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!! 4 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Top of the scoreboard ROPERTY is not the only thing surveyors inspect, according to new research by one of the UK’s leading dating websites. Of all the Trophy Ptradespeople and professionals likely to call at residential addresses during home of the day, it is not beefy builders or cheeky chippies who are mostly likely the week to prove the housewife’s choice but surveyors, says Illicitencounters.com. Take the sun Of 3,000 men asked if they have had affairs while working, surveyors on a fabulous came top of the poll, often admitting to multiple encounters. Plumbers roof terrace

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Lifechanger Going flat out for the Fens of the week AN EXPLOSION in the number of people moving There’s room out of London and its immediate hinterland and venturing into the Fens has prompted plans to at the stables upgrade commuter services between the capital, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. to keep you This autumn Govia Thameslink Railway, which runs the King’s Cross to King’s Lynn service called in winnings the Fen Line, will launch a consultation on propos- als that include introducing trains capable of run- £1 million: all the

ning at 110mph. It will also consider increasing the GETTY ingredients to make hay frequency of London trains to every half hour. Upgrade: Fenland services such as this one passing while the sun shines can be bedrooms (one en suite), a And when Cambridge North station opens in Ely are set for an upgrade in speed and frequency found at this well established spacious kitchen/breakfast May next year Fen Line services could be diverted racing stable loved by many room and a character sitting via the new station, speeding commuter times. just over an hour and 20 minutes and the upgrade top trainers from around the room with an open fire. “More and more people are moving into the should bring this closer to the one-hour mark. country, set in 55 acres of Rolling paddocks are Fen Line area,” explains Andy Tyler, secretary The cost of an annual season ticket — from £5,844 glorious Devon countryside surrounded by farmland with of the Fen Line Users Association. “The main from King’s Lynn and from £5,564 from Downham in Stoodleigh, Tiverton. Part stunning views towards the indoor horse walker and a grouse they have is overcrowding — people say Market — is unlikely to change. However Right- of the package is Steart moors, there’s a double barn fabulous one-mile gallop. they are treated like cattle.” move puts Downham’s average price at £179,396 Farmhouse, a charming housing 40 loose boxes, a Contact Winkworth (01392 The journey from London to King’s Lynn takes — almost a third that of a London property. whitewashed home with four tack room, feed room, an 799113). almost two hours. From Downham Market, one of the area’s most popular market towns, it takes O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week Rich fabric and clean lines make fashion statement in ex-textile factory Editor: Janice £700,000: making a fashion statement in Hackney, E9, is Morley The Textile Building, a former factory converted into lofty VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ warehouse spaces like this rules for details of our usual two-bedroom flat. % % promotion rules. When you The rich fabric of the !+%% % respond to promotions, offers or building sets the tone %% competitions, the London Evening perfectly with huge steel- Standard and its sister companies framed windows and high may contact you with relevant ceilings in a capricious +% % '%! % ' offers and services that may be of reception/dining room and interest. Please give your mobile open-plan kitchen +# +% number and/or email address if showcasing heated oak you would like to receive such % ' %* + & floors, gloss cabinetry and offers by text or email. sleek appliances. %% Editorial: 020 3615 2524 There are more clean lines , % *# !% ' ! %* *% Advertisement manager: to love in both bedrooms and Ann Finan two cutting-edge bathrooms $## * Advertising: 020 3615 0266 tiled in polished porcelain. ( % '% +* + # Homes & Property, Northcliffe The building also has a strolls around London Fields * #* House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, concierge service and enjoys and Victoria Park. Through London W8 5TT. close proximity to leafy Currell (020 3222 5555). By Faye Greenslade ( )" " %*+&!! ! Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Location, location for a film star property

É ELSTREE Lodge in Hertfordshire is on the market for £1.35 million with has been used as a filming location Lumley Estates. by the likes of Anna Friel, Joanna Dating back to 1890, original Lumley, Fearne Cotton and Reggie features such as ornate fireplaces, Yates (pictured from left to right). elaborate cornicing and high ceilings The property’s proximity to the stand strong. famous Elstree Studios, the The loud interiors won’t be to every birthplace of Star Wars and where buyer’s taste but that is easily fixed. movies such as The Danish Girl and Visit homesandproperty.co.uk for Sherlock Holmes have been pictures. produced, has attracted owners including TV producer Rex Firkin. O For more celebrity gossip, visit Now the five-bedroom family home homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip GETTY

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£2m Riviera retreat SPLASH NEWS Formula 1 world champion Nigel Mansell is for sale. É RICHARD Attenborough’s Riviera É GEORGE AND AMAL CLOONEY In Bendinat on the island of estate is for sale. have splashed out £10,000 on a small Mallorca, Mansell’s former retreat is The celebrated actor and director boat for their Oxfordshire estate. part of a private community of 14 used the property in the picturesque The A-list couple are still putting luxury villas with communal gardens Provençal village of Châteauneuf- the finishing touches to the five- and a swimming pool. Grasse as his holiday home and and-a-half acre Sonning pile, There are four double bedrooms would invite friends and family, which they bought two years and the large terrace has a brick-built including brother David and Bond ago for a rumoured BBQ and a wood-burning pizza oven legend Roger Moore, to stay. £7.5 million. for al fresco dining. Comprising more than four They love being close to the Listed at £819,000 with hectares (about 10 acres) of gently water and chose to marry in Sell4LessSpain.com it would be ideal sloped grounds, it offers Venice so that Clooney could for keen golfers as the Real Golf de uninterrupted countryside views all lead a parade of boats down Bendinat club is just a few minutes the way to the Mediterranean. the Grand Canal. away by foot. Perfect for summer escapes, the Now the pair can jump grounds include a swimming pool, a aboard their new love boat covered patio and hundreds of for rowing trips down the century-old olive trees. Thames. Lord Attenborough, who acquired With renovations the plot in the 1980s, revamped the expected to have cost in main house to include four the region of £20 million it bedrooms, three bedrooms and an seems achieving your open-plan living room. dream makeover doesn’t Listed with Sotheby’s International come cheap for the Realty for just over £2 million, it is Clooneys. still in good condition.

