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Trophy home of the week £240,000: a pleasant one-bedroom Victorian Linked up again: Lea Bridge railway station, in buy into bronze, conversion ﬂat in Capworth Street, Lea Bridge, E10 Zone 3, was closed for 31 years. By 2031 it is for sale through Carrington Gray (020 8012 1583) expected to serve 350,000 passengers a year strike style gold

£4.9 million: cutting a dash in NW8 is 50 St Edmund’s Terrace, a boutique collection of “pavilion” buildings of Portland New homes come stone and bronze, one containing this apartment. The über sleek living space has been designed to soak up divine views across Primrose down the line Hill and Regent’s Park through large picture windows in three OW that Lea Bridge has a bedrooms and bathrooms, and railway station again, this plush open-plan living areas run-down east London finished to the highest spec. outpost is to get its first There’s a subterranean spa major housing develop- complex with a 20-metre ment.N Hill, the award-winning house swimming pool and a gym, plus builder responsible for reinvigorating underground parking and a acres of warehouses around Cam- 24-hour concierge to take care bridge station, has been granted per- of your every whim. mission for a scheme of more than 300 Through Knight Frank (020 new homes in nine blocks. 7887 2590). About 60 of the homes in Lea Bridge Road will be affordable, aimed at low- and middle-income buyers and renters Lifechanger currently priced out of the private sec- tor. of the week The announcement comes a month after the long-awaited reopening of Lea serve scones Bridge station, which was closed in the Regeneration: Two-bedroom flats in period homes mid-Eighties as part of a cost-cutting developer Hill sell for about £325,000 to £350,000, in Cornwall exercise. By 2031 it is forecast that has permission and one-bedroom flats are available for more than 350,000 passengers a year to build 300 ﬂats under £250,000. £600,000: this little Cornish will use the Zone 3 train station. It will in nine blocks, Prices in the area are already growing dream runs as a café by day take about five minutes to reach either including 60 strongly, according to Rightmove, and a restaurant by night, Stratford or Tottenham Hale and con- “affordable” which reports an increase from an aver- popular with locals and nect to London Underground. homes age of just under £305,000 in February holidaymakers alike for its Construction of the apartments starts last year to almost £413,000 at the start bright, airy ambience and later this year, and expressions of inter- of this year. outside space in the rural est are already being taken ahead of a Hill’s development will include a gym village of Manaccan, near reception bar and window bedrooms, plus a useful sales launch in 2018. and a few shops, in an area that cur- Helston. seats for enjoying coffee study and a gorgeous open- Right now the area has streets of Vic- rently has little to offer — you need to There’s space to seat 50 and cake. plan kitchen/dining room torian houses which, by London stand- travel to Stratford for a good choice of diners in the restaurant, a Upstairs finds a spacious and living area. ards, are highly affordable, with shops, bars, and restaurants. fully equipped commercial owner’s apartment with It’s on the market with three- to four-bedroom homes selling kitchen for cooking up a white walls and high Country & Waterside (01872 for between £500,000 and £600,000. O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk storm, along with a charming ceilings in three double 240999).

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HE extension of the Bakerloo line from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham, with two new Bakerloo stations in Old Kent Road — cheapest square on the TMonopoly board — is set to propel an unglamorous swathe of Southwark to property hotspot status. brings status The new stations will be near the Old Kent Road junctions with Albany Road and Asylum Road. Though it will be at least 10 years before Bakerloo trains to south-east start operating, the extension is already creating an up-and-coming area from a part of London currently starved of the Tube. Now that Transport for London has London decided on this route rather than a Tube line through Camberwell and Peckham, Southwark council has unveiled an ambitious regeneration masterplan for You can feel change coming. Old Kent Road and neighbourhoods Move in now and benefit from either side of it. Up to 20,000 new homes, schools and parks are planned, an ambitious masterplan for along with a new Overground station called New Bermondsey. Old Kent Road and its neighbours, The aim is to transform one of the David Spittles capital’s most famous highways from a says dispiriting, colourless urban mess into a modern, apartment-lined, pedestrian- friendly high street with traditional owner-run shops and cafés replacing uninspiring pound shops and super- markets. There is also a proposal to create a green corridor along the Grand Surrey Canal, built in 1807 as a trade ELEPHANT route to the docks but concreted over AND more than 40 years ago. CASTLE Camberwell residents may take some solace in TfL plans to reopen old Cam- OLD KENT ROAD Thames berwell railway station, which closed Bakerloo extension during the First World War, while in NEW CROSS 2018 Denmark Hill station, which New stations at serves the area along with Dulwich, will KENNINGTON Albany Road offer quick commutes to the new and Asylum LEWISHAM Elizabeth line hub at Farringdon. Road To find out more about the capital’s PECKHAM transport upgrades, see the London Reimagined research, carried out by Rightmove for Homes & Property, at CATFORD rightmove.co.uk/viz/london. Proposed extension further neighbourhoods of north and west track improvements, the Mayor of £850 million SURGING SOUTH-EAST London,” says Candice Matthews, direc- London has created an Old Kent Road project: New South-east London is already seeing a tor of property consultant Cushman & “Opportunity Area”, or priority zone. Bermondsey surge of interest as home buyers and Wakefield. “But more people now want This covers the road itself and streets Overground renters wake up to the lower prices and to put down roots in south-east London either side — a hotchpotch of Victorian station, above, is good commuter links to the City and and they’re factoring the Tube exten- and Regency terraces, council estates, part of a wider Canary Wharf. The Bakerloo line extension into buying decisions.” railway arches, warehouses and light scheme that sion is forecast to have a huge impact The recently extended East London industrial premises. includes 2,400 by providing a fast and direct link to BECKENHAM line, part of the Overground network, ﬂats and houses the West End, with capacity for 65,000 JUNCTION BROMLEY has brought areas such as Forest Hill MAKE THE PILGRIMAGE extra journeys in each direction. TOWN and Sydenham in from the cold, while Old Kent Road is one of the oldest streets Already developers are snapping up CENTRE the Elizabeth line — Crossrail — will be a in England, created by the Romans and sites and launching new homes, while CROYDON game changer for Woolwich and border- famously used by Chaucer’s pilgrims Loft-style ﬂats: estate agents are tipping micro spots ing areas such as Charlton, she adds. travelling from Southwark Cathedral to below, Chevron such as the conservation area wrapping WEST Transport strategists are also working Canterbury. Apartments in St around Trafalgar Avenue. “Tradition- WICKHAM on a further extension of the Bakerloo In Victorian times it was a handsome James’s Road, ally, purchasers preferred the range of line from Lewisham via Catford and thoroughfare, with music halls and Bermondsey SE1 architecture and the more gentrified Bromley into suburban Kent. To fast- later cinemas. In the 20th century (020 7749 3810)

