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‘She’s turned a super sewer into a beautiful thing’ London buy of Janice the week Stroll Morley to the restaurant in Blackheath EDITOR £550,000: strong use of colour Trophy home of the week A terrace house to be NECESSITY, as we know, is the mother of and natural light make this invention. The necessity in this case is a new superbly renovated and extended proud of in a modern London garden square and desperately needed super sewer, poetically Blackheath Village garden flat one to see. There are two double £2.05 million: when people buy their council house, the first thing they do is change the front named the Thames Tideway. And the bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, door. Buy into this modern terrace at Chiswick Gate, W4, and you and your neighbours will value invention is the way that leading London plus a spacious lounge/diner with every house looking exactly the same. This three-bedroom home comes ready furnished to such a architect Clare Donnelly has turned the 15.5- plantation shutters and wood luxurious standard that the new owner won’t want to change the interiors much, either. There’s a floors, and a skylit kitchen with large reception hall with high ceilings, a huge family room and an expansive kitchen/dining room mile pipe, stretching from Acton in the west to quartz worktops, underfloor opening to a garden and sun terrace. There is also a double garage, a useful utility room, views Stratford in the east, into a thing of beauty. Her heating and bi-fold doors to a low- across a delightfully landscaped garden square and the use of a residents’ gym and concierge passion is reconnecting Londoners with the maintenance garden and patio. service. Through Knight Frank (020 3858 2600). Off-street parking is included, river — a much cleaner river — by creating while Blackheath station, village seven magnificent platforms at strategic points shops and restaurants and the above the sewer, building out into the Thames glorious heath itself are a stroll Lifechanger of the week Put a ‘Gone Fishing’ sign away. Through Hamptons in prominent positions for cultural and sports International (020 8012 0481). on your desk and be the one that got away to Kent events and leisure. Apart from anything else it is an unprecedented planning victory to build £1,795,000: a real catch in the Kent village of Headcorn is Manor Fisheries. into the Thames. It is a clever plan: turning a Ten beautiful acres cover gardens, sewer into a super-beautiful sewer, cleaning pasture with potential for equestrian our river and giving pleasure to a lot of people. use and three fishing lakes stocked with carp, bream and roach. The five- bedroom house has a 32ft drawing VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our room with wood burner and French usual promotion rules. When you respond to promotions, windows to the gardens, plus a large offers or competitions, the Evening Standard and its kitchen/breakfast room with sliding sister companies may contact you with relevant offers doors to a family room. Three self- and services that may be of interest. Please give your contained flats are let for the fisheries mobile number and/or email address if you would like to business, and a detached 18th-century receive such offers by text or email. barn will be perfect for storage or as a further holiday let once converted. Editorial: 020 3615 2650 Through Savills (01580 471030). Advertisement manager: Ann Finan Advertising: 020 3615 0538 By Faye Greenslade Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT. University will transform Stratford

STRATFORD in east London is set to become a university and arts district. Work is to begin on a new campus for University College London in E20’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, while at nearby Stratford Waterfront there are plans for 600 flats, plus, by 2023, a new Victoria & Albert East Museum. The London School of Fashion is opening a new base in Stratford, as is BBC Music and there will be a new dance theatre for Sadler’s Wells. The UCL East campus, Marshgate 1, will be a landmark academic building £1.2 billion Eventually UCL East will have more with labs, exhibition spaces and work- project: than 10,000 students, putting it on a shops. Work will begin on part of the University College par with the London School of campus within weeks and finish in London is Economics. Lucian Cook, head of 2022, a decade after the London expanding into residential research at Savills, said: Olympics put Stratford on the map. Stratford with “The addition of cultural and Several more university buildings UCL East for more educational facilities will create a will follow, notably Pool Street West, than 10,000 better environment which will help beside the London Aquatics Centre, students support house prices.” with 500 student rooms, teaching ⬤ Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at space and amenities including shops. homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018  3 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes Property REX

STING and Trudie Styler love property and interiors. The couple’s homes Buyy Sting’s table include a flat and a New York home at 520 West for the buzz 28th Street, designed by the late Iraqi- British starchitect Zaha Hadid. now for sale with The singer and his actress/film John Pye Auctions. If director wife, inset, hosted many tables could speak, dinner parties around their rectangular this one would pine and beech dining table, above, surely have a tale or two to tell. Homes Annie’s fallen for There is no reserve price set, midcentury cool so it could end up a gossip steal. All bidding is ANNIE LENNOX has just bought one online at johnpye.co. Amira Hashish of the coolest houses in LA, this uk and the auction By meticulously restored Sixties ends on September 14. modernist pavilion, above, by Got some gossip? American midcentury architects Tweet @amiranews Conrad Buff and Don Hensman. The British singer, right, who paid £3,375,000 will enjoy the privacy at the end of a gated driveway in Nichols Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. The 2,700sq ft home has vast floor-to-ceiling windows, a super- minimalist kitchen and an infinity plunge pool. It’s easy to see why Lennox, whose mega hits include No

More “I Love You’s”, fell for the place. REX

Live like a romantic young royal in Windsor

ROYAL wedding fans with £1.5 million Climb the ladder with Becky Sharp to spend might fancy the former home of the architect behind St WE’RE following social climber Becky wonderful setting in prose and poetry. George’s Chapel in Windsor, where Sharp’s story with glee in ITV’s hot new The Grade II-listed landmark has Prince Harry and Meghan Markle adaptation of Vanity Fair, with Olivia undergone a striking restoration into married in May and where Princess Cooke, left, a Steven Spielberg luxurious apartments by developer Eugenie and wine merchant Jack favourite, in the starring role. London Square. Apartment 42, with Brooksbank will wed on October 12. William Makepeace Thackeray set a three bedrooms and three bathrooms, Alfred Young Nutt was a scene of his 1847 satirical novel at The has now been released for sale for a draughtsman at Windsor Castle in plaque in his honour, is set over four Star and Garter, above, on Richmond very grand £6 million. 1867 and had a hand in extensive floors, with ornate fireplaces and Hill. With its famously protected view The sitting room includes beautiful changes to the chapel. He lived in a magnificent sash windows in the over the Thames, it was a fashionable Portland Stone arches that open on to gorgeous Georgian four-bedroom sitting and drawing rooms. The first- hotel in Victorian times and the author two private terraces, looking down on home in King’s Road, pictured, floor master bedroom’s two sets of was a frequent visitor, along with the curated gardens and that glorious overlooking the castle and backing French doors open to an ornate William Wordsworth and Sir Walter view — and there’s an amazing vista directly on to The Long Walk. The balcony. This grand residence is for

REX Scott, who praised the property’s down to the Thames from the bathtub. house, which now displays a blue sale with Hamptons International. 4  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by PATRICIA RAYNEER PATRICIA That’s a super (sewer) idea London’s new £4.2bn super sewer will become a thing of beauty, cleaning up the Thames and building out over the water for the first time. By Anna White

HE Thames Tideway Tunnel, was built by the famed engineer Sir the capital’s new £4.2 billion Joseph Bazalgette in the 1860s to cope super sewer, is set to create with a population of four million people acres of new public space in rather than today’s eight million. central London. As our The landscaped platforms will cover Texclusive new pictures reveal, for the shafts that will collect raw sewage first time planning permission has been before it can reach the river, diverting granted to a developer to build out into it to the new Tideway Tunnel 60 metres the river. below and on to a treatment plant in The project is creating seven paved east London. For lead architect Clare platforms over the Thames at Putney Donnelly of Fereday Pollard, the huge Bridge, Albert Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, engineering project is not just about Victoria and Blackfriars Embankments, modernising a creaking sewage system at the King Edward Memorial Park in but reconnecting people with the river. and replacing the Heathwall “The new platforms are in such promi- Pumping Station in front of nent places — opposite the Oxo Tower at Vauxhall. and the London Eye for example — so Thames Water says the platforms will the design became very important early celebrate the capital’s watersports, arts in the process. Our aim is to bring more scene and ecology, while also paying people to the banks but without barriers PUTNEY: A SPORTING LEGACY historic races have been cast to make £595,000 and completion is due next homage to the city’s industrial past. between them and the water.” The new 5,381sq ft platform at Putney the handrails. year. Call the sales team on 020 3930 The 15.5 mile-long Thames Tideway These public spaces will create new will be accessible year round but is New homes: a 10-minute walk from 4449. sewer, which will run from Acton in views of London’s landmarks and in designed as a viewing station for the the river, close to East Putney station, west London to Stratford in the east, some cases allow people to dip their annual Oxford v Cambridge 58 one-, two- and three-bedroom flats CHELSEA: A MEETING POINT will prevent 39 million tons of raw sew- toes into the newly clean water at the university Boat Race. The starting line by developer Fabrica are on sale in The 1,614sq ft Chelsea Embankment age from seeping annually into the highest tides. Building is expected to will be denoted on the river wall in a Carlton House, including 15 for platform will become a meeting point Thames. London’s ageing sewer system begin in 2020 and take two years. strip of bronze, while oars from shared ownership. Prices start from outside the Royal Hospital gardens,