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rise estates that crushed the spirit of so With its hidden nature reserves, the many people. Planners are now encour- capital is an amazingly green city. aging developers to “design in” green space — orchards, meadows and allot- Now new home owners can enjoy ments — with built-in flood defences as these spaces, says David Spittles an environmental priority. CREATIVE LANDSCAPING THE 15,000-home neighbourhood at N INSPIRED project that Greenwich Peninsula is starting to take involves relocating tens of The aim is to shape, with apartments in glass-clad thousands of “unwanted” ‘bring plants waterfront towers available to buy off- plants from the Chelsea and people plan now. Already, an ecology park with Flower Show to a former two lakes managed by the Land Trust gasworksA in Greenwich where an entire together. To charity has been established beside a new district is being built is yet another integrate yacht club. This wildlife sanctuary has example of how London is at the fore- a nature trail and adventure play area front of innovative moves to weave community, for kids and also links into a new 1.5-mile nature into the urban fabric. nature and riverside walk. Prices from £410,000. Opening next week, Farmopolis has a Call 020 8305 2712. floating “jetty garden” on the Thames culture’ Ever more ambitious projects prove that is also a new cultural venue and creative landscaping is no longer the community hub, with food and nature afterthought in new housing. Develop- activities such as experimental supper ers are also opening up and improving RESERVOIRS OF HOPE homes. It sits in zone 2 and occupies an Stunning setting: clubs, botanical jewellery-making, liter- neglected and derelict sites that have “ALL kinds of amazing things are pos- stunning setting alongside two vast Woodberry Down ary clubs and theatre workshops. been closed to the public for genera- sible,” says NLL. “Because of global reservoirs and the New River. It is 64 is 64 acres and The aim is to “bring plants and people tions, transforming them into areas warming and population growth, we acres in total. A sailing club uses one of 4,600 new together. To integrate community, recreation and relaxation. need city-wide strategies — a dynamic the reservoirs for water sports, while homes alongside nature and culture,” says Heather Ring, All these projects are only the start, and integrated approach to our limited the other is a nature reserve with a jog- two vast director of Wayward, a collective of according to New London Landscape, land resources.” gers “trim trail”. Crisp new apartment reservoirs and landscape designers, architects and a forum for some of the capital’s best London’s giant reservoirs are ripe blocks are linked by a series of “pocket the New River urban growers that focuses on under- and brightest architects and eco-cam- territory for this. parks” and open spaces. utilised land and forgotten spaces. paigners, which is backing ideas such Woodberry Down, Hackney, where Designated “Sites of Metropolitan Planners see the sense in putting ecol- as the transformation of a disused rail- an old council estate has been bulldozed Importance”, the reservoirs had been ogy at the heart of new housing projects. way siding in Peckham into an elevated and rebuilt in an initiative between pri- off-limits for 200 years but have The memory is only too recent of those green space, a version of New York’s vate developers and the council, has become a popular place for sailing harsh and brutal post-war concrete high High Line, lined by new homes. created a neighbourhood of 4,600 new clubs, recreation and an enjoyable Find all the best new homes in London and around the UK at EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 7 New homes | Homes & Property

Pond life: families explore Camley Street Natural Park in King’s Cross, left. where the old canal laps by the gasholders (far left)

1&2BEDROOMAPARTMENTS Towering vision: apartments at MAIDAHILL W10 Barratt Homes’ scheme Hendon Waterside will overlook the Welsh Harp reservoir, right

Water works: Taylor Wimpey’s Onyx scheme of 117 ﬂats alongside Camley Park at on the Regent’s Canal, right, close to King’s Cross

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walk for buggy-pushing mums from the wider area who like to visit the wet- AVAILABLE NOW lands environmental resource centre and cafe. There is even urban bee- keeping and honey production. Aptly-named Nature Collection, the PRICES FROM £525,000 latest block of apartments has been unveiled, with prices starting at £475,000. Call Berkeley Homes on 020 8895 9918. ! Hendon Waterside, with 2,000 new homes on 30 acres, borders the giant # # Welsh Harp reservoir, a Site of Special Scientific Interest also home to a canoe club. This leafy new neighbourhood 020 7758 8487 has a mix of high-rise and low-rise buildings with shops and cafés at street level. Vista, the latest phase, is a 26- [email protected] storey tower with two-bedroom water- view apartments priced from £489,500. Call 0844 811 4321.

DOWN BY THE WATERSIDE Camley Street Natural Park in King’s Thames focus: Barratt’s Fulham Prices from £755,000. Call Barratt on " Cross is another place where birds and Riverside, where a 160-metre jetty 0844 811 4334. butterflies now flourish. This two-acre will “host” a nature reserve wildlife refuge is wedged between rail- EVELOPERS and South- way tracks and the Regent’s Canal. Once countryside in inner London, has been wark council are looking at used to store coal transported along the spruced up and enlarged by developer the feasibility of reinstating canal, the spot was earmarked as a St James, which has built eight new a section of Surrey Canal, coach park but survives as a serene family homes next to the farm, part of concreted over in 1971, but nature reserve where you can wander wider regeneration along Albert offeringD the potential to create coveted along overgrown pathways, hear the Embankment. Call 020 8246 4190. waterside homes. rush of water running through a nearby Fulham Riverside is a redevelop- This lost waterway ran through Ber- lock and from the grass verges watch ment of the former Kops Brewery, mondsey, an area recently designated # # colourful barge boats pass through. where 467 apartments surround a an “opportunity zone” by the Mayor Residents of Onyx, a scheme of 117 central podium garden running down and now earmarked for major housing flats alongside the park and overlook- to the Thames and a new 160-metre schemes. A new train station will be ing the canal, have this privilege. Prices jetty will “host” a nature reserve man- built at Surrey Canal Road, linked to an from £675,000. Call Taylor Wimpey on aged by Thames Explorer Trust and £850 million project that includes 020 3866 0956. provide a safe access point for river- 2,400 new homes and a sporting village Vauxhall City Farm, a little piece of based sports and educational activities. on 30 derelict acres. 8 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Commuting

£750,000: 60-MINUTE journey from Manor Place, a London brings in range ﬁve-bedroom endless options for those Grade II-listed considering leaving the The house for sale in capital, whether you want Tabors Hill, Great Aa busy modern town or the sleepier Baddow, two historic option, a quintessentially pretty miles south of village or wide open countryside. best of Chelmsford. In the latest in Homes and Property’s Savills series on the best locations for com- Chelmsford muters, get the lowdown on five more (01245 930107) great choices at all price ranges. both CHELMSFORD ESSEX What it costs: An average home costs just under £275,000, up 17 per cent in worlds the past two years. A typical flat costs £178,000 while an average house costs £335,000 (source: Savills). A commute within The commute: 34 minutes to Liverpool Street. An annual season costs £4,748. 60 minutes brings all Top schools: King Edward VI Gram- mar — Kegs as it is known locally — is sorts of possibilities one of the top secondary schools in the UK. It is boys-only until the sixth form, into play, explains but younger girls can opt for the excellent Chelmsford County High School. Ruth Bloomfield Who it would suit: Those who want it all: all mod cons in the town centre, gorgeous rolling Essex countryside on the doorstep. The town centre is stuffed with chain stores, useful but a bit cloneish, but Old Moulsham has an excellent mix of cafés and independent !# # '# ! shops. The town’s sports facilities are particularly good, and Stansted Airport is a 20-minute drive away. And the downsides? Not much period property in the town centre (though many modern homes) — for country charm head to a satellite village like Great Baddow.

WINDSOR AND ETON £575,000: a three-bedroom terraced BERKSHIRE house in Arthur Road, half a mile from What it costs: An average home costs Windsor’s town centre, shops and £501,000, up 16 per cent in the last two stations. Hardings (01753 377053) years. An average house sells for £596,000, and an average flat for and some independent shops around £365,000 (source: Savills). the old town. It is rammed with not The commute: 51 minutes to Padding- very good restaurants, bars and cafés ton or 56 to Waterloo. An annual sea- — too many chains. Locals head out to son costs £2,904. nearby villages to eat at gorgeous pubs Top schools: Besides Eton College, like The Royal Oak in Paley Street and Windsor’s state schools are a slightly Michelin-star favourites in Bray. mixed bag of top performers and those And the downsides? It’s noisy on the Ofsted says “require improvement”. St flight path, and expensive. You could Edward’s Catholic First School, Hilltop easily spend millions on one of Windsor’s First School, and Windsor Girls’ School landmark Georgian townhouses with (senior) are all rated outstanding. castle views; and even a two-bedroom Who it would suit: Royal watchers Georgian cottage is about £500,000. On %!"# &!""!" who like the Queen’s wide open spaces the upside a three-bedroom 1930s semi and do not mind aircraft noise. Wind- costs between £350,000 to £400,000. & " sor is full of tourists but its Great Park Year round you will trip over American has the Thames running by it, plus tourists who have come to tour Eton, &-4+5- 1/ , ), % )- 1 ! -$ ) - 11- +44-+1 splendid Georgian homes and some breeding ground for our prime ministers . -$ ), 0-- *-,5 +0))+- ))5- - 1 ( )+- charming streets of terraces and cot- and enjoy the Queen’s home. tages. Leisure could be boating, horse . ,4), 1 0- 0-) . 0- ! 0 )1)4 )3 riding and golfing. Windsor has a Heart of Essex: the Shire Hall in the 51 - * )1 , &)-4 decent shopping centre for wet days, centre of Chelmsford