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DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL redevelopment created vast housing Buzzing: Bermondsey Street, above. +)0 )'0 estates that turned their backs on the Developer Renewal says it aims to street but now Southwark council turn the neighbourhood into “a +) + * + +3 hopes to revive its former vitality by destination of regional importance” 0/ -( '))+ bringing humanscale new housing, London about a third of it “affordable”. The rebirth of $* 2'30'+ 0. Redevelopment of the giant Ayles- Reimagined 20 0. 3" /'22 ' bury council estate is under way, with Bermondsey '* 10)/+ '+' new private homes dominating. The latest phase, Harvard Gardens, has THE New Bermondsey Overground $2 30 )'+ two-bedroom flats priced from station is part of an £850 million, (+*3 £412,500 and houses from £885,000. 2,400-home project being built on Call L&Q on 0333 003 3640. derelict land split by railway tracks. find your happy +3' +* The Bath House, facing Old Kent Renewal, the developer, says it 10)/+ -3 2+ Road and located midway between the “wants to boost the district’s appeal ) '.+ two Bakerloo line stations, has 51 new and make it a destination of regional apartments priced from £525,000, importance”. The first phase of 261 register, call 020 7358 1933. Despite 02 0 +" /( with the low-deposit Help to Buy homes, a mix of flats and family its raw character, the area seems '* +') +'30) '* '22 scheme available. Call Higgins Homes houses, is expected next year. bound to attract buyers as the new on 020 8498 6038. Coming later are shops, parks and station will provide four-minute train +.'+* '20')+ 020. ('/3 Bermondsey Works, in Rotherhithe squares, cycleways and footpaths, a connections to London Bridge. 0)2 *0. -0*.+ -+++" '2) '22 ''3+ New Road, will have 148 flats and “creative quarter” with galleries, Even posh Grosvenor Estate has '/0. 3')/0+ '* duplexes above a new free school and artist studios and live-work units, set its sights on this promising patch, '+220+%++0'2 *0/ '/+ City of London sixth-form academy. It plus the biggest new sports complex buying a former biscuit factory to !# 0 ()00 will be a step up in quality for the area, since Crystal Palace National Sports redevelop into 800 homes and small *+ ('/3 0+ with communal roof gardens, 24-hour Centre was built in 1964. business workspaces. With a record of + 0+*& 0/ )/3+ 0. concierge, private gym, underground Derelict railway arches will be thoughtful “place-making” — creating 00) /+'0. +3 parking and cycle storage. To register refurbished and re-let as commercial and enhancing neighbourhoods — for the launch this summer, call Telford premises and some will be opened Grosvenor says it is “getting to know Homes on 020 3538 3457. up as part of new pedestrian routes. the people and the area”. Chevron Apartments, in St James’s Green architecture focuses on Community initiatives include Road, offers 37 loft-style flats behind a community gardens and allotments planting a new orchard in nearby 00 022 . /+ 20 0. 0 /+ * ./ - '3*+ Fifties factory façade with a double- on top of apartment blocks, while an Southwark Park and support for Old / +/2* 0)3+ 3 +)++* ," + ' 3 height entrance foyer created from the estate recycling system will link into Vic Workrooms, an outpost of the original loading bays. A warm-brick a neighbourhood heat and energy famous theatre company, while a warehouse-style extension at the rear centre that incinerates rubbish. new secondary school is proposed as links with a landscaped cobbled court- Rainwater will be collected and used a way of enticing more families to yard. Call estate agent Stirling Ackroyd for fountains and street sculpture. To the area. on 020 7749 3810. find your happy 6 WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes

RESIDENTS gym tops the wish lists of Londoners searching for a home in a new development “with benefits”. Research by Aproperty experts CBRE into what today’s buyers consider the most worthwhile extra facility found that 76 per cent wanted an on-site gym, while 69 per cent would be prepared to pay the extra service charge to have an indoor residents pool. Only 37 per cent wanted a squash court, and 32 per cent specified bike storage. Fitness specialists Trainfitness sur- veyed 2,000 Londoners, 68 per cent of whom said membership fees for private off-site gyms were their main excuse for not exercising, while 51 per cent blamed work commitments. Meanwhile, developer Berkeley Homes From £1,600 a month: at Wembley Park, Tipi ﬂats will offer a 24-hour gym Be a gym bunny New apartments with gyms are top of the list for young Londoners — and save money on club membership, says Ginetta Vedrickas says people are willing to pay reasona- trainers at extra cost. Gym induction busy lifestyles. Visual motivational ble service charges for residents fitness and use is included in service charges, scoreboards are planned, allowing gym facilities because in central London they which start at £5 per square foot. users to compete against one another can save up to £90 a month in private Fitness facts: the gym is 3,767sq ft, in “monthly mileage” or “calorie cruci- gym membership. The company says and in addition to treadmills has fier” competitions. developments need more than 300 Concept 2 rowing machines, boxing Fitness facts: a 3,272sq ft gym with homes to make a gym viable, otherwise gloves, pads and skipping ropes. 27 Technogym running machines, it won’t be possible for service charges There is also an 18-metre pool. Open cross trainers, spinning bikes, to undercut private gyms. 6.30am-10pm. It gets a residents’ weights and rowing machines. No So where can you find top-rated gyms rating of seven out of 10 and offers pool. Open 24 hours. Residents’ in London new homes schemes? We “relaxing views across the leafy rating is six out of 10 for this gym track down some of the latest… boulevard”. with “unrestricted hours to suit hardcore types”. GOODMAN’S FIELDS, E1 TIPI, WEMBLEY HA9 In Aldgate, with 500 units planned Quintain’s rental scheme, Tipi, is LONDON DOCK, E1 and 230 already sold, Berkeley’s in Wembley Park, with 141 flats to At London Dock in Pennington simulator and squash court, which residents’ rating for the facility is development at Goodman’s Fields rent from £1,600 per month Street, near Tower Bridge, one- Tom Bryant of selling agents CBRE says eight out of 10, and the golf and is due for completion by 2020. inclusive of utility bills and bedroom apartments, from is unusual. “This range isn’t something squash facilities are aimed at Studios, to be ready by 2019, are broadband. The gym opens this £869,950, are due for completion you’d get at Fitness First or Virgin “thrusting City types”. priced from £708,000. Call 020 autumn. Call 020 3151 1927. by the end of this year. A total of gyms.” Pilates, yoga, spinning, interval 3217 1000. THE 24-hour gym at Tipi will be 12,000 units is planned. Call 020 training and body blitz classes are TELEVISION CENTRE TREADMILLS top the bill for early accessed by fingerprint recognition, 7971 7880. included in service charges of £5.56 per WHITE CITY W12 morning exercisers pounding the and there will be free induction and DEVELOPER St George has installed square foot at the scheme. The gym One-bedroom apartments at the machines in the ground-floor gym at membership for residents. The devel- facilities to appeal to its target buyers opens this year with the first phase. BBC’s former HQ start from Goodman’s Fields, says Berkeley. Also opment’s head of operations, Russell — competitive City workers. Alongside Fitness facts: 13,777sq ft gym and a £700,000, up to £7.5million for a on offer are spinning classes, yoga and Markou, explains that unrestricted a gym, pool, sauna and steam room, 20-metre pool, plus spa and a golf penthouse. There will be 950 new personal fitness sessions run by on-site access is vital for fitting exercise around 14,000sq ft of amenities contain a golf simulator. Open 6am-10pm. The homes when the scheme is optrgnrtdimage generated Computer