Extending the river walk NINE ELMS AN OLD Thames Water pumping station will make way for new river frontage at Nine Elms, pictured left, opposite new residential scheme Embassy Gardens. The old station blocked the towpath but the new 10,763sq ft public realm will reopen it to walkers, commuters, joggers and cyclists. Winemaker Gavin Monery, right, has opened a new store and restaurant at Battersea Power Station, also on the Nine Elms site. “The Thames is an incredible resource and we welcome plans to clean it up and improve public access,” says Monery, founder of Vagabond Wines. New homes: there’s a two-bedroom, ninth-floor flat with views over the river for sale in Embassy Gardens for £1,499,950 and a one-bedroom flat with balcony at Riverlight, both through Foxtons. Call 020 3841 4200 or 020 7801 1111. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018  5 New homes | Homes Property

Infrastructure with extra benefits: the £4.2bn Thames Tideway super sewer tunnel project, far left, will include seven landscaped and paved public platforms over the Thames including at Putney, centre, and Victoria Embankment, left

Tideway at Albert Embankment: close to new homes at Keybridge, a viewing platform will be created looking towards the Palace of Westminster

Thames Clipper commute: Mike Mellor and wife Sian live at Keybridge, SW8

ALBERT EMBANKMENT: NEW VIEWS TWO new platforms will be built at Albert Embankment totalling 32,291sq ft of public space. The first will widen the Thames Path and provide a viewing station towards the Palace of Westminster. The second platform will give Reconnecting new views of Grade II*-listed Vauxhall Bridge and its statues of allegorical people with the figures fixed to each pier. The statues that will be visible from the platform river: left, Clare symbolise agriculture, architecture, engineering and pottery. Donnelly of New homes: prices for an apartment in the 595-home Keybridge Fereday Pollard, development by Mount Anvil in Vauxhall range in price from £690,000 to lead architect for £4million. Call 020 3930 4121 for more information. the Thames Entrepreneur Mike Mellor, 50, has bought a three-bedroom duplex Tideway Tunnel, apartment at Keybridge with his wife, Sian. Mike, who commutes on the aims to “bring Thames Clipper, loves travelling to and from work along the river and the more people to flexibility the location of his home provides for him.

JULIET MURPHEY JULIET the banks” decorated depending on the event. VICTORIA: DIP A TOE New homes: 12 bespoke Adelphi For the Chelsea Flower Show it will be Opposite the London Eye and within Terrace flats, between Strand and dressed with foliage and colour. the formal context of Whitehall Victoria Embankment, start at New homes: flats at nearby Chelsea Palace, terraced seating will be built £999,950. Call CBRE (020 7182 2477). Creek start from £890,000, with a down to the river overlooking residents-only spa and gym and a Westminster. The lowest terraces will FOR MORE THAMES round-the-clock concierge service. flood at highest tide, letting people TIDEWAY PICTURES Call St George (020 3582 4574). splash in the newly clean Thames. Page 40

Creating new views: the sewer shafts are in prominent positions, including opposite the London Eye, so platforms above them will make natural vantage points 6  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Commuting New series: city commutes

Commute to a beautiful city In a new series, Ruth Bloomfield finds homes for commuters who can’t leave city life behind. First stop: Cambridge

VENINGS at the theatre or in house will cost about £450,000 to a smart bar or restaurant; £550,000. There are also some Sunday afternoons punting on detached homes dotted about, but be the Cam — it’s little wonder prepared to shell out between that London commuters who £1.5 million and £3 million for these. E aren’t ready to give up on city living Beyond the centre, commuters find Cambridge hits the spot. Less favour the south of Cambridge, close than an hour from King’s Cross, a to Cambridge University Botanic move to Cambridge means a more Garden and the station. Property is, affordable home, no relying on the however, at a premium in this area. Tube or Uber to get about and a Evans says a two-bedroom flat would choice of good schools. £609,995: new four-bedroom homes cost from around £375,000, while a at Eastfields, a boutique scheme by two-up, two-down terrace off Hills THE COMMUTE Weston Homes in Cherry Hinton, east Road would cost about £650,000. Cambridge to London rush-hour of the city centre (weston-homes.com) For a lot more bang for your buck trains take from 53 minutes. An Evans recommends the suburb of annual season ticket costs £5,272. Chesterton, where you could pick up a four-bedroom Edwardian house for MARKET FORCES £650,000 to £700,000. This area has Cambridge property prices soared potential thanks to the new North post-recession in strong demand Cambridge station nearby, which from a blend of exiled Londoners, gives commuters a local link and research and development boffins could help push up local prices. flocking to the city’s business parks Alternatively, if you’ve more to and relocating ex-students. But the spend, go and house hunt in Parkside. juggernaut has stalled. The average Set next to Parker’s Piece open space price of a home in Cambridge now is £800,000: a three-bedroom family and five minutes’ walk from the £439,600, down 0.2 per cent year on house with a pretty garden in Hinton centre of Cambridge, a four-bedroom year, latest Hometrack data shows. Avenue, close to Cambridge city centre. house here will cost £1 million-plus. Ed Meyer, head of residential at Through Abbotts (01223 787054) Savills in Cambridge, says prices have WHAT’S NEW? been flat since 2016. And the reason? Cambridge has been in the throes of a In a word, Brexit. “As a city we voted massive building boom over the last very strongly to Remain,” he explains. 10 years, as the city attempts to “The vote created a great deal of provide housing for its ever- uncertainty, particularly in a city increasing population. Key strategic which is very multicultural. It caused building sites have been earmarked, a lot of upset.” notably Trumpington Meadows, an In fairness Brexit was not the only entire new community with 1,200 factor at play. Prices in Cambridge are new homes, a school, shops and a around 35 per cent higher than they country park, some three miles south were in 2007 and this has halted of the centre and completing next many prospective buyers in their year. Four-bedroom townhouses start tracks. A flood of new homes coming £674,995: a three-bedroom at £669,995 (barratthomes.co.uk). to the market has also diluted townhouse with integral garage and Nearby, Great Kneighton is another demand. bike store in Long Road, Cambridge. behemoth, with some 2,500 new Once the terms of Brexit are known Through Bidwells (01223 787089) homes plus facilities including a Meyer believes prices will start to rise senior school and a central square again, slowly. “Companies are still with shops, offices and a community moving here,” he points out. “Once we hall. Most of the new homes are being get through [Brexit], people who are Looking for a city built by Countryside Properties and renting will start to want to buy and they range from starter flats to large prices will gradually creep up.” commute? family homes. Visit countryside- properties.com for more. HOUSE HUNTING Start your At Great Kneighton’s award-winning Londoners move to Cambridge in the search on Aura development, stylish three- belief that their budget will go further, bedroom townhouses are priced at and it will — although probably not as £674,995, and four-bedroom homes far as they would hope. In the centre from £1.25 million — this is not a of town Phil Evans, branch manager bargain basement sort of scheme — of TuckerGardner estate agents, says while at the Abode development, a three-bedroom Victorian terrace three-bedroom duplex flats start from EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018  7 Commuting | Homes Property ALAMY

Cultural Cambridge: less than an hour by train from King’s Cross, the university city, above, offers London leavers more affordable homes, good schools, smart bars, restaurants and theatres

£475,000. A newer arrival is Athena, a collaboration between housebuilder

Hill and Cambridge University in the ROBINSON GEOFF suburb of Eddington, two miles “More space for our money”: Francesca and Andrew Abery with baby Odin north-east of the city centre. The and their dog Jeremy. They let their Streatham flat and now rent in Cambridge university provided the land in return for new student accommodation, and as well as new homes there will be a central market square with shops and ‘We swapped a flat for a house’ a hotel, plus a primary school sponsored by the university. WHEN Francesca and Andrew wanted a better work/life balance Prices at Athena start at £299,950 Abery decided it was time to start a than they could find in the capital. for a studio flat, ranging up to family they felt Cambridge was a “We have got more space for our £1,149,950 for a four-bedroom terrace better option than south London. money now in terms of property house, and the first residents will The couple, who own a one- size,” adds Andrew. “And even move in by the end of this year. Visit bedroom flat in Streatham, decided though we live in the city centre it is hill.co.uk for details. not to sell up immediately. Instead, a 10-minute drive and we are in the On a smaller scale, Weston Homes in May, they rented out their flat. countryside.” has just launched a boutique With the proceeds they have been The couple have been having a development in the village of Cherry able to rent a two-bedroom house great summer exploring Hinton, just east of the city centre. close to the Cambridge University Cambridge. “There is loads and Prices at Eastfields start from Botanic Garden. They welcomed loads to do,” says Francesca. £309,995 for a one-bedroom flat, with their first child, Odin, in June. “Obviously it is a bit different for us, four-bedroom houses from £609,995 Francesca, 32, was a child because we have a child, but there (weston-homes.com). protection social worker with are lots of pubs and restaurants and One thing the city does lack is any Wandsworth council. Now she bars. There are also loads of nice major development right in the thick works for the cancer charity places to walk, and all the of things. “There are no more major Something To Look Forward To. surrounding villages are really nice sites any closer to the city centre,” Andrew, 33, is a drama teacher. to explore. explains Rebecca Wilson, a director at After completing the last school “We are really enjoying it. Bidwells estate agents. “There is not year commuting to Camberwell he Cambridge is a lot smaller than the land supply. But all the strategic has now transferred to a local London, so you can walk around it sites have good-quality schools and school. quite easily.” access in and around the city.” The couple chose to leave London for Cambridge partly to be close to ⬤ somethingtolookforwardto. CAMBRIDGE’S UPSIDES Francesca’s family. They also org.uk You won’t get bored in this charming city. The shops, both chains and independents, are great and the foodie scene is thriving. There are less manicured but no less lovely antics of some of the students can some lovely country pubs to discover waterside oases of Jesus Green and grate. And, while it’s far cheaper than on the fringes. Midsummer Common. London, you will still struggle to find Cambridge is home to at least a a family home in Cambridge for less dozen annual festivals, from dragon AND THE DOWNSIDES? than £500,000. boat racing to literature, to science, to The population of this diminutive city film. Cambridge Arts Theatre offers a in the Fens, once students are SCHOOLS great programme, you can try to spot excluded, comes in at around Cambridge is brimming with top- a star of the future at the Footlights 100,000, which means it will notch private schools and its state theatre, run by the university, and inevitably feel parochial compared sector is of a generally high standard. there is live music and comedy at the with London. Close to the city centre the key names Corn Exchange. Kettle’s Yard is the The surrounding countryside is flat, to watch out for include Brunswick place to go for contemporary art, and flat, flat and, some people feel, rather Nursery School, Parkside Community there are several cinemas including featureless compared with the College, St Bede’s Inter-Church an IMAX. Cotswolds or the Surrey Hills. City School and St Matthew’s Primary Open space is plentiful, from the centre traffic is awful, tourists clog up School, all rated “outstanding” by the beauties of the botanic garden to the the middle all summer long and the Ofsted education watchdog. 8  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Homes abroad Live out your fantasy

