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Keep the Olympic torch burning Thousands of new London homes for sports lovers Page 6 GETTY London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News stop press: , GETTY Happy days: tenants are in a position to haggle over price Trophy home of the week get your tan in Ealing with four sun terraces £2,799,950: the Dickens Yard opens to a huge decked terrace. development is transforming Ealing Plush living/dining areas, a bespoke Rents fall as with new piazzas to encourage kitchen, and heated marble walls markets and street theatre, jazz and floors in the three bathrooms cafés, restaurants, boutiques and are among extravagant treats. sleek new homes like this three- Hotel-style extras include 24-hour homes to let bedroom penthouse on the ninth concierge, underground parking and and 10th floors of Vista a residents’ spa and fitness suite. Lifechanger of the week Apartments. Completion date is 2018. Contact It has four sun terraces plus a developer St George (020 8012 flood market holiday barns for Tudor buffs fabulous rooftop sun room that 0712). £1 million: this double-fronted ENTS are falling 8,800 to 14,000, was partly village house in Haslingfield, for the first time due to the stamp duty rise on Cambridgeshire, presents an London buy of the week light, airy since the 2008 buy-to-let homes, which attractive package should you wish warehouse flat for Thames beach baby financial crash, came into force in April. to run a B&B or convert its large giving tenants Would-be landlords rushed barn and charming chapel into £500,000: Odessa Rmore choice and the chance their purchases through to holiday lets. Wharf in SE16, an early to haggle. beat the deadline, resulting The house itself has five 19th-century grain New figures from agents in the short-term influx. bedrooms, four reception rooms store/warehouse Countrywide show the aver- Nik Madan, group lettings with open fires and bay windows, conversion, faces “the age paid for a newly let home development director of and a mass of family space in a beach” on the Thames, in London fell last month, to Connells and president of the generous kitchen/breakfast room with striking views to £1,280 a month — but rents Association of Residential with lovely old brick floors. A Canary Wharf and of are still far too high in rela- Letting Agents, believes garden room enjoys views over lush London’s riverside tion to young workers’ pay. Brexit is also playing a part, lawns with colourful borders, and landmarks, easily The fall was triggered by a with owners deciding to rent there’s a large sun terrace — reached via river taxi. flood of new rental homes to homes out rather than sell, perfect for summer barbecues. The lofty layout of the market, with 33 per cent until the sales market stabi- Tudor buffs might love that this flat within includes more properties to let in the lises and house prices rise. Haslingfield was favoured by a 19ft reception/ capital last month than there More “build to rent” devel- Elizabeth I in 1538 when she stayed dining/kitchen area, all generous bedroom and living area for taking were 12 months before, sub- opments are also springing the night at the manor and lost a light and airy thanks to bathroom, concierge, the air over a relaxing stantially improving tenants’ up. “Landlords are accepting valuable ring in the moat. Ring white walls, wood and a huge communal after-work drink. It’s options. This increase in offers,” says Madan. “It’s a hunts still take place to this day. By Faye floors and glass doors roof terrace complete for sale with Savills available properties, from great time to rent.” Through Cheffins (01223 787058). Greenslade to a balcony. There’s a with a kitchen and (020 8012 3123).
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Keep up with Kylie Kardashian It’s heaven to be near Nigella É ANOTHER couple of May. She plans to É THE former home of married. Luxe-modern months, another luxury turn the new house wartime Tory PM Neville interiors, above, lie behind home for reality TV’s into a base for her Chamberlain is for sale. the period façade of the Kardashian clan. Youngest Kylie Cosmetics The three-bedroom blue plaque flat, with a sister Kylie Jenner, 19, right, business. She also owns a penthouse in sought-after “heaven-themed” master
REX has bought a £3.4 million place in Calabasas, LA, Eaton Square, Belgravia, suite, a contemporary house, above, in four acres close to other Keeping Up neighbours the property kitchen, terrace and It’s no joke as Mr Bean in Hidden Hills, California, with the Kardashians stars, where Nigella Lawson, balconies. It’s £6.95 million next to the £4.5 million but put it up for sale for left, and Charles Saatchi through Sotheby’s
drops his price again home she bought there in £2.9 million in June. REX REX lived when they were International Realty. Homes gossip
É ROWAN ATKINSON has dropped Byy Amira Hashish the asking price of his Oxfordshire Got some gossip? home again. The star of Mr Bean and Tweet @amiranews Blackadder, top, listed the charming property in Waterperry village for £2.9 million more than a year ago. No half-baked offers please It failed to shift, so he dropped the É THE wait is over for fans above, and the property price by £250,000 in June. However, of The Great British Bake featured recently on BBC2’s it’s now down to £2,425,000 with Off. The new series starts The Mary Berry Story. Carter Jonas. The Grade II-listed, five- tonight, when judges Mary The 3,455sq ft, six- bedroom property, above, dates back Berry, left, and Paul bedroom home has a to 1777 and is set in six acres including Hollywood will no doubt be dining room where Berry a stretch along the Thames. whipping the new served 1,000 dinners, a The comic actor renovated the contestants into shape. coach house in the grounds house, adding a fitness complex with Aficionados will be keen to with garage, workshop, an indoor swimming pool. There is know that Berry’s old family store and tack room, and a also a tennis court and four-bay home in the village of Penn, self-contained first-floor garage — essential for a motoring Buckinghamshire, is on the annexe. It’s about an hour’s enthusiast such as Atkinson. market. Much of her early drive from central London, TV work was filmed in the and it’s for sale with Savills O For more celebrity gossip, visit kitchen at The Red House, for £3 million. homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip
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From £740,000: The Junction penthouses have Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre, above, as a neighbour, offering watersports, climbing courses and mountain biking. Call Telford Homes on 020 3538 4859
From £475,000: for flats at the latest phase of Woodberry Down, a new Finsbury Park neighbourhood centred on reservoirs, right, where sailing and triathlon training are available. Call Berkeley Homes (020 8895 9918)
Top right: Burgess Park has a popular Apartments from £695,000: the BMX track, as Elephant and Castle is residents’ swimming pool at South transformed by huge regeneration Quay Plaza, close to Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre Left: as regeneration snowballs, watersports are now available not just on the Thames, pictured, but along