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completed, of which 432 are FULHAM REACH, W6 From £700,000: scheduled to be ready by 2018. Two-bedroom flats at Fulham above, homes at THE Cowshed Active gym and pool at Reach start from £1,229,950 with Television Centre this iconic mixed-use development, completion in December. Call St in White City will opening in 2018, will be available to George on 020 7870 9500. beneﬁt from a residents and workers, providing the NICK SADLER runs Motive8, a health Cowshed Active first opportunity for non-members to and fitness design and installation firm. facility, one of use Soho House-run facilities. “Even if you don’t use the gym in your the biggest gyms Television Centre MD Alistair Shaw block, an apartment owner can ben- in west London says opening the facility to the 4,000 efit from resale and rental value,” he workers at the scheme will give it a says. London developers are building “buzz”, and adds: “It will be one of the ever-better gyms, adds Sadler, who biggest gyms in west London. Soho installed the Tamesis Club at St House always install special elements, George’s Fulham Reach: “They’re like the boxing ring in their Chicago more like health clubs.” venue.” Service charges start at £6.75 He also installs gyms in private homes per square foot including gym member- for about £10,000: “My wife and I pay ship for two. Call 020 7971 7880. £180 in joint monthly gym membership Fitness facts: details of machines — in four years you could pay that off.” and classes at the 25,000sq ft gym Fitness facts: the Fulham Reach have yet to be specified, but there Tamesis Club has a pool, sauna and will be a squash court and a 20-metre spa and a golf simulator. There are pool. So far, buyers rate the plans also cinema and snooker rooms, and nine out of 10. there’s a rowing club next door.

From £1,229,950: apartments at Fulham Reach in W6, where & leisure facilities " & # $ " # ! include a golf simulator "% ! 8 WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | First-time buyers The rebirth of the notorious Clockwork Orange estate will be a masterclass in community building and fine, affordable architecture, says David Spittles ALL STAR/GETTY Infamy: Thamesmead was a location for ﬁlm director Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 dystopian crime drama A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell, above This is a chance to get it right

OOSTED by a new Crossrail station and a fresh, bold vision from housing charity Peabody, Thamesmead — the “Clockwork Orange” estate inB south-east London — is getting a second chance to become the desirable place to live that its idealistic planners originally envisaged. Thamesmead has been given Housing Zone status by the Mayor of London, meaning planning and infrastructure works will be fast-tracked. The masterplan will be completed in four phases starting early next year, and will gener- ate badly needed local jobs. Crossrail — the new Elizabeth line — will be the game changer, putting Thamesmead, via nearby Abbey Wood station, just 11 minutes from Canary Wharf, 18 minutes from Liverpool Street and 22 minutes from Tottenham Court Road. Community matters: public squares, a library, shops and a nursery are in the mix

HOMES FROM £155,000 ing, were part of the design, but were The tall towers had already been Considered a largely bleak area, difficult to maintain and clean. The vacated and demolished as part of a Thamesmead’s main draw has been its area was also isolated, with no shops, previous plan that went nowhere. A eye-catchingly low property prices. It not even a bank, and crucially with no sequence of streets and lakeside squares is one of the few places in London public transport. The project became will replace them, one with a water where you can still buy a three-bed- a significant failure. Ominously, clock tower and a shopping arcade. room house for less than £300,000, Thamesmead was used as a location Homes will range from one-bedroom while the average cost of a home in the for the 1971 dystopian crime film A flats to four-bedroom houses and 45 per area is £272,120, and property website Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick’s cent will be “affordable”, either for rent Rightmove shows two-bedroom flats depiction of an alienated gang of or shared ownership. The wider area starting from £154,950. Regeneration bowler-hatted, baseball bat-wielding has about 40,000 existing residents, on this scale, and the knock-on effect thugs taking over an estate. and though bleak it has plenty of green from nearby Docklands, will almost space, protected wildlife habitats, certainly provide a big boost for local THE NEW VISION 30,000 trees, four miles of waterways property prices. Peabody’s plan now seeks to address and five lakes. Ofsted rates all schools Thamesmead was created in the Six- the problems of the past by designing in the area “good” or “outstanding”. ties on marshland that had been used and building a mix of 1,500 new homes, Apart from the Elizabeth line boost, as rifle ranges by old Woolwich Arse- a high street with a variety of shops, the district will almost certainly benefit nal. The area’s name was chosen in a cafés, landscaped gardens, attractive from regeneration spreading along the competition that had 565 entries. This public areas and, essentially, a library, riverbank from Docklands, Greenwich was a Brave New World made up of nursery and gym alongside the water. and Woolwich. New river crossings in high-rise flats and low-rise blocks of Pedestrians and cyclists will have this part of London are planned, too. family homes intended to help solve improved routes to the Abbey Wood The bold who buy now could reap the capital’s housing shortage. But it Elizabeth line station. rewards later, as nearby Woolwich has was a design nightmare. In a reinterpretation of traditional shown. Riverside penthouses there Lakes and canals, which well-mean- 19th-century Peabody estates, clusters now cost up to £2 million. ing architects believed would have a of flats will be grouped around raised calming effect, reduce crime and van- shared courtyards, creating smaller O Visit peabody.org.uk/thamesmead to dalism and help an area prone to flood- communities within the larger whole. register and find out more FRESH SCENE A THAMESMEAD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