Holiday homes in Croatia’s Game of Thrones country start at £135k and rent like a dream, discovers Cathy Hawker

VEN if you’ve never visited Croatia’s beautiful medieval port city of Dubrovnik you may recognise it as the setting for TV’s cult fantasy drama EGame of Thrones. The Old Town, with its terracotta roofs and baroque architecture became a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1979 but its international fame was sealed when it doubled as King’s Landing in the epic medieval-style saga. The crowds that come to take selfies on Jesuit Staircase (the infamous “walk of shame” stone steps, from Game of Thrones Season Five) or Ploče Gate (aka Red Keep Gate) are matched by tourists and cruise ship

passengers who come to walk the REX ramparts or catch a cable car up to Mount Srd for the best views over the On location: Adriatic Sea. above, Croatia’s Dubrovnik airport welcomed two ancient port city million people last year but the Dubrovnik number of cruise ship passengers has doubled as King’s escalated so steeply that city Landing, capital of authorities have pledged to halve the the Seven size of the crowds allowed into the Kingdoms in TV’s Old Town next year. Game of Thrones, Tourism accounts for 30 per cent of right, starring Croatia’s GDP and arrivals Jonathan Pryce countrywide have risen every year Natalie Dormer since 2011, up from 18.5 million in and Hannah 2016 to 20 million last year. Waddingham “Dubrovnik is well known as a

sophisticated destination,” says HBO Kieran Kelleher of Savills associates Dream Estates Croatia. “It has a good infrastructure and is orderly and well regulated. Croatia joined the EU in 2013 which made property purchasing more straightforward for buyers.” Kelleher says that a shortage of hotel rooms in the city means rental yields of seven to eight per cent are possible and investors are eyeing the market carefully. £1,578,000: a 17th-century mansion in £848,000: a detached former village “Supply is poor and demand for Cavtat Old Town with five bedrooms and bakery dating from the 15th century in villas, especially ones over £446,500, an indoor pool. Sold fully furnished Lopud, converted into three apartments is good,” he says. “Prices rose on through Savills (savills.com) with a pool. Through Savills (as before) average 10 per cent last year.” THE CONVENIENT OPTION Only 10 minutes from the airport, THE CENTRAL OPTION super-small at less than two miles Cavtat is a beautiful medieval port Away from the Old Town, Dubrovnik square, with a population under 200, town on a wooded peninsula where property prices peak in the smart Lopud has the popular four-star hotel open-air bars and restaurants residential area of Lapad Bay. Dream Lafodia Sea Resort, some winning surround the yacht-filled marina. Estates Croatia has a fully furnished waterfront restaurants, small stone Ten years ago British and Irish modern two-bedroom apartment houses, clear seas and very little else. buyers invested heavily there but with parking in a building directly “You’ll pay around £248,000 for a prices fell by half in the recession and overlooking the bay for £532,000. two-bedroom terrace house and have been slow to recover. In the centre of Lapad five minutes’ £541,000 for a three-bedroom house Cavtat has a shorter annual rental walk from wide Sunset Beach, and pool,” says Vedrana Kelleher of season than Dubrovnik, 100 days on attractive two- and three-bedroom Dream Estates Croatia. average compared with 200 days in apartments in a low-level complex “Being directly by the water Dubrovnik’s Old Town, and property start from £360,000 for 904sq ft. generally adds 30 to 40 per cent to the prices are on average 20 per cent These would rent for around £225 a price.” lower. night in high season. There are shops, A land plot with permission for a In a quiet cul-de-sac high above the restaurants and a cinema on site and substantial five-bedroom villa is water with wonderful sea views, an underground parking spaces are £496,000. The Lafodia has plans to English builder from Bromley is £13,500. build three- and four-bedroom villas, selling five apartments in a fully fully serviced by the hotel, priced renovated building. Two-bedroom THE ISLAND OPTION from £451,000. apartments of 580sq ft are priced at One of Dubrovnik’s few sandy £135,000 and a three-bedroom beaches is on the island of Lopud, 15 ⬤ Dream Estates Croatia: through apartment with a small garden is just minutes from the mainland by savills.com (020 7016 3740) £171,000. private transfer. Quiet, car-free and ⬤ Lafodia Hotel: lafodiahotel.com 10  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Renting

Hipsters need to eat, too: Max Tobias and Rebecca Oliver, Don’t be a co-owners of The Dusty Knuckle Bakery in Dalston, famous for its doorstep sandwiches Ginger whinger

Move a stop or two along the ‘Ginger’ Overground East London line to save a

DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL packet in rent, says Ruth Bloomfield

NYWHERE lacking a Tube very hipster sort of place,” he says. station has tended to be “The properties seem to be mainly overlooked by London warehouse conversions which they renters, while Overground really like and it is within easy train services were walking distance of . And dismissedA as just as crowded as the for them Dalston is a bit rough, but Underground, only slower. Then trendy at the same time, which is came the new East London line, what they like.” extended to cover a huge swathe of Anyone familiar with Kingsland north-east, east and south-east Road will know what he means: this London, offering super-fast, frequent noisy, polluted drag which sweeps services to the City and beyond. through the heart of Dalston is an A new Rightmove study of the unlikely mix of dreary betting shops, average cost of renting homes along cute artisanal bakeries and shops that the “Ginger” line — from Highbury & will unlock your phone for £10; new Islington in the north to Croydon in coffee shops will serve you an almond the south — shows that renters can milk latte for about the same price. save thousands of pounds each year The East London line also covers a just by switching their property hunt big swathe south of the river, and the a stop or two up or down the line. newly fashionable south-east Renters who want to live within easy outskirts have become a go-to zone striking distance of Hoxton and for young Londoners looking for a Shoreditch will find the best value for less gritty, more leafy location. money around Dalston Junction in Brockley is the most expensive Zone 2, where a two-bedroom flat option in this neck of the woods, costs an average £1,941 a month, and probably thanks to its Zone 2 station. a three-bedroom house is £2,738. A two-bedroom flat will cost £1,462 a A two-bedroom flat in Haggerston, month. In Zone 3 the best-value one stop up the line, costs an average homes are in Sydenham, where a of £2,091 a month, representing an two-bedroom flat is £1,299 a month annual saving of £1,800 per year. on average. In Crystal Palace, Forest Canonbury and Highbury & Hill or Honor Oak Park, a similar Islington, just north of Dalston, are property would cost £1,334 to £1,397. both more expensive, too, particularly A typical three-bedroom house in houses. A three-bedroom house in Brockley rents for £2,223 a month, Canonbury costs an average £3,227 a while a similar property in Sydenham month, and in Highbury & Islington would be £1,679, a saving of more that increases to £3,462. than £6,500 a year, softening the blow The renters who come to see Harry of paying more for a travelcard. Histed, senior lettings negotiator at Glen Morrison, senior lettings agent Black Katz estate agents, tend to be at Harrisons estate agents, believes

young professionals either working Sydenham is better value than its ALAMY for start-ups or for themselves. “It is a neighbours because of a perception that it is in the middle of nowhere. In Vibrant: above, £1,300 per month: below, a one- fact its transport links are excellent. Hackney Peace bedroom flat in a period conversion in Journeys from Sydenham station to Carnival Mural in Lawrie Park Avenue, SE26. To rent London Bridge take about half an Dalston Lane through Pedder (020 8012 6992) hour. Trains from Sydenham Hill Above right: a £1,500 per month: below right, a two- station are at Victoria in 15 minutes. rental house in bedroom flat in a large Victorian “It has been a bit underdeveloped in Sydenham can be conversion in Westwood Hill, SE26. the past in terms of shops and cheaper than one Through Foxtons (020 8772 8080) infrastructure,” says Morrison. “There in Brockley EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018  11 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Renting | Homes Property

Great food along the way: Brockley Farmers’ Market, left, is held every Saturday and has become a hot stop on the East London line