THE CHALFONTS villages have something for everyone. & . ( BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Little Chalfont isn’t amazingly pretty What it costs: An expensive option but it has the station, Dr Challoner’s, with average prices £705,000, up 23 reasonable shops and is handy for the per cent in the past two years. Houses M25. Chalfont St Peter is bigger, not cost an average £742,000, and flats exactly attractive, with several pubs, ))).3$$ 1.)3$.$$$ come in at £290,000 (source: Savills). decent shops, a tennis club, golf course The commute: Chalfont & Latimer and proximity to Gerrards Cross. $12/$ 1 20 20 station is right out in Zone 8 (!) of the Chalfont St Giles is adorable with its ,,, !*-# %+#*'- % +" Tube. Alternatively mainline services cottages around a village green with . . . )0$ to Marylebone take 35 minutes. An pond and has countryside good looks, 1$ 3 annual season ticket costs £3,036. while Chalfont Heights is posh with a Top schools: This is a grammar private gated estate. All the Chalfonts school area. Selective Dr Challoner’s are in easy reach of the Chilterns. High School is one of the UK’s top And the downsides? It’s not cheap, state girls school, with an “outstanding” and it has a bit of a dormitory feel. Its Ofsted report. Both Little Chalfont swift commute has long made the Primary School and Chalfont St Peter Chalfonts a commuter hotspot, so if - 15- )- )15)- 0/)0 1 1,1+)1 - 4 1+- +-+ ) 15- . *41+)1 * )- *2-+ +0)/- 10 1+- Infant School get top marks too. you dream of escaping London types )+1411- *2-+ ,-5), ), )/- . ,- -45- Who it would suit: The four Chalfont you might struggle here. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 9 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Commuting | Homes & Property

PETERSFIELD tucked into the South Downs. Because HAMPSHIRE of its low profile and distance from What it costs: Average price is London Petersfield is neither a tourist £372,000, up 12 per cent in two years. trap nor a commuter dormitory town. A house costs an average of £416,000, The property is dreamy, whether you flats £194,000 (source: Savills). want a barn conversion with views of The commute: Slight cheat — fastest open fields, a proper country pile with trains to Waterloo take an hour and pony paddocks, a Georgian townhouse three minutes — but its qualities to or a pretty little cottage. There is a make up for an extra 180 seconds on twice-weekly market, plus good shops the train. An annual season is £4,308. and restaurants. £1.5 million: ﬁve- Top schools: Petersfield Infant And the downsides? That slowish bedroom Heath School is rated “outstanding” by commute is a grind. If you can’t afford Farmhouse in Ofsted, while Herne Junior School a character family house in the centre Petersﬁeld, and The Petersfield School (seniors) of Petersfield (up to £1 million) you right, dates from both rate as “good”. could find yourself pushed to a new the 16th century. Who it would suit: Those who build development on the outskirts of Winkworth dream of the perfect country town, town — better value but less charm. (01730 621136)

Charming streets: Windsor, left, is best enjoyed away from the tourists LUTON BEDFORDSHIRE What it costs: Cheapest of the bunch, with average property prices just over £194,000, up 28 per cent in two years. Houses cost an average of £222,000 and flats £221,000 (source: Savills). The commute: Just 23 minutes to St Pancras. Annual season £3,960. Top schools: Plenty of well-regarded primaries, and Barnfield South Acad- emy, Barnfield West Academy, and Cardinal Newman Catholic School (all seniors) are all rated “good” by Ofsted. Who it would suit: Those who need bang for their buck: value is exceptional. A three- to four-bedroom 1930s house is about £350,000. For a more rural feel,

ALAMY two or three miles north are pretty villages — Offley and Lilley are the picks. And the downsides? Luton regularly stars in league tables of Britain’s ugliest towns. The town centre is dreary. What Luton does have is hope. An influx of London buyers can make huge changes, and the local council plans to invest £1.5 billion over the next 20 years, including redevelopment of the airport, regeneration of the run-down High Town area and The Mall shopping centre, hundreds of new homes, shops and restaurants in a series of mixed develop- " #& % " % ments, and a new football stadium. 3$00 ($ (3$00 $3 (

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From £101,500: 35 per cent of a one-bedroom ﬂat at The Lamptons, left and far left, A2Dominion’s development in Isleworth, with homes set aside for ﬁrst-timers

Watering hole on the water: enjoy a pint at The London Apprentice, Grade II-listed Georgian pub beside the Thames

S SURGING London prices drive buyers further from Old Isleworth: traditionally desirable the original area areas, the often-over- of settlement is a looked neighbourhood of picturesque IsleworthA is starting to gain traction historic spot with with families priced out of Chiswick period property and Richmond — and with first-time buyers priced out of just about everywhere. Isleworth is a bit of a suburb of two halves — gorgeous, Georgian Old Isle- worth is the London village you’ve probably never heard of, complete with cute delis and cafés and walks along the Thames. The rest of the area is more modern, and more urban, but nonetheless a well-linked postcode with regeneration on the cards and the potential for price growth. The good news for those who like weekend breaks abroad that it is near Heathrow. The bad news is — you’ll know it. First-time buyers who like the sound of being half an hour or so from the centre of London, with lashings of green space on the doorstep, and all for just a fraction over £100,000, will be delighted to learn that housing association A2Dominion has just launched its latest development in Isleworth. The Lamptons is a contemporary scheme of 155 new homes, with 27 set Buy in a riverside village for £100k aside for first-time buyers.

YOU’RE WELL CONNECTED Prices at The Lamptons start from New first-time buyer flats near Isleworth’s great Thames-side walks and pubs enjoy £101,500 for 35 per cent of a one-bed- fast links to the West End and are just a hop from Heathrow. By Ruth Bloomfield room flat. Two-bedroom flats start at £133,000. Buyers will also need to fac- tor in rent for the portion of the property they don’t own, and the cost of rent at £515 and service charge at £134. utes — or Heathrow airport in less than aircraft noise, and although it is set has its compensations. “You are service charges. This means monthly costs stand at 15. Both stations are about a 10-minute back slightly, traffic will still be audible between beautiful, quirky, Old Isle- Buyers of the one-bedroom flats who £1,466.77. walk from The Lamptons, and an from the private terraces and balconies worth, which is more leafy and has got put down a 10 per cent deposit will pay The nearest transport links are from annual season ticket costs £1,860. There to the front of the building. some great riverside pubs and walks, just over £624 for their mortgage, £393 Isleworth station, which has mainline are also plenty of cycle storage spaces and Hounslow which is more eclectic in rent, and another £110 for service services to Waterloo in 37 minutes. and charging points for electric cars. However, Sancia Keogh, head of market- and bustling, and where a lot of regen- charge, bringing costs to a total of Alternatively pick up the Piccadilly line The compromise here is that the ing at A2Dominion, believes that resi- eration is planned,” she says. £1,127 a month. For two-bedroom flats at Hounslow East in Zone 4, which gets development, in London Road, is close dents quickly get used to this sort of the mortgage is estimated at £817.77, you to the West End in less than 40 min- enough to the airport to be affected by background noise, and that the area O Visit fabrica.co.uk/the-lamptons

