airport to 39 minutes — a boon for time- poor bankers and business executives. Crossrail marks a fresh stage in the evolution of Canary Wharf and is the key factor in ambitions to double the area’s working population to 200,000 over the next 15 years. And more Crossrail employees mean more homes. “There’s an abundance of new-build The transformation of these five districts will be the projects nearing completion, and the dynamics of the market are changing. biggest in their history, says David Spittles No longer is it just Canary Wharf work- ers buying or renting. People are mov- ing in from west and south,” says Julian per cent higher than a year ago, but currently out on a limb, served only by with the sweeping changes planned, it almost half of this mainly low-rise devel- Amos, of the local branch of estate values are still quite a bit lower than in the , but Cross- is an opportunity to buy early into a opment will be open green space, with agent Hamptons International. central London, ranging from £600 to rail will take locals to the heart of the district with upside. jogging and cycle paths plus a riverside This part of Docklands is an alterna- £1,000 a square foot. This means you West End — Tottenham Court Road — in Royal Wharf is one of the new neigh- tive London, having more in common can buy a waterfront flat with a budget 15 minutes. bourhoods being built, with 3,385 with downtown Chicago or Singapore of less than £500,000, while if you can The vision is for tens of thousands of homes designed around a high street Shenfield than Kensington, Putney, or stretch to £1 million or more, you can new homes and the sort of convivial and marketplace, garden squares, the City. Most residents are high-earn- live in a penthouse. waterside living we associate with parks, shops, restaurants and a ing singles and couples under 45. Typically, new one-bedroom flats cost places such as Chelsea Harbour. At the school. Much-needed family Canary Wharf was built originally as £300,000 to £500,000, and two-bed- moment, the area feels raw. However, houses are part of the mix and a financial zone. The vast majority of room flats from £450,000 to £750,000. apartments, new and older ones, are Resales in less-glitzy first-generation MINUTES SAVED ON JOURNEYS TO AND FROM Reading Inner outside the 97-acre estate. Homes developments, built 15 or 20 years ago, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD BY CROSSRAIL London Abbey within a 10-minute walk of the office are cheaper. Heathrow Wood towers are the most sought-after. Whitechapel Custom House Abbey Wood The new Crossrail station, anchored CUSTOM HOUSE: Crossrail is a huge 12 15 23 below the dealing rooms, will provide boost for Royal Docks, one of London’s quicker links to Poplar, a poor relation main regeneration and housing growth currently blocked off by a dock. At areas. Equivalent in size to the area Canary Wharf Woolwich Source: most developments, prices are 15-20 from Hyde Park to , it is 9 18 Hamptons

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From £250,000: £345,000. Call 020 8331 7130. The local Woolwich Central council is lobbying Transport for Lon- apartments, don to make Woolwich, currently in right, in blocks Zone 4, a Zone 3 station, while another linked by aim is to reconnect the riverside with landscaped Woolwich town centre, via new pedes- walkways and trian routes and a public square. sky gardens Woolwich Central, a major town centre scheme built above a Tesco superstore, is an uplifting assembly of nine buildings linked by open court- yards, landscaped walkways and sky gardens. Modern, modular apartment blocks are clad in a grid pattern of black-and-grey panels and have glass- walled winter gardens for year-round living and views of the Thames. Prices from £250,000. Call 020 8855 7290. Spectacular: Ex-local authority flats in the area start Crossrail, and its at less than £125,000, according to new Canary estate agent Peter James. Call 020 8858 Wharf station, 2555. Away from the river-hugging town left, with six centre and industrial estates, Woolwich storeys of has tree-lined avenues, a common and amenities above conservation areas. the tracks, mark the area’s next ABBEY WOOD: this dreary south-Lon- stage of evolution don outpost will be brought in from the cold by Crossrail, the biggest addition to the local train network since the North Kent line was built in 1849. “The new link will morph the area From £250,000: into a serious commuter zone,” says flats at Royal Johnny Morris, head of research at Wharf, right, a Hamptons International. new Royal Docks Most housing here dates back to the neighbourhood, Fifties and Sixties when the London with Custom County Council built new estates on House the local marshland. Thamesmead, with its Crossrail station brutalist-style concrete architecture, was one of these neighbourhoods but promenade. Flats start at £250,000. Zone 1 in south London will be as well- Regeneration: it is now being bulldozed to make way Three-bedroom townhouses with gar- connected. Locals will be able to travel residents at the for new homes for a new generation. dens and terraces cost from £630,000. to Canary Wharf in eight minutes, to new Southmere Peabody, the housing charity, is Call 0800 160 1200. A town centre of the City in 14 minutes, to Bond Street Village in investing £200 million in a new “garden sorts for Royal Docks has formed around in 22 minutes and to Heathrow in 50 Thamesmead suburb” that will include apartments ExCeL exhibition centre, where smart minutes, without changing trains. will be served by along Thamesmead’s three miles of apartment blocks and a cluster of hotels Royal Arsenal Riverside is the Abbey Wood waterfront and be connected to the and eateries have sprung up. address set to benefit most. The new Crossrail station new Crossrail station. Crossrail station is being built within the Regeneration is already under way at WOOLWICH: still one of the cheapest walls of this impressive housing estate, Southmere Village — 296 homes plus places to live in London, it has been a former armaments factory with a col- a library, shops and community square. touted as “up-and-coming” for more lection of prized listed buildings. Bellway is also building homes here. than a decade, without really achieving Developer Berkeley Homes has con- Call 01689 886400. that status, but Crossrail is likely to be tributed £30 million to the cost of the Elsewhere, three-bedroom houses a game changer. When the station station and is building 592 flats in five sell for less than £180,000. Call Able opens in 2018, no other place beyond tower blocks above it, with prices from Estates on 020 8012 2231.