ALAMY refurbished canals and docks New homes keep the Olympic EAM GB’s amazing medal Londoners inspired by Team GB’s success in training, plus a nature reserve with a success at the Rio Olympic jogging trail. A new phase of waterside Games will inspire many Rio can live a healthier life in a new home that apartments called Nature Collection home buyers to put good has been unveiled, with prices starting sports facilities at the top of comes with gym, spa, running or cycle track, at £475,000. Call Berkeley Homes on Ttheir wish lists. Fortunately, in London, 020 8895 9918. developers are providing plenty of or even sailing lessons, says David Spittles Hendon Waterside, with 2,000 new encouragement for us to choose a homes on 30 acres, borders the giant sporting way of life. pools. At Bolingbroke Park, a 212- Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race. Fulham Welsh Harp reservoir, a Site of Special New homes builders know the value home scheme in Cockfosters, developer Reach — a 750-home scheme where Scientific Interest and home to a canoe of working with the natural environ- L&Q has created the “trim trail”, an river-facing two-bedroom flats cost from club. Vista, the latest phase, is a 26- ment, plugging into neighbouring outdoor jogging course that winds £1,229,950 — has its own boat club that storey tower with two-bedroom water- parkland and waterways, developing through quiet woodland and around a runs a community programme for local view apartments priced from £489,500. alongside forgotten rivers, disused lake. Flats from £360,000, houses from residents who want to learn how to row. Call 0844 811 4321. docks and canals to introduce water £650,000. Call 03330 033 637. Call St George on 020 7870 9500. Greenwich Yacht Club flourished even sports amenities, jogging and cycle At Queen’s Wharf, Hammersmith, when Greenwich Peninsula was a tracks. Some are even adding rooftop ROWING: LEARN HOW — moments from the headquarters of dirty gasworks. The area is now being swimming pools. AND LIVE BY THE RIVER British Rowing, the sport’s official gov- transformed into a glossy riverside dis- It’s not only Stratford, near the Lon- erning body, apartments cost from trict with 15,000 homes and lots of lei- don 2012 Olympic Park, where arenas From £407,500: residents at New Several new housing schemes are being £715,000. Call 020 3740 1216. sure amenities. Flats at Millennium and facilities are linked to new housing. Providence Wharf, near Canary Wharf, built on the semi-rural banks of the Reservoirs that were once out of Terrace, adjacent to the yacht club, cost Lee Valley Regional Park, which can enjoy an on-site athletics track, a Thames between Putney and Mortlake, bounds, but are now designated Sites from £410,000. Call 020 8305 2712. stretches from Docklands to Ware in boxing ring, a 25-metre swimming famous for rowing and the annual of Metropolitan Importance, have Hertfordshire, now has one of race ace pool and spa. Shared-ownership flats become popular with Londoners seek- MULTI-SPORT HOMES: Chris Hoy’s 20 Great Cycle Routes. are available. Call 020 3773 1509 ing to shake off the sweat of the city. SAIL, SWIM, RUN, BOX We excel as a nation in rowing and Track down a Woodberry Down, a new neigh- riding. Cycling has become much more home Southall Waterside in Ealing, bourhood of 4,600 homes on the site With a backdrop of big skies, awesome accessible because of bike-friendly ini- where three new pedestrian bridges sporty new of a bulldozed council estate, sits in riverscapes and glamorous high-rise tiatives such as safe superhighways, across Grand Union Canal will connect Zone 2 and occupies an awesome, buildings, Docklands is a superb place while opportunities for water sports in the development to 95-acre Minet home in London unexpected setting alongside two vast to keep fit, as the annual London London are plentiful these days. As well Country Park. reservoirs and the New River in N4. Marathon proves. As well as miles of as the Thames, there are inland docks, Rather than merely having an on-site North London Sailing Association is designated running routes, there are lakes, canal basins and reservoirs where gym in an airless basement, more based there and offers accredited several boat clubs. Docklands Sailing regeneration is opening up access to the imaginative new London housing courses, training sessions and races for and Watersports Centre sits alongside water for recreational use. developments offer outdoor exercise all ages and abilities. In addition to sail- South Quay Plaza, a new mixed devel- Outer London has new neighbour- areas and even spectacular rooftop ing, canoeing and kayaking, there is opment with 888 homes designed by hoods and country parks, as at 3,750- running tracks and open-air swimming open water swimming and triathlon architects Foster + Partners. An out- EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 7 New homes Homes & Property | !
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door exercise area, including a running path, is being created in the one-and- a-half acres of public space. Prices from £695,000. Call 020 3627 9657. New Providence Wharf, an eight- and-a-half-acre scheme near the Canary Wharf dealing rooms, offers an on-site athletics track, a boxing ring, a 25-metre pool and spa. Shared-ownership flats are available. Prices from £407,500. Call Genesis (020 3773 1509). The Junction, where penthouses cost from £740,000, looms over Shad- well Basin Outdoor Activity Centre, which offers not just watersports but also high ropes climbing courses and mountain biking. Call Telford Homes on 020 3538 4859. The same developer
is selling homes next to the Queen GETTY Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, From £412,000: flats at Harvard Gardens, part of the regeneration of the Elephant where there is a hockey and tennis and Castle area, where a new £20 million leisure centre offers free swimming and complex alongside the main stadium, gym sessions, while an old public baths is now a boxing gym. Call 0333 033 3640 Velodrome and Aquatics Centre. Three- bedroom flats cost from £795,000. Mile End Climbing Wall. “The climbing wider regeneration is creating pedes- Prospect East, bordering the Olym- centre’s right on the canal bank oppo- trian and cycle links to refurbished and pic Park on the cheaper Leyton side, site our apartment at Titanium Point upgraded Burgess Park, a 113-acre has two-bedroom flats starting at — so it’s hugely convenient and great expanse with a dedicated 5km running £469,950. Call 020 8003 1718. for preparation for our climbing holi- route marked by butterfly motifs to days abroad,” says Joel. celebrate the famous Camberwell %%% % $ AIM HIGH, LIVE FAST: The couple used the low-deposit Help Beauty, a rare species identified in the CLIMBING OR CYCLING to Buy scheme to purchase their area in 1748. £400,000 flat through Guinness An old public baths, now a boxing # %%%% Civil engineer Joel Waugh, 31, and Homes. Call 0300 456 0522. gym, is part of the park, along with a project manager Sian Mayhew, 29, both A new £20 million leisure centre, part popular BMX biking track. Harvard keen rock climbers, left a rented flat in of the Elephant and Castle makeover, Gardens is one of the nearby new Brixton to buy near Victoria Park in offers Southwark residents free swim- apartment schemes. Prices from east London because it was close to ming and gym sessions. The area’s £412,000. Call 0333 033 3640. 8 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Commuting homesandproperty.co.uk powered by
HE vast majority of London’s Generation Rent would leave Leaving London the capital for a home they could afford to buy, a new National Landlords Associa- tionT poll reveals. Four in 10 would defi- nitely move beyond the M25. With numbers like this considering Generation the big move, the latest instalment of Homes & Property’s series on the top out-of-London locations highlights five affordable commuter home destina- tions with city-style comforts. Rent is ST ALBANS HERTFORDSHIRE What it costs: an average home costs £516,214, up 22 per cent from £415,415 moving two years ago. Buying a house costs almost £619,000, but flats sell for just under £298,000 (source: Savills). Top schools: Ofsted “outstanding” schools include St Alban and St Stephen out to buy Roman Catholic Infant and Nursery School, The Abbey Church of England Ruth Bloomfield tracks down Voluntary Aided Primary School, and St Albans Girls’ School. top commuter towns within The commute: from 17 minutes to St Pancras. An annual season ticket costs budget for young Londoners from £3,320. Who it would suit: the commute is priced out of the capital fast, and families love the brilliant schools and the great city centre rammed with alfresco cafés, boutiques good value. “It is a place where you can A new garden and high-end chains. There are some afford to get on the property ladder,” city: Copper Sun really good pubs and restaurants, plus says Kevin Hall, director of Martin & Co. Mill at the award- open countryside all around. It feels safe For £200,000 you could buy a two-bed- winning Newhall and sweet, with a weekend market and room modern house, or a slightly tired development in