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with rectangular bay windows set around a communal garden square. Prices from £425,000. Call 0333 660 Buy into 0105. The same developer has unveiled homes in neighbouring Teddington, which stretches inland from the Thames to wonderful Royal Bushy Park. The town itself has a long high street reach- elegant ing down to the river and the famous television studios. Called Noel Square, after renowned playwright and composer Noël Coward architecture who grew up in the same street, the scheme has 18 townhouses that open directly on to a private square, with David Spittles finds handsome parking underground, making it a safe haven for children and a relaxing place new builds and clever conversions for residents to socialise. Each four-storey house has an open-plan ground- that won’t break the bank around floor kitchen/diner/lounge opening to a rear garden. At the top of the house is coveted Richmond and Kew the master suite with terrace. From £1.25 million. Call 0333 6662434. The Longfords, also in Teddington, LY into Heathrow and you see is a small scheme of eight family houses, why people like to live in the three of which are traditional-looking leafy outer reaches of south- with front bay windows and dormers in west London — the majestic the roofspace, while alongside, a gate- Thames, Kew Gardens, the house provides access to four contem- commonsF and the great green tract of porary-design homes in a private Richmond Park. Despite road conges- courtyard at the rear, all with smart tion, it’s an ideal location for many. open-plan interiors plus terraces and a Homes here can be pricey, especially planted garden. There’s off-street park- the best addresses in Richmond and its ing, too. From £1,195,000 through Fox- affluent satellites Ham and Petersham. tons (020 7973 2020). But there are more affordable postcodes offering safe neighbourhoods, open GLAMOUR AT THE GARTER space, good schools and amenities. For sheer glamour and wow factor, new Isleworth, a quirky mix of old riverside penthouses at The Star and Garter in village, modern office blocks and stand- Richmond Hill are hard to beat. The ard-issue suburbia, is one such place. historic listed building, being split into Search Georgian grandees built country man- 86 grand apartments, occupies a spec- sions here, and a rare one survives at tacular position amid terraced gardens new Fitzroy Gate, a seven-acre walled and grounds overlooking the Thames estate with private parkland running and Petersham Meadows. homes down to the banks of the Thames. Double-height penthouses have sweeping views and contemporary for GET THEE TO A NUNNERY interior design set against the building’s sale Having been a convent for the Congrega- heritage architecture, including original tion of the Sisters of Nazareth for the last parquet flooring, ornate mouldings, 100 years, the site is a splendid new coffered ceilings and fireplaces. address with more than 60 private A marble hall with grand staircase is homes, including grand apartments in the entrance lobby, while the restored the listed white stucco mansion and a From £1,195,000: various architectural elements hang a garden facing the landscaped grounds. King’s Room will be a spa. Prices from crescent of new family houses. The Longfords in together well. New four-storey town- It feels like a sanctuary. An ornamental £2.95 million. Call 0333 666 0102. An Edwardian chapel has been turned Teddington mixes houses by developer St James are priced lake with swans is part of new flood Langdale House is a one-off modern into triplex houses with open galleries traditional and from £1.25 million, each with up to six defences, and residents have fob access mansion at Roehampton Gate, an and vaulted ceilings, while an original contemporary- bedrooms, a ground-floor “super- through gates to the upgraded Thames entrance to Richmond Park. The prop- stable block is now mews cottages. The design homes room”, first- and top-floor terraces plus Path. This part of the river also sports a erty has an impressive double-height large, wooded island and a working entrance hall plus seven bedrooms, five From £650,000: boatyard. Heritage specialist Beechcroft bathrooms and a ground-floor super- for ﬂats at Fitzroy has undertaken refurbishment of the room opening on to a lavishly land- Gate in Isleworth, old buildings and added tasteful con- scaped garden. The price is £7.75 million. right, a former temporary interior design. Call Knight Frank on 020 8939 2800. convent, with Apartments start at £650,000. Secure Roehampton itself is a cheaper south- townhouses, left, parking has been created within the west London area. The vast Alton from £1.25 million development. Call 020 3326 1233. Estate, built in brutalist style by the old London County Council in the late SAY HI TO THE DUKE Fifties, is in the spotlight, with devel- Isleworth also has historic Syon House, oper St James and Wandsworth council home to the Duke of Northumberland, working up plans to build private homes and its lovely 200-acre park. Opposite on vacant land and provide better links the park is The Syon, a new flats from the estate to Richmond Park. scheme with prices from £390,000. Call There are no plans to demolish the Savills on 020 3430 6920. estate’s listed blocks, regarded by some London Square Isleworth is another architects as the crowning glory of post- new development, offering 162 flats war social housing.

From £425,000: London Square Isleworth ﬂats, left, are set around a communal garden square

From £390,000: apartments at The Syon, right, opposite Syon Park, location of historic Syon House From £2.95 million: penthouses at the landmark Star and Garter, Richmond Hill EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 11 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Homes abroad | Homes & Property Majorca’s perfect for a Wimbledon warm-up

HE south-west of Majorca is where holiday homes come A superb new tennis with million-pound price tags. Villages such as centre is part of the Andratx and Portals have makeover pulling in becomeT international brands, famous for sleek, ultra-modern villas built into holiday home buyers the cliffs and elegant, immaculately renovated rural stone fincas. at Santa Ponsa, says There are golf courses, marinas and gorgeous sea and coastline views — yet Cathy Hawker Chilled Balearic vibe: AccanA bar Palma, this Spanish island’s capital, and restaurant in Camp de Mar with its magnificent cathedral and wonderfully well-connected airport, range from 2,690sq ft to 11,000sq ft, Your cool new is an easy half-hour drive. with wide terraces, full-height windows and top-quality fittings. There is under- beachside local VALUE IN SANTA PONSA ground parking, a communal pool and It is, however, possible to find better concierge. Prices start from £1,776,000 HOTELIER Miguel Conde is a “local value in this sought-after area. Fifteen with service charges from £1,185 a Top-spec: villas boy” who is passionate about good minutes from Andratx, the small town month. Half of the flats are sold. at the seafront renovation. He is making a name for of Santa Ponsa is having a total facelift. “There are only 19 units on a secure Cap Adriano site, himself in Majorca, spearheading the It started in 2012 with a £79 million but frontline site with all the facilities above and left, in transformation of historic buildings extension of Port Adriano, designed by of Port Adriano on hand and the qual- south-west with sound architecture and a fresh, Philippe Starck, adding more berths ity of the finish is excellent,” says Lenz. Majorca start at bold Balearic vibe. for super-yachts up to 330ft, restau- “Space, quality and views — that is what £1,776,000 He has opened three boutique rants and a shipyard. This year a new buyers want.” hotels in Palma — the Can Cera, club, Upper East, opened its doors. Calatrava and Can Alomar — all A magnificent new 16-court tennis NEAR GOLF AND TENNIS showcasing local art, and now has centre in Santa Ponsa has just opened, There are some good buys back from plans for a hotel in Pollensa. built with input from the experts at the coast in Santa Ponsa. Near the new This summer he is busy with Wimbledon, and the sport’s top women tennis centre, a three-bedroom flat in AccanA, a beachfront restaurant players have been warming up with a an attractive, well-landscaped, 15-year- and summer club in Camp de Mar in grass court tournament there for the old gated development is for sale at south-west Majorca. Start your visit London event. Encouraged by the local £532,800 through Engel & Völkers. in an oversize wooden chair by the authority, which is promoting high-qual- The comfortable home, owned by a bar with a sangria made with Cava, ity, low-density residential projects, British family, has underground parking before heading to the restaurant for these improvements are transforming and is near a large communal pool. prawns from Andratx, paella with this once rather workaday resort. There’s a terrace, a small private gar- squid ink and puddings made using “Santa Ponsa has come on more than den, air con and underfloor heating. On the finest lemons picked in Soller. any other area in the south-west,” says another gated development, the same The final nine of 35 newly Hans Lenz, managing director of prop- agent has a two-bedroom flat, built in completed two- and three-bedroom erty experts Engel & Völkers South- 2013, for £331,500. The 1,388sq ft home apartments at Torre de Camp de west. “It is quiet and green, only 15 is near Port Adriano, the golf courses Mar, overlooking AccanA and the minutes from Palma and has four golf and lovely El Toro beach. beach, are for sale from £520,000 courses and two marinas. It has a larger Taylor Wimpey España is selling through Engel & Völkers (+34 971 69 year-round population than Andratx three-bedroom townhouses with a 90 63; engelvoelkers.com/majorca). because of its good proximity to inter- communal pool from £473,600 at The development is split between national schools.” Marina Golf. The village is next to nine three-storey buildings, and the Cap Adriano is a development by Santa Ponsa’s golf courses and a mile homes benefit from underground British company the Bridgemere Group from Port Adriano. parking, direct beach access and a on what it bills as Majorca’s last sea- communal pool and gym. front plot. On completion next year O Engel & Völkers: engelvoelkers. Super south-west: the beach at Santa £707,500: a very private, 140-year old there will be 10 flats and nine villas, all com/majorca (+34 971 69 90 63) Ponsa, where a town makeover has furnished three-bedroom ﬁnca in the O AccanA Summer Club: with sea views over the Malgrat islands. O Taylor Wimpey España: taylor brought a fabulous new tennis centre charming village of Es Capdella in accanasummerclub.com These substantial, well-built homes wimpeyspain.com (08000 12 10 20) and a glamorous marina extension south-west Majorca (Engel & Völkers)