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AMMERSMITH, which has SOVEREIGN COURT lent its name to the Apollo music venue, to the Lyric theatre and to a flyover, has never managed to Hbecome associated with pioneering architecture. This is a sprawling suburb Luxurious with a big market in three-bedroom houses that are typically priced about £2.2 million and sought after by fami- lies wanting to benefit from the range of good local schools. yes, but So how will Sovereign Court, where flats are priced from £2,199,950 to £3,849,950 fit in? Only the penthouse remains for sale in phase one of this luxury apartment development due to perfection? complete in 2016. The scheme includes Clarence House and adjoining Lancaster House. They sit at the corner of Glenthorne and Beadon Roads in W6 on the site of a former car park. The Not quite developer, St George, is putting parking places underground. Architecture writer Suzanne Interiors have a smart neutral palette, though buyers can specify finishes, Trocmé looks at two new from classic oak flooring to deep-pile carpets. The 2.4-metre ceiling heights Hammersmith schemes and finds are typical inner city, while “second” ceilings conceal air filtration and com- the cheaper one is by far the best fort cooling systems. appliances, plus dining and soft seating £400 up front and then for additional Sovereign Court: scheme brings 418 Penthouse perfection: fabulous views PLUS POINTS areas. There is the ubiquitous wine usage. Floor plans differ for the one-, luxurious new Hammersmith homes from Sovereign Court roof terrace The concierge will deliver your mail and cooler but the apartment is cosy, rather two- and three-bedroom flats, though pick up letters for delivery from a post- than palatial. A plus point is the natural this proves more successful in some open-plan living space. Bedrooms are why this arrangement was chosen, to box on each floor, and there are refuse light from two aspects. cases than in others, with, for example, further along a corridor that turns, rais- create an accessible loo. As a second chutes at every floor, too. Sound systems and 55in LED TVs are compromised bathroom space in the ing the spectre of jet-lagged guests wan- bathroom it does not work. The door The three-bedroom show flat for the included, Sky and broadband thrown show apartment. Though fitted with dering into the hub of the home to should be on the bedroom corridor, remaining phases has an open-plan in. The penthouse boasts a home auto- Villeroy & Boch fixtures and with a ablute when lunch is in full swing. which would have been easy to do. living space, a Commodore kitchen mation system. Service charge is £3.50 heated marble floor and walls, the The other bathroom is en suite at the Each apartment has a balcony and with marble central island and Siemens a square foot and for the boiler you pay shower room has its door facing the other end of the corridor. You can see floor-to-ceiling windows, so with all this +'0('),,' '07,'-' ,''''

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DEVELOPMENT TWO: wine. Planning rules at Fulham Reach FULHAM REACH mean four state schools already have The second St George site in Hammer- access to the boat club, while half of smith, with homes from £1.6 million, is the finished site’s footprint will be open called Fulham Reach and 75 residents space. Glorious. out of a possible 138 are already in the While these flats are cheaper than first phase, Distillery Wharf, completing those at Sovereign Court, the interiors early next year. Brunswick House has are almost on a par, without the double sold all 49 homes, with completion next ceiling and air filtration. The scheme for autumn, and two elliptical new builds Young Professionals is not embarrass- complete in late 2016. ing. These flats — where qualifying first- A site of over seven acres, this has been timers can buy 70 per cent with 30 per a seven-year plan and it feels that way cent held in deed through the borough, — considered and resolved. Service with eventual 100 per cent ownership detail and conformity to interior SENSITIVE TO THE AREA charges are higher than at Sovereign possible — consist of one-room homes designer Helen Turkington’s vision, why There has been a successful attempt at Court — £5.48 per square foot rather built to the same standards. I viewed are the curtains not thrown in? Sovereign House to mirror the materials than £3.50 — but 186 of its 744 flats are such a “Manhattan” flat to uncover what What irks me is the way that owners used among existing buildings nearby. aimed at first-time buyers is the most luxurious element yet — in are able to put up whatever window The brickwork of Glenthorne Road will, This development has riverside less than 500sq ft, the largest utility treatments they wish. This can often stylistically speaking, be reflected in the beauty and unrivalled views. I want to room of the entire venture. That is what ruin the glass frontage with a mishmash next phase, Montpelier House, and the move in. There’s a boat club, a private I call living. of curtains and blinds. architectural vernacular for this part club offering snooker, golf, cinema, Could pose a problem: some Sovereign Has Glammersmith arrived? I think so. Vistas are marred by such short-sight- of Hammersmith is being sensibly pool and spa, and a controlled cellar Court bathrooms open on to living And not just for the rich. Well, not edness. preserved. to store up to 1,000 bottles of residents’ spaces, to meet accessibility standards quite. '' &',(4'(5,'2' 4

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This part of Hackney is trendy and popular... the block is close to music venues, restaurants and bars

From £148,000: for a 30 per cent share of a one-bedroom flat at Art Deco-inspired Heights, right and left Get Old Street cred ACKNEY’S frenetic Old Street roundabout, with its Just under £150,000 secures your cluster of tech and creative share of a Terry Farrell-designed firms, became known as Silicon Roundabout, and flat in prime Tech City, Zone 1. Hsoon the geeks wanted glitzy flats which were then built in its hinterland. Ruth Bloomfield reports Of course most of these flats are designed more for the hedge fund XOYO, Shoreditch Grind espresso and buyer than the first-time buyer. But the cocktail bar, and The Nightjar cocktail latest arrival at Old Street is a landmark bar. Old Street also has its own Bavarian development designed by leading bar, Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant British architect Sir Terry Farrell, with is literally next door, and you don’t a selection of shared-ownership flats have to venture far into Shoreditch or that have an entry price of just under Hoxton to find favourites such as The £150,000. Book Club, Breakfast Club, Shoreditch Heights is just north and . You also have The west of the roundabout, close to Moor- Aubin Cinema in Shoreditch and the fields Eye Hospital and about five Barbican centre.” minutes’ walk from Old Street Tube station — a Zone 1 stop served by the IFE in this central zone has Northern line. It’s no more than 10 traffic noise and pollution, minutes from the City and a quarter of particularly as the site abuts an hour from the West End. the heaving City Road. One-bedroom flats start at £148,000 Another issue to mention is for a 30 per cent share of a property that,L because the Old Street area is now with a full value of £495,000. It is esti- so expensive, shared owners will ini- ESHomesAndProperty