the beautiful cathedral. three-bedroom Victorian terrace. For Harlow, Essex ALAMY And the downsides? The average £300,000 you could get a new four- prices won’t buy a family-size period bedroom townhouse, or a four-bed- £875,000: a house in the sought-after Abbey conser- room Edwardian doer-upper. three-bedroom vation area. Buyers on more restricted In the pretty villages around Ashford double-fronted budgets will probably end up in a Twen- — including Wye, Mersham, and Char- house, right, ties or Thirties house on the fringes. ing, all within two or three miles — a dating from There’s no post-pub nightlife to speak four- or five-bedroom farmhouse costs about 1810 in of, and the arts scene isn’t great. between £600,000 and £700,000. St James’s Place, The high-speed rail service isn’t cheap, central Brighton. ASHFORD but it is very efficient, and Ashford is a Through KENT great staging point for the Kent Downs Winkworth What it costs: the average property and the coast 20 miles away. Weekends (01273 839131) costs £197,647, up 18.7 per cent from in Paris on the Eurostar are a breeze, £166,482 two years ago. Houses sell for and the Ashford Designer Outlet is retail £211,821, and the average flat costs heaven. In 2018 a new £75 million cin- £118,466 (source: Savills). ema complex will open in the town Good-value Top schools: Highworth Grammar centre, and there are plans to build destinations: far School is “outstanding”, says the Ofsted hundreds of new local homes. right, East Ewell watchdog, while all the main primary And the downsides? A place at one of car boot sale is schools get “good” reports. Kent’s highly competitive grammar great for a The commute: from 38 minutes by schools is prized, while Ashford’s bargain; above high-speed rail to St Pancras. An annual non-selective senior schools are a bit centre, Middle season ticket costs from £5,140. variable. And Ashford town centre is Row, High Street, Who it would suit: Ashford is very neither interesting nor beautiful. Ashford in Kent EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 9 Commuting | Homes & Property
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New look: the regeneration of Brighton’s Jubilee Street has been a great success
and an annual season ticket will set you house at just over £500,000 and a flat back from £1,820. at about £270,000 (source: Savills). ! ! Who it would suit: those after a quick, Top schools: Eastbrook Primary Acad- reasonable commute and good local emy, St Luke’s Primary School and ! schools. There’s a good high street, nice Downs Junior School get “outstanding” pubs and restaurants, but no real night- Ofsted ratings. Varndean is one of sev- life. Nonsuch Park has a BMX course eral senior schools rated “good”. and running tracks in its 250 acres. The commute: Victoria is do-able in And the downsides? Most of the hous- just under an hour, but the journey is ! ing stock consists of very suburban more commonly scheduled from one Thirties semis, with some period homes hour and seven minutes. Annual season in the centre — so Londoners might not tickets start from £3,764. be fully persuaded by what is on offer. Who it would suit: buzzy, cosmopoli- tan Brighton has something for every- HARLOW one, from boutique shopping to smart ESSEX bars and restaurants and the beach. What it costs: the average property Paul Taggart, of Hamptons, says up to price has risen 23 per cent in two years, half of his Brighton buyers are London- from £174,612 to £214,313. A flat costs an ers. “Many have one or two young chil- average £151,721 and a house £256,313. dren and are looking for a change of
DAVE LAVINGTON DAVE Top schools: Burnt Mill Academy (sen- lifestyle, and schools, and are happy to iors) and Jerounds Community Junior live a more flexible commuting life.” EWELL School are Ofsted “outstanding”. Almost Seven Dials, half a mile from Brighton SURREY all other Harlow schools are “good”. station, has mostly Edwardian or Victo- What it costs: the average property The commute: half an hour to Liver- rian homes, with two-bedroom flats price is £438,082, up an impressive pool Street. An annual season ticket from £300,000 and three-bedroom 30.2 per cent from £336,430 in 2014. costs £4,420. terrace houses from about £650,000. ! The average flat is £207,993, with houses Who would it suit: City workers seek- And the downsides? You’ll need a at about £376,000 (source: Savills). ing value for money and a fast journey seven-figure budget for a Regency town- Top schools: The Mead Infant School, into town. It is also handy for the M11 house or a big seafront home in Hove. West Ewell Infant School, Wallace Fields and M25. Old Harlow is very pretty, with The beach is heaving in high summer, Juniors, and Glyn School, for seniors, clapboard country pubs, and the whole state school standards are variable and are all Ofsted “outstanding”. town is dotted with parks and nature there have been months of delays and The commute: trains take 33 minutes reserves, while it also boasts one of the cancellations on Southern trains. from Ewell West station to Waterloo, most extensive cycle networks in the UK and a good leisure centre. O Spotlight on Brighton: Page 28 There are plenty of neighbourhood restaurants and a couple of clubs. Prop- erty ranges from Victorian cottages to new homes at the award-winning Newhall development. And the downsides? Old Harlow is PPP'IKBF>IE:<>'
It’s got the lot: Ealing is a west London gem, with plenty of £113k for a flat with shops, good restaurants and comfy pubs — and it’s in Zone 3, with Elizabeth Victorian grandeur line trains arriving in 2019 First timers who fancy period living can find it — and afford it — with shared ownership in Ealing. By Ruth Bloomfield
OST new-build flats look, well, new. For EALING: THE house hunters with KNOWLEDGE more of a taste for
ALAMY period living, a new Mdevelopment in Ealing might be an ■Past: Uxbridge ideal compromise — at first-time Road, just beside buyer-friendly prices. Ealing Common, Madeley Road is a reboot of six was once a well- grand Victorian Gothic villas, partly known trade route restored/partly rebuilt, and converted in and out of into 50 flats with communal gardens. London — and a Prices start at just £113,500 for a popular haunt for share of a one-bedroom home. highwaymen. The development, by Genesis Future: Housing Association, has just ■ the launched and a key selling point is its proposed regeneration of great transport links. The major ALAMY downside is the thundering North Ealing Broadway Art Deco: the stunning Hoover Building Circular road nearby, but there is includes a music in Western Avenue now houses a Tesco some serious specialist glazing. venue; a “leisure space” which could PRIME CROSSRAIL TERRITORY include a cinema; The closest Tube station is North new shops, and Ealing, a five-minute walk away, on almost 200 flats. the Piccadilly line in Zone 3. Madeley ■Trivial pursuit: Road is also only half a mile from Ealing Studios is Ealing Broadway station, again in still in operation, Zone 3, which is probably more useful and the as it is on the Central and District lines “downstairs” and will join the Elizabeth line — scenes from formerly Crossrail — in 2019, bringing Downton Abbey fast trains to the West End and City. were filmed there. The development site originally From £113,500: for 25 per cent of a consisted of six houses, three in ■What it costs: one-bedroom flat at Madeley Road, W5 Madeley Road and four in Hanger the average Lane. The three-storey homes in property in the W5 charge and mortgage of £597. A 25 per Madeley Road have been renovated, postcode costs cent share of a two-bedroom flat starts while those in Hanger Lane were £687,249, up from at £147,000. Buyers will need a demolished and replaced with £612,279 in the last £14,700 deposit. The monthly costs contemporary buildings that Neil year — an increase are estimated at £1,898, including rent Wilkins, marketing manager at of almost 12 per of £1,011, service charge of £114 and Genesis, describes as being “in cent. mortgage of £773. keeping” with the period homes ■Landmarks: around them. LIFE IN THE ‘QUEEN OF SUBURBS’ surprisingly grand “We didn’t want to just rip off the Priority will go to those already living Ealing Town Hall, Victorian style, but they won’t stick or working in the borough of Ealing, with its spire and out like a sore thumb,” he says. Inside, and there is a maximum household