I THE LOWDOWN ON ISLEWORTH FIrst-time buy: this Past: during the 18th and 19th Hepburn, was largely filmed at the detached centuries fruit and vegetables from Isleworth Studios in Worton Road. It is cottage in the many orchards and market now an industrial estate. Worton Road, gardens of Isleworth supplied London Isleworth, has markets. What it costs: an average home in the two bedrooms, TW7 postcode costs £458,310, up from a back garden Future: Isleworth’s neglected Pit Park, £387,549 a year ago, says Rightmove. and the believed to be named after its former potential to use as a Victorian rubbish dump, is to Landmarks: Syon House, London extend. It’s on be turned into a waterside nature home of the Duke of Northumberland. the market at reserve, while Barratt London and The lease was acquired in 1594 by £399,999 with Wilson Bowden Developments are Henry Percy, 9th Earl of local agent overseeing a major regeneration of Northumberland. Oakhill (020 neighbouring Hounslow which will 8012 9095) bring a cinema and many more shops Eat: home-baked ciabatta and coffee at and restaurants to the area by 2020. Syon Coffee House in St John’s Road. Buy: stock up with low cost, pre-loved Walk: Inwood and Thornbury are Trivial pursuit: classic movie The Drink: enjoy a pint on the terrace of furniture at the Hounslow Furniture among several local parks. Slightly A matter of taste: try the ciabatta at African Queen (1951), starring Georgian pub The London Apprentice, Recycling Project in Northcote further away, stroll beside the Thames Syon Coffee House in St John’s Road Humphrey Bogart and Katharine overlooking the Thames. Avenue. through the 200 acres of Syon Park. 12 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Homes abroad Take a train to a land of lavender and vines Luberon hilltop homes ooze old-style French charm. Londoners can be there in under seven hours, says Cathy Hawker

AST of Avignon and north of Aix-en-Provence, the WE LOVE THE PACE OF LIFE, Luberon is one of the most celebrated areas of Provence. THE WEATHER, THE PEOPLE Vertiginous hilltop towns andE villages stand proud above olive groves and neat lines of vines, and the rhythm of daily life is much as it has been for generations. This is old-style France but with a truly international appeal. “The Luberon is an exceptionally natural area,” says Christine Conrad of Savills associate Valancogne & Part- ners. “You can drive between villages without seeing any built-up areas. It’s very rural but hosts summer festivals and concerts and is less sophisticated and less Parisian than the neighbouring Alpilles — it attracts wealthy people looking for a less showy life.”

HILLTOP VILLAGE HOMES They made the JOHN AND ANNIE LUPTON from the The Luberon is much larger than the move: John and New Forest had a holiday home in Alpilles, generally quieter and more Annie Lupton left Nice for five years before they seasonal, with property prices around Hampshire for decided to make the move from 25 per cent lower. Connections are Cabrières Hampshire to the Luberon. good, with Marseille airport within one d’Avignon, where Eleven years ago they bought a hour and the high-speed train station at they let two self- ramshackle 15th-century property in Avignon within 45 minutes, offering contained gîtes Cabrières d’Avignon and over 15 direct services to St Pancras in six hours months transformed it into a and 40 minutes. fabulous family home with two self- Gorgeous Gordes is the region’s epi- contained gîtes across the pretty centre but Ménerbes, Roussillon, Bon- cobbled courtyard. nieux, Oppède and Lourmarin to the “We like the pace of life, the local south are all notable. Typical village markets, the people and the weather,” homes have honey-coloured stone and says Annie. “It’s just a lovely area and smooth vaulted ceilings and lie up a thriving busy village surrounded by against each other. They were built to gorgeous countryside. You can walk be cool in the heat of summer so some and cycle through the vines and olive can be dark and some have little out- groves or canoe on the Sorgue. The

side space or no parking. Yet these ALAMY local produce is exceptional and we all remain sought-after homes. focus on eating seasonal food.” “All hilltop villages are expensive miles from Gordes, Cabrières d’Avignon Lavender in the population of 1,400. A restored village Annie’s comfortable gîtes, featuring now,” agrees Conrad. “A small and is outside the “Golden Triangle” of Luberon: the house in Cabrières d’Avignon with an monogrammed French linen sheets simple unrenovated house of 1,000 to hilltop villages but still very much medieval hilltop old olive tree in the front garden is O La Vieille and thick antique cotton curtains, 1,600sq ft in Bonnieux would start from sought after with international buyers, town of Banon, £746,000. It has three bedrooms, a Maison: are available to rent from April to £256,000 but as soon as it is modern- says Conrad. It has a bakery, a grocer’s Alpes-de-Haute- swimming pool, good mountain views, vieille-maison- September. Prices start from £760 a ised it would reach £682,000.” Four shop, butcher and restaurant, and a Provence and is on the market with Savills. provence.com week. In the centre of Ménerbes, a restored and character-packed three-bedroom house over three floors with an unusu- £1,022,000: ally large amount of outside space is between £929,000, also with Savills. Avignon is Cavaillon and 40 minutes away and the shops of Cheval Blanc, a Coustellet are 10 minutes by car. farmhouse with A three-bedroom house with separate pool and gardens two-bedroom guesthouse in the medi- (Savills) eval village of Lauris, 30 minutes from Aix, is £553,000 with Second Home.

LIVING AMONG THE VINES Better value can be found on the edge of the Luberon in the flatter agricul- tural land around Cavaillon and L’Isle- sur-la-Sorgue. Large farmhouses and smaller cottages here might lack the romance of hilltop properties, but the From £760 a week: gîtes at La Vieille Maison feature Want upside is a comfortable and spacious monogrammed linen sheets and antique cotton curtains home in a peaceful setting. to buy A beautiful old stone farmhouse with £1,125,000: a blue shutters in the foothills of the a home stone house with Luberon between Cavaillon and Cheval ﬁve bedrooms Blanc, with thick, cooling walls and in the and outbuildings 3,552sq ft of living space, is £1,022,000 sun? at Ménerbes with Savills. It has a large heated out- (Savills) door pool and gardens with outbuildings and barns. A handsome, 18th-century, five-bedroom farmhouse in the south close to Lourmarin, 20 miles from Aix, is £554,000 through Leggett.

O Savills: savills.com (020 7016 3740) O Second Home: secondhome.ch O Leggett: frenchestateagents.com Tranquil haven: swimming pool in the pretty garden (08700 11 5151) EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 13 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Profile | Homes & Property

WANKY and Stratford are two thing held up with cantilevers. It will words you wouldn’t normally be clad in glass and vertical terracotta see together but by the time sun baffles that make striking, changing property developer Harry patterns. There will be a hotel and a Handelsman has finished, the triple-height 15,000sq ft lobby with a eastS London district’s reputation could brasserie and bar open to all, while 248 be transformed. flats will range from studios to double- Handelsman, 65, a German-born height lofts, to a £10 million penthouse Canadian, pioneered loft living in Lon- that’s already sold to a British buyer. don and has been ahead of the curve since he moved here from Toronto in GARDENS IN THE SKY 1983. His instinct for spotting an under- Non-residents can use the lobby and valued area and building something the sixth-floor hotel restaurant set in a there that generates vibe and provides 20,000sq ft garden. However, Handels- focus has proved a winning formula man says: “I don’t want pizza deliveries — for him and for Londoners. going through my lobby,” so there’s a He bought a Clerkenwell warehouse back entrance, too. for £435,000 in 1992 and sold 23 Lon- The British love their gardens, he says, doners the concept of loft living. His but don’t use balconies the way Euro- company’s name, Manhattan Loft Cor- peans do. “Drive around London and poration, suggested easy-going urban look up, and they’re empty or used for glamour. storage. But go into a communal garden He has never sold cheap: he sees on a sunny February and everyone is uplift over the horizon and factors it there. So there’ll be gardens where the into the price. In his early days, he says, residents can meet up. Apartments in sniffy estate agents told him the value towers can be lonely. This is your home, he put on his apartments “was nuts”. where you are going to spend a lot of