mated that mortgage costs, rent and Smart move: tially be minority owners of their service charge will add up to about to buy a flat at homes, although they can increase £1,400. Two-bedroom flats, some of Terry Farrell- their share in their flat over time. which have balconies, start at £219,000 designed Until then, these newly minted home for 30 per cent, and the monthly cost Shoreditch owners will have to resign themselves is estimated at £1,618. Heights is to buy to shelling out £500 to £600 a month The development, by Mount Anvil, into an expensive in rent. includes a total of 343 apartments of swathe of prime which housing association Family London property O Visit familymosaicsales.co.uk Mosaic has 28 shared-ownership homes on offer. They will be ready to move into later this month. A major plus point of Shoreditch Heights is its design. Reaching up to 26 storeys — though the shared-ownership homes are limited to lower floors — it is an elegant, Art Deco-inspired build- ing, providing a welcome counterpoint to all the steel-and-glass property Find us on springing up at the fringes of the City. Facebook “The development is in a good loca- tion,” says Stuart Spence, head of residential sales at Family Mosaic. “This area of Hackney is popular and trendy. Right next to the development is renowned electronic music venue EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 13 homesandproperty.co.uk with Homes abroad Homes & Property Where to go in 2015 Cathy Hawker finds good-value holiday home hotspots easy to reach from London A CAPITAL HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUMMER IN and is the training ground for the SUPER SARDINIA America’s Cup yacht race,” says ITS happy 20th birthday to Eurostar, Lalatta. “Today in November, from

whose first Chunnel train sped from BRITISH AIRWAYS continues to my roof terrace I can see many sails GETTY London to Paris on November 14, expand its services from Gatwick on the water. People enjoy sailing Historic Boston: sought-after red-brick townhouses in Acorn Street, Beacon Hill 1994. Used by more than 140 million with new flights for next summer to and windsurfing here year-round.” people so far, the train is chosen Bodrum and Dalaman in Turkey, the The beauty of living in Cagliari for BOSTON FOR LESS A PLACE TO STAY over the plane by 70 per cent of Greek island of Crete, and perhaps her, she adds, is the variety of THAN £100 AMES BOSTON HOTEL travellers between the two capitals. most excitingly of all to Cagliari, the affordable activities nearby. VOTED the city’s best hotel in this Return journeys 20 years ago cost little-known waterfront capital of “You can go horse riding in the MANY budget airlines have talked year’s prestigious Best of Boston from £99 and took three hours, Sardinia, two hours from London. mountains or to the coast and not see about introducing transatlantic awards, the Ames is a good base for compared with £69 and two and a Sardinia has a hot Mediterranean a soul for 30 miles. The south has services but Icelandic-based WOW visiting the capital of New England. quarter hours today. Property prices climate with bright, clear skies and some of the best beaches in the Med, Air has started taking bookings. From The 114-room hotel is in Boston’s first in central Paris have tripled in that temperatures that rarely dive below with Villasimius and Costa Rei to the March 27 next year it will fly five skyscraper on the edge of the financial time, but London buyers can still get 15C. Most of the 250,000 annual east and Chia to the west.” times a week from Gatwick to Boston district. Opposite is the red-brick State good value, says Susie Hollands of British visitors to Sardinia head to the A three-bedroom countryside villa for £99, adding a Washington DC House built in 1713 and emblazoned French property agents Vingt Paris. north, but Cagliari on the south coast overlooking Bosa Castle is £941,000 service later in the year. with the lion and unicorn, symbols of “Paris is underpriced compared is an upmarket delight. through Casa & Country. One- to Downsides include extra charges for the British monarchy, while the Boston with London,” she adds. “A huge The medieval city is 10 minutes three-bedroom flats in a restored checked luggage, a measly 5kg hand Tea Party was planned one block away. factor for Londoners buying a pied- from the airport, resolutely Italian palazzo in the centre of Cagliari cost luggage allowance and a minimum of Boston Common and the shops of à-terre here is that they can decide with a vibrant culture and affordable from £329,700 through Savills. three hours to spend changing planes Newbury Street, the waterfront and on the spur of the moment to hop on restaurants, says local British at Reykjavik airport — but the Cambridge are all nearby. the train for a weekend away.” resident Rebecca Lewis Lalatta, of O British Airways: ba.com beautiful, scholarly city of Boston is Inside the hotel, original features She highlights a two-bedroom flat Italian property agents Casa & O Casa & Country: casaandcountry.com worth it. Base yourself there and it is including beautiful mosaic tiles on the by the excellent Montmartre food Country. “Cagliari has three marinas O Savills: savills.com an easy drive to New England resorts half-barrelled ceiling in the entrance market for £545,000 and a one- such as Cape Cod, or to the ski resorts hall are joined by a crisp black-and- bedroom artist’s atelier in Les Halles of Vermont and New Hampshire. white scheme. for £459,000. Both are fully Boston is walkable and wonderfully This is a funky, friendly and very renovated and ready to rent. green, with more than 60 universities comfortable boutique hotel, perfectly and colleges including Harvard, and placed for business travellers in the O Vingt Paris: vingtparis.com large IT and pharmaceutical week and leisure guests at the O Eurostar: eurostar.com industries. Property prices are highest weekend. among the aristocratic homes of Back Bay and the red-brick townhouses of Beacon Hill, with waterfront new builds selling strongly. Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty is selling a two-bedroom flat with high ceilings in an 1890 building in Back Bay for £502,000. A studio flat in Blackstone Park near the excellent restaurants of South End is £219,300. £459,000: close to Les Halles, a one-bedroom fourth-floor O Gibson Sotheby’s International Funky and friendly: the Ames Boston apartment. Through Vingt Paris Realty: gibsonsothebysrealty.com Hotel, where rates start from £135 a From £329,700: apartments in a restored central Cagliari palazzo. Through Savills O WOW Air: wowair.co.uk night. Visit ameshotel.com