The locals are very friendly, honest: rent in good-value Sydenham and wander among the much-loved dinosaurs of nearby , right GETTY ALAMY DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL is a high street, and recently it has and offers a lively range of places to £850 per week: been changing; a new gym has eat and drink. Locals organise an below, a three- opened and there are new restaurants annual arts festival, and sporty types double bedroom opening up.” can join local tennis and cricket clubs. live/work flat with Sydenham’s stock is mostly Those looking for Sunday afternoon period features in Victorian, whether houses or walks after their Saturday night out, Tyssen Street off conversions. Sydenham Road has all will like , Crystal Dalston Lane, E8. the basic shops you will need while Palace Park, Sydenham Wells Park Through Currell Crystal Palace is five minutes by bus and Mayow Park. (020 8012 3736) 12  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Interiors

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8 Mono culture 9 LACK AND WHITE is a timeless, classic combination. “You can’t You’re always in style with classic black go wrong with monochrome,” says Martin Waller, owner of and white, says Barbara Chandler Andrew Martin, the landmark B interiors store in Walton Street, SW3. “It’s dramatic but neutral — structural 1: Vinyl floor specialist Harvey Maria has 5: Welsh designer Nia Rist screen prints but romantic. Black enhances, white partnered with textile designer Neisha collaged mono-prints on to fabrics. Lamp softens, they are made for each other.” Crosland for a striking range of tiles at shades from £50 (niaristprints.com) Designers are mad about mono this £44.80 per square metre. Hardwearing 6: Brabantia Fading Lines ironing board autumn, including Londoners Anna and guaranteed for 25 years, they’re also from £105, or cover only at £21.75 Murray and Grace Winteringham of suitable for underfloor heating (brabantia.com) Patternity who worked with Tribal (harveymaria.com; 0845 680 1231) 7: Matador armchair from Content by Textiles of Zambia on black and white 2: Crosswater 200mm matt black fixed Terence Conran, from £1,191 batik, in Selfridges soon and also online shower head, £150.50, and wall-mounted (contentbyterenceconran.com; 020 8150 (shop.tribaltextiles.co.zm). arm, £66.50 at Victorian Bathrooms 8380) Rug-and-runner maestro Roger Oates (victorianbathrooms4u.com) 8: Matt black tap £239, by Crosswater has worked with Islington interiors 3: Broste Copenhagen Esrum (crosswater.co.uk; 0845 873 8840). queen Abigail Ahern on a moody flat- stoneware jug, £20; mug, £10; bowl, £9; Stockists include West One Bathrooms, weave edit of black, grey and plum plate, £24 (brostecopenhagen.com; 610 King’s Road, SW6 (020 7751 8000). (rogeroates.com). Kit Miles has gone 0800 0281 403; also at Selfridges, W1). 9: Cheer up a chest of drawers with a set geo at Dualit with a toaster and kettle, 4: Four-slice toaster by Dualit with Kit of eight different “eyeball” drawer knobs, while New Designers in Islington this Miles, £115.99 (dualit.com) £30, Pushka Home (pushkahome.com) summer featured huge collaged mono- prints from Nia Rist (niaristprints.com) and giant floor cushions by Hayley a little undiluted black and add flashes black metal shelves and tables, with McCrirrick (hayleymccrirrick.co.uk). of lime, sunshine yellow or scarlet. For toning linens and ceramics at H&M in Use black in a small space for a wrap- affordable mono-chic, Serengeti zebra Oxford Street. Lay a table with black around retreat, with wall or table lights. stripes are £13.99 a roll at I Want Wall- cutlery from Ikea at £40 for a 24-piece Add touches of gold metal, and contrast paper (iwantwallpaper.co.uk). Check set, while Neisha Crosland’s luxurious matt with shiny, rough with smooth. On out scribble-pattern crockery at Tesco new black-and-white vinyl floor tiles for a white-painted wall hang a gallery of and at H&M online, find black metal or Harvey Maria are big and clever, and black-and-white archive photos. Mix in bamboo pendants, £69.99, super-slim coming to John Lewis next month. 14  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Design My design London Nick Merriman, Horniman Museum CEO

HE boss of south London’s Horniman Museum, Nick Merriman is married to Tate director Maria Balshaw, making them a major power coupleT in the arts. They have four children between them. For 10 years Merriman was director of the Museum. He began his career at the Museum of London in 1986, as curator of prehistory where he led a pioneering project, The Peopling of London, which told the story of the capital’s cultural diversity from ancient times to the present. WHERE I LIVE We have just bought a flat in Camberwell. Our house is in Kent so we needed a London base, and Camberwell is just about equidistant

TANIA DOLVERS TANIA between Tate Britain and the ALAMY The boss: Nick Merriman is chief executive of the Horniman Horniman. We were looking at Museum and Gardens, a family-friendly must-visit in Forest Hill getting a post-war modernist place Amazing CULTURAL QUARTER but nothing came up in the right architecture: Peckham Levels (peckhamlevels.org) environment at the right price. So Dawson’s Heights, and the Bussey Building. I’d heard we’ve got an early standard Victorian above, modernist about Frank’s rooftop bar and terrace conversion. We have a dog flats in East assumed it was a one-off but the fact and there’s a nice shared back garden Dulwich that you can do something in a car with a vegetable patch, an oasis that A favourite park that is creative, interesting and we can retreat into. shop: Lewis sustains itself, is really exciting. I Freeman, left, think there are things we can learn at MY DÉCOR manager of Dunn’s the Horniman about working in open- There are some key pieces of Bakery in The air spaces. furniture, mostly midcentury Broadway, Crouch modern, plus things from our travels. End AMAZING ARCHITECTURE We’ve been in south Asia, particularly Hornsey Town Hall in Crouch End India, a lot, so we tend to use saris for (hthartscentre.com) is beautiful with drapes and we’ve got a number of elements of Scandinavian wallhangings and rugs. Then there modernism. It was closed but now it

are artworks we’ve acquired along the LYNCH DANIEL has received £30 million investment way, mostly contemporary artists and to reopen as an arts and cultural 19th-century Japanese prints. (havelockwalk.com), a community of centre. I’m a big fan of the Gothic artists, designers and musicians, just architecture of Abbey Mills Pumping BEST FOR HOMEWARES round the corner in Forest Hill. Station in Stratford, designed by We do a lot of online shopping, from engineer Joseph Bazalgette. I really reclamation sites and eBay. I’m really FAVOURITE SHOPS admire Dawson’s Heights modernist intrigued by Stag & Bow in Forest Hill I’m really interested in the history of flats in East Dulwich, designed in the (stagandbow.com), run by actor shops that have stayed going for Seventies by Kate Macintosh, who Timothy Spall’s daughter. It’s like an years. The high street washes in and began work on them aged just 26. She old-fashioned haberdashery shop, but out but they endure because they’re built them as a kind of Tuscan hill. with contemporary makers. I like specialised and high quality. I love I also love the way industrial finding independent, non-chain Dunn’s Bakery (dunns-bakery.co.uk) Dream architecture is being repurposed for stores. And as a museum person and in Crouch End, from my time living in property: below today with Thomas Heatherwick’s archeologist, I love junk shops. north London. It was started in 1820, left, Two Willow new high-end retail development and is now run by the sixth Road, Hampstead, Coal Drops Yard (coaldropsyard.com), ARTISTS AND MAKERS generation of artisan bakers. There’s Ernö Goldfinger’s which opens in King’s Cross next We’re really keen on deVOL also James Smith & Sons (james- modernist month. They’ll have craft outlets, such (devolkitchens.co.uk) who do smith.co.uk) in New Oxford Street by masterpiece as spectacle makers, showing how handcrafted custom-built kitchen the British Museum which has been a Artists and you can rethink shopping in the age cabinets and units. They get really part of London since 1830 and sells makers: below, of online retail. booked up so you have to have an loads of traditional umbrellas. And Havelock Walk interview with them to see if they will Berry Bros. & Rudd (bbr.com) has artists’ community SECRET SPACES take you. We seem to have passed. I’m been on St James’s Street selling wine in Forest Hill, Some of the City churches are great also exploring Havelock Walk since 1698. south-east London sources of contemplation and sanctuary. St Botolph’s (stbotolphs. org.uk) in Aldgate has lunchtime concerts. And there’s St Vedast (vedast.org.uk) on Foster Lane, a few steps from St Paul’s Cathedral, a Wren church built following the Great Fire of London. I think one of the great treasures — and challenges — for the City of London is making those churches viable in a secular society. DREAM PROPERTY Two Willow Road in Hampstead (nationaltrust.org.uk/2-willow-road), by Ernő Goldfinger — absolute classic modernist architecture in a lovely part of London.

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WISS CHEESE PLANTS, rubber plants and fiddle-leaf figs have taken over our big diva homes and now millennials are taking the look outside. A Ssculptural plant or two in carefully positioned pots can look spectacular. When a space is small, think Wyevale Garden Centres has seen sales of mature plants rise 25 per cent big. One super-size plant in thanks to demand from buyers who

ALAMY want instant impact, rather than A brilliant bet: Fatsia japonica Spider’s a grand pot packs a punch waiting for plants to grow. Web will be happy outside in a pot People with little space at home often avoid large pots and plants, but if you keep everything small it makes the space feel smaller. A single pot with a big palm, succulent or other diva plant in it makes even a small balcony feel grand. Think large pots with single wow-factor specimens rather than lots of little containers crammed with a combination.