But the flats sold anyway. GLENN COPUS your time, so I think, how can I make Bankside Lofts next to Tate Modern Here’s one I made earlier: Harry Handelsman at St Pancras Renaissance; Manhattan Loft Gardens, above, with 248 ﬂats that really enjoyable for you?” followed in 1995. “It was previously a He lives in a penthouse north of Hyde no-go area,” he says, “but I didn’t look including penthouses. It was very high Park with his partner, Elizabeth Comp- at that, I just looked over there.” He spec and obviously high risk, but since ton-Batt, and their daughter, Allegra, points across the river to the dome of its 2011 completion it has been a cata- 14. He negotiated for the Stratford site St Paul’s and the City beyond: “Every- lyst for the area, now joined by refur- in 2009-2010, but when planners saw thing important was so close.” He bished King’s Cross station, and his designs, “they thought I was turned an old Sixties office block and Harry’s in E20 Granary Square’s emergence nearby. insane”. He says his tower is unique. a Victorian cocoa mill into a 132-flat He effectively cut out 40 per cent of the development with a new 15-storey St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, Chiltern Firehouse PROJECTS WITH PRESENCE possible space with his gardens and tower. Designed by Piers Gough it was Which brings us — via Chiltern Fire- cantilevers, and then sliced the top — then the tallest residential new build in Marylebone — now it is Stratford’s turn for the house hotel and restaurant, a runaway “the most valuable part” — in half in London. Handelsman treatment. By Philippa Stockley success that pepped up Marylebone — to again. Planning took 15 months and Stratford. Pre-Olympics and the prom- building started in June last year. PASSION FOR ST PANCRAS ise of Olympicopolis, this was one of the Handelsman personally oversees the After that came a development in Ful- grottiest parts of London, and therefore designs of each flat. At 440sq ft, even ham, also by Gough, then a residential catnip to the Manhattan Loft Corpora- the studio is generous, and certainly tower at West India Quay, a stroll from tion chief executive, who bought a site well designed. Every flat can hold a Canary Wharf. Again, at 33 storeys, it next to Westfield, opposite the station huge sofa and painting. They have oak was the tallest UK residential tower at in E20. Stratford is like King’s Cross — in floors, solid oak detail, dark mirrors, the time. the next four or five years it will be THE good lighting, double doors that fold Handelsman takes risks and has a place in east London. “You have to cre- right back into recesses, a mirrored passion for property. He helped trans- ate a building with presence, quality bathroom cube, and most have a huge form St Pancras by restoring the Mid- and excitement, you can change an area double American fridge. “If you don’t land Grand Hotel. “It could have and raise the ante,” says Handelsman. want it, I’ll give you £6,000 back.” bankrupted me but I was passionate to “If the locals endorse it and it becomes All flats have floor-to-ceiling glass do something no one else would a destination, it will be a success.” walls somewhere, and as they get big- touch.” In 2004 he won permission for With architect-engineer SOM — ger they get super-glamorous. They are a £150 million refurbishment of the builder of the world’s tallest tower, the selling off-plan starting at £500,000. 19th-century hotel, a Grade I-listed Sir Burj Khalifa in Dubai — interior Building finishes in 2018. George Gilbert Scott masterpiece, to designer Studio KO, and landscape Then Handelsman will fire up another create a five-star 244-bedroom hotel architect Martha Schwartz, he is build- area. “I need to have fun,” he shrugs. — now the St Pancras Renaissance — ing Manhattan Loft Gardens, a 42- “If you don’t, what’s the point?” with several destination bars and res- storey residential tower with three taurants, and 68 fabulous flats atop, Where residents can meet: Handelsman’s new 42-storey tower has three gardens gardens cut into its sides, the whole O manhattanloftgardens.co.uk

14 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design By Katie Law My design London REBECCA HOSSAIN HEAD OF RETAIL DESIGN MUSEUM

WHERE I LIVE We bought our three-storey Victorian house in Streatham 16 years ago. I live there with my husband, Christopher,

our three children Jordan, 23, Joshua, ALAMY 20 and Charlotte, 17, and 24 bike frames. We love its traditional features Secret getaway: including a stone floor and exposed Herne Hill wooden beams in the kitchen, the velodrome is an original wooden winding staircase, a oasis of calm working range in the dining room and three Victorian cisterns. The garden came with an original 1880s summer house and a pond with 200 frogs. Our mixed heritage of Bengali, Danish, Sierra Leone and Irish means we have put our eclectic stamp of colour and culture on the house and somehow it all works. We did most of the work and still do so.

MY STYLE LEWIS JORDAN Growing up in a colourful place like Mixed heritage: Rebecca Hossain has put an eclectic stamp of culture on her home Bangladesh made me understand the power of colour and I fell in love with Stunning: Camille Playing with rickshaw art. I started collecting the Walala’s Play More shades: Paul original metal panels made for the cushion, £35 Smith anglepoise backs of rickshaw seats on rickshaws (camillewalala.com) lamp, £160 which often feature Bollywood-style inspired by a painting (anglepoise.com) actors painted in bright colours. I also she did in Shoreditch collect nakshi kantha (embroidered quilts) and sari designs. When we bought our house I was going through my Moroccan phase. The living room is painted terracotta, one of the bathrooms in a firecracker red and another one is a pale lime green. Having worked for Farrow and Ball in 2007, I had access to the Unusual loveliest chalkiest paint and have not accessories: looked back: Green Ground is in my T&Shop natural dining room. I’ve collected cushions woven wicker from India, bought from Liberty and storage baskets Designers Guild, Anthropologie and from £30

the Conran Shop, online from Plumo, ALAMY (tandshop.com) bags from Rau in Islington but mostly Power of colour: Hossain collects rickshaw panels like this one in Bangladesh I buy from markets on my travels. The first kilim I bought was over a Vintage fun: Lavish Habit in Balham, glass of sweet mint tea in the Grand left, offers these original 1950s G Plan Bazaar in Istanbul, but I have bought E-Gomme butterﬂy dining chairs, some equally stunning ones at John below, at £140 each (lavishhabit.co.uk) Lewis. My growing woven textiles collection comes from the tribal areas of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, including the Chakma tribe.

MOST TALENTED NEW DESIGNERS: My favourite talented new designer who mixes art and design so well is Camille Walala. Camille creates stunning, bold design and art statements that on walls of buildings REID REBECCA spread instant cheer. London is brighter for her! I also love Tom in a different hue to create a practical High on FAVOURITE SHOP: Pigeon’s stationery, prints and and beautiful lamp. atmosphere: the Two shops I visit frequently are accessories in simple shapes with Elephant T&Shop, 78 Green Lanes, N16 copper and brass detailing. Lindsey BEST DESIGNED CAFÉ: Pakistani (tandshop.com) and Future and Lang has a keen eye for shape and Anywhere in Brixton covered market restaurant in Found, 225A Brecknock Road, N19 colour and applies it beautifully to is high on atmosphere, especially Brixton (futureandfound.com) for their range tiles, textiles and paper. Elephant, a Pakistani restaurant with of unusual interior accessories. beautiful elephant-themed wallpaper. open to all, was built in 1891 and is Lavish Habit, 75 Bedford Hill, SW12 MY OBJECT OF DESIRE: Bravi Ragazzi is a good Neapolitan the only remaining venue still in (lavishhabit.co.uk) has a fun selection My Anglepoise designed by Paul pizzeria which has turned large operation from the 1948 Olympic of vintage and original homeware. Smith, which you can buy at colourful painted pomodoro tins into Games. It’s an oasis of calm. Sitting in anglepoise.com. It’s not easy to useful cutlery storage on your table. the track centre with a cup of Jan’s O The Design Museum reopens in its improve on the original but Paul tea (she’s been making tea there new location in High Street Smith has used different colours for MY SECRET ESCAPE: since Bradley Wiggins first raced Kensington on November 24, 2016. the different parts of his limited- Herne Hill Velodrome is my secret there), watching the sunset/cloud Its shop is already open at 224 High edition design with each component getaway. The iconic open-air track is formations always relaxes me. Street Kensington (020 7940 8775) 16 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Design homesandproperty.co.uk powered by

