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Wednesday 9 April 2014 Styled up Homes& for summer John Lewis celebrates its 150th birthday Property Page 28 NEW HOMES ON THE RIVER P4 GETTING EBBSFLEET RIGHT P6 SECRETS OF SHADY GARDENING P29 SPOTLIGHT ON HARROW P34 Get the lads round The Feeling frontman’s Hackney home Page 26 THOMAS OXLEY London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 2 WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: Richard Rogers plans to build Property Lego-style homes in Stratford search Simple: homes will be built off-site then London buy of the week slotted together “Lego-style” on Scandi with wood is good land owned by Newham council £775,000: in a quiet SE17 mews, close to Kennington Tube, reinvention has taken place. A bright, Scandi-style home with two double bedrooms, including one en suite, has been created out of what was once a rather gloomy ARCHITECT Richard Rogers has designed “pod” homes house. Now it has an open-plan living space with walls clad for low-cost private renting in east London, aimed at in pale wood, plus a kitchen area of brilliant white gloss easing the capital’s housing shortage. The 36 two- cabinets, lit by skylights. There’s also a secluded courtyard bedroom flats will be built off-site and then transported garden to enjoy. Through KFH. to Newham, which has a housing waiting list of 24,000. The homes will slot together Lego-style into low-rise O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/buyoftheweekken blocks in Stratford, and it is hoped the first residents can move in by the end of the year. The project is a joint initiative between Newham council, which owns the land, and “starchitect” Lord Rogers, whose credits include the Out of town buy of the week sweet British Museum’s courtyard enclosure and Terminal 5 at Heathrow. 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Enjoy alcohol responsibly (drinkaware.co.uk) EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL 2014 3 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property Robbie lands £4.2m An inspiration sale after two years for Wayne’s É ROBBIE WILLIAMS has sold three acres of undeveloped land in Beverly fancy footwork Hills to venture capitalist Eddy Aslanian for £4.2 million. É THE Royal Ballet will showcase a The singer, right, put the California piece based on the works of Virginia plot — in upmarket Mulholland Woolf in its 2014/15 season at Covent Estates, where Christina Aguilera, Garden. The first full-length ballet Paris Hilton and Charlie Sheen own for the company by resident homes — on the market at £5.1 million choreographer Wayne McGregor, two years ago but finally found his right, it will be partly based on the buyer after dropping the price. novel Mrs Dalloway. Williams last year bought late film With the location entirely in and director Michael Winner’s Holland around Westminster, set designers Park mansion for £17.5 million to live could draw inspiration from a period in with actress wife Ayda Field and townhouse for sale in Wilfred Street. their toddler daughter Teddy. Touring The three-bedroom home, far right, in Europe, he comes to the O2 in July. AP listed with Hathaways for £2.5 million, is conveniently located next to popular small Georgian Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews pub The Cask and Glass, and is a fine example of traditional features blending with modern design. McGregor and his team willThis no doubt is strive the to fuse classic and cutting-edge in their highly REBECCA REID REBECCA anticipatedheadline production. that O For more celebrity news, OgoesHomesandproperty.co.uk/wilfred like this visit homesandproperty.co.uk/ celebrityhomes By Amira Hashish This Islington square gets Streep’s vote The neighbour’s a treasure. it’s Woburn ÉMERYL STREEP, right, has been ÉWOBURN ABBEY in Bedfordshire, leading a rally on Myddelton Square one of England’s 10 finest historic in Islington, fighting for women’s Treasure Houses, is a popular setting right to vote alongside British actress for TV shows including MasterChef Carey Mulligan. and Escape to the Country. The A-listers were in town to film With the First World War centenary Suffragette, starring Streep as this year, Woburn is commemorating Emmeline Pankhurst and Mulligan as its role with an exhibition, Valiant a fictional “foot soldier of the Hearts. Opening on Friday, it includes movement” called Maud. Film tributes to the 11th Duchess of Bedford location manager Harriet Lawrence who turned the house into a military said: “Myddelton Square had the hospital and nursed the injured. right historic look.” If you’d like a Be a stately neighbour by buying piece of the film action, No 59, right, this four-bedroom Woburn Georgian one of two beautifully restored townhouse, for sale at £680,000 with Georgian gems in the square, is for Jackson-Stops & Staff. Tastefully sale at £4.25 million with joint selling renovated, it has a roof terrace and a agents Knight Frank and Savills. circular domed skylight, and is just a 30-minute train journey away from O See homesandproperty.co.uk/mydd London Euston. 4 WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with Boris is backing the new riversiders AYOR Boris Johnson has intervened to end squabbles over plans for new homes along the Thames. He is to use Mspecial powers to bypass local councils when he thinks they are taking far too long to approve new riverfront devel- opments. Many planning experts believe that With today’s buyers clamouring for homes beside the Thames, the Mayor’s lighting a fire under council David Spittles planners, says ALAMY the many acres of derelict land on the land was blighted by ugly industrial waterside park and new pier for the Masterplan: riverbank could go a long way towards sheds blocking off access to the river, river taxi service.