stained glass. the look is contemporary and the spec income threshold of £90,000. The is high, with engineered wood floors ■Eat: a giant stack first tranche of homes will be ready to and granite work surfaces. of buttermilk move into this autumn, with the The entry price of £113,500 will buy pancakes at remainder completed early next year. a 25 per cent share of a one-bedroom Limeyard in Ealing Architectural historian Nikolaus flat with a full market value of Broadway. Add Pevsner famously described Ealing as £454,000. Buyers will need a 10 per some banana and it the “queen of suburbs” and it is true cent deposit of £11,350, and monthly counts as one of that its wide, leafy streets, plentiful costs will come in at about £1,474, your five a day… green space, comfy pubs and including £780 rent, £97 service probably. shopping centres make it an easy Drink: place to live. ■ a cocktail But the big compromise of Madeley % " & # $ $ at Charlotte’s W5 in Road is its location on the corner of the Dickens Yard ' # % # ' busy, congested Hanger Lane which development. forms part of the dreaded North " ! # " ■Shop: there are Circular. This means a level of traffic " % plenty of shops noise pretty much 24/7 and a long, around Ealing slow haul for drivers trying to get Broadway, although anywhere at peak times. it is a bit too heavy Wilkins concedes this is fair criticism on charity shops. but says the flats are installed with ■First-time buy: a one-bedroom flat with high specialist glazing, bedrooms are ceilings and period features in Queens Walk, ■Walk: 47-acre placed at the back of the building, and close to Pitshanger Park, is available through Ealing Common is prices at Madeley Road reflect the Sinton Andrews (020 8012 3959), price £390,000. just half a mile blight of the adjacent North Circular. The compromise is the 25-minute walk to the away. nearest Tube station, Hanger Lane. O Visit genesisha.org.uk
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◄ GERMAN brand Dedon marries traditional weaving from the Philippines with synthetic fibres. Designed by Sebastian Herkner, this wing chair is £1,380 at chaplins.co.uk
▼ THESE large woven wire sculptures can be used as vases. From 136cm to 157cm, they cost £565 each from outthereinteriors.com
▼ THE VIME centrepiece, below left, designed by the Campana brothers, is woven from rattan. Priced £150 at Alessi, 22 Brook Street, W1 (alessi.com).
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◄ STRIKING new shapes in rattan bring a little drama to Habitat this summer. “We realised we could give simple cane a modern makeover — it’s so versatile and light, and sustainable, too,” says Polly Dickens, creative director, who spent a few months exploring workshops in Indonesia. The tall-backed Harpa chair, left, costs £225 and creates a sheltered place to sit. Benches, far left, start at £225 (sale price). From habitat.co.uk, with stores in Tottenham Court Road, W1; King’s Road, SW3; and Finchley Road, NW3.
◄ JAPANESE designer Oki Sato, known as Nendo, uses traditional weaving skills from the Philippines for his Tribal collection, left, based on the bulbous shapes of shopping baskets, with solid oak legs. Stools are priced from £1,100 and chairs from £1,600 at Mint, 2 North Terrace, SW3 (020 7225 2228; mintshop.co.uk).
▼ LARGE pink Coda storage basket, below left, 60cm high, is £59 at Olli Ella, 406 St John Street, EC1 (olliella.com).
▼ LOOM stool, below, is by London textile artist Ptolemy Mann, known for her striking use of colour. The seat is comfy elastic polyester cord. Produced by H Furniture (hfurniture.co), it’s £401 at amara.com
◄ NENDO has designed a striking series of woven leather stools, above left, priced £4,176, for Italian brand Moroso, with a London showroom at 7-15 Rosebery Avenue, EC1 (moroso.co.uk).
◄ WOVEN rope makes strong graphic images for new Diamond Rope wallpaper, far left, by London designer Ella Doran. Double width at 108cm, repeat 37.4cm, £150 per five-metre roll. Digitally printed on high-grade Forestry Stewardship Council-certified paper, it’s part of the new Nautical range that includes cushions, tablemats and $! # ! ' # (( coasters (elladoran.co.uk). !' ! %! & # $ #! "! ## ! "( # '# %! ! !$!' ! !' % ! ◄ WOUND string chairs, left, come in '# ! pink, turquoise, white or multicolour, and are resilient and comfortable, for ! ! indoors or out. Priced £120. A matching table with clear-glass top costs £55. The knotted rope chandelier includes a hanging chain and costs £265. All from ! $ $ # Graham and Green, with a new flagship ! ! ! ! store at 2 The Colonnades, 36 PorchesterRoad, Bayswater, W2 (020 8987 3752). Smaller branches are in W11 andNW1 (grahamandgreen.co.uk). 16 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Not going out The £13m karaoke beachbeaeacach househohououse Super-rich Londoners take home entertainment super-seriously, discovers Ruth Bloomfield
HILE the rest of us face a bank holiday weekend of traffic jams, rail strikes and airport security Wchecks, for “only” £13 million the super-rich can sip cocktails on a private beach without leaving home. The Chalet is a wildly lavish four- bedroom house beside the Thames at Hampton. It comes with what is thought to be London’s only indoor tropical beach, made with 40 tons of
white sand. There is a beach club with GETTY
pool table, cocktail bar and a karaoke £13 MILLION stage for you to channel your inner THE CHALET, above, by the Thames in Beyoncé before recovering next day Hampton, has four bedrooms and in steam rooms and the sauna. London’s only private beach club, with This renovated Grade II-listed pool table, bar, 40 tons of sand and a house, being sold by UK Sotheby’s karaoke stage for channelling your International Realty, offers something inner Beyoncé, inset. Through UK that is increasingly demanded by the Sotheby’s International Realty. very wealthy: a way to entertain themselves, hassle free, at home. more purple seating, a dance pole and stage. James Bailey, chief executive of This means building homes that have Henry & James, sold a £14 million their own art galleries, nightclubs, house recently in Queensdale Place, poker and other games rooms, and Holland Park, with a nightclub. “It even restaurants serviced by full-size was a boys’ den to the highest factor.” catering kitchens, plus all those vital Bailey believes the trend is down to a £24,995,000 extras such as nail bars, hair salons, desire for privacy and security. STRATHEDEN in The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, is a and treatment rooms. Princes William and Harry famously nine-bedroom house with a 3,000sq ft ballroom and this “The notion of luxury is changing — had their own nightclub at Highgrove astonishing cellar to show off your wine collection to a many wealthy people are much more as teenagers to avoid problems at few hundred close personal friends. Through Glentree. discreet these days and understated public venues, and Bailey says about their wealth,” says buying agent celebrity clients often feel the same. Guy Meacock, of Prime Purchase. Sons and daughters of the hugely “This is possibly why they are creating wealthy join twenty- and thirty- everything at home, from restaurants something entrepreneurs seeking to nightclubs, spas, gyms and so on — homes with “play areas” for they don’t want to flaunt their wealth £15 million-plus through Daniel to the outside world.” Daggers, a partner at Knight Frank, And the latest thing? “There seems who says they want to “kick off their to be a trend towards dedicated shoes and totally relax with their gambling rooms with a roulette table friends, without any prying eyes”. and all the bells and associated whistles,” adds Meacock. If it’s elegance you are after, Harrods Estates has a five-bedroom John Nash GOT A SPARE £25M? townhouse in Regent’s Park to let £2.9 MILLION In the Billionaires Row that is The from £15,000 a week, complete with a FOXTONS is selling a six-storey, three-bedroom warehouse Bishops Avenue in Hampstead, cocktail bar that provides a five-star conversion in lively Bermondsey Street, with a top floor Stratheden, a nine-bedroom, hotel vibe. made for fun. The granite-walled bar has banquette seating 6,400sq ft pile, is on the market for The trend is rippling down from and there’s a games room with full-size billiard