Left: Miniforms Slope Pendant lamps, £213, Go Modern (gomodern. co.uk)

Right: TM Italia Miuccia kitchen, from £40,000 at Hub Kitchens, 20 Lombard Road, SW11 (hubkitchens. com, 020 7924 2285)

Made in Italy There’s a small Renaissance in town as niche Italian brands are charming Londoners with their blend of traditional skills and innovation. Jenny Dalton reports

EN D S S U N D AY Above: Diesel new Open Workshop bathroom, £POA. Scavolini, 39 Fortune Green Road, West Hampstead NW6 (london-westhampstead.scavolinistore.net, 020 8090 0909)

OU MIGHT well be au fait with the likes of Boffi, Cappellini and Moroso, but what about more niche Italian brands Flou, MiniForms,Y De Padova and Scavolini? Such smaller design brands are landing in the UK, and in particular London, because demand is growing SAVE UP TO 50% ON for what Scavolini’s UK branch manager Giacomo Meoli describes as “our Made in Italy values”. “Novelty and standing apart from FURNITURE the crowd is what everyone is looking for,” explains Theo Mance, managing director of Kings of Chelsea, which ACCESSORIES distributes Roberto Cavalli Home in the UK. “Standardisation is not the way forwards, and the niche Italian Above: Miniforms owner Daniele Brutto has just brands offer all this.” Ouverture Dining launched TM Italia’s latest kitchen, PLUS Add to this the fact many Italian Chairs, £420 called Miuccia, which features rose brands want to tap into London’s each, Go Modern. gold handles and ribbed deep blue major building projects with their (gomodern.co.uk) cabinetry. De Padova, now owned by Designer Brands high-end contract furnishings Boffi, is seeking its own stand-alone (FontanaArte’s reason for opening Below: Gentleman store. Aram will host luxury Clearance Area with Moroso in Clerkenwell), coupled bed, £3,617, by bedroom brand Flou from August. with a recent growth in interest in Carlo Colombo Poliform has introduced more niche At our Tottenham Court Road store with great discounts on: mid-century design, and you have a for Flou, at Aram accessories labels in store to small Italian Renaissance at hand. from August compliment its furniture. These VITRA | TOM DIXON | RIVA At Hub Kitchens in Battersea co- (aram.co.uk) include CC-Tapis — rugs made in Nepal DE LA ESPADA | LIGNE ROSET — as well as Nemo lighting. Scavolini showed its kitchens — including a collaboration with Italian fashion brand Diesel — at Birmingham’s kitchen fair this year, and architect Foster & Partners turned to Lumina, a small, family-owned manufacturer near Venice, for new minimal lamps. The reason? As Foster & Partners’ head of product design Mike Holland says: “The Italians are still makers with historic depth of skills and an open-minded approach to innovation that sets them apart.” 20 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | My home homesandproperty.co.uk

Showcase: Laura Lakin, left, with Dusty, her Bernese Mountain Dog. After her diploma in architectural interior design, Lakin found, in an east London Nineties conversion of a Victorian school, the perfect loft ﬂat to try out her own ideas

School is so cool A warehouse-style flat in an old East End school was given drama and style with a new black kitchen, white floorboards and glazed doors throwing natural light throughout, discovers Philippa Stockley

XPOSED brick, glass-brick walls an awkward and pointless curved wall, Monochrome and wood floors: the once- was a narrow second bedroom and a works its magic: exciting Nineties warehouse living room. The flat had wood-effect left and above, looked dated, but it was just laminate floors and an entire wall of the living space, what interior designer Laura windows, but the dividers took the light in the centre of Lakin,E 31, was searching for. One of nine away. Lakin fell in love with those high the ﬂat, with the bidders, she put in her offer on the ceilings and tall windows. The building all-black kitchen 880sq ft flat in a Victorian former school wasn’t listed, but she went to see the running along building in east London — and won. planners to check regulations for the big the back wall Half English and half French, Lakin changes she wanted to make. making a smart studied languages and film at university counterpoint to in Newcastle, later going into PR for Walt At one end she wanted a bedroom and the rest of the Disney and buying a small flat in west bathroom for a flatmate. In the middle, room, which is London. She saved to fund her year-long she envisaged a big, dramatic kitchen white and light. diploma in architectural interior design and living space. At the other end would Engineered oak at the prestigious Inchbald School. be a glamorous bedroom for her with its ﬂoorboards After that, she did up a house with her own en-suite. throughout pull brother, an architect. But she really Ambitiously, she wanted to squeeze in everything wanted to showcase her own ideas in a a guest bathroom, too. She needed a fire together. The flat of her own in a cool area. door and a sprinkler system, but the rest diamond-pattern was left up to her. Lappljung Ruta The market was on fire in east London, Builders began gutting the place in rug is from Ikea where most of the warehouse-type prop- October 2014 and in four months, the flat erties for sale were to be found, and was transformed. New walls went in, with everyone was after one. After losing out high-up glazing in the wall to the friend’s CREATING FLOW living area, the kitchen takes up the on a couple, Lakin spotted the school bedroom. The friend’s bathroom, while Beyond a glazed door, the walk-through whole back wall and is all black — black conversion online. A huge, well-built small, has a distressed mirror behind the en-suite bathroom has Carrara marble marble, black cooker hood, black brick building with high ceilings and big Visit houzz.co.uk bath, plus bespoke, full-length linen shower tiles and all fittings, from rainwa- cooker, black units. It’s both smart and metal windows, its many classrooms for more home shower curtains lined in plastic, and ter shower head to taps, are matt black. a great counterpoint to the rest of the were converted to lofts in the Nineties. inspiration and glamorous modern fittings. This bathroom connects by a second, room, which is white and light. The second-floor flat Lakin managed to design advice At the other end, Lakin’s own suite is lockable door to the extra washroom. Engineered white oak floorboards buy had been rented out for years. cool and white. Beneath the soaring ceil- Everything can be opened to create throughout pull everything together, The oblong space had a bedroom at ing is a white four-poster, while bespoke flow. To carve out the extra space Lakin while big, modern pendant lamps create one end and a kitchen with no windows Photographs:: linen blinds in a big print add their pop made the hall minimal but stylish, focus and drama in the high voids — and at the other. In the middle, carved up by Juliet Murphy of colour. painted almost-black. In the big, central avoid the fussy clutter of table lamps. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 21 powered by My home | Homes & Property

Getting the balance right: the second bedroom, far left, has high windows to the living space, above, where the sofa was chosen for quality as “it’s always on view”; luxurious washroom touches, left; Lakin’s bedroom suite, right, is cool and white, with four-poster beneath the soaring ceiling. The bespoke linen blind adds a pop of colour