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FTER A long day, one of WHERE TO SHOP life’s great pleasures is climbing into a bed M&S AUTOGRAPH freshly made with crisp, Thread count: 400. Single Oxford clean, white sheets in pillowcase, £15; double duvet cover, pureA cotton. Good-quality cotton £69. Egyptian cotton, made in Pakistan. always feels deliciously cool and Luxe factor: crisp and fine with no smooth and the calming effect of frills. A perfect choice for weekend plain linen — with no buttons, guests who want to feel they are being sequins, embroidered flowers or spoiled (marksandspencer.com). jazzy patterns — makes for the sweetest dreams. JOSEPHINE HOME’S CLASSIC Companies are cottoning on to our Thread count: 500. Standard love affair with the whiter shades of pillowcase, £45; double duvet cover,   pale bed linen and are producing £250. Egyptian cotton, made in Europe. accessibly priced “hotel-quality” Luxe factor: the boutique hotels’ label sheets and pillowcases that feel of choice, tried and tested for durability. indulgent, but cost far less than a Comes with a white grosgrain trim. The single night in a boutique hotel. perfect present, or an indulgence for yourself (josephinehome.co.uk). Buyers’ notes: think thread count, finish, weight and, of course, price. HOUSE OF FRASER Thread count refers to the number Thread count: 1,000. Standard of threads woven together in a square pillowcase, £36 per pair; double duvet inch, calculated by adding together cover, £99. Indian cotton, made in India.  the number of threads in the length Luxe factor: indulgently thick cotton (known as the warp) and the number with slightly glossy, sateen finish and in the width (weft). So, 100 threads no-nonsense button closure    lengthwise woven with 100 width- (houseoffraser.com). wise equals a 200 thread count. The      fewer used, the looser the fabric — ACHICA’S HOTEL LIVING RANGE muslin has a thread count of 150, for Thread count: 1,000. Pair of     example — and the more threads pillowcases, £19.99; double duvet used, the tighter and denser the cover, £64. Cotton from the Far East,     fabric feels. made in the Far East. A higher thread count doesn’t Luxe factor: from the new hotel luxury      necessarily guarantee higher quality, Premier Basics range. Thick, super- and a crisp, matt percale finish soft, dense and strong, a great winter    versus a soft sateen feel is a matter of choice, and totally plain (achica.com). personal preference. Matt percale   makes a good summer choice, while THE WHITE COMPANY the thicker, softer finish tends to be Thread count: 400. Standard "      %# cosy for winter. Egyptian cotton is pillowcase, £20; double duvet cover, renowned for its quality and should £100. Egyptian cotton, made in Italy.   &   &   last longest. That said, a new set of Luxe factor: gorgeously fine and $    !     # sheets annually is the gold standard. crisp. A brilliant mid-range buy All white: Achica’s Hotel Living bed linen range comes with Here’s our pick of good buys. (thewhitecompany.com). a 1,000 thread count. Items are priced from £8.99 to £79 EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 17 homesandproperty.co.uk with Shopping Homes & Property

TIME FOR KRASSA YOUR TOAST DESIGN SPY CASA You’ll find Toast’s These stunning luscious By Katie Law black-and-white lambswool encaustic cement throws, £239, tiles are available glossy and matt in four patterns glazed stoneware from designer teapots and jugs Afroditi Krassa, in delicious known for her colours, right, work with Sketch, from £19.50, and Itsu, Heston wool Jacquard Blumenthal and blankets, £135, at Curzon Cinemas. the company’s Mix and match at new shop in £105 per square King’s Road, SW3. metre, plus VAT. (visit toa.st). (afroditi.com).

GRAYSON PERRY Fancy cosying up with artist Grayson Perry? His fleecy Comfort Blanket, £500, above, is one of several merchandising collaborations coinciding with the new show, Grayson Perry: Who Are You? at the National Portrait Gallery until March 15. His self-portrait Map of Days has also been adapted into a range of graphic mugs and plates, £30 each (npg.org.uk).

FORTNUM’S CAROLINE Start to tap into that festive GARDNER feeling with a spot of early Stationery queen Christmas shopping at Caroline Gardner Fortnum & Mason. The is opening a shop Victorian-style etched bauble, in Marylebone right, is £40. Time-poor High Street, W1, customers can enjoy a free where she will gift-wrapping service when launch her first they spend £100 or more on an range of glass, item — or it’s £5 if you’ve spent ceramics and less (fortnumandmason.com). home accessories including this set of two “Here comes the sun” egg cups, above, £12 (caroline gardner.com).

SITTING ON A KNOLL Buy the design classic you have always HOLLY HUNT SOFA craved at Knoll’s annual one-day sale on American designer Holly Hunt November 22. Discounts include the opens her first London store this Saarinen marble dining table for £2,999, month, showcasing her trademark reduced from £4,908; Saarinen luxury look. laminate and marble side tables for Everything in the range is £299, down from £588; Barcelona chairs handmade and bespoke, so the for £1,999, reduced from £4,908, and customer specifies the finish, Platner side tables for £299 — seen including this walnut-framed above with a Platner chair — down from Hadrien sofa, below, available in a £696. From 10am at 92 Goswell Road, choice of fabrics or in leather, EC1 (knoll-int.com). priced at £9,765. 22 WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Design homesandproperty.co.uk with

British art and design graduates are leading the world, armed with powerful business plans to sell their work at home and abroad. Barbara Chandler charts their successes