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◄ ELECTRIC LIPS is a lippy collage ◄ PERHAPS the most famous face in made and photographed by New York design is that of Lina Cavalieri, the artist Joanna McClure, which comes as Italian operatic soprano whose a limited-edition print in various sizes enigmatic features inspired countless from £120, at British online gallery drawings fashioned into products in lumitrix.com the last century by the Milanese artist Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988), including this Boca stool, which costs £800 from amara.com

▼ SPAIN pouts for London as the celebrated Salvador Dalí lips sofa arrives at the new Clerkenwell showroom of BD Barcelona Design. Made from tough rotationally moulded plastic, the sofa has a romantic pedigree. First it was part of a Thirties collage by Dalí, as the Surrealist artist depicted the face of Hollywood actress Mae West using wall paintings as eyes, a fireplace for her nose and the sofa in ▼ LUXURIOUSLY soft, the Bocca sofa by the shape of her rosebud lips. Italian furniture maker Gufram — now BD Barcelona Design co-founder celebrating its 50th anniversary — also Oscar Tusquets Blanca helped Dalí turn has that Dalí touch, in solid foam with a the painting into a room in 1972 for the removable stretch cover. It’s widely artist’s new museum in Spain. copied, but find the original in three Some 30 years later the sofa went colours, including one model with a into production, for indoors or out. piercing, priced £5,995 in the emporium Priced £2,131.20 at BD Barcelona of top brands that is Chaplins, 477-507 Design, 12-14 Berry Street, EC1 (07881 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, HA5 292 393; bdbarcelona.com). (chaplins.co.uk; 020 8421 1779). oudouudd m By Barbara Chandler

▲ A SLASH of red creates the lips in ▲ DESIGNED in Denmark and made in ▲ SO CUTE is the Kiss Kiss mug, ▲ JIMMIE MARTIN’S two-sided lips Picasso’s Head of a Woman cushion. Madagascar, this embroidered natural handmade in fine bone china in cushions cost £95 for the 45cm square, Priced £85, it’s 45cm square, from a raffia Fantasy shopping bag comes in Stoke-on-Trent and designed by a and £130 for the 60cm square. Find range at The Conran Shop, Fulham two sizes, priced £29.99 and £32.50 at Potteries local, Denise O’Sullivan. It’s them at the Jimmie Martin shop, Road, SW3 and Marylebone High St, W1 online store Cloudberry Living (0330 priced £15 (deniseosullivanceramics. 77 Kensington Church Street, W8 (020 (conranshop.co.uk; 0844 848 4000). 123 3301; cloudberryliving.co.uk). com; 01782 260320). 7938 1852; jimmiemartin.com). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 15 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Design | Homes & Property

▼► CONTEMPORARY home stuff from ◄ IN TIME for the South Africa is the speciality at wedding season, Porcupine Rocks, importer of these fun Sherrie Mead and Shine Shine Girl and Shine Shine Boy Jackie Jackson at trays. Priced £25 each (porcupine The Letteroom rocks.com; 07710 322558). will engrave any name up to 12 letters on waxed beechwood spoons for the inclusive price of £14.95 a pair. The spoons are 33cm long (theletteroom. com).

▲ KNITTED in Bolivia from alpaca wool as soft as cashmere, this 50cm x 50cm cushion is designed in Denmark and costs £96 with a feather-filled pad at Rume, a website for “strong interior statements” run by Richard and Libby Baker who aim “to banish beige forever”. Showroom at 54 Western Road, Hove, East Sussex (01273 777810; rume.co.uk). 18 WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design homesandproperty.co.uk powered by

Easy-squeezy: Gorgeous HILE learning about table is £1,600, from Saffar Crafts sculptural juicers glassware: left, new materials and (saffarcrafts.com). in a range from from Michèle processes, some of Elinor Portnoy, Oberdieck, with this year’s canny ■Over in Ceramics and Glass, priced from £450 prices from £450 Royal College of Art products for food are top of the to £1,200 to £1,100 graduatesW also made a point of agenda. Manos Kalamenios used to mastering the art of marketing. be a chef at the Four Seasons in Realising that the products they Canary Wharf, and since studying design will be of no use to anyone if ceramics he has produced several they don’t actually get made and tableware series, including a project bought, a number already have their with the Michelin-star Lima work in production. restaurant in Fitzrovia. His pieces start at £40. Christina Liu, a former ■ Keren Hu from China, a graduate businesswoman with a passion for in the Design Products department, food makes pieces especially for turns his attention to the appearance chefs, including for the Kitchen Table and multi-functionality of small restaurant in Fitzrovia. Her appliances for homes with limited tableware starts from £25 for small spaces. “We need products that serve bowls to £60 for larger plates, and the way we live,” he says. His Teawith teapots from £120. Both makers are — a Scandi-looking electric kettle — supplying specially made tableware sits on its own heating stand, but can for the Tate Modern extension. be used as a teapot as well as a kettle. One-pot wonder: It’s already on sale in China and will ■ Elinor Portnoy uses glass to Design Products be available here shortly, priced £50- make sculptural lemon squeezers, graduate Keren Hu’s £80. Keren is putting the finishing ice cream-coloured containers and free-standing touches to a free-standing one-pot covered dishes in her own version of cooker, right, will be cooker — a removable cast-iron pot pâte de verre. Prices from £450. priced about £200 on an induction plate with 80 heat Colour and pattern also preoccupy settings. It will also be in production Michèle Oberdieck. A former textile soon. Expect to pay about £200. designer, her subtly coloured vases and vessels, from £450, have a ■ Clea Jentsch’s solution to limited painterly feel. cooking and storage space is MEaltime, incorporating a variety of HERE is a similar handling Art of marketing serves-one stackable plates, dishes, of colour in the textiles bowls and a board. department. Chloe Frost Food and drink is the stimulus weaves modernist-feel Corinne Julius reveals work from new RCA behind the projects of many other tapestries from merino graduates, including Jane Kim, who Twool with a mixture of silk, cotton graduates on the road to commercial success produced a range of drinking glasses and Lurex detailing. Tapestries start called simply Glasses for Water. A set from £1,500 — and to commission. Thinking in 3D: of four crystal tumblers is £75, with a Making 3D textiles is a trend this innovative crystal carafe at £35. year. Claire Hunsinger weaves textiles by Claire muted 3D fabrics in copper wire and Hunsinger, left ■ Kawther Alsaffar’s brass and silk, and textured yarn that can be and Kim Norrie, recycled bowls are also for food, but manipulated into different shapes. right her motivation derives from her wish From £600. to ensure that traditional Middle Grace Gallagher’s approach to 3D Eastern skills are preserved. This is to cut into paper and leather and resourceful young woman persuaded scrape off the surface, or to CNC-mill traditional craftsmen in Kuwait to Corian to make screens and tables work with her to make contemporary with striking geometric 3D patterns, takes on classic vessels. These with prices from £950. include interesting combination Kim Norrie is also keen on 3D, metal pieces as well as a glass-topped making huggable cushions, poufs metal table. Bowls start at £300, and big, soft strokable blankets. coasters are from £37.60, and the Cushions from £125, poufs £1,200.