table. £24,995,000 with Glentree private houses to developments. At International. It’s designed for Berkeley Homes’ South Quay Plaza entertaining, with a mirrored cocktail in Canary Wharf, residents can book bar and a 3,000sq ft ballroom with its exclusively or share a private club own staff kitchen and wine cellar. For lounge with bar, roof terrace for pre-party pampering, there is a hair barbecues, screening room and salon, naturally. library. Homes start at £695,000. Close to London Bridge Foxtons is selling a six-storey, three-bedroom O UK Sotheby’s International Realty: warehouse conversion in edgy sothebysrealty.co.uk (01932 860537) Bermondsey Street for £2.9 million. O Glentree International: glentree. The top floor has a games room with com (020 8458 7311) full-size billiard table, and a granite- O Foxtons: foxtons.co.uk (020 7386 walled bar lined with plush purple 6500) banquette seating. O CBRE Residential: cbreresidential. FROM £695,000 Despite being in the heart of Soho, com (020 7205 2165) WITH this view from the private terrace, why would you the owners of a flat in Brewer Street O Harrods Estates: harrodsestates. ever leave Berkeley Homes’ South Quay Plaza at Canary that’s on the market with CBRE com (020 7409 9001) Wharf? Residents have exclusive use of a plush club lounge, Residential for £995,000 designed the O South Quay Plaza: southquay private screening room and library (020 3627 9657). main living room as a bar, featuring plaza.london (020 3627 9657) EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 17 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Shopping | Homes & Property
▼ ► SÉ DESIGN LUXURY European cult brand Sé is opening its first London shop, at 60 Fulham Road in Chelsea, to coincide with London Design Festival, SPY September 17-25, so pop in on your design travels and check out its high- By Katie Law end furniture, lighting and accessories. We like this Trophy Table Lamp, below ► GRAHAM AND GREEN right, in satin white, by CHECK OUT gorgeous furniture, Nika Zupanc, at £1,240, accessories and lighting in Graham and and Time Piece Green at 2 The Colonnades, the new lacquered side flagship store in Porchester Road, W2. tables, far right, by This Deep Dream two-seater sofa, in Jaime Hayón, in a teal, is £1,695 (grahamandgreen.co.uk). range of colours, from £4,750 ▼ BUTTON & SPRUNG (se-collections.com). THIS Holly double bed frame in mint, £995, is just one of many great pieces at Button & Sprung’s new flagship store, at Unit 9A/B Imperial Studios, Imperial Road, SW6 (buttonandsprung.com).
◄ MAISON NUMEN NEW online boutique Maison Numen specialises in artisan products sourced from around the world, such as this group of ceramics, left, by Luis Vega, £840 (maisonnumen.com).
► ALSO FROM SÉ AT ITS first London store, check out Sé’s range of accessories, including these sophisticated Whisper Boxes by Nika Zupanc, from £33 each (as before).
▲ FINN JUHL FINN JUHL’S iconic France chair, designed in 1956, has been relaunched and will be available in either beech or oak with leather upholstery, at £2,210, or with Raf Simons Pulsare fabric, at £2,026, from mid-September at Staffan Tollgard Design Store, Gatliff Road, SW1 (tollgard.co.uk).
◄ KITCHENAID THIS mini-Kitchenaid mixer, £399, comes in fresh honeydew green and is one of many fabulous products on display at the new dedicated Kitchenaid flagship store at 98 Wigmore Street, W1 (kitchenaid.com). 20 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Our home homesandproperty.co.uk
THE BATHROOM: the marble bath surround was in situ when the couple moved in. The chair was designed by Patrick Kinmonth with Thomas Messel for the exhibition of Mario Testino’s photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Kensington Palace. In the window stands one of a pair of 18th-century ewers by John Flaxman for Wedgwood
A controlled explosion of colour The London home of a celebrated opera designer and his Vogue photographer wife is a modernist gem, discovers Robin Muir
ATRICK KINMONTH and Tessa ocean liner.” When they found the flat it Traeger’s home is in a modern- had been converted from two bedrooms ist block at the confluence of to one. “I built on their good decision,” two west London streets. Built says Kinmonth. “Essentially a horseshoe in 1938, it was an exercise in of four interconnecting spaces, the apart- corporateP benevolence, providing ment lends itself to a circular journey.” affordable housing for workers at a nearby electricity substation, which the The hallway is hung with Traeger’s striking couple can see from their respective photographs. A fine artist who happens studios — hers photographic, his design to work with a camera, she is one of the — a 45-second commute from their flat. UK’s most admired still-life and garden THE LIVING ROOM: above, a diptych by Their block is set around a central court- photographers, a stalwart of Vogue. Alessandro Twombly is displayed over a yard, with four towers holding seven To the right is the small galley kitchen, cabinet by Hans Wegner, which supports extra floors, each floor with two flats with cupboards in lacquer red. Two book- a huge 18th-century vinegar bottle from served by a narrow lift. In its day, it was cases that Kinmonth joined to the ceiling Robert Kime. Against the outside wall, the height of modern living. Deliveries of fill one end of the living space, the gap two paintings by Craigie Aitchison hang food, from outside or prepared in the between them leading into a small study. above a model of Verrocchio’s long-gone brasserie below, arrived via a Connecting the living room to the bed- Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo network of service lifts to a hatch in a hot room and papered in an Edward Bawden- Colleoni, in Venice. Kinmonth referenced cupboard in the kitchen of the flat. inspired design by Robert Kime, it holds it for a production of Don Giovanni that a chinoiserie chest. The bedroom’s far he directed, for which he also designed Interior designer Kinmonth says he must wall is given over to a wardrobe designed the set and costumes. The table lamp in have a client in mind with any project; in by Kinmonth in dyed veneer satinwood the hallway beyond is a converted pot this case it was his wife. As one of Britain’s with sliding doors and pull-out rails. from Vallauris, bought at McWhirter. A most celebrated opera and ballet design- collection of Poole pottery stands on one ers, he’s found fame in mainland Europe. BOVE two painted Bhuta- of the bookshelves. In their sixth-floor flat in one of the tow- nese cabinets in the bed- ers, his bags are always packed, ready to room are more Traeger fly to Dresden, where he’s designing Don artworks and above the bed, COURTYARD AND BALCONY: left, in the Quixote, or Karlsruhe (La Clemenza di a photogram of frogspawn building’s central courtyard, protection Tito) or Venice, where his La Traviata is Aby Susan Derges. A second doorway from the elements is provided by glass a cornerstone of La Fenice’s repertoire. leads back to the hall and through it, to canopies. Two of the four entrances are A jewel box of a flat, it feels almost mari- the left, the bathroom has its original visible. Right, the balcony includes the time. From the bedroom, you can see the bath with marble surround. “This flat now-defunct serving hatch which once Photographs:: river slipping past the trees beyond. has been Patrick’s project,” says his wife, brought deliveries of food from outside, Simon Upton Traeger says: “You feel you are on an “and I’m thrilled with it.” or from a ground-floor brasserie. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 21 powered by Our home| Homes & Property
THE KITCHEN: above, cupboards, their rich red echoed by the toaster, stand in stark contrast to petrol-blue tiles from Fired Earth and the large white tea caddy — a ceramic model of Palladio’s Villa Rotonda. Behind the sink, kitchen O Read this utensils are kept in the recess of a feature in full in window that looks out on to the balcony. September’s issue of The World of THE BEDROOM: below left, Bhutanese Interiors, on sale cabinets flank the bed, on which sits a now bolster cushion upholstered in vintage Fortuny fabric. A photograph from Tessa Traeger’s Chemistry of Light series hangs above Kaiser Idell’s Luxus 6631 bedside light to the left.