London designer Manoj Malde is no MARIANNE MAJERUS stranger to creating exotic drama in A beauty on the balcony: a windmill palm, or Trachycarpus the garden. His Beneath a Mexican fortunei, is all you need to fill the corner, uplit for more pizzazz Sky Garden at RHS Chelsea in 2016 was an uplifting desert riot, with huge agaves and other spiky stars against orange and pink walls. “We’ve had all this very English muted tone for such a long time,” says Malde. “I think the younger generations have got a bit bored of that. We want something a bit more vivid that reminds us of holidays in Ibiza. “I would sooner have fewer really large pots rather than loads of little ones. If people were to add up the amount of money they spend on lots of little pots they might as well buy a few nice big ones instead.” He MARIANNE MAJERUS recommends Bronzino for large metal pots that aren’t too heavy to Spiky spiky house plants are your thing carry. “Plant one with canna striata standouts: bring the shapes outside with huge and it would look amazing. Quite Yucca rostrata in phormiums. Malde recommends honestly on a balcony or small terrace large concrete Maori Queen with a burgundy leaf you wouldn’t need anything else.” pots on this roof and orange streaks. Dasylirion makes If you love house plants there is an terrace look a spiky orb. Other grasses make great outdoor plant to match it, super-sized. stunning against a focal-point pots, too — try bluey-green Swiss cheese plant fans will love the fibreglass rod Panicum virgatum Heavy Metal or glossy foliage and starburst flowers of screen and red-tipped Shenandoah, says Malde. fatsia japonica, the silvery arching contrasting black Those who fill their shelves with air leaves of melianthus major or soft, cobbles plants and succulents can take it up a feathery cascade of mahonia Soft level outdoors with multi-headed Caress, all beautiful shrubs that will yucca rostrata and cordyline australis. thrive outside in a large pot for years Or how about a puya with silvery and fill a balcony corner. “Fatsia is a green foliage? Or go all out with brilliant bet,” says Malde. “You’ll fascicularia bicolor, a silvery-leaved instantly get that tropical lush look Palm drama: bromeliad that turns completely red and it will be happy in a large pot.” fewer, bigger pots in the middle when it flowers. If the glossy, scalloped leaves of with a single Agaves, cycads and the fan palm fiddle-leaf fig float your boat, go for structural plant Chamaerops humilis are other sure- cannas outside. Malde recommends such as this fire bets for outdoor potted drama, Durban’s “paddle-shaped burgundy Trachycarpus says Malde. But more traditional leaves with lovely orange stripes” or fortunei pack a garden plants can work magic, too. canna striata, a rich green with yellow bigger punch on a Robinias are usually seen as a small stripes. Pack in three to a large pot on small balcony than garden tree, but their chartreuse a sheltered balcony. The plants will lots of little pots foliage looks stunning in pots. Or give die down over winter but will survive crammed with a the red hot poker a container in London to re-emerge next year. If mixture of plants reinvention. Those flaming red, orange and yellow flower spikes look sensational against a white wall. ⬤ Commission Manoj Malde: manojmaldegardendesign.co.uk FOR POTS ⬤ Bronzino: bronzino.co.uk ⬤ World of Pots: worldofpots.co.uk FOR PLANTS ⬤ Wyevale Garden Centres: wyevale gardencentres.co.uk for your nearest London centre ⬤ Palm Centre, Richmond: palmcentre.co.uk ⬤ The Palm Tree Company:

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New materials: Miroslav Král and Left: table from a Vlasta Kubušová of Crafting Plastics! range by London studio in Bratislava and Berlin will show designer Charlotte bio-plastics, which use no oil, right Kidger. She recycles polyurethane foam dust to PPALLED by images of create her pieces, polluted oceans and which also include brimming landfill sites, containers many consumers are Right: James enthusiastically endorsing Shaw forces old plansA to expand the levy on plastic plastic through a bags to takeaway coffee cups. giant nozzle and The London Design Festival, with twists the strips multiple events across the capital into bowls, tables from September 15-23 (londondesign and candlesticks festival.com) is bullish about the whole business, hosting innovative shows backed by demonstrations and talks with a common theme: plastic rehabilitation. Recycled plastic is seen as a melts, it forms a nicely moulded and Design Fair on the other side of town desirable and appealing resource by London Design Festival 2018 very strong sculptural shape around has made plastic its material of the Laura Houseley, editor of the Modern the wire. This process has been year for its Beyond the Chipper show. Design Review and co-curator of invented by Fabio Hendry (Old Truman Brewery, September 20- PlasticScene, an ambitious assembly and Seongil Choi at Studio 23; londondesignfair.co.uk). of artefacts by 13 international Ilio in E14 and their “Plastic is a precious material for designers in a stunning rounded seating and lighting are on us,” say Louise and Madelaine Thilley space in a redeveloped gasholder at display. Meanwhile, Sasa of Weez & Merl in (weezand- King’s Cross (1 Lewis Cubitt Square, Fantastic Stucin and Nicholas Gardner merl.com). They collect carrier bags N1C; plasticscene.com). Everything is of Soft Baroque create and bubble wrap, made from low- made of recycled plastic, from a furniture from density polyethylene, chandelier of “blown” soft drinks chunks of plastic from local stores and bottles, to a table fashioned from old waste, and James workshops and melt CDs. “Here are objects that are bold Shaw, the show’s co- and desirable,” Houseley adds. “These plastics curator, forces old plastic designers felt excited by their through a giant nozzle, Recycle-chic: from the material, not obligated.” twisting the extruded Conscious Creators pop-up at Put a hot wire in a box of nylon Young designers are recycling to save strips into candy-coloured Selfridges, the ecopixel powder left over from 3D printing bowls, tables and champagne bucket in 100 per and what do you get? As the powder the planet, says Barbara Chandler candlesticks. London cent recycled plastic (£95) EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018  23 Design | Homes Property

Left: Fabio Hendry, with Studio Ilio partner Seongil Choi in E14, has developed a process for reusing nylon powder to create seating components and lighting

know which plastics are okay and what to do with them,” she says. Miroslav Král and Vlasta Kubušová of Crafting Plastics! studio in Bratislava and Berlin will show us bio-plastics, as will London’s Franklin Till. The #OneLess project is weaning Londoners off bottled water (oneless- bottle.org), food wrappings are made from seaweed (skippingrockslab. com), and in the central courtyard of the V&A is a beacon of hope: the elegant new Fountain for London by Michael Anastassiades. The lighting designer and Jane Withers will and reform them into seductively present the fountain in a talk at the marbled tabletops and small museum on September 19 at 11am. accessories. Plastic is also a thing of beauty for London designer Charlotte To see a revolutionary interior 3D Kidger, with a new MA in the printed from recycled plastic, visit innovative Materials Futures at luxury handbag brand Bottletop at 84 Central Saint Martins. Using cold Regent Street, W1, where a design casting, she gives new life to poly- forum is planned for the festival urethane foam dust left from CNC (bottletop.com). milling, creating layered shapes for Chic homewares made from recycled tables and containers in shades of plastic are at the Conscious Creators moody blue and sunny yellow. pop-up at Selfridges, opening Friday From Japan comes Kodai Iwamoto until October 17. Look out for the with glorious vessels blown from PVC Above: Louise and Madelaine Thilley of activist Jane Withers, curator of the extraordinarily versatile material that terrazzo-style ecopixel champagne piping, and arriving from Holland is Weez & Merl in Brighton make marbled festival’s Brompton Design District can be easily shaped and can be cooler (£95), and tumblers made from Dirk Vander Kooij with exuberant tabletops from melted, reformed plastic (bromptondesigndistrict.com). She is brilliantly colourful, but we must stop smashed iPhone screens (£45 for a set lights, vessels and vases made from carrier bags and bubble wrap that would attacking waste with a theme of thinking it is cheap and disposable.” of four). old CDs and chocolate moulds. otherwise be thrown away Material Consequences for shows in Less than 10 per cent of the world’s Designing Out Single-Use Plastics is “Plastic is not the problem, it’s what vacant shops and offices near the plastic is presently recycled. Labelling a think tank at the V&A, Sept 21 from we choose to do with it,” says eco- V&A. Adds Withers: “Plastic is an is confusing. “People simply don’t 4pm-5pm (globaldesignforum.com). 24  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 Homes Property | Design

Shoreditch: right, designer lighting from Marc Sadler at Shoreditch Design Triangle includes his Twiggy floor lamp for Foscarini (marcsadler.it/en)

NE in every six London workers is employed in a “creative industry”. It gives the capital the biggest creative sector of any city in the world, O employing about 850,000. “Design is a key part of that,” says Ben Evans, director of the annual London Design Festival, with a 16th edition about to begin. Evans ticks off the 20-odd disciplines involved in the event, from architecture to industrial design to fashion, illustration, graphics and more. But you don’t have to work in design to be part of the scene. Design touches us all, from our homes, to transport, public spaces, schools and even hospitals. It can make a practical improvement to your life, or simply elevate your mood. No wonder there were a million visits to the festival last year. Design is for — and about — everyone. This year’s festival, from Saturday, Septem- ber 15 to Sunday the 23rd, features 500 events city-wide, with star turns by celebrity internationals and “country pavilions” laying out the best foreign stuff. To get your head around it all, visit londondesignfestival.com and then just go local. London has been div- vied up for the show into walk-sized chunks that are labelled design districts and design routes. Start where you live and/or work, or simply target something that appeals and visit. It’s fun, friendly, and a lot of it is free. THE WEST END AND MAYFAIR Regent Street will host a kinetic sculpture, while Fortnum & Mason puts its trademark King’s Cross: find Electroanalogue at The Coal Office, Tom Dixon’s eau-de-nil into overdrive (regentstreeton- new HQ and flagship shop in King’s Cross, and explore digi-tech line.com; stjameslondon.co.uk). Mayfair through events and installations to stimulate the senses (tomdixon.net) galleries will open late on September 17 London Design Festival 2018 Going local