HIS has been the year of the Brewing up business: Richard Brendon Design Guild Mark this year. Aged just legs are turned in Whitstable, and the young designer, with the sells his Reflect mirrored tea cup and 25, Hubriak will have more new furni- finished furniture is available in under-30s launching a raft antique saucer sets to top global stores ture in John Lewis by Christmas. Tottenham Court Road. of successful products for Habitat also loves young designers, London homes in shops, on says Polly Dickens, the store’s creative O Woolwich “woodsman” Sebastian Tthe web, and at big design shows. New director. “Our youngsters combine Cox, 28, is building a career on cop- talent in the capital is no longer raw, technology and creativity,” she says. piced timber, creating furniture and but assured and focused. “Their products are daring and push accessories for Heal’s and Benchmark. Powering the trend are Britain’s art the boundaries of interior design.” East Particularly poetic is a tall chest for schools. “Our art and design education London’s Martha Coates, 24, joined Heal’s, with a different British hard- leads the world,” says Isobel Dennis, in the company straight from Manchester wood for each of the five drawers. her twelfth year as director of New School of Art, and already has a rug Others have become excellent entre- Designers, the annual showcase for new named after her. “Martha has reinvigor- preneurs with burgeoning business graduates at Islington Business Design ated Habitat textiles,” says Dickens. skills. Richard Brendon, 27, who Centre. This year’s event brought 3,000 graduated from Kingston University in designers to London in the summer O Heal’s, with its smartly revamped 2010, dreamed up his unique product, from colleges all over the country. Tottenham Court Road shop, has Reflect, in 2011. It’s an elegant bone “Most importantly, young grads these talent-spotted its own new product china cup with a shiny gold or platinum O Talented young pattern-makers days are commercially aware and have designers for 10 years. But its “Heal’s finish that reflects a decorative include Kit Miles, with his own Lon- business plans.” Crucially, Dennis has Discovers” collective seems “orphaned” antique saucer, thus creat- don studio, and Nancy Straughan, secured an ever-expanding list of busi- younger than ever this year. New- ing a beautiful new/old pair. who has created wallpapers for ness sponsors for her show — this bie Sam Lloyd is only 22, and In his first year Brendon sold 150 Graham & Brown. She hosts workshops year’s included Sanderson, John developed his “sand-cast stools” pairs. Now he is selling hundreds a to share her skills, and her Christmas Lewis, Wilco and Hallmark. These with their distinctive aluminium month, to prestige stores such as Fort- decorations workshop will be on firms offer awards, cherry-pick the tops while still at Kingston Uni, num & Mason, Lane Crawford in Hong November 23 at Smug in Islington. Visit talent, and put it to immediate use. boning up on metal techniques Kong, Le Bon Marché in Paris and Berg- ifeelsmug.com (020 7354 0253). John Lewis, for example, gave new in a foundry in east London. His dorf Goodman in New York. He is Leader of the pack is Benjamin grad Oliver Hubriak its award in aim was a ready-to-go product, developing other ranges and is deter- Hubert, 30. In 2009, he packed a 2012, and then speedily produced for which he had even done the mined to maintain manufacture in stand, won through an award, in the his much-acclaimed Finn chair, costings. Now the stool tops and Stoke. “I want British industry to thrive “futures” section of the 100% Design

NEIL WATSON which won a prestigious furniture footrests are cast in Belvedere, oak again, and design can help,” he says. festival at Earls Court with eight ranges

   

 

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Left and far left: Sebastian Cox and his Crown candelabra

Below: Liam Treanor set up his furniture company in south London in 2011. His Lina oak desk is £875, with Louis candlesticks, £27.50, and Schuster stool, £358 PATRICK QUAYLE PATRICK

Queen of pattern: Martha Coates, 24, above, is on the Habitat design team. Nancy Straughan, right, creates wallpapers for Graham & Brown

of furniture and lighting for seven UK and continental manufacturers — astounding for one so young. Now Hubert works for major global brands, has moved into a new north London studio and employs 10 people. And his super thin, ultra-light table was chosen for the annual Designs of the Year show at the Design Museum this year.      TH TH 19 20   ! 28 WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Our home homesandproperty

ILM director Harvey B-Brown — the B is for Bertram — flings his arms wide, and beams. “As soon as we saw this, we said: ‘We’re home!’” Brown and his Fhusband Steve, 50, live in a converted warehouse apartment. It’s tucked in a quiet side street, right on the border of Spitalfields and Shoreditch, which, with its health food shops and new bars, increasingly feels like the Notting Hill of the east. “It looks very grandiose, but actually it is quite modest,” adds Brown, 47, striding off down a broad central corridor, his considerable height dwarfed by the tow- ering ceilings of the former knicker fac- tory. “We used to live in Hampstead, in a tall, thin house, but this is lateral, which is great. And it’s also lovely to be able to swan about and not touch the ceiling.” Brown, who has directed more pop videos and commercials than he can remember, is currently writing an old- fashioned musical called Blue Jean with songwriter Mike Kintish — planned with Hollywood glamour and great songs and costumes — and, he adds, a moral heart. He is known for making stylish, colourful and often nostalgic short films, so the musical is a logical step. And since Brown also has an MA in fashion design, those Dramatic: the huge green leather Ligne Roset sofa in the open-plan sitting area, where big pieces work in the broad, high space costumes will be good.

■SHOWCASE: home is something between a glamorous dream and a film set, with a touch of Alice in Wonderland, too. Super-high oak door frames, stripped brick warehouse walls, a flouncy, white-painted armoire to take coats… and then, right in the middle of the apartment, a glass-walled office showcasing a black-and-gold ormolu A film director’s desk that came from Saudi Arabia via eBay, lit by a dramatic Castle Gibson chandelier with glass drops shining like cabochon rubies. The large sitting area, open-plan to the big kitchen, has a huge green leather Ligne Roset sofa, and a 1901 Bechstein dream factory piano that has been revamped with a nod to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, on which Steve, an entrepreneur who used to run There’s more than a touch of Hollywood about this warehouse a successful gastropub, is learning to play. Big pieces work really well, holding their conversion in east London, discovers Philippa Stockley own in the broad, high space. animated by mismatched Victorian keeps things fun and lively. And it took pop-up shops, and Shoreditch House ■TOMCAT: the master bedroom has a chairs, their seats covered in various years to put together, right? Wrong. The round the corner,” adds Brown. sensational steel “Tomcat” bed by British blue-green shades of velvet and silk. Just whole thing took just a few months from “In early January I was making a designer Timothy Oulton, with Spitfire- feet away, a high-walled courtyard, start to finish. commercial in Bollywood when Steve influenced leather backrests that pull invisible to the outside world, opens up “When Steve and I set our minds to rang and said he’d found something. He down, like two giant glove compart- via sliding glass doors. It has a living wall something it happens very quickly,” was so excited about it that I flew back ments. However, the aeronautic look is of fragrant green herbs for Steve to cook Brown says. to see it.” softened by a large-scale circular daybed with, and a mirrored wall that appears They married last December and went The flat was still a building site. The upholstered in startlingly pretty to double the space. house hunting. They wanted a ware- developers were working on the ware- turquoise floral Christian Lacroix house they could do up. “At first we house floor by floor, and since the one fabric. Oulton also made the steel- ■FUN AND LIVELY: the mix-and-match thought we were too old for Shoreditch, the couple were there to view was being topped dining table in the kitchen, eclecticism of this dazzling apartment but it’s such a great area, with all these done last, it was still full of rubble. The architects had already put in a bathroom with subtle matt grey wall tiles, but the overall plan was to create a three-bedroom apartment. Brown and Steve wanted two bed- Chillin’: left, rooms so the architects modified the Harvey B-Brown, design, put in the polished concrete in red trousers, floors the pair liked best, and they com- and husband pleted at the end of February. Steve, on their daybed ■LET’S SHOP: the couple sold their upholstered in previous Hampstead home lock, stock Christian Lacroix and barrel. “Which was an amazing fabric. Their opportunity to go shopping,” says extraordinary Steve, laughing. steel Tomcat “A set design,” Brown explains, bed by British “works for the camera — but it’s not for designer Timothy life. Here, the architects put everything Oulton is in the in the right place, they chose really nice background things — credit where credit’s due — and then we decorated it. This is a perfect, functioning home. Photographs: “After travelling, I really look forward David Butler to coming home.”  EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 29 y.co.uk with Our home Homes & Property