Fabulous fabric: See the work at two free RCA graduate shows: one, covering design above, from and communication, is at Kensington Gore, SW7, the other, in Howie Street, designer Crimson Battersea SW11, covers textiles, glass, ceramics and metals. Both run from Rose O’Shea Sunday to July 3 (closed July 1), noon to 8pm. Visit rca.ac.uk/show2016

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Hottest pots: handsome Pattie vessels from Barron South African company Indigenus look fabulous with or without plants ONTEMPORARY garden fair GROW London, which runs from this Friday to Sunday on Hampstead Heath, is Indoor aviary: where horticulture meets bring songbirds Ccutting-edge design. into your home This is the place to order the ultimate with Lorna urban shed, pick up the secateurs used Syson’s cushions by the pros, take home a heavenly rose and lampshades bush in full bloom and even enjoy a jasmine facial at the Serenity Garden Spa, designed by Matthew Wilson, the winner of the People’s Choice award at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Two new sections of the fair, GROW Gourmet and GROW Living, offer the best of artisan food and drink as well as innovative merchandise for the home from emerging designers and craft makers. 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The big idea: Elizabeth Ashley, left, based her glass extension on one she spotted in a magazine

Entertaining space: complete with sleek white island, right, the basement kitchen-diner is full of light

As if by magic: the striking chandelier that lights the glass box appears to dangle from the sky, centre right

Photographs: : Charles Hosea and James Balston Clearly, we love our gorgeous LANNERS don’t often make throughout in Laura Ashley. In 1994, A dramatic glass extension transformed this than horizontally. But such major struc- people put more glass into a after she qualified as a doctor, she tural changes had to wait two years while glass box, especially in a con- bought a mansion flat in Barons Court Chiswick terrace. Philippa Stockley meets they raised funds. “My husband is more servation area. But it happened and decorated that in sisal and taupe. risk averse.” Then in spring 2012, Ashley to Elizabeth Ashley, a consult- She met Bracey in 1995 and they bought the Barts medic who made the dream a reality visited friends who had done up their Pant anaesthetist at Barts, and her husband a small Victorian terrace house in Ful- home. They recommended Cross Harris Brendan Bracey, 59, also a consultant, ham: “I Farrow & Balled that one, and Architects, the young central London when they put a bold, double-height glass sold it.” It had a half-basement and three floors and a small, quarry-tiled kitchen at the practice they’d used. extension on the back of their four-storey Their next buy was a Seventies modern above. The roomy upper levels were well back, with dull units and a butler sink. It Ashley went round with her glass box 1900s terrace house in Chiswick. cube in Chiswick, designed by Michael decorated, with new shutters, parquet was dark and damp. “But the moment I picture and Dan Harris produced the It isn’t the first time that Ashley, 50, has Manser. “The morning we moved in, I floors and bathrooms, all of which they walked in, I wanted it,” Ashley declares. drawings that went to the planners. made home improvements: “I love doing hated it.” Nevertheless, Ashley worked kept. The owners were keen to sell, and a deal In that first version, the wall of the box it — my husband goes along with me — her magic, putting in a long vertical win- was done. facing the neighbours was brick, and it and I’m a big fan of Elle Deco.” She adds dow and cherry wood floors with a glass BANISHING THE GLOOM Ashley had big plans to open up the had a solid top, to help with privacy. that her father is one of those people section. The basement, however, leading through basement and add a dramatic double- Surprisingly, the planners demanded a who can make anything, so she grew up The couple married in 2007 and two tired French windows to a patio and height glass extension. She’d saved a glass top and glass side, to give their in his can-do, positive aura. years later Ashley spotted a big house mature walled garden, had a Seventies picture from a magazine of one with an neighbours more light. This makes the She bought her first home, in Birming- for sale through Foxtons. On the market style and felt like servants’ quarters. Off unusual guillotine window that had three design much more radical, creating, as ham, when she was 19 and did it up at £2 million, this was a house to stay in. a long hall led a gloomy diner at the front vast panels which slid vertically, rather near as possible, a genuine, nearly invis-

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glass box ible glass box, in which a massive Flos upstairs — though they say they aren’t chandelier appears to dangle from the sure they would do that again. This sky. Viewing the chandelier from the major, soaring transformation is so first-floor drawing room window, at eye delightful to be in that you wonder how level, is even more dramatic — and all they felt when they first saw it finished. the more wonderful for being so unex- But, as Ashley says, they had watched its pected. progress day by day, so got used to the drama. Even so, “when the builders N THE other side of the box, finally hung my bubble chair — then I a glass balustrade opens was excited.” into a modest new brick side extension, which holds WHAT IT COST a utility room below and an The house was £1.5 million in 2009, the officeO above. Groovy pocket doors were work cost £500,000 and the property is added to divide front and back, plus a now worth an estimated £3.8 million. sleek white kitchen and island and a new bathroom, making the basement a GET THE LOOK tremendous space for entertaining. O Architect: Dan Harris (crossharris. The old dining room is now a Barbarella- com) fantasy sitting room, with a hanging O Builder: m-kellybuilders.co.uk bubble chair and a cowskin cube. Ashley’s O Guillotine rear windows: vitrocsa.ch mother helped with small style touches, O Kitchen: mcstone.co.uk covering cushions in Marimekko cloth, O Eero Aarnio genuine acrylic Bubble and grey ceramic floor tiles run through Chair: Adelte.de the whole space. O Gino Sarfatti chandelier: flos.com Not a single neighbour objected to their O Most lighting: artemide.com plans. Building began in July 2013 and O Pieni Unikko 2 fabric on seat was completed in summer 2014. Despite cushion: marimekko.com their high-pressure jobs, the couple sur- O White paint in basement: specially vived with a fridge and microwave mixed by the architect Delightfully different: the vast, unusual guillotine rear windows of the extension slide vertically, rather than horizontally