(mayfairdesigndistrict.com), while Blown “onions” sculpture in the Tapestry Galleries, Fabulous free London Design Away at Sketch restaurant in Conduit Street Estonian modern music in the 18th-century flaunts modern sound systems and lighting Norfolk Music Room, and a lot of “dazzle” Festival trails are offering a in handmade glass. Fab furnishers of Maryle- camouflage. Outside, MultiPly, a vertiginous bone taking part include The Conran Shop, stack of timber cubes, is a must-see. Project feast of eye-popping innovation bathed in blue, and Little Greene with a new architect Andrew Waugh promises “a merry verdant paint edit (marylebonedesigndis- dance” as you clamber through and up this all over town, discovers trict.com; late night, September 19). sustainability statement. September 22-23 is a free digital design weekend. Find more Barbara Chandler TRAFALGAR SQUARE events at bromptondesigndistrict.com, AND EMBANKMENT orchestrated by eco-activist Jane Withers Somerset House is crammed with its second (late night September 20). The Exhibition blockbuster London Design Biennale, which Road free day of design is on the 23rd. opened yesterday (somersethouse.org). The enigmatic theme is Emotional States which WEST KENSINGTON 40 countries have interpreted in wildly dif- AND PADDINGTON ferent ways. Enjoy a sensational spread of The 100% Design trade show at Olympia is installations. Nearby in Trafalgar Square the lynchpin here, from September 19-22, from the 15th, “feed” theatre designer Es with the public day on the 22nd (100percent. Devlin’s huge red resin lion by adding your co.uk). A new West Kensington Design Dis- own words to an ongoing public poem. trict embraces the nearby Design Museum, the V&A’s Blythe House and Japan House SOUTH KENSINGTON (westkensingtondesigndistrict.com). New The festival’s main hub is the Victoria & materials at All Things In Between include Albert Museum, with three guided tours marble-ised resin made from denim waste daily and five on Friday, September 21. It’s and faux leather grown from coconut water. gloriously eccentric with an elongated Further west, quirky Paddington offers arty EVENING STANDARD  25 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Design | Homes Property

Mayfair: left, Simone Auteri and Sofia Steffenoni of radical design curators Matter of Stuff have installed handmade glass lighting at Sketch London restaurant in Conduit Street (matterofstuff. com; sketch. london) Marylebone: right, explore the new green paint edit especially for London Design Festival at Little Greene in New Cavendish Street

MARK COCKSEDGE MARK (littlegreene.com)

Brixton: left, Katja Behre, whose interiors brand is Elli Popp, is lining a Brixton railway arch with wallpaper discs highlighting pollution (ellipopp. com) Shoreditch: right, lighting designer Lee Broom is filling his Rivington Street showroom with stellar-inspired lighting in white and gold (leebroom.com) LUKE WHITE LUKE

Bankside: right, the Head Above Water sculpture on the South Bank is a wake-up call for mental health by designer Steuart Padwick (steuartpadwick.

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Trafalgar Square: strolls along the Grand Union Canal and KING’S CROSS left, you can “feed” adjacent streets (paddingtoncentral.com). Celebrate this new upmarket hotspot with Shoreditch: in theatre designer Es a visit to Electroanalogue at Tom Dixon’s Redchurch Street, Devlin’s huge red CHELSEA, PIMLICO & VICTORIA new canalside complex, with art, design, Superfront of resin lion by adding Free Focus décor show takes place across technology, loud music and events all Sweden showcases your words to an 120 showrooms at Design Centre Chelsea around (kingscross.co.uk/event/london- new handles, fronts ongoing public poem Harbour, SW10 (all welcome, September design-festival). and tops to 19-21; dcch.co.uk). Posh Pimlico brands are customise your Ikea open late on Monday, September 17 (visit SOUTH BANK furniture, teamed thepimlicoroad.com). In Victoria, you can On Bankside spot 40 artists’ celebratory flags with Original BTC do a marble-and-mosaic cathedral tour, see (banksidedesigndistrict.co.uk). Trade show lighting (originalbtc. hi-tech at the Eccleston Square Hotel and designjunction has a large pavilion in Doon com) explore the Wicked stage show wardrobe Street with pop-up shops from September (victoriaconnections.london). 20-23 (thedesignjunction.co.uk). Installa- tions on the Riverside Walkway include Mud CLERKENWELL, SHOREDITCH Shell, an emergency housing prototype, AND HACKNEY while a huge wooden head by award-winning Carefully curated shows for serious design designer Steuart Padwick lights up mental lovers are listed at clerkenwelldesignquarter. health (steuartpadwick.co.uk). com. Shoreditch Design Triangle hosts 60 events (shoreditchdesigntriangle.com). The BRIXTON AND London Design Fair in , from A wallpapered railway arch and a commu- September 20-23, has 550 exhibitors from nity tapestry workshop are on the Brixton 36 countries, plus a popular British Craft Design Trail (brixtondesigntrail.com), while Pavilion (londondesignfair.co.uk). Further the third South East Makers Club runs from east, Maker Mile reveals the creativity of the September 14-16 with art installations, a true East End around Mare Street. market, demos, workshops and suppers. 30  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Property searching Spotlight on Isle of Dogs

‘The Island’ sets records, with thousands of new homes in the UK’s tallest residential towers and Europe’s biggest urban farm. By Anthea Masey

Set sail in the OCALS call it “The Island” and city: Docklands with only two road routes in Today in Isle of Dogs Sailing and and out, you can see why. Isle Watersports of Dogs in east London Rightmove has Centre at occupies the largest loop in 1,520 homes to BUY Outer Dock is Lthe Thames and despite years of overlooked by the development and with the gleaming and 1,455 to RENT gleaming towers towers of Canary Wharf on its of Canary Wharf, northern boundary, it remains proud above left, while of its working-class Docklands roots. weekend walkers Estate agent Tushar Wadhwani of enjoy their coffee Chestertons says people whose break at Island families have lived locally for Gardens riverside generations mix well with newcomers park, left who work in Canary Wharf. “Couples used to move out once they had warehouse conversions but a new children. With the schools improving, wave of residential towers, including now they are increasingly staying.” some of the tallest in the country, is Two iconic views define the Isle of rising in Marsh Wall, the road Dogs — the rural scene of grazing dividing the Isle and Canary Wharf. cows and sheep at Mudchute Park First was , Ballymore’s Photographs: and Farm set against the backdrop of towers of 48 and 38 storeys, in 2009. Daniel Lynch Canary Wharf skyscrapers, and the Baltimore Tower followed, its twisting ALAMY grand, classical panorama of the Old floors overlooking Millwall Inner Royal Naval College across the river Dock. Now Berkeley Group is Great for family in Greenwich to the south. building 1,338 flats in South Quay days out: for the Initially earmarked for a high-rise Plaza; EcoWorld Ballymore has 764 country in the city, estate, the park site was saved as open flats at Wardian; Galliard is selling 32-acre Mudchute space by the local community in the 642 new homes at Harbour Central; Park & Farm has Seventies. A working farm emerged, LBS Properties has 423 flats at The riding stables, now run by a charity, with riding Madison, and Chalegrove Properties’ cows, pigs, goats, stables, cows, pigs, goats, llamas, offers 984 homes. llamas, alpacas, alpacas, chickens, ducks and geese. The most southerly point of the Isle chickens, ducks A moving spirit behind Mudchute of Dogs is five miles south-east of and geese, and is Park and Farm was Dr Michael central London with Canary Wharf to Europe’s largest Barraclough, who lives in Isle of Dogs. the north. Across the Thames, there’s inner-city farm. It’s He also pioneered a self-build scheme to the east; London’s only rare in the mid-Eighties of 89 homes for Greenwich to the south and Canada breeds-approved locals in Maconochies Wharf off Water and Rotherhithe to the west. conservation Westferry Road, by architects Stout & centre and also Litchfield. Isle of Dogs development Iconic backdrop: the skyscrapers of has a café and was historically a mix of low-rise Canary Wharf stand behind the carefully amusement park estates of houses and flats with a few preserved Isle of Dogs dock cranes

WHAT THERE IS TO BUY

£600,000 £650,000 £365,000 £1 MILLION THIS three-bedroom flat in Island Row, E14, has EXPOSED brickwork and industrial beams feature BEAUTIFULLY kitted out, this two-bedroom EXTENDED into the loft and at the rear, this been completely refurbished. With a modern in this two-bedroom riverside warehouse houseboat with a roof terrace is in Poplar Marina three-bedroom terrace house in Coldharbour is kitchen and a private balcony, it’s close to conversion flat with secure parking in Millennium Dock, E14, a very short walk from the heart of fully refurbished, with a back garden and secure station. Call Dexters (020 7650 5350). Drive, E14. Call Proper Local (020 3858 2655). Canary Wharf. CBRE Residential (020 8012 3237). off-street parking. Knight Frank (020 8012 3472).