BELOW: Kinmonth was 22 when Craigie Aitchison painted his portrait, which he bought from the artist. Behind a Julian Chichester side table, the curtains are in Josef Frank fabric for Svenskt Tenn.
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Looks matter: Question: Parking has become very difficult in our keep hard landscaping to a street so we would like to build a driveway on our front minimum and preserve garden. However, we live in a conservation area — so planting — house hunters haggle if would this be allowed? If it is possible to go ahead with a property lacks it, are there any other factors we should consider? kerb appeal SHUTTERSTOCK Answer:
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will have to come and build it for you. ALAMY Expect to pay £1,000 to £1,400 and remember that permission is not Expect to pay up automatic. The council will only agree to £1,400: you’ll Selwyn if planners are convinced that you can need to foot the Atkinson enter and leave the driveway safely, council’s bill for PLANNING and if you are on a busy road or installing a drop CONSULTANT opposite a bus stop, or your house is kerb to allow sited so that visibility to oncoming safe access to traffic or pedestrians is obscured by your new garden nearby basements, and even cause bushes, walls or a bend in the road, parking space structural problems to your own you’ll have a job on your hands. property. The Royal Horticultural You will also need to show that your Society recommends retaining a front garden is big enough to green driveway surface by planting accommodate a standard vehicle species of creeping Jenny, bugle and (minimum 2.4 metres by 4.8 metres) thyme which can tolerate being without it overhanging the pavement. parked over. You may also need to Once you have obtained permission demolish a portion of your front for your crossover — or after your garden wall, fence or railing, to council has confirmed such provide enough width for your car to permission isn’t necessary — you can enter. In a conservation area you can " & % convert your front garden into a demolish a front boundary wall driveway under permitted without planning permission if it is no development rules, subject to certain more than a metre high. conditions. HOULD you need to remove You will need planning permission if any trees, you must notify your council has made an Article 4 your council, but I would direction removing some or all advise against removing too permitted development rights from many flowers or shrubs. A your property. Assuming no Article 4 recentS Barclays survey found most directions exist, you must construct Keep it green: house hunters typically try to knock the driveway using porous materials some plants will 10-20 per cent off the asking price if a such as gravel, permeable block tolerate being property lacks kerb appeal, so it paving, porous asphalt or concrete to parked on, and makes sense to keep your front ensure rainwater soaks away into the create a good- garden as green and pleasant as ground rather than running into the looking space. possible, while keeping any hard street. Without this, water will collect The RHS tips landscaping to a minimum. on the surface and could contribute to thyme, bugle and urban flooding, including to any creeping Jenny O [email protected]
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ITH so many London- of North Laine to the cultural highs of ers moving to Brighton the annual Brighton Festival, to the and Hove, it’s small colourful Pride celebration weekend in wonder that this August, to a growing foodie scene, vibrant, colourful city Brighton — a uniquely creative place Won the south coast now goes by the — can now add the British Airways i360 Tourist trap: a stroll along the pier is a weekend must-do nickname London-on-Sea. to its tally of attractions. A survey by Lloyds Bank found that Nicknamed the “doughnut”, this ver- the BN3 Hove postcode topped the UK tical cable car, the tallest moving obser- popularity poll among young profes- vational tower in the world, opened sional home buyers last year. And this month and was designed by Marks despite recent months of delays, cancel- Barfield, the architectural practice lations and a reduced timetable on responsible for the London Eye. trains amid staff shortages and strike Sitting on the seafront in front of the action by the RMT union, this year the ruins of the West Pier, its 532ft steel city’s estate agents continue to report tower is three times as tall as Nelson’s strong demand from Londoners. to the sea. Estate agent Edward Foster, Column and the ride in its glass pod Fifteen per cent of all Brighton and at Hamptons, isn’t surprised. “Families takes 20 minutes during the day and Hove home buyers are coming from the are coming here for the sea, the buzzy 30 minutes in the evening. It offers capital, while in the fashionable central metropolitan lifestyle, cheaper prop- 360-degree views of the surrounding Hove area, Hamptons International says erty prices and until the recent train city, the south coast and the South an astonishing 55 per cent of its buyers strike, a relatively easy commute to Downs National Park, in an experience are making the journey down the M23 London.” From the independent shops described as a “walk on air”.
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REGENCY Brighton is concentrated planning application for the long- two-bedroom flats — including 32 along and back from the seafront derelict Anston House overlooking affordable — and two-, three- and with a mixture of grand squares Preston Park. The plan is for 230 new four-bedroom houses. Prices of where most of the buildings have homes and spaces for start-up homes currently available start at been divided into spacious flats, and businesses, and the architect is £265,000 for a two-bedroom flat and smaller terrace houses. Hove has a Conran and Partners. £325,000 for a two-bedroom house. blend of Regency and Victorian The first residents are moving in and houses. The rest of Brighton is ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES the development completes in 2018. dominated by streets of simple Hyde New Homes has shared- A show home opened last week. Call Victorian terraces, although in the ownership apartments available at 01273 894366. The affordable homes Tongdean and Withdean areas there the Super B development in New will be available through housing are large detached Twenties houses. England Square next to Brighton association Worthing Homes, on station. Prices start at £115,500 for a 01903 703108. Yum: Katie Long, director Patrick Timpson and Stephanie ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES 30 per cent share of a two-bedroom Harrington, of Riddle & Finns champagne and oyster bar Brighton’s largest development is flat with a market price of £385,000. ■ WHO RENTS HERE? Brighton Marina Village on the Call 0345 606 1221. Nicola Brown, senior lettings manager Track down a eastern edge of town, with 853 one- The Government’s Help to Buy at Hamptons, says Brighton renters treasure: North and two-bedroom flats in 11 buildings scheme is available at Oldbury Row cover the range, from first timers to Laine has 400- ranging from six storeys, including a in Dudley Road in the Hollingdean single professionals to families. plus independent signature 40-storey tower. The first area of Brighton. Five of seven “We get renters who want to sample shops, cafés and phase of 175 flats is now complete terrace houses are available now, and Brighton before making the move entertainment and residents are moving in — 25 flats prices start at £465,000. Call here; we get house renovators who venues remain and prices start at £487,000 Beaumont on 01273 550881. can’t face living on a building site. We for a two-bedroom home. Call 01273 Taylor Wimpey is also offering Help even get renters from overseas. I Celebrity cakes: 921167, or Leaders on 01273 622007. to Buy at its Shoreham Crescent recently rented a flat to someone Amanda Roberts The signature tower is being built but development of the former moving here from Chicago.” and Molly Mary no launch date for off-plan sales has Southlands Hospital site in Upper She says most of her landlords are Simmons, right, been announced. Shoreham Road, along the coast in accidental, often because they have at Choccywoccy- London developer First Base with nearby Shoreham-by-Sea on the young families and are off travelling doodah artisan housing association Hyde Housing western side of Brighton. The before their children start school, or cake shop, of Wish you were here: a day spent on Brighton beach is Group has recently submitted a development includes 106 one- and because they’ve been posted abroad. reality TV fame popular all year round — with visitors and locals alike