A bit of Barbarella: bubble chair and cowskin cube in the grey-and-white sitting room Luxurious touch: a bath with a view in a cool, white bedroom Kick back: the relaxing, contemporary palette lends continuity LIGHT FANTASTIC

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BEAUTIFUL park, a busy North development at the junction of transport hub, a well- Fonthill Road — the fashion shop street known fashion street plus — and Wells Terrace. Work starts next a modern and successful month on this mixed-use scheme with theatre have been key to new flats, shops, restaurants and a cin- FinsburyA Park’s transformation. ema, arranged in a series of four build- This north London neighbourhood ings including two tower blocks. was long eclipsed by its better-heeled Estate agent Tim Morris, from local neighbours — Stroud Green to the firm Michael Morris, says the area has north, Stoke Newington to the east and improved hugely in recent years. “We Highbury to the south — and by its have some of the best transport links in association with Finsbury Park Mosque London but people are coming to live where hook-handed radical Muslim here now because it is becoming a hip cleric Abu Hamza once held sway. place to hang out, with new bars and Now though, regeneration around the cafés opening on a regular basis.” station has brought a New York warehouse-style headquarters for John Jones, 400 new flats in Sketch House for stu- £5 million revamp: historic Finsbury Showtime: Melli Bond, creative director and co-founder of the country’s largest fine art framer and dents at the University of the Arts Lon- Park had a Heritage Lottery Fund the Park Theatre in Clifton Terrace, which is three years old art care and conservation company, and don. Next up is the long-delayed City makeover

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FINSBURY PARK has roads of Victorian duplexes and penthouses. Prices in terrace houses, most commonly three- phase one range from £475,000 to storey with a bow-fronted ground floor. £775,000. Call 020 8800 9291. These make four- and five-bedroom family homes, although most have ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES been split into maisonettes and flats. Genesis Housing Association, along There are also estates of social hous- with Hackney council, is providing ing, the largest being Woodberry affordable homes at the Woodberry Down, halfway between Finsbury Park Down regeneration project, and is and Manor House, overlooking the East about to launch the next phase of and West Reservoirs. The estate is cur- shared-ownership properties. Call 033 rently being knocked down and rebuilt 3000 5000. Help to Buy will be avail- in a joint venture between Berkeley Pretty terrace: Charteris Road boasts able at Clissold Quarter from Septem- Group, Hackney council and Genesis well-maintained period properties ber (as before). Housing Association. When the project completes in 2031, nearly 2,000 coun- Telford Homes and Business Design ■ WHO RENTS HERE? cil homes will have been replaced by Centre Group, is a mixed-use develop- Excellent transport links make Finsbury 5,500 new homes, with 41 per cent for ment in four buildings ranging from Park popular with young renters who social rent or shared ownership. four to 23 storeys and containing 355 work in the West End or the City. Let- studios, one-, two-, three- and four- tings manager Claudia Monticello, of ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES bedroom flats and duplexes, plus estate agents Michael Morris, says: “We At Woodberry Down Berkeley Homes shops, restaurants and a new entrance get a mix of sharers, singles and couples. is selling one-, two- and three-bedroom to Finsbury Park station. The first A lot of our landlords are owners who flats and penthouses in the 30-storey residents will move in during summer are now working abroad, or who have Skyline tower, and at The Park Col- 2019 and completion is due a year later moved in the UK but kept their home lection. Skyline prices range from (telfordhomes.london/city-north). as a rental investment.” £945,000 to £1,345,000 and The Park Clissold Quarter in Green Lanes on Collection prices are from £1,042,500 the north-west corner of Clissold Park A hot favourite: Ed Yarnton, right, to £1.45 million. Call 020 8985 9918. is a Higgins Homes development of 158 manages Blighty Coffee, which serves Bustling: Stroud Green Road’s full of shops and restaurants City North, a joint venture between one-, two- and three-bedroom flats, beans from the Commonwealth

£664,995 £1.2 MILLION £400,000 £895,950 DUPLEX flat with three bedrooms in a Victorian THIS three-bedroom house in Wyatt Road, close to IN TREE-LINED Riversdale Road, this one-bedroom SPLIT-LEVEL three-bedroom Victorian conversion terrace in Moray Road, near Finsbury Park and Finsbury Park Tube station, has a west-facing 35ft flat has a modern feel throughout and an open- flat in Riversdale Road, with oak floors and a Stroud Green. Sellmyhome (020 3324 9217). rear garden. Hotblack Desiato (020 8012 4357). plan kitchen/reception. Portico (020 8012 6056). decked roof terrace. Tepilo (01702 744264). To find a home in Finsbury Park, visit rightmove.co.uk For more about Finsbury Park, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/finsburypark EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 31 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

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BUYING IN FINSBURY PARK (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £435,000 Two-bedroom flat £570,000 Two-bedroom house £719,000 Three-bedroom house £878,000 Four-bedroom house £1.26 million

RENTING IN FINSBURY PARK (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,393 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,711 a month Two-bedroom house £1,840 a month Three-bedroom house £2,663 a month Four-bedroom house £3,000 a month Source: Rightmove

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O Use our School Checker to find catchment areas and inspection reports for local schools O The best Finsbury Park shops and restaurants O Local arts, leisure and sport facilities O The best streets in Finsbury Park — and the up-and-coming areas to watch O Finsbury Park’s wealth of open space, including wetlands

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Pizza the action: Dan Spinney, Nick Buckland and Johnny Little goldmines: the area’s Victorian Specialist tailors: Munever Ibraham, Tate co-own the new Yard Sale Pizza in Blackstock Road terraces make perfect “doer-uppers” owner of Image in Fonthill Road

