Wednesday 7 February 2018 Goodbye to Homes& the Allen key Flat-pack furniture that just clicks Property Page 14 TOP-VALUE VILLAGES P8 AFFORDABLE HOUNSLOW P12 VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL P13, 16, 20 SPOTLIGHT ON SIDCUP P26 Making it home Creating communities: Page 6 WILL TINDALL 4 WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Trophy home of the week Prime location: planners are expected this week to approve 213 new riverfront homes at the South Bank’s London Television Centre, with just 22 “affordable” Just right for the gourmet sailor Failed again £4,495,000: this Buckinghamshire boathouse, converted into an ONDON built fewer than to City Hall, London should build beauty, a new six-bedroom home, annexe/guest suite. Floor-to-ceiling 7,000 affordable homes last 66,000 new homes every year to keep makes the most of its amazing setting glass, high ceilings and a cool, year, with more than a third pace with demand and some 60 per on the Cookham Reach stretch of the contemporary fit give an über-sleek of boroughs managing to cent — about 40,000 — should be afford- Thames at Bourne End. It’s set back feel to family and drawing rooms, offer under 100 new homes able. The worst-performing councils of from a private road at the end of a along with a monochrome kitchen/ Lfor people who can’t afford to buy or the year include Kensington & Chelsea, tree-lined drive behind electric gates. breakfast and dining room that even rent on the open market. where just seven affordable homes There’s ample space for a supercar opens to a riverside garden terrace. The Government figures fall far below were completed in the 12 months to or two, while gardens and decking at Nearby fine dining includes The Fat official estimates of the number of September last year according to the Lifechanger the back lead down to the riverbank, Duck at Bray and The Hand and subsidised homes needed. According Government’s new homes bonus allo- where you can moor the boat and Flowers in Marlow. Through Knight cation report, which calculates funding of the week relax in the beautiful former Frank (020 8012 3483). for new housebuilding. Merton managed to produce nine Be a Dales cabin Editor: affordable homes in the same period. rental mogul London Janice The most productive borough was Tower Hamlets, where 1,085 were deliv- buy of Morley ered. £399,950: sometimes, don’t you Across London, the report found the just want to jack it all in and move the VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ total number of affordable homes deliv- to a log cabin somewhere? 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O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at Hunters (01765 774021). bedroom and bathroom are also on By Faye Greenslade homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2018 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property By Amira Hashish Go on, James, make them an offer they can’t refuse Buy a bit of X Factor history ÉA HOME in the smart Brand is selling No 23, cobbled mews where above, a cute cottage of ÉDANNII MINOGUE’S London home of 13 years is for McMafia character Alex 1,158 gorgeously decorated sale. The Aussie actress and singer, right, lived in the Godman lives is for sale. square feet, with three Battersea riverside apartment while she was an X Factor London-born star of bedrooms and a garage. judge, the winning mentor of Leon Jackson in 2007 and the series James Norton, Yorkshire-raised Norton, Matt Cardle in 2010. During her time on the panel she had left, rumoured to be in who is dating actress a secret fling with Simon Cowell, according to journalist the running as the next Imogen Poots, lives in Tom Bower’s biography of the music mogul. James Bond, is seen Peckham but his TV The two-bedroom flat, above, in Plantation Wharf has strolling home to character is a south-west two private balconies. Arranged over the ninth floor, Cranley Mews near London man. there are fabulous views of the Thames and the London Gloucester Road in If you fancy following in skyline. Another lovely feature is the dual-aspect open- nearly every episode of his footsteps, you’ll need plan kitchen/reception room with floor-to-ceiling the BBC drama. Lurot £2.6 million. windows. Close to Clapham Junction station, Minogue’s old place is listed at £675,000 with John D Wood & Co. Got some gossip? Tweet@amiranews Raise a glass of Jacuzzi is in the Miley’s mix at DJ’s pad ÉPARTY ANIMAL Eric Prydz scrubs merlot up well for a gig — and no wonder. The Swedish DJ’s former London rental party pad features a large Jacuzzi and a steam room. The stunning loft at Chiswick Green ÉMILEY CYRUS has found a secret Studios is available for £890 per buyer for her home in Hidden Hills, week through John D Wood & Co. The California. The singer, left, paid minimalist, open-plan home is £3.5 million for the 5.5-acre estate flooded with natural light thanks to with its own vineyard in 2015, and oodles of floor-to-ceiling glass, but the 1,000-bottle cellar is stacked with electric blackout blinds ensure total house merlot. Built in 1954, the privacy when required. The kitchen 5,100sq ft rustic-style farmhouse has concrete worktops, there’s a comes with an outdoor pool and spa, dining/games room, two double stables and paddocks — but Cyrus, bedrooms with walk-in wardrobes 25, already has two other homes in and two super-sleek bathrooms. California and a place in Nashville. 6 WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by THE PRICE OF DESIGN SUCCESS THE King’s Cross regeneration unveiled it’s most spectacular component this week. Gasholders London, pictured left and right, a trio of listed canalside cast-iron gasholders, has 145 flats within, priced from £810,000. For a high-end luxurious option nearby, prices at The Plimsoll Building start at £1.8 million for a two-bedroom flat. At Royal Arsenal Riverside in Woolwich, prices at Waterfront III, the latest phase, start at £462,500 for a Manhattan suite, £485,000 for a one- bedroom flat, rising to £570,000 for a two-bedroom flat. Five duplex penthouses launched recently, priced from £1.3 million for a two-bedroom home and £1.9 million for a 1,398sq ft three-bedroom with a direct river view. PLACES IN THE MAKING Placemaking is about people As housebuilders gear up for spring 2018’s new homes launches, Emily Wright looks at £3.2 million: luxury apartments at 31-storey Canaletto Tower in City Road, in the emerging Tech City in EC1 the powerful influence of good placemaking LACES have the power to heal. that they say, ‘So who is this develop- everyone happy.” Mark Davey is A badly designed urban space ment actually for? Why will people want founder of Futurecity, the placemaking can leave us feeling lost, to live here?’ But by then it is all too late. agency for Nine Elms’ creative district uneasy, isolated and unhappy, We tell the companies we work with to status and Knight Dragon’s £1 billion while well-designed districts block out a week at the beginning of Santiago Calatrava-designed cultural Pmake us feel safe, integrated and at their project and we hold a five-day hub at Greenwich Peninsula.