£265,000 £920,000 £650,000 A TWO-BEDROOM ground-floor flat, part of a WITH a balcony overlooking landscaped gardens, IN A Grade I-listed building in gorgeous Chichester period house in Richmond Place, an easy walk this four-bedroom house is in Dean Court Road, Terrace, this two-bedroom flat has sea views and a from Brighton station. Purplebricks.com. Rottingdean. King & Chasemore (01273 839057). gated entrance. Fine & Country (01273 839234). £890,000 A THREE-BEDROOM seafront penthouse apartment To find a home in Brighton, visit rightmove.co.uk in Percival Terrace, Kemp Town, with a roof terrace offering uninterrupted sea views. Through Brand For more about Brighton, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/brighton Vaughan (01273 839108). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 29 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property
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HAVE YOUR SAY: BRIGHTON LOCALS TWEET THEIR TIPS @FoodieEshe @sugardoughhove Best restaurants: @chef64degrees @BinchoYakitori @flank_brighton @fattoamanopizza @SiloBrighton @Isaac_at_ @Cadeauonline Great coffee & breakfast #8 )*9 . ' / )4/4$ .)" * +65 @bucketspadecafe & gorgeous food @alfresco_Btn along with original .**( ,.4( )4/ 9$4# /7, . /, $ 4$*) shopping at #westpierarches @Cadeauonline #Westpierarches: unique gifts, .**& '' ; . )/ $/ ) :$4$)" *'' 4$*) TRAVEL #contemporaryart @BaileyAlexGal, * *)4 (,*..; #*( / $) .) 4 ' // 4#) photo gallery @FinnHop, & more ($' .*( $"# .) 4 /44$*)- @lavenderroom @Miabeachshop @Brett_Coleman Without a doubt you must visit @FlourPot_Bakery in Sydney St and .$ / .*( 35! <<< the new one in Hove @LuckyBrighton After a brunch on the beach try Bincho Yakitori for beer and skewers 7% 4 4* 4 .(/ ) *)$4$*)/ ,' / /& ' / *)/7'4)4 *. (*. 4$'/- $/4) .*( "**"' (,/- #*4*".,#; .*( ,. 8$*7/ *7)4.;/$ 8 '*,( )4/- .$ / ) $) *.(4$*) *.. 4 4 4$( * "*$)" 4* ,.$)4- 7"7/4 6<+1- @gabrielaszulman BRIGHTON is at the end of and the Thameslink to St the M23 and A23 from south Pancras service is a Wonderful gallery on the seafront London. Services from scheduled 90 minutes, @TwoKatsandaCow Brighton station, above, stopping at Blackfriars in 76 @FlourPot_Bakery have been hugely disrupted minutes. Hove to Victoria You should visit @prelovedbtn *. (*. $) *.(4$*) of late by industrial action should take 66 minutes. @SiloBrighton @LuckyBrighton and staff shortages on Thameslink trains from @StreetDiner @wolfandgypsy '' <6< !!< + 06 *. 8$/$4 Southern rail, but trains to Preston Park to St Pancras @Spiderplantshop while here Victoria and London Bridge cut a few minutes off the .**&8'' ;". )/-*-7& should take about an hour times from Brighton. Photographs: Daniel Lynch 32 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Inside story Race is on to find Diary of an estate a sporty SE1 pad agent
MONDAY for the 100 employees who are relocat- a well-stocked bar. The afternoon is Walking to work on this beautiful morn- ing, and the law firm’s HR manager is spent supporting a relocation agent fac- ing, I’m checking my emails for new impressed with the office network and ing difficult deal negotiations. I liaise enquiries as I go along. the dedicated point of contact. with the Windsor branch and the agent At the office, a team catch-up identifies Post-pitch, I jump on the Tube back to to try to get the deal tied up for next our hot leads for the week — a senior our head office. On gets a familiar face, week. The applicants are a family who executive and his family relocating to a contact who I helped to find a home need to be in before the new school north London from the US, and a single last year. He and his wife are now settled term starts. sports professional looking for a Shad in south London and the schools advice Thames apartment. One of the things I I gave him at the time will come in handy FRIDAY love about my role is the variety. Our — he tells me they’re expecting a baby. I’m up early and off the dry cleaners to applicants come from a range of indus- pick up a dress for a special lunch today. tries and each has very different criteria. WEDNESDAY Once in the office, I wrap up the week. I send out today’s searches to the rele- Hobbies and interests are first on the My applicant from Wednesday has vant offices; our network across London agenda as I meet an applicant who’s in made an offer on a property which I and the South means we can almost London for a few days, seeking advice pass on to the Clapham branch to pro- always help applicants find a home. ahead of an autumn move. Discovering pose to the landlord. I can see the area By midday, I’ve worked up an appetite what he likes to do in his spare time is being a perfect fit for him. and luckily we’re off to lunch to wel- important when it comes to making my Late morning, the team and I head to come our two new starters. We’ve had area and property recommendations. Hakkasan restaurant where we’re host- a successful year and the team has He enjoys the outdoors but has a ing a private lunch for the relocation nearly doubled in size. demanding City job so he needs a contacts we’ve worked with this year. Later, I work on finalising a new busi- straightforward commute. I suggest The afternoon also provides an oppor- ness pitch for tomorrow. We’re meeting Hampstead Heath or Clapham Common residents’ lounges. A wonderful place THURSDAY tunity to introduce our new starters. a human resources manager from an — I know he’d be happy in either. Back for tenants to relax, it offers fantastic Thankfully there were just a few bubbles I’m sure they’ll foster great relationships international law firm and it’s a gig we at the office, I contact the local branches London views. involved last night, so I feel fresh. with contacts around the table. are really hoping to secure. to organise a property tour. Given the development’s proximity to I’m finalising details for an event next The lunch goes down extremely well, At 5pm I’m off to Vantage Point in the Tube station, a contact of mine week for the Young Diplomats in Lon- leaving everyone with plenty of food for TUESDAY Archway, a tower built entirely for rent- immediately springs to mind, a Euro- don, whose members are invited to join thought as we embark on the weekend. The pitch is in Canary Wharf. It’s an area ers, where our build-to-rent team has a pean couple working at an investment us at a new property on the market with It’s the perfect end to a great week. I know really well through work, having launch event. I enjoy a glass of cham- bank in the Square Mile. I’m sure they Hamptons in Hampstead Village. It’s a placed many people here, and we all pagne on arrival at the communal roof will love the on-site 24-hour residents’ great chance to check in with existing O Olivia Charsley is a senior associate have high hopes that this meeting will terrace, before being whisked round team who will make life easier for ten- and new embassy contacts. We’ve had in corporate & relocation services at lead to more of the same. We’re asked one of the apartments. I also get a ants by dropping off dry cleaning and a good response rate so far, so I brief the Hamptons International (020 7758 about our complementary home search chance to peep into one of the split-level organising food deliveries. caterers to have plenty of canapés and 8499). 