Let the music play: the Bechstein, revamped with a nod to Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Master bedroom: the couple’s Tomcat bed, with adjustable leather backrests

Architects’ choice: a matt grey-tiled Notting Hill of the east: warehouse on bathroom was in situ from the start the border of Spitalfields and Shoreditch

A DIRECTOR’S LIGHTING TIPS GET THE LOOK Go for a collection of all sorts of lamps — Architects: chrisdyson.co.uk industrial overheads, wall-mounted Living wall: by treebox.co.uk anglepoises, chandeliers, and standards. Outsize sofa: from ligneroset.co.uk They have incidental, ambient lighting on Steel bed and kitchen table: by one five-amp circuit, so that everything timothyoulton.com Great outdoors: sliding glass dining area doors lead to the goes on, all the side lamps, with one flick Circular daybed: by roche-bobois. courtyard with a fragrant living wall of herbs for cooking, of the switch, giving instant atmosphere. com and a giant mirror that appears to double the outside space Then you can add other lighting on a Taupe grey brick tiles in the second circuit. Use different lamps and bathroom: by towerceramics.co.uk lights for different effects and moods. Harvey B-Brown at harveybbrown.com  30 WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Outdoors homesandproperty.co.uk with Do the spadework and enjoy a lazy summer Get an irrigation kit, plant big pots of colour and buy no-fuss shrubs. With your winter jobs done, you can sit back and sip cocktails all summer long

OW do you want to spend Pattie easy-growing viticella varieties, such as your time in the garden purple Polish Spirit, which just need to next year — on your knees Barron be chopped back in February. weeding, or on the ter- November is bare-root rose planting race, sipping mojitos? Put month, but if you want to bypass black Hin the prep now, and you can put your spot and greenfly next summer, plant feet up later. no-fuss roses that still deliver on looks There is no need, for example, to and perfume — the rugosas. Roseraie de wield a watering can or hosepipe l’Hay is a gloriously fragrant, deep through weeks of summer drought. Set magenta rose that can be pruned any- up an irrigation system now so plants old-how and is as tough as old boots. can be watered, so to speak, on tap. It Rosa rugosa Alba has white, open doesn’t have to be complex. Buy a blooms and fabulous, fat, orange hips. porous “soaker” hose and attach a Invest in the best, so you don’t need battery-powered timer to the tap, then to repair and replace. If you are buying trail the hose around susceptible a deck, it is worth paying extra for plants, and bury under earth, or cover hardwood which only needs an annual with mulch. Take the strain from con- treatment, and is less likely to slip you tainer watering, too, with a system that up in wet weather. Likewise, hardwood drip-feeds water via individual tubes furniture, obelisks and arches will last into pots. Soaker hoses from about 25ft a lifetime and need less upkeep than and container irrigation kits are avail- softwood, which has a limited shelf life, able at hozelock.com. even when pressurised and painted. Talking of pots, downscale containers It isn’t the mowing that takes the time, so you have several large, co-ordinated it’s neatening the edges of the lawn. Cut beauties instead of an army of dispa- out the drudgery by installing a lawn rate pots that will all need watering, edging of flexible lengths of galvanised feeding and tending next summer. You steel, three feet or so in length, that you

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WHAT THERE IS TO BUY £875,000 The Barnet property market is varied. A FIVE-BEDROOM family house in There are pockets of period homes in Netherland Road, Barnet, set over the Wood Street conservation area three floors with a contemporary around St John the Baptist Church and kitchen and a rear garden that overlooking Hadley Common, and includes a separate studio flat. detached, semi-detached and terrace Through Foxtons. Victorian and Edwardian houses in the O homesandproperty.co.uk/nether roads that were developed after the arrival of improved transport links. Live the country dream There are also local detached and semi- detached Twenties and Thirties houses Outdoorsy families and soccer stars seeking terrace houses, including a four-bed- and bungalows. room house in Langley Row, modern The most expensive house currently trophy homes love the rural feel and markets in but built in a traditional style, for sale for sale is in Dancers Lane, in the coun- at £750,000 (see homesandproperty. tryside between Barnet town centre this north London village. By Anthea Masey co.uk/lang). and the M25. It has seven bedrooms, In the centre of High Barnet, a period staff quarters and a swimming pool Edwardian period onwards, along with Edwardian houses in Granville Road property in Wood Street, in the con- complex, and the asking price is its own railway station and a parade of close to the town centre. A 3,000sq ft servation area, comes with planning £8 MILLION £8 million (see homesandproperty. local shops and restaurants. Parkfield house with six bedrooms is on the permission already in place for conver- A GRAND ambassadorial residence co.uk/dance). House in Beech Hill, , has market here for £1,325,000 (see homes sion from offices to a three-bedroom with eight bedrooms, a large garden Hadley Wood, a suburban enclave in eight bedrooms and a cinema room andproperty.co.uk/gran). house. It is priced £700,000 (homes and lake, in Bentley Heath, Barnet. Hertfordshire countryside north of and is on the market for £4 million Hadley Highstone is a pretty village andproperty.co.uk/woodst). Through Statons. Barnet, is favoured by top footballers, (See homesandproperty.co.uk/ spread out along the Great North Road Elsewhere in Barnet there are many O homesandproperty.co.uk/bentley especially Tottenham Hotspur players. parkfield). in the Monken Hadley conservation roads of Twenties and Thirties houses. The area has a mix of houses from the There is a handful of large detached area. It offers cottages and Victorian A three-bedroom house in Netherlands Road, halfway between and stations, is for sale To find a home in Barnet, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/barnet for £575,000 (see homesandprop- erty.co.uk/nether). ForF more about Barnet, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/spotlightbarnet New apartment blocks are also in the Barnet mix. A two-bedroom flat in           !% !%     #%"                         &   %   #     %%    

