My Beautiful Super Sewer SEVEN NEW WAYS to LOVE the THAMES: PAGE 4 JULIET MURPHY JULIET 2 WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | News
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Wednesday 5 September 2018 GET LIT UP London Design Festival launch: Page 24 TRAVEL ON THE GINGER LINE CITY TO CITY FANTASTIC PLASTICS SPOTLIGHT ON ISLE OF DOGS Good-value renting Commute to Cambridge Making waste wonderful Canary Wharf’s cheaper neighbour Page 10 Page 6 Page 22 Page 30 My beautiful super sewer SEVEN NEW WAYS TO LOVE THE THAMES: PAGE 4 JULIET MURPHY JULIET 2 WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | News THIS WEEK IN... Property search ‘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 Battersea Power Station 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.