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HOMES in Isle of Dogs range from £725,000, with two-bedroom flats at Twenties dockers’ cottages to £1.1 million and three-bedroom Victorian terraces in Coldharbour flats at £1.2 million. Sales are off- and Mellish Street; estates of social plan for completion in 2020. Call STATS CHECK housing to Eighties and Nineties 020 7620 1500. low-rise riverside schemes; a few The Madison in Meridian Place off What homes cost warehouse conversions such as Marsh Wall is a 53-storey block with Burrells Wharf, and now thousands studios at £589,000, one-bedroom BUYING IN ISLE OF DOGS of new flats in shiny towers are flats at £765,000, two-bedroom flats (Average prices) being built close to Canary Wharf. at £973,000, three-bedroom flats at One-bedroom flat £461,000 £1,418,000 and penthouses priced Two-bedroom flat £654,000 NEW-BUILD HOMES £1,733,000, for completion mid- Two-bedroom house £545,000 The Berkeley Group is building 2020. Call JLL on 020 3797 4529 Three-bedroom house £758,000 , with studios at (themadison.co.uk). Four-bedroom house £1.1 million £780,000; one-bedroom flats at £855,000; two-bedroom flats at AFFORDABLE HOMES RENTING IN ISLE OF DOGS £1,187,500 and three-bedroom flats Housing association Network (Average rates) at £1.55 million. Sales are off-plan Homes is putting the finishing One-bedroom flat £1,623 a month for completion in 2021. Call 020 touches to shared-ownership one-, Two-bedroom flat £2,240 a month 3468 7975. two- and three-bedroom flats with Two-bedroom house £1,707 a month Also on Marsh Wall but at its balconies in Millharbour overlook- Three-bedroom house £2,252 a month western end near Westferry Road, ing Millwall Inner Dock. Prices start Four-bedroom house £2,605 a month EcoWorld Ballymore is building at £236,000 for a 40 per cent share Wardian in two towers, one 50 of a one-bedroom flat with a market Source: Rightmove storeys and the other 55 storeys, value of £590,000. Two-bedroom named after the Victorian glass flats start at £195,000 for 30 per cases used to transport rare plants cent of a flat worth £650,000 and across the globe. Studios start at three-bedroom flats start at £623,000, with one-bedroom flats at £210,000 for 25 per cent of a home £726,000 and two-bedroom flats at worth £840,000. Call 020 7704 5618. £980,000. Call 020 7436 1222 (wardianlondon.com). WHO RENTS HERE? Harbour Central is a Galliard Canary Wharf workers rent one- Homes scheme in five buildings bedroom flats and there’s demand including the 42-storey Maine for family-size rentals of a year or Tower in Mastmaker Road off Marsh two from Canary Wharf financial TRANSPORT Wall. One-bedroom flats start at firms for staff from overseas.

ISLE OF DOGS is on the Docklands Light Railway with stations at South Quay, Crossharbour, Mudchute and Island Gardens, and trains to Canary Wharf, Bank and Tower Gateway. When arrives at Canary Wharf, journey times to the West End, Paddington and Heathrow will be cut. All stations are in Zone 2. An annual travelcard to Zone 1 costs £1,364. Manager: Tom Davis with a Tamworth pig at popular Mudchute Park and Farm 34  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | Inside story I’m a Florida beach bum who loves W1

dates and times. After a team talk I’m off for a quick lunch with Alex to Diary of an discuss a new instruction. Alex and I were at drama school together and we Estate Agent still joke about life reflecting art, as during my foray into the world of acting I was cast as an estate agent, MONDAY more than once — you just can’t fight My weekend was great — all family that kind of cosmic force. and football. I’m an Arsenal fan and Later, it’s time to review progress on on Saturday we went en masse to the a large development we are involved match: me and my wife, our son and in, with a potential Gross Developed daughter, my Dad and my brother-in- Value in excess of half-a-billion law and his fiancé. On Sunday I took pounds. This would top my largest my boy to football practice. Aged sale to date by quite some margin. eight, he’s already a great fan of the beautiful game. My wife is an ex- FRIDAY ballerina and my daughter loves ballet Alex is breakfasting at The Ivy Café, — it must all be in the blood. done an amazing job keeping the dinner at Roka in Charlotte Street, Marylebone to view two properties, where we chat over coffee before we The school holiday traffic’s not bad High Street “boutique”. It really gives which gives me chance to tour the one with a swimming pool. I once both have to leave for viewings — Alex as I drive to meet fellow director Alex the area a local, village feel. The area ahead of viewings tomorrow, showed a client a stunning house in is heading to Chiltern Place and I am Bourne for breakfast at La Brasseria combination of new developments when Fitzrovia is on the schedule. west London with a very Zen-like pool back in Fitzroy Place. Milanese in Marylebone High Street. and beautiful period properties, with complex. The client failed to see the Friday is the day we ensure we have We go through weekend client the excellent High Street, make it a WEDNESDAY exceptionally still, perfectly clear a catch-up with all of our clients, updates and then head for the great place to live. We cover all of London and our first water at the entrance to the pool and compile written reports and ensure Beauchamp Estates Mayfair office to First thing, we brainstorm our best viewing is at Wimbledon Hill Park to stepped right in. Thankfully we found everyone has an update. London will take the sales meeting. Then it’s back applicants and try to suggest options see two penthouses. They offer the shoe covers for her wet feet. I fit in a always be a great place to live and own to the Marylebone office to catch up we may not have presented to them. space and flexibility the client wants, last-minute viewing at Orchard Court, property. We all just have to work on my emails, make calls and book Then I am showing a stunning mews but there are other off-market which in my opinion is the finest harder in the current market to appointments before heading home townhouse in the W One scheme. properties to see back in central portered building in Marylebone. support both vendors and buyers. to tackle homework with my children. We’ve sold a number of flats in this London. In Fitzrovia we view flats in It is nearly a year since Beauchamp great location but the townhouses are, Fitzroy Place and a penthouse in THURSDAY Estates Marylebone opened and TUESDAY to put it mildly, something else. This is Great Portland Street that the client is It’s a desk breakfast today as I read despite an increasingly challenging I spent much of my youth in Florida the first new-build Marylebone house considering as a possible investment. emails. We have had an enquiry about market, it has been a good year. and I’m a beach bum at heart. Ideally I we’ve been instructed on. They don’t They like Fitzroy Place’s design and a property in Clarewood Court, the would live on a beach somewhere and normally exist. location and feel it could be a good perfect pied-à-terre. It’s in a great ⬤ Richard Douglas is a director at keep a home in Marylebone, where After work I’m off for a date with my option for them and their children. location and well presented. I email Beauchamp Estates based in the Howard de Walden Estate has wife. We love sushi so we’re having We then head slightly north of back with a request for best viewing Marylebone (020 7486 9665). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018  39 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Ask the expert | Homes Property How dare our conveyancing lawyer take a holiday!

MY FATHER says we must not Q buy the flat we have seen and very much want, because it has good leasehold title. What is the issue?

ABSOLUTE title is the best form of A ownership and is granted when the Land Registry is satisfied with the freeholder’s/lessor’s title. Good leasehold title is granted when the registry is By Fiona McNulty satisfied regarding the leaseholder’s title OUR LAWYER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS to the property but not satisfied regarding the freehold title. An example is when the freeholder cannot be identified. WE HAVE been reading about Sometimes an application to register Q delays in property sales and leasehold property is made but the purchases caused by solicitors More legal Q&As: freehold is unregistered. If the applicant being on holiday and away from the office visit homesand fails to provide evidence of the freehold and buyers and sellers not being told property.co.uk title to the Land Registry, the property will when their solicitor is going away or be registered with good leasehold title. returning to the office. We want to put our A good leasehold title may be vulnerable house on the market and downsize but recommend. Estate agents can also quote and ask for clarification on such to challenge, for example, there may be an this concerns us. Our solicitor has retired, recommend property lawyers, but check matters as who will be looking after you; issue if someone proves they own the so we need a new one. What can we do to whether they receive referral fees for whether you will have personal contact freehold title and that the person who try to find a solicitor who is professional giving out work as that can influence who with a particular solicitor; whether they granted the original lease had no right to and does not cause us delays? they recommend and on occasion it currently have a heavy workload; if the do so. Accordingly, some lenders will not WHAT’S may not be the best person for solicitor is planning any holidays, and if so, lend where the security for the loan is a IF YOU received good service from YOUR PROBLEM? the job. who will be looking after your business in property with good leasehold title. your previous solicitor, consider Email legalsolutions@ Consider using a legal firm their absence. However, some will, provided an A standard.co.uk or write to Legal using another one from the same that is accredited by the Law Respond promptly to requests from your indemnity insurance policy is in place firm — unless, of course, the firm no Solutions, Homes & Property, Society’s Conveyancing solicitor for documents or information. upon completion of purchase. Establish Evening Standard, 2 Derry Street, longer exists. W8 5EE. Questions cannot be Quality Scheme, which is a Your solicitor is on your side, so please your lender’s position as you may need to Alternatively, you could ask family, answered individually, but we will try recognised quality standard do not be afraid to ask questions. And change lenders. friends and colleagues if they know or to feature them here. for law firms undertaking remember that delays can be caused by It is possible to upgrade good leasehold have used the services of a property Fiona McNulty is a solicitor residential property work. the other side and therefore outside your to absolute title. Ask your solicitor if such solicitor or law firm that they can specialising in residential Always request a written fee solicitor’s control. an application is possible in your case. property. 40  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes

