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Wednesday 14 March 2018 PETER RABBIT The star of home interiors: Page 14 FIRST-TIME BUYERS AREA WATCH: CAMDEN GUIDE TO RECYCLING SPOTLIGHT ON MAIDA VALE A chance to live in a Zone 2 hotspot Canalside homes We sort out the plastic confusion Stucco homes and painted barges Page 9 Page 10 Page 13 Page 30 Great teamwork How neighbours transformed their street: Page 6 JULIET MURPHY JULIET 4 WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | News THIS WEEK IN... Propertys search ‘A street transformed and recycle your plastic’ Life changer Janice of the week Morley your guests in an eco-pod EDITOR £500,000: this character cottage HOMES & PROPERTY is used to talking in Bethersden, Kent, is set in Trophy home of the week total stunner in Surrey about redesigns but they are not normally lovely gardens that contain an innovative Armadilla “eco-pod”, £6.95 million: on the exclusive Crown Estate in Oxshott, Surrey, Belgrave House has views over our own. This week we’re pleased to be already doing a roaring trade as Prince’s Coverts woodland, with its hundreds of acres perfect for jogging, walking and riding. part of the Evening Standard’s fabulous an Airbnb holiday let. Designed to impress, the mansion showcases light, space and rich materials across four floors. A new look. H&P’s aim is always to be The pod has a neat little cavernous entrance hall with double-height ceilings and marble floors leads to several reception kitchen, a double bed and shower rooms including a library, dining room and drawing room, laid with dark wood floors to contrast innovative so we are excited by this week’s room, while the Grade II-listed with pristine white décor. There’s more wow factor in the kitchen and family room, framed by feature on a community that transformed cottage boasts a mass of exposed sliding glass walls to the gardens, outdoor pool and fields beyond, while the lower floor is home to beams, bespoke oak joinery a cinema room, bar, wine cellar and gym. Seven luxe bedroom suites are upstairs and there are a street, adding a new floor to every home: throughout and an inviting wood also staff quarters above a garage that’s fit for supercars. Through Savills (020 8012 3130). enough new space to house an elderly burner in the sitting room. There parent or a twentysomething. The launch are three bedrooms, a wet room and bathroom, and Ashford London buy of the week high-spec W9 on Friday of the film Peter Rabbit has International station nearby has given our design guru Barbara Chandler fast trains to London and the flat with a patio garden for cocktail parties the chance to make him an interiors star, Continent. Through Jackson- Stops (01580 471012). too (Page 14). And don’t miss Helen Bird’s £525,000: Elgin Avenue, Westbourne top tips on recycling (Page 13). She tells us Park is the prime W9 location of this smart new collection of flats. Our why plastic is not easy to recycle but is far choice, on the ground floor, feels too precious to waste. fabulously spacious and light thanks to big picture windows and sliding glass VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our doors that lead out from the open-plan usual promotion rules. When you respond to promotions, living/kitchen/dining areas and sleek offers or competitions, the Evening Standard and its double bedroom to a decent-size patio sister companies may contact you with relevant offers garden — perfect for summer cocktail and services that may be of interest. Please give your parties. mobile number and/or email address if you would like to Solid wood floors, bespoke glass receive such offers by text or email. worktops, glossy cabinetry, a wine cooler and energy-efficient lighting are Editorial: 020 3615 2650 among high-spec details, along with a Advertisement manager: Ann Finan spa-style porcelain-tiled bathroom. Advertising: 020 3615 0538 Through Hamptons (020 3324 1600). Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT. News: Record £1bn handed out in Help to Buy London NEW breed of “five per equity loans handed out in London in centers” is taking over the that period. However, the £600,000 new homes market in parts price cap means much of central Lon- of London, according to a don is too expensive to qualify, while study published today. Using there has been resistance from some Athe Government’s subsidised Help to housebuilders concerned about “cheap- Buy London scheme and a five per cent ening” their brand by adopting the deposit to get on the ladder, these scheme. Nevertheless, the slowing buyers are now responsible for more market since 2014 has forced some than half of all new homes sales in a developers to begin offering Help to halo of postcodes around the capital. Buy after struggling to sell. West Wickham, near Croydon, leads David Fell of Hamptons, author of the the way, with 85 per