34 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Ask the expert Freeholder’s planning to go over my head WHAT’S MY WIFE and I bought our ground-floor flat Fiona YOUR in a three-storey house in Ealing in 1987, and PROBLEM? Q a share of the freehold came with it. Then in McNulty IF YOU have a 1998 I bought the flat above us, too. It was OUR LAWYER ANSWERS question for purchased in my name only, as I didn’t want my wife YOUR QUESTIONS Fiona McNulty, to be burdened with a large debt if anything happened please email to me. MY FREEHOLDER is legalsolutions@ This second-storey flat is now mortgage free and I thinking of building standard.co.uk would like to include my wife as a joint owner of it. Q another floor on top of my or write to Legal How do I go about this? flat, which is currently the Solutions, Homes top-floor flat of a two-storey & Property, YOU may transfer a share in the flat to your wife building. Can he really do this? London Evening and this is commonly known as a transfer of What can he build — and what are Standard, 2 Derry A equity. A transfer document called a TR1 would the implications for me if I want to Street, W8 5EE. need to be drafted, in which you as the transferor sell at some stage? We regret that would transfer the equity in the flat to you and your wife questions cannot as transferees. LOOK at the terms of your be answered As you are gifting a share in the property to your wife no lease to see if there are any individually, but consideration is payable, and so there is no liability for A restrictions on such activity we will try to stamp duty. by the freeholder. For feature them No capital gains tax is payable on the transfer of the instance, your lease is likely to here. Fiona share to your wife. However, capital gains tax may be include a freeholder’s covenant for McNulty is a payable on a later disposition of the flat. quiet enjoyment, and building and legal director You and your wife may hold the flat in equal shares as construction works continuing for in the private beneficial joint tenants, or as tenants in common in equal many months may result in a breach wealth group of or unequal shares. of that covenant by the freeholder. Foot Anstey If you decide to hold the property as beneficial joint Also, future service charges may be (footanstey.com). tenants, when one of you dies it will pass automatically to affected by an additional flat in the the survivor. building. If you hold the flat as tenants in common, on death it Your freeholder would need protected by the Party Wall etc. Act were to try to sell your apartment at will pass according to the terms of your wills, or according planning and building regulations 1996, which would be relevant to some stage in the future, you would to intestacy rules if you have not made wills. consents. You could object to an such construction works. have to disclose the situation application for planning permission, When you purchased your flat the regarding the proposed new flat unless it is a term of your lease that seller should have disclosed any above it — a buyer might be put off by More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on you will not object to any such plans he was aware of that the the thought of the building works, Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. planning applications being made by freeholder had to carry out these and indeed, the value of your flat Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar the freeholder. You would also be construction works. Similarly, if you could be diminished. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor.
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HEY’RE back — the smelly little squatters who sneak on to the balcony of my rental flat as soon as my These ninja tenants’ backs are turned. TThis time, they seem to have pecked their way through some fresh netting, undetected by the student tenants who were away for a couple pigeons refuse of months. When one student returned she found a pigeon dead on the balcony and its chick still alive in a nest in the corner. Not exactly the “welcome to be evicted home” she was expecting. Why, oh why do these pigeons always return to my property? They Victoria Whitlock resorts to desperate never bother with my neighbour’s place. In my efforts to prevent the measures to rid herself of feathered tenants £496 a week: this bright and spacious three double-bedroom flat in Mattock blasted birds invading the balcony I’ve Lane, Ealing, overlooks Walpole Park and comes fully furnished with a large got net strung the whole way across it, fake snakes after a reviewer posted a reception room and modern bathroom. Through Sargeants (020 8012 0319). held in place with steel cables and The photo of pigeons nesting on top of the metal clasps. There are lethal-looking ones she bought. spikes installed on the handrail and on the window ledges either side, and accidental ESPITE all this, I’m not a cricket bat stands in the corner. hopeful. My ninja pigeons Extreme measures, I know, but landlord don’t even fly away when these creatures are a menace. I used confronted with a mad to think they were cute, but now I woman brandishing a want to wring their b****y necks. someone to inspect the damage and cricketD bat (me), so I don’t think a They perch on the spikes, coo until it isn’t possible to give me an estimate balloon with a couple of eyes stuck the tenants wake up, and every few of how long it will take to get rid of on it is going to scare them. weeks they peck their way through the birds and fix the netting. I am getting so desperate. I have the industrial-strength netting and probably wasted £29.99 on all the poo for England on my balcony. The So, I Googled “how to exterminate balloons and pendants that now tenants can’t go out there because of pigeons” and found tons of deterrents festoon my balcony. Never mind, it the anti-pigeon paraphernalia, which on Amazon, most of which I bought in will be an interesting talking point also isn’t exactly a style feature. a pigeon-hating frenzy. My arsenal next time I show the flat to a tenant. It’s the council’s responsibility to includes four scary-face balloons, a remove and dispose of the birds, as it pack of shiny, owl-shaped pendants, a O Victoria Whitlock lets four owns the freehold to the flat and it roll of anti-pigeon tape and a pack of properties in south London. £508 a week: a four-bedroom, three-bathroom unfurnished townhouse installed the netting. The council tells anti-pigeon “rods”, whatever they To contact Victoria with your ideas overlooking Brighton Marina at Victory Mews, The Strand, is available to rent me it will take 28 days just to send are. I decided not to buy the pack of 12 and views, tweet @vicwhitlock from this week through Leaders (01273 839311). 38 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes SmaSSmarSmmaraarr By David Spittles
From £590,000: family houses at The Lanes, Edgware Green £660,000: houses at Harrow View West, above; Harrow Arts Centre, right Edgware gets a whole ARROW Arts Centre is a new neighbourhood good reason to visit the Want north-west London to buy suburb with the FEWER than 1,100 new designed townhouses at prestigious boarding homes were being built in sensible prices boost your Hschool for boys perched on a hill. London in August 2006, regeneration in run-down The splendid new £17 million arts with only 155 in the inner areas. Families move in first hub includes a 600-seat theatre, Join Harrow’s boroughs. Today 10,000 and schools, libraries, independent cinema, gallery, cafés, are in the pipeline and parks and neighbourhood home? bars and performance spaces to many are move-in ready. shops are created and support the area’s crop of new It follows a change in upgraded. housing schemes. All projects are planning priorities. An The Lanes, in Edgware part of a Heart of Harrow arty upgrade over-emphasis on small Green, a new HA8 regeneration initiative that is flats for singles and neighbourhood, has 37 upgrading the town centre and London. New micro neighbourhoods 8432 1021. Meanwhile, Redrow’s childless couples has big three- and four- bringing more than 5,000 new are springing up, including Harrow Lyon Square has 310 flats from been reversed, halting the bedroom townhouses homes. View West, with 1,800 homes on an £365,000. Concierge, underground exodus of families from priced from £590,000. In Zone 5, Harrow has a Georgian old Kodak printworks site. The first parking and gym are in the package. the capital and promoting The Help-to-Buy deposit conservation area and large interwar phase of 600 homes includes family Call 020 3811 4672. Housing more balanced scheme is available. Call family houses, plus green space, good houses with gardens. Prices from associations Origin and Notting Hill communities. Well- Barratt on 0844 811 4334. schools and quick trains to central £660,000. Call Persimmon on 020 also have projects in the pipeline. & ' / &'*
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