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O The best schools O The best shops and restaurants O The local renting scene Chill out and catch up: pavement café O Arts and leisure in Barnet in The Spires shopping centre, left, off The latest housing developments bustling Barnet High Street. Above, O Patrizia Iraldi, owner of Bel Gelato O How this area compares with the ice cream parlour at The Spires. Right, rest of the UK on house prices the duck pond at Hadley Green For all this and more, visit homesand property.co.uk/ — just 30 minutes from the city spotlightbarnet Photographs: Graham Hussey Brackenwood Lodge in Prospect Road The area attracts: estate agent Gina weekly market, and buyers range from Travel: High Barnet is on the Tube close to High Barnet Tube station is on Antoniou of the local branch of Savills Premiership footballers looking for Northern line with a journey time of NEXT WEEK: Croydon. Do you the market for £279,000 (see homes says Barnet still has the feel of a newly built trophy mansions to families around half an hour to central live there? Tell us what you andproperty.co.uk/brack). traditional village, helped by its twice- from north London pursuing a change London. think @HomesProperty of pace and a more outdoor lifestyle, Hadley Wood, New Barnet and Oak- HAVE YOUR SAY made possible by having the country- leigh Park stations all have trains to side on their doorstep. Moorgate, with transfers to the Under- BARNET Staying power: according to ground at Finsbury Park and Highbury Antoniou, once families have moved & Islington. Trains from Hadley Wood @Dutchy_23 need to take a look at to Barnet, they tend to stay — and the to Moorgate take around 27 minutes, 89 in the High Street. Classy boutique wide range of house types allows them with the journey taking a few minutes shop run by a home-grown Barnet girl to trade up and down. less from the other stations. Up and coming: local agents say there Oakleigh Park station is in Zone 4 and @fiona232 Dory’s is one of the most are no undervalued pockets in Barnet. an annual travelcard costs £1,800, popular cafés in Barnet, and also one Antoniou recommends that bargain while High Barnet and New Barnet are of the oldest hunters look in the western part of in Zone 5 and the travelcard costs TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Enfield, which is largely residential and £2,136. Hadley Wood is in Zone 6 and What has this doomed ship got to do @HobartsN22 top local restaurant well-served for shops. There are roads the yearly travelcard costs £2,288. with Sunday golf in Barnet? Find the has to be @SpizzicoBarnet hands Pretty bunch: in The Spires shopping of Victorian terrace houses off Chase Council: Barnet council is conserva- answer at homesandproperty.co.uk/ down centre, corporate consultant Natasha Side, with a nice village-like feel, for tive controlled and Band D council tax spotlightbarnet Pearce takes her pick at Pinks Florists between £375,000 and £400,000. this year is £1,401.07.

      