Continued from Page 4 BLACKFRIARS: NEW GARDEN With 50,000sq ft of new public space to be created at Blackfriars, this will be the largest Tideway site, marked by planted terraces and decorated with ... super new sculptures as a tribute to 19th- century engineer Joseph Bazalgette’s historic network of sewers. “The riverfront at Blackfriars sewer’s comprised narrow, dark walkways and subways so we’ve been working with the Metropolitan Police to ensure the new civic space opens up the area, prevents any isolated spots magic and entices people over to this side of the river,” says lead Thames Tideway architect Clare Donnelly. As part of the scheme a new pier was built at Blackfriars and launched Blackfriars: largest Tideway public space will have planted terraces and sculptures gardens in July for the Thames Clipper service. From £1.15 million: one-bedroom flats The 275ft-long pier was towed from at , with residents’ gym Holland and installed so commuters and tourists could continue to travel via the river even when construction of the new super sewer is under way in central London. Both Blackfriars and Victoria platforms will have coffee kiosks and pop-up shops. New homes: towering behind the site is the new 50-floor skyscraper One Blackfriars — dubbed The Vase — by St George. Made with 5,746 curved glass panels and with a gym and spa in the basement, prices for a one- bedroom flat start at £1.15 million and on the top of the building is the MURPHY JULIET prized 17,000sq ft penthouse. Through Civic space: architect Clare Donnelly CBRE (020 7182 2477). aims to open up Blackfriars riverfront

Chelsea Embankment: opposite , the paved platform built out above the Thames will become a meeting point for events at Royal Chelsea Hospital and the area will be decorated for each, including Chelsea Flower Show

“Proper riverbank”: the Thames Tideway platform at King Edward Memorial Park, Shadwell E1, will include terraced seating and newly created habitats for water wildlife

SHADWELL: AN ECOSYSTEM THE new platform at King Edward Memorial Park in Tower Hamlets will add 21,527sq ft in an area short of public open space. On the bend of the river, terraces and seating will be created and will flood at high tide. Water plants such as the common reed will be imbedded in the river wall to create new habitats for invertebrates in the water. “We want to create proper riverbanks in this part of town,” says Clare Donnelly. New homes: a 10-minute walk from the site is London Dock, the redevelopment of a former industrial site into homes, restaurants and shops. The latest phase to be launched is Cashmere Wharf, where two-bedroom flats start from £1.27 million. Call 020 3797 8680. Cheaper period properties can be found close to Shadwell station, including a big, open-plan warehouse flat with a terrace, on sale through Keatons for £800,000. Call 020 8115 1424. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 43  Letting on | Homes Property

£500 per week: a recently refurbished three-bedroom terrace house with a separate kitchen and a private garden is available to rent in Woodstock Terrace, Canary Wharf. Through Dexters (020 7517 1190).

They’ve sublet the b****y balcony to pigeons!

said, “how do they expect you to deal with a problem if they haven’t told The accidental you about it?” My neighbour’s head shot back in surprise. “Oh no, they Landlord told me months ago,” she said, “and I told them to get rid of the pigeons, but they didn’t do anything.” Oh. How exactly did she expect her Who should pay tenants to do that, I wanted to know? “They could have shooed them away to get rid of with water,” she said. Now clearly, this woman knows nothing about pigeons. pigeons nesting These birds will do anything it takes to remain in a place they have made on the balcony — home. They will peck through wire, tiptoe over spikes and fly headlong the tenant or the into a brick wall in an act of revenge to get back to their nest. A bucket of landlord? Or water wasn’t going to keep them away from her balcony. should they just I told her that I had put up netting and inspected it regularly to make wing it? By sure the pigeons hadn’t pecked their way through. She told me that she Victoria Whitlock wasn’t going to bother with that, it was up to the tenants to keep the pigeons away. She had found a firm to get rid of HEN pigeons invade the pigeons, she said, but she was the balcony of your going to deduct the cost from the rental property, who tenants’ deposits. is responsible for I’m not sure of the legal situation getting rid of them here, but I think morally, she is on andW clearing up their mess? Is it the pretty shaky ground. Unless the landlord or the tenant? tenants had been feeding the pigeons This question could apply pretty which seems highly unlikely, I don’t much to any pests, be they bed bugs, see how they can be to blame for mice, rats or cockroaches. I just chose their presence. Once the landlord had pigeons because it’s a problem that I been made aware of the problem, I and other landlords frequently think she ought to have dealt with it. encounter on the estate where I have Also, unless you warn a tenant that a three-bedroom flat. you are going to charge them for a I bumped into the owner of the service and give them the option to neighbouring flat and she was deal with it themselves or find a spitting feathers because she had just cheaper solution, I don’t think you discovered that pigeons had been should pass on the bill. nesting on her balcony for about six Personally, I would get rid of the months. “The b****y tenants have just pests and write down the cost as a left them to make a horrible mess,” business expense. I’m sure the she told me. accountant, and even the Inland I nodded in sympathy. Once, when I Revenue, would sympathise over an went to inspect my flat, I found excess of pigeon poop. pigeons had nested on the balcony but the tenants seemed oblivious to ⬤ Victoria Whitlock lets four their presence, even though the floor properties in south London. was covered in poop. “It’s so annoy- To contact Victoria with your ideas ing when they don’t let you know,” I and views, tweet @vicwhitlock 46  WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by

Get the best of both Barbican worlds with a modern flat in Smart moves a brutalist tower By David Spittles

CONCRETE lovers with a low budget have a rare chance to buy a new home in an original Barbican block, Edward VIII, Wallis courtesy of Help to Buy. Listed Blake Tower, right, a former YMCA hostel, purpose-built in the Sixties in brutalist style, has been and all those spies reconfigured into 74 homes, including one-bedroom apartments priced at £599,000. A first-time buyer putting down five per cent STYLISH new address with adorn the state rooms of the grand would qualify for a 40 per cent equity 250 homes in leafy outer old country house. Requisitioned by loan. north London has been the War Office in 1939, The project offers Barbican buyers unveiled. Trent Park in became a surveillance centre, with the best of both worlds: modern Enfield is a historic listed MI6 obtaining vital intelligence by interiors in a renovated wrapping. So mansionA surrounded by 413 acres of bugging conversations between the prized is the iconic façade that parkland. high-ranking German officers who English Heritage insists on five-year This former hunting ground of the were incarcerated there. maintenance inspections. Tudors now boasts nature trails, bike Today the estate has 56 acres of From £995,000: Apartments retain an original bush- paths, lakes, forest glades and ancient private grounds where developer new homes at hammered concrete wall in the woodland, a golf course, an Berkeley is building clusters of semi- Trent Park in hallway, while good space planning is equestrian centre and a wildlife detached and detached houses, while Enfield, above, achieved by sliding “pocket” doors, sanctuary. the mansion is being split into grand right and far right. hall cupboards and window bench During its early 20th-century apartments. The listed seats in bedrooms. heyday, the estate was owned by Sir Residents’ amenities include a gym mansion is being Barbican’s characteristic open Philip Sassoon, the politician, art within the original orangery plus an split into grand external stairways have had to be collector and legendary socialite who outdoor swimming pool and tennis apartments, while retained, while the building’s original hosted glittering parties for the rich courts. A shuttle bus service will ferry clusters of houses entrance lobby has been upgraded and influential, among them Edward residents to Oakwood Tube station, are being built in and a concierge reception installed. VIII and Wallis Simpson, Winston which has 26-minute Piccadilly line the 56-acre Call developer Redrow on 020 3811 Churchill, Charlie Chaplin and the trains to King’s Cross. Prices from private grounds 5645 for more information. artist Rex Whistler, whose murals £995,000. Call 020 3005 5590. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 47  New homes | Homes Property

COLLEGE FLATS WORTH STUDYING

KIDDERPORE HALL in Hampstead, built by East India leather trader John Teil in 1843, was later acquired by Westfield women’s college, whose campus is now being transformed into 156 homes in 13 buildings, five of which are listed. Now called Hampstead Manor, right, it has the feel of a quiet university quad. Flats in a converted red-brick wing look on to landscaped gardens and cost from £795,000. Developer Mount Anvil is also building new townhouses and three underground duplex homes. There is a spa and underground parking plus a shuttle service to local train and Tube stations. Call 020 3930 5133.

Get thee to a new family house at an old nunnery

ISLEWORTH in west London is a mix of old riverside village, modern office blocks, standard-issue suburbia and 16th- century , home to the Duke of Northumberland, Thinking of and its 200-acre park. Here, too, is a seven-acre walled moving? estate with a white-stucco mansion, an Edwardian chapel, stables and private grounds running down to the Thames. Start your A convent for 100 years, it’s now called Fitzroy Gate, above, with more than 60 private homes, both new-build search on and conversions. Townhouses in a new crescent overlook an ornamental lake and have up to five bedrooms, an open-plan ground-floor kitchen/family room, first-floor and top-floor terraces plus a garden and secure parking. Residents have fob access through gates to the Thames Path. Prices from £1.4 million. Call St James on 020 3582 5490.