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Overground Night Train Launches for Christmas Wednesday 15 November 2017 Get the Homes& interiors bug Trends: insects Property Page 18 NEW HOMES: MOVE IN BY CHRISTMAS P8 FUTURE LONDON: BRENT CROSS P10 CRAFT GIFTS P16 SPOTLIGHT ON PUTNEY P26 Overground night train launches for Christmas No more walking home Page 6 JULIET MURPHY London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Build-to-rent: Grosvenor’s vision for Bermondsey homes From billionaires to Bermondsey Trophy home of the week plush W2 terrace in a very fine garden square HE Duke of West- and work could start next minster’s Gros- year. All of the homes would £5.95 million: this grand Bayswater reception room with high ceilings lit venor Estate, be “build-to-rent” and Lifechanger of the week maisonette in one of W2’s finest by huge Murano chandeliers is which owns much according to a statement They’ll pay to tickle the trout garden squares is a short stroll from upstairs, next to an elegant open- of Mayfair and lodged with Southwark, the the restored Italian Gardens on the plan dining space. The kitchen is TBelgravia, has discovered intention is to “attract occu- in your idyllic rural fishery north side of Kensington Gardens. vast, guests have the choice of three gold in Bermondsey. pants from a wide cross-sec- You won’t be joining the local gym bedroom suites, while the master The family firm has bought tion of the community with £1.05 million: there’s water is flanked by open because you have one of your own, bedroom has plush en suite and and plans to transform the an emphasis on local something decidedly fishy fields on all sides. Ample with a swimming pool and sauna set dressing areas. For sale with a share old Peek Frean biscuit fac- people”. — in a good way — about space can be found in a next to a skylit reception room on of the freehold through Hamptons tory. It will be part of a The homes will range in size this three-bedroom lodge generous-sized kitchen/ the lower ground floor. A fine double International (020 3151 7631). £500 million scheme near from small studio flats of on the edge of pretty dining and family room The Shard, with 1,300 new about 400sq ft to three-bed- Sutton Scotney near with doors to the gardens, homes for renters. room flats. Rents, says Gros- Winchester. It comes with and there’s a separate The plant closed in 1989 venor, will be charged at a five watery acres that sitting room. If you’re London buy of the week commute after more than 100 years. In “competitive market rate”, include a trout pond, lakes angling for further 20 minutes home to a Victorian beauty place of chocolate digestives, and about a quarter of the and streams, and planning income, you could rent out bourbons and Garibaldis will homes will be affordable, let consent to run a fishery. the self-contained flat £325,000: a mere 20- be homes, shops, restau- at a 25 per cent discount. The house sits on an above the garage. Through minute commute from rants, bars, offices and a Some residents have com- island and is completely Winkworth (01962 London Waterloo finds secondary school. plained to the council that secluded. Beyond it, the 460052). you in the popular The project is being consid- the homes are not likely to south-west London ered by Southwark council be affordable to locals. town of Surbiton, where this period O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk conversion flat has to be seen. Generous Victorian proportions include high ceilings and huge sash windows in a gorgeous reception room with ample dining and big window in the monthly farmers’ space, a working open double bedroom, next market in Maple Road. fireplace and wood to a neatly fitted Through Foxtons (020 floors through to an bathroom. The location 3858 3362). open-plan streamlined is perfect for a great kitchen. There’s selection of cafés, By Faye another lovely fireplace restaurants and the Greenslade £500m project: 1,300 flats where old biscuit factory stood Free Editor: Janice tickets: Morley Eat & Drink VISIT homesandproperty.co. Festival uk/rules for details of our usual promotion rules. When Christmas you respond to promotions, offers or competitions, the NOVEMBER 22-26 London Evening Standard and OLYMPIA LONDON its sister companies may contact you with relevant VISIT the Eat & Drink Festival Late-night Thursday: the festival offers and services that may Christmas for delicious festive fun. will become a buzzing hub of be of interest. Please give See live demos on The Foodie Stage by nightlife on November 23. 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Whether it’s a visit eatanddrinkchristmaslondon.com House, 2 Derry Street, quick lunch or a delicious dinner and quote ESCOMP before Monday Kensington, London W8 5TT. you’re after, there’s something here to November 20. A £1.70 transaction fee tantalise everyone’s taste buds. applies. Usual rules apply. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2017 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property A pastel palace with a Trinny makeover ÉFASHION makeover queen-turned- beauty guru Trinny Woodall is selling her Notting Hill home, something of a pastel palace, for £4.97 million. The TV presenter, inset, who launched her Trinny London cosmetics brand last month, has put the chic four-bedroom house on the market with Bective Leslie Marsh. As you would expect, the interiors are smart and special in a soft palette throughout. The ground floor has a separate large walk-in shower. For Expect you to die? No Mr double reception room with soaring oodles of manicured green space, ceilings and a study to the rear, while Kensington Gardens is almost Bond, we expect you to buy the lower ground floor kitchen is on the doorstep — and the entered through glazed doors that designer boutiques of Westbourne ÉHARPSDEN COURT, a Radcliffe, the film Jude with encircle a small and pretty patio. Grove are just around the corner. fabulous Strawberry Hill Christopher Eccleston and The first floor is dedicated to a Gothic Revival beauty in Kate Winslet, and TV mini sumptuous master bedroom suite O For more celebrity gossip, visit Henley-on-Thames, is series Parade’s End, with with a big free-standing bath and homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip yours through Hamptons Benedict Cumberbatch. GETY for £4.95 million. Parts of the 13-bedroom The Grade II-listed pile house date from 1204, was a location for Bond though it has been added movie Quantum of Solace, to during every century starring Daniel Craig and since. The main bedroom Homes gossip Olga Kurylenko, inset, and is known as Queen Mary’s was also a set for Woman Room as it is believed the By Amira Hashish Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews in Black starring Daniel Tudor queen stayed in it. Kim and Kanye can’t wait for their next mega home THE HOT SPOT: ÉKIM KARDASHIAN and PARK Kanye West almost doubled CHINOIS their money with the sale of the Bel-Air mansion, right, that they bought in 2013 for Our tip £6.8 million and have just sold for £13.5 million. for star However, the rapper and the GETTY reality TV star, right, splashed spotters out £1.5 million on pool and patio renovations, so the and style new owner, Silicon Valley- seekers based Ukrainian GETTTY philanthropist Marina Acton, will benefit from SPLASH NEWS ÉIF RIHANNA deems a seen there just a couple of Alan Yau, was designed by that signature Kim and restaurant worthy of a night weeks before. Other famous Parisian Jacques Garcia, famous Kanye bling. out, you know it is the place to clients of the extravagant for glamour and flamboyance. The A-list power couple, cost them £15.2 million. This party. The singer’s go-to Chinese eatery-cum-cabaret Downstairs, Club Chinois, the who have two children and 16,000sq ft mega home is still London haunt is Park Chinois in bar include Kate Moss, Alexa live entertainment room, has expect their third soon, this growing, with plans for a two- Mayfair, where she was recently Chung, Georgia May Jagger, gilded columns, purple velvet time by a surrogate mother, storey playroom, music studio spotted leaving at 2am after a Sienna Miller and Rita Ora. banquettes and golden are eagerly awaiting their and cinema. There will, of date with billionaire boyfriend Spread over 15,200sq ft on mirrored tables. move into the new eight- course, be a gym, basketball Hassan Jameel. Rihanna’s ex, two floors, Park Chinois, the O To book a table, visit bedroom family home in court, hair salon and beauty Canadian rapper Drake, was dream of Wagamama founder parkchinois.com Hidden Hills, also LA, which spa.
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