TORAGE goes right up to the WHAT IT COST O Dark paint in a small space, such as a GET THE LOOK O Black-and-white rug in living area: ceiling wherever possible. Smart The flat cost £500,000 in 2011; £90,000 hall, creates drama. O Design: by Laura Lakin ikea.co.uk steel switch plates and industrial was spent, excluding designer’s fees. The O Pendant lamps by the bed maximise (lauralakindesign.com) O Four-poster bed: getlaidbeds.co.uk radiators complete a look that flat is valued now at £845,000. bedside table space and look glamorous. O White oak floor: havwoods.co.uk O Black matt fittings in master counterpoints light and dark so O Shower curtains needn’t be boring. O Nero marble splashback: from bathroom: dornbracht.com Swell. Judicious use of luxurious touches, LAURA LAKIN’S TIPS Have some made in material you love. chilternmarble.co.uk O Carrara marble tiles: from Fired such as the black marble splash back, the O Don’t follow trends. You want a O Pay for a good sofa. 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ONDON-BASED architect landing. There were doors between all Johan Hybschmann and his ‘It was smelly, there was these rooms, and this pattern repeated girlfriend, Anita, 36, a clini- upstairs. Work began. The door open- cal psychologist, were living food rotting in the oven, the ings were widened to create a sense of in a flat in Hackney. They cheap carpets were filthy. flow, internal windows were put into Lloved the area and wanted to stay, but landing walls to add light, the staircase No one else wanted it’ prices there were rising fast in late was painted and a bespoke balustrade 2014, and they were outbid repeat- of wood and brass was added. edly. Their £400,000 budget just Out went the grotty carpets and in wasn’t enough. went a streamlined kitchen. Clean, open One horrid property had 50 viewers. spaces were created in an overall design “Even the estate agent was mystified,” with freshness and plenty of wood. On says Hybschmann, 33. After five months the upper floor they took out the plas- they saw a Seventies repossession for terboard ceiling and opened up into the sale. On a council estate, it was a two- roof space, giving relatively small rooms bedroom 860sq ft upper maisonette. soaring ceiling voids and white-painted The bricks were horrible, but it had a joists, which is very attractive. little garden, and was well sound- A super-glamorous terrazzo floor was proofed. They went to view. “It was laid and a generous walk-in shower smelly, there was food rotting in the installed. Four months of work created oven, the cheap carpets were filthy.” a light, streamlined flat that seems big- Hybschmann’s eyes light up. “No one ger — a brilliant example of what can be else wanted it.” done on a tight budget. He’d set up Archmongers architec- Space saver: walk-in shower was best tural practice in N1 with Margaret What it cost: maisonette was £350,000 Bursa, whom he met at UCL’s Bartlett hold, from the council, there were and £80,000 was spent on it, excluding School of Architecture, and they were restrictions as to what could be done architects’ fees. Value now: £505,000. looking for Sixties or Seventies town- but since the internal walls were non- Architects: Margaret Bursa and Johan houses or flats to try out their ideas. structural, some reconfiguring was Hybschmann at Archmongers.com The maisonette looked ideal. possible. There was an entrance lobby, Hybschmann bought the place in Feb- then stairs to the first floor, which had Lighten up: the painted staircase with

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Historic heart: St Nicholas Church, left, dating from 1614, is on the site of an earlier church in Church Square conservation area

Spotlight on Shepperton Community spirit, good schools, great pubs — and famous film studios — define this lovely Quality butcher: James Lally, of James of Shepperton riverside village, says Anthea Masey

HE riverside village of Shepperton is known the world over as the home of Shepperton Studios, a major employer in the area, where someT of our best-loved films were made including Love Actually, Bend It Like Beckham and Atonement. This autumn Waterworld: the the studios will be able to say it played Shepperton to its part in the making of the latest Marvel Weybridge ferry Comics blockbuster, Dr Strange, with a takes cyclists and stellar cast including Benedict Cumber- foot passengers batch as the eponymous superhero. daily across the Sliced in half by the M3 motorway, Thames every 15 Shepperton sits in that south-west Lon- minutes Winners: co-ownerJames Thomson and partners at The don watery landscape that combines Red Lion, Great British Pub Awards regional best newcomer the River Thames, canals, reservoirs and former gravel pits. One of the riverside village with a strong and Village life: right, prettiest spots is around Shepperton vibrant community spirit, comple- the high street, Lock, where on a sunny afternoon, tea mented by good schools, restaurants where shops can be had at a little kiosk and visitors and pubs. Most of his buyers come include specialist can pass a peaceful few hours watching from within a five-mile radius of the womenswear the boats come and go. area, and there is a definite migration outlet Blue, co- Three of Shepperton’s four conserva- from outer south-west London spots owned by Donna tion areas seek to protect its ancient including Whitton, Hampton, Feltham, McKenna, far right village locations, including Church Hounslow and Twickenham. Shepper- Square, which the architectural writer ton is also a popular retirement spot. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described as “one Pinning Shepperton to the map, it is of the most perfect pictures that the 18 miles from central London on the area has to offer”. north or Middlesex side of the river Estate agent Owen Miles, a partner in with Ashford to the north, Sunbury-on- Keep it in the family: Jo Hornsby and her mother Wendy Curchods, says Shepperton, in the Sur- Thames and Walton-on-Thames to the Photographs: Thomson run Daisy Chain ﬂorist in Station Approach rey borough of Spelthorne, is a relaxed east, and Chertsey to the west. Daniel Lynch

£375,000 £425,000 £715,000 A two-bedroom house in Laleham Road with a Just off Russell Road, this characterful two-bedroom A four-bedroom home in Charlton Road private rear garden and decking ideal for riverside home has a study that could become a with high-spec details and an open-plan summer barbecues. Dexters (01932 781100) third bedroom. Curchods (01932 485073) kitchen. Hodders (01932 485067)

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RENTING IN SHEPPERTON (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £855 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,201 a month Two-bedroom house £1,286 a month Three-bedroom house £1,545 a month Four-bedroom house £1,903 a month Source: Rightmove

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@johnniefp curry houses. Personal favourite Excellent Thai food at Mango Café #mumbaisquare which is also a traditional café. @johnniefp @Sinead_Hen Mumbai Square and Ivory Tusk are both A sunny drink by the river great curry houses. @rlionshepperton @Thamescourt is an excellent foodies pub.

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A BIT of everything can be found Harrisons Hotel into seven flats and into The View, offering 80 one- and here. There are cottages, period three refurbished cottages. All are two-bedroom apartments with prices houses including Victorian terraces, nearly move-in ready, with prices starting at £245,000 for the one- large riverside mansions and chalets, from £450,000 for a two-bedroom bedroom homes and £295,000 for island homes, Thirties mock Tudor flat and £625,000 for a three- the two-bedroom flats. A 20 per cent semi-detached houses, bungalows, bedroom cottage. Call Hamptons on equity loan is available under the SHEPPERTON is near junctions 11 and modern houses up to the present day, 01372 390 558. Government’s Help to Buy scheme 12 of the M25 and junction 2 of the and houseboats on the river. Pinewood Mews in Laleham Road and the first occupiers are due to M3. Trains from Shepperton station, The islands in the Thames near is the conversion of a chalet-type move in later this month. Through above, to Waterloo take 55 minutes, Shepperton Lock offer an house into six flats with prices from Chancellors and Savills — call 01932 and a few minutes less from Upper “alternative” lifestyle — Pharaoh’s £230,000 for a one-bedroom home 941 445. Halliford station. A ferry from Island is only accessible by boat while and £300,000 for a two-bedroom flat. Shepperton to Weybridge for foot Hamhaugh Island has a footbridge Through Seymours (01483 755222). ■ RENTING IN SHEPPERTON passengers and cyclists leaves every Employment opportunities at 15 minutes, from 8am on weekdays, ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES Heathrow and Stockley Park have led 9am on Saturdays and 10am on The Landings in Russell Road In nearby Sunbury-on-Thames, the to strong demand for Shepperton Sundays, finishing at 5.30pm. overlooking the Thames involves the former Chubb office building in Variety’s the spice: Shepperton offers rental homes, and the average yield redevelopment of the former Staines Road West is being converted period cottages — and houseboats, too for landlords is about 4.5 per cent. 32 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Outdoors homesandproperty.co.uk powered by TURN THE AIR BLUE