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S THE mother of teenagers, £475 I am used to being ignored. A WEEK However, I am not prepared In a portered to put up with any more Pay up now — or I’ll period building in cheek from my young Buckingham Atenants, whose behaviour would have Gate, SW1, John D tried the patience of Mother Teresa. Wood has a newly Ever since these four students moved cut off something refurbished into my flat over the summer they have one-bedroom flat consistently failed to pay their rent on available to rent. time and in full, and have ignored my emails and text messages asking them precious to you O Visit to pay up. homesand The first month after they moved in Victoria Whitlock’s property.co.uk/ they paid their rent a week late — after four student tenants rentbuck I had sent them a reminder — and it was try every excuse in the book to dodge their more than £100 short. When I emailed to ask where the rest was, they didn’t rent. But is she cruel enough to disconnect bother to respond. The next month I got an email from their wifi? Well, if it works on her kids. . . one of the tenants saying he would be away for a few weeks, and therefore he would not be paying his rent. I replied I find it works every time. However, I paid up immediately, but the fourth late again I would start eviction pro- to say that in that case, I would not be The decided that was too mean. Who called to say she didn’t have the cash. ceedings. keeping his room for him. knows, young people might shrivel and It wasn’t her fault, she whined, it was That last bit was probably a bit harsh, He paid, in the end, but there was still accidental die if they are disconnected for too long something to do with a delay processing but I had started to think these young- no sign of the missing £100-plus from from their cyber lifeline. her student loan. She said she would sters were metaphorically — maybe the previous month. Instead I sent yet another nudge- have the money “in a few weeks”. even physically — sticking two fingers On their third month in the flat, one landlord nudge email asking for payment by the I might have given her more time to up at me. tenant paid her rent in full, on time, end of the week. pay if she and her flatmates hadn’t She paid up and the next month all which was great. Another paid almost I agreed to give her another couple of Friday came and went — and still already been so random with their the tenants paid, almost on time. Will the full amount, which was not quite so weeks. The two weeks went by, but she nothing. rent, but I had run out of patience. they get better? Only time will tell. . . good. Two paid nothing at all, which still didn’t pay. By the following Monday, I was fum- I told her that unless all of the rent was annoying. There was no sign of the The following month I didn’t receive ing. I fired off seriously angry emails to was paid by the end of the day I would O Victoria Whitlock lets three outstanding £100 from the first month any rent, nor the arrears from the all the tenants saying that unless they call every one of the guarantors to ask properties in south London. either. previous months. At that point I con- paid their rent, plus the arrears, by the them to pay me directly in future. To contact Victoria with your ideas I emailed all the tenants asking for the sidered asking TalkTalk to disconnect end of the day I would be calling their I also said that if any of the rent was and views, tweet @vicwhitlock payments to be brought up to date. their wifi, which I pay for. guarantors. That almost did the trick. Three of them ignored me, again, and Ha, I thought, that should get a But not quite. Find many more homes to rent at the fourth explained she was waiting reaction. I frequently switch off the wifi Three of the tenants, who clearly didn’t for a student loan to come through, so at home to get my kids’ attention, and want me having a chat with their parents, homesandproperty.co.uk/lettings 42 WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Ask the expert homesandproperty.co.uk with After delay, can I tell him to drop dead? Fiona WHAT’S I OWN a first-floor Victorian conversion flat, in YOUR a building with five flats in total. Two tenants McNulty PROBLEM? Qhave babies and are forever blocking the IF YOU have a entrance hall with their buggies. Now one has OUR LAWYER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS question for had another baby, so there is an even larger buggy. It is Fiona McNulty, often difficult to open the front door of the building. please email The owners of the ground-floor flat also use the hall I AM in the process of legalsolutions@ for storage not only of their buggy, but wellington buying a house. The standard.co.uk boots shoes etc. It is very annoying — what can I do? Qseller, in turn, is buying a or write to Legal Will the flat leases deal with this sort of thing? new build. We exchanged Solutions, Homes in August with an “on notice” & Property, THIS situation certainly appears to be quite completion, on the understanding London Evening unacceptable. The entrance hall will be a that the completion date of the Standard, 2 Derry A common part of the building, providing access to seller’s new build would be in the Street, W8 5EE. the various flats. It should not be obstructed at third week of August, while We regret that any time, as that will cause inconvenience for residents completion for our house would be questions cannot and could be dangerous if there was a fire. about September 15. be answered Look at your lease. There should be covenants in it However, the seller’s completion individually but saying that the common areas, access ways, staircases etc has been delayed three times and we will try to are not to be obstructed, and that the premises must not there is still no definite date. Can I feature them be used for any purpose which will cause nuisance to the serve a “notice to complete” and property is not a new build, as buyers it is difficult to comment. Your here. Fiona other flat owners. get them to move out and complete often do not like the uncertainty of solicitor could try writing to the McNulty is a Your lease should also say you may require your landlord or I get my deposit and costs back? completion on notice. seller’s solicitor requiring partner in the to take action to enforce covenants which the other lessees My solicitor did not warn me of Your solicitor certainly should have completion by a certain date. If that residential have entered into with him, provided you indemnify him the drawbacks of “on notice” advised you of the issues which can fails, he could ask for you to be property, farms for his costs and expenses. However, it is best to try to completion and did not include a arise when completion is on notice — released from the contract and for and estates team resolve matters amicably. Talk to the other lessees and drop dead date to complete on the especially when notice to you is your deposit to be returned, or serve at Withy King LLP explain you are worried because the buggies, wellies etc contract, which in my opinion, in dependent on notice being served on a notice to complete. (withyking.co.uk). are not only a nuisance but may make it difficult to get out hindsight, he should have. your seller. If that doesn’t work there are in case of fire, or restrict access for the fire brigade. If that

If the contract between you and remedies available, such as rescission fails, involve the landlord and/or any managing agents. COMPLETION on notice is your seller had included a long stop of contract or specific performance, usual when a new-build date, it would probably have made it but these are likely to be complex and More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on property is involved. It is more straightforward for you to costly. You may end up having to seek Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. A Visit: homesand quite uncommon for enforce the terms of the contract. advice from a lawyer specialising in No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar completion to be on notice when the Without knowing the terms, though, property litigation. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor.

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COOMBE HILL in Kingston upon Thames has traditionally been a magnet for celebrities including Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, and it is easy to see why. Read more: visit The private gated estate is our new online sandwiched between two golf courses, allowing high-profile luxury section residents to live in quiet splendour, unbothered by prying eyes. It is also HomesAndProperty.co.uk/luxury a fair bit cheaper than comparable “town-meets-country” spots north builds. Each property has a 100ft rear façades are the relaxed layouts today’s and south of the river, such as garden with access to a large families crave —modern-design, Hampstead and Richmond. communal meadow. Residents arrive open-plan spaces, cosy retreat areas Fairlawn, above right, is a former through ornamental iron gates to a with eco-friendly fireplaces, “media grand Victorian pile, renovated and gravelled quadrangle with an ancient dens” and lots of storage. Prices from split into a pair of six-bedroom cedar tree and barn-style car ports. £2.5 million. Call Coombe Residential houses, book-ended by two new Behind the tasteful, traditional on 020 8947 9393.

Tottenham’s got the regeneration buzz IT’S CHEAP by London standards, are being introduced. Convenient has quick transport links to the for Seven Sisters Tube station, City, West End, Docklands and Lawrence Square, right, replaces Stansted airport, and, crucially, an industrial estate and brings 260 regeneration is beginning to make homes priced from £209,995. Call a difference. It’s Tottenham. Bellway on 0845 676 0261. The area evolved with the advent “At the moment, demand is of the railways and was an strong but supply is weak,” says important manufacturing base. Maxine Casey of local estate agent The Savoy up the road. The style is Streets of modest pre-Twenties Barnard Marcus. “A lot of buyers bold yet oozes class, with coffered terraces were built, while the have a deposit but cannot find the ceilings and extravagant finishes of Blitz later prepared the way for right property.” marble and polished nickel. sprawling council estates — More choice is coming. Prices range from £1,225,000 to including notorious Broadwater Tottenham is one of the Mayor’s 10 £9,512,500. Call St Edward on 020 Farm — where improvements are new housing zones and in line for 7118 9190. under way and new forms of tenure 10,000 new homes.

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