HAVE YOUR SAY: FINSBURY PARK LOCALS TWEET THEIR TIPS ON THE Underground, the rail network and with plenty of bus @yingleymak services, Finsbury Park is a busy Thehappeningbagelbakery.co.uk — transport hub. The station is on the best bagels in London Piccadilly and Victoria Tube lines for @notcharlie travel to the West End, and there are Park Theatre, La Fabrica and Max’s trains to King’s Cross and Moorgate Sandwich Shop are all my favourites. for the City. From 2018 Thameslink Could be more Stroud Green trains will connect Finsbury Park with though... Blackfriars. @hautepop Twelve bus services with useful Furtherfield Gallery in the park — destinations either pass through @furtherfield Finsbury Park or start there, @FruitionProp including the No 29 to Trafalgar Dotori, superb Korean restaurant Square, the No 19 to Knightsbridge @londoneating and Sloane Square, the No 4 to We like Dotori, @LaFabricaTapas, Waterloo, the 153 to Moorgate, and @lunchluncheon, @WBYeatsN4, the 236 to Dalston and Hackney Wick. @SINDALSTON & newcomer Best of taste: Bekim Koraci and Isaac @YardSalePizza Cohen of The Happening Bagel Bakery Photographs Daniel Lynch Cafés and culture: Clifton Terrace, where Park Theatre shows get rave reviews 36 WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Letting on

COUPLE of landlords, who are challenging the Government’s plan to replace mortgage interest Tax landlords tax relief for private buy- to-letA investors with a less-generous tax credit, need the rest of us to chip in to support their campaign. They argue the move will lead to and it’s tenants higher rents, and they’ve brought in the big guns in the shape of former prime minister Tony Blair’s missus, Cherie Blair MBE QC — who also happens to be one of the most famous who will suffer landlords in Britain — to fight our corner. They need to raise £250,000 Victoria Whitlock says the Chancellor’s to pay for the Judicial Review of Clause 24 of the Finance Act 2015, bid to hit private landlords in the pocket will due to be phased in from next April. From then on, landlords won’t be only worsen the misery of rocketing rents able to offset their mortgage interest payments from their rental income. solution that is not only unfair to Instead, they’ll be given a tax credit, The private landlords but might also hurt which will gradually be reduced to their tenants. By continuing to allow the basic rate of tax. tax relief on mortgage interest for Taxing landlords on their income accidental companies that own rental accom- £450 a week: a large, open-plan apartment with three bedrooms in a ﬁne rather than their profit means that modation, he has created an uneven Victorian industrial conversion in Marlborough Road, Royal Arsenal, SE18, is many who are currently lower-rate landlord playing field that significantly available to rent through London Stone Properties (020 8012 2783). taxpayers, myself included, will be benefits institutional investors at the bumped into a higher tax bracket expense of private landlords. and, when interest rates rise, we The recent boom in buy-to-let has tax relief. They are not more “profes- private landlords will be contributing could end up paying tax on a loss. added fuel to house price inflation, HE message from the Chan- sional” than me — so how is it fair that an estimated £1 billion a year more to The legal challenge has yet to come so the Government says it is trying to cellor is clear. He would I should pay more tax? the Treasury by 2021, but spare a before a judge — the courts are “very make property a less attractive prefer the rental market to I have a friend who is a finance thought for their tenants, many of busy”, according to Mrs Blair — so we investment to stop landlords be controlled by large “pro- director, so he is much more savvy whom face rent increases to cover don’t yet know what chance it has of competing with young people and fessional” investors, rather than me when it comes to money their landlords’ higher tax bills. succeeding, but if it fails, it could be families for homes. However, it Tthan thousands of individual, part-time matters. Naturally, before he started That’s why some are calling this a the beginning of the end for many of doesn’t want to tax all landlords out landlords with one or two properties snapping up rental properties as a tenant tax. us small-time investors. of existence because there is, and each. However, there are lots of part- sideline, he set up a limited company I can see how the Government is always will be, a need for rental time landlords with one or two incor- for his investments, so now he will O Victoria Whitlock lets four caught between a rock and a hard accommodation. porated properties, which they run continue to get tax relief on his properties in south London. place when considering the disaster So Chancellor George Osborne has alongside their other businesses, who mortgage interest, but I won’t. I am To contact Victoria with your ideas that is the British housing market. come up with a dog’s dinner of a will continue to be eligible for interest sure many people are delighted and views, tweet @vicwhitlock

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BREXIT or not tomorrow, the best of British is being celebrated at One Tower Bridge, a new development Start alongside City Hall by the Thames. your A show flat displaying top British Live in the design brands has been unveiled. Its property three bedrooms have wallpaper and fabrics by Burberry, Paul Smith and search Alexander McQueen, the open-plan at hippest postcode kitchen/living space has Savile Row- tailored soft furnishings in leather AW, artistic and still Docklands. It’s a disjointed area, and silk, and an Aston Martin- resisting gentrification, however, so the local council aims to influenced cinema room boasts Deptford has usurped unite the high street and railway bespoke cabinetry and a cocktail bar. Dalston as the capital’s station with the riverfront by Duchess Walk, a new street lined hippest postcode. It has a providing pedestrian-friendly flows with shops, cafés and restaurants, Rcreative vibe that ripples out from across Evelyn Street to Deptford 1,132 new homes. This mix of flats cuts through the 376-home scheme, Goldsmiths college, a historic Strand, site of Henry VIII’s royal and houses will have a new public which also includes a new 900-seat waterfront and a high street that is dockyard and for decades a strip of square, and a linear park along the theatre and luxury hotel in a listed rapidly improving. derelict wharves and factory sheds. route of the former Grand Surrey former school. From £1,475,000. Call It also has enviably quick transport The Timberyard Deptford is a Canal. Prices from £432,000. Call Berkeley Homes on 020 7871 0011. connections to central London and new Evelyn Street neighbourhood of 020 3815 9000. Nearby Deptford EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 45 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property

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FOR most young Londoners landscaped grounds plus a range from £850,000 to wi-fi is as important as hot podium business lounge with £3.1 million. Call 020 3040 water. Developers are work benches and a private 6250. responding to the needs of the screening room for Two Fifty One Southwark internet generation by presentations. Bridge Road is another digital providing digital connectivity Designed by architect Foster scheme. Near Borough in new homes and the + Partners, the development’s Market, this 41-storey tower communal spaces that two towers are set at an angle has 335 flats and high-speed surround them, allowing to maximise views of London fibre optics plus a “Get residents to work remotely landmarks, from Wembley Connected” wi-fi-enabled inside and outside. Arch to the Gherkin, and are business and homeworking At 250 City Road, a new subtly lit internally. lounge — a relaxed refectory- Foundry also opens up and through for better access to the wider quarter of 933 homes, a hotel, The scheme also boasts a type space at the base of the transforms former industrial land, area. The 316 homes are spread offices and shops just 10 rooftop gym and sky garden, building alongside a private while its architecture makes a virtue across eight blocks, one with 70 minutes’ walk from indoor pool and spa and 24- cinema, club room, gym and of the gritty urban setting alongside a studio spaces for artists. Shoreditch’s Tech City, there hour concierge. Flats come café. Prices start at £655,000. railway viaduct. A new central street Prices start from £345,000. Call are two acres of wi-fi-enabled with winter gardens and prices Call 020 3468 9251. is being created and arches punched 020 7526 9229.