cent of new homes Rainham in Havering, where 71 per cent £379,950: two- report, says Help to Buy has been slow sold in the last two years going to buyers of new homes were bought under the bedroom flats are to impact the capital. “Londoners are bolstered by a 40 per cent government scheme and prices are up 23 per cent. available with less than half as likely to use it as some- equity loan. The average price of a new Most top 10 Help to Buy locations are Help to Buy at one buying a new home almost any- home in the BR4 postcode is £421,000, in the outer suburbs, including Edmon- Rivermill Lofts, where else in England.” Help to Buy is up 14 per cent in two years. ton in north London, Erith in the east, Abbey Road, typically offered in less-affluent neigh- Other Help to Buy hotspots identified Peckham in south London, and Feltham Barking through bourhoods, on big regeneration in the Hamptons International study and Southall in west London. The fig- Ernest-Brooks schemes or to sell the final few homes include Becontree in Barking & Dagen- ures show that after almost five years (020 8115 8214 ) in a development, adds Fell. ham, where Help to Buy London was the flagship scheme to assist first-time used in 79 per cent of all new homes buyers is finally penetrating the capital, ⬤ Read Ruth Bloomfield’s story in full sales and prices rose 27 per cent, and with more than £1 billion in Help to Buy at homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH 2018 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes Property Follow the yellow brick house Making ACTRESS Emma Roberts, inset, has spent £2.8 million millions on a Mediterranean-style villa in the laid-back hillside enclave of Los Feliz in LA. Spread across three does not floors, the yellow brick three-bedroom house, right, is the stuff of dreams for one of the please movie scene’s coolest young stars. Set in tropical gardens, it has walnut everyone KING HAMILTON wood floors, a skylight-topped lobby, a beautiful fireplace and French doors JAMIE THEAKSTON has won planning 30 years, says building work which lead on to a terrace. Of course, permission to build a four-bedroom may force him to move out. there is a pool and outdoor bar house in the garden of his Chiswick Heart Breakfast radio area, too. The American Horror mansion, much to the distress of his host Theakston, above, Story star is very much at neighbour Michael Attenborough, son will be obliged to home in Hollywood. Her of the late film director Richard. ensure the design aunt is Pretty Woman star The new house could be worth up to “preserves the Julia Roberts and her dad £2.5 million but theatre director character” of the is film actor Eric Michael, who has lived next door for conservation area. Homes Roberts. gossip By Amira Hashish Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews GETTY Cool café is made in Chelsea Lovegrove doesn’t do things by halves FROM style icon Millie Mackintosh, left, and Hot fiancé Hugo Taylor to Tatler cover girl Lady INDUSTRIAL designer Ross spot Sabrina Percy, Chelsea’s finest are flocking to Lovegrove is selling his Notting Hill the new Farm Girl Café just off Fulham Road, the home, right, for £9.5 million through third London branch of the healthy-eating The Modern House — a whopping restaurant run by Rose Mann. With showbiz fans £2.5 million less than he was asking including pop heart-throb Harry Styles and film actors in 2015. It also serves as his studio, workspace. As well as an expansive Margot Robbie, far left, and Jamie Dornan, no wonder and it’s where Lovegrove helped studio, there is a three-bedroom Mann is already seeking more premises. create the Sony Walkman, Apple home of 5,400sq ft over four floors. This 90-seater in Park Walk is the biggest and most computers and the Renault concept The property showcases Lovegrove’s beautiful so far, with interiors by Beata Heuman, and Benoit car he’s seen with, above. The experimental and industrial Marmoiton, the Beckhams’ ex-private cook, behind the striking building in a cobbled mews is architectural work, including a GETTY menu. Book a table at thefarmgirl.co.uk on the site of David Hockney’s first dramatic white-gloss spiral staircase. 6 WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes pioneers homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Use your imagination A pioneering idea by one London street is being followed by new ways to solve the housing shortage across the city, says Lee Mallett GROUP of 12 north London day after the PM had spoken, offers homeowners got together encouragement to local authorities to Looking for a and persuaded Camden “promote regeneration and change” in FORESTDALE TODAY council to let them build a addition to maintaining an area’s pre- home that offers one-storey roof extension on vailing character.

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