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Above: brighten summer pots with the Flowers in shades of piercing blue blooms of bedding sky, sea, rich royal annual Anagaliis monellii Sky Love and navy intensify Left: both the stems and thistle-like heads of sea holly Eryngium zabellii on grey days — and Big Blue have a silvery, metallic bees love them best quality that make a stunning addition to the border

LUE, COOL and serene, is try putting baby plants around the most elusive colour in crimson bedding dahlias, apricot the garden and yet it is one begonias and even tumbling that everybody loves. Even tomatoes, scarlet or golden, for a bees are more drawn to it flattering blue ruffle. thanB any other flower colour. Convolvulus mauritanicus is the True blues — sky blue, royal blue dainty, better-behaved bindweed you and even navy — are trickier to source do want in your garden, or, more than the lavender blues and purples specifically, in your containers and of more commonplace campanula, hanging baskets, where it will merrily salvia and catmint. It is possible, produce its trails of blue-green though, to find them, and the beauty foliage studded with soft blue of blue — aside from the associations trumpet flowers, right through until of sea and sky — is that it intensifies in September. In sheltered town colour on a grey day, putting other gardens, planted as edging for raised plants in the shade. beds or window boxes, this High summer is a great time to Mediterranean bindweed will make it showcase blues in the border. through winter. Delphiniums provide sensational Anagallis monellii Sky Lover, aka shades but are difficult to grow, the shrubby pimpernel, is more than especially with this year’s heavy a team player, and, with its profusion onslaught of slugs and snails. of pink-centred flowers that are a However Anchusa azurea Loddon piercing gentian blue, deserves a Royalist makes a great vertical container all to itself. substitute and its three-foot flower Agapanthus, coming into bloom stems offer the most stunning shade just now, are the plants to add height of rich royal blue. An ideal partner and structure. Some varieties can be would be acid-green euphorbia or a wishy-washy lavender-blue, but Alchemilla mollis. Midnight Star and Navy Blue, both 36in, offer the deepest and most

SEA HOLLY’S BLOOM GAP PHOTOS/RICHARD dramatic shades of all. Team them SINGIN’ THE BLUES with white agapanthus for a crisp If you can provide it with a well- roses and keeps on blooming until flowers of a unique pale milky years. With a little thought, you can combo of navy blue and white, and drained, sunny site, Eryngium early autumn; just cut the long stems turquoise. This South American get summer containers to really sing then, as back-up, add at a lower level, zabellii Big Blue, a large-flowered back hard in late winter for another exotic is, unsurprisingly, not hardy, the blues. Don’t overlook ubiquitous in separate pots, the fresh white variety of sea holly, will reward you regal performance the following but I have seen it on a south-facing lobelia, available at every garden daisy flower osteospermum, that is with fabulous thistle-like heads and year. Tweedia caerulea is a smaller, Hampstead patio, twirling merrily centre. To create a cloud of sky blue, magically centred with a dollop of stems, all in an extraordinary twining climber, beloved by around a kitchen window, where it or a deeper sapphire, in a group of navy. metallic powder blue. butterflies, that has exquisite starry has been happily sited for some potted plants, it is unbeatable. Just Alliums, with their pompom heads OU COULD also sow a few of mauves and purples, are easy blue-flowered indispensable in the summer garden, annuals at the end of this but you can make them work harder, summer for earlier, and vary the colour palette, by stronger flowers next year. introducing the lesser known Allium TakeY your pick from cornflower caeruleum, which, as the name Centaurea cyanus Blue Boy, that is suggests, is a light cerulean. Scatter almost cobalt in colour; sky blue the bulbs through the border this Nigella damascena Miss Jekyll, and September and watch it multiply borage, with those starry azure year after year to create highlights of flowers that look so good dropped fuzzy blue that look wonderful with into a glass of Pimm’s or Prosecco. every shade of foliage and flower. Call it your blue heaven. Blue clematis? Why not? Bypass the seductive purples of the viticella O Garden queries? Email our RHS expert group of clematis for a beguiling at [email protected] shade of light blue. Free-flowering

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OUTH LONDON favourites From £899,950: new two-bedroom flats at Parkside Place Christopher Stark and the Multi-Storey Orchestra will MOST of the area around Parkside Place is a new make their BBC Proms debut Ravenscourt Park in west apartment scheme in September— in a London falls into a leafy moments from the park. Smunicipal car park in Rye Lane, conservation area and has Two-bedroom flats cost Peckham. It will be the latest über- the advantage of being from £899,950. Linden cool event to help tempt buyers and close to Hammersmith’s Homes, the developer, is renters away from overpriced lively town centre and offering to pay stamp duty Want Hackney, Hoxton and Dalston via the Chiswick’s wide-open on reservations made Innovative: flexible new homes by London Overground to the SE15 And more than 2,000 new homes — spaces. before the end of the to buy Solidspace at Blenheim Grove postcode where they can find public and private — are in the The neighbourhood also month. Call 020 3733 4229. cutting-edge clubs and cafés, gigs and pipeline as part of an Area Action has a laid-back, suburban Brook Green also borders your galleries, rooftop bars and a foodie Plan. feel, with handsome Hammersmith and is first night markets. The first of these are at Wood’s Victorian villas and another pretty conservation Peckham’s multi-storey car park Road, where apartment blocks clad terraces plus a pretty area. Bentley Place is a home? shot to fame with campari bar in warm brick have their own green garden square that opens new-build scheme of Frank’s Café. It is now busier than space and also face onto Cossall Park. onto the park — a family- apartments in the guise of ever and being turned into 50 Prices start from £450,000. Call Crest friendly space with classic Victorian terraces. affordable art studios and workshops Nicholson on 020 3437 1273. gardens and a lake, a There is a communal roof plus pop-up stores, galleries and The local council has also woken up pretty coach house, now terrace too. Prices from events spaces, while the area’s first to Peckham’s draw. Rye Lane, the popular tea rooms, tennis £599,995, with Help to Buy council-sponsored festival main shopping street, has been courts and rather splendid available. Call Bellway From £450,000: Wood’s Road has the celebrating all things creative will designated a conservation area to gates. Homes on 0333 202 5173. first of 2,000 planned new homes take place in September. protect heritage buildings from over-

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MONDAY people would pay to visit. The afternoon in the meadow next door and after their My first appointment on this sunny day is full of pending exchanges and long long car journey from London I am is at the park, as always, with Poppy, my conversations with overseas clients. guessing the bovine distraction featured working cocker spaniel. She comes Salisbury has become very international in the bribery process. Having a lovable everywhere with me. We live in Salis- with hundreds of tourists coming to visit dog proves to be a perfect distraction bury, just around the corner from our because of the cathedral. It is a privilege for little ones bored with walking gorgeous Jacobean offices. to have both UK and international cli- around large houses. Poppy works her The team arrives at work and business ents that I can share my experience and magic — and once my client’s hens have kicks in, checking weekend calls, emails knowledge of the city with and help also been herded back into their hen- and property portal enquiries. Some them find the perfect home. house, all is well with the world. people are worried about Brexit but we At five o’clock things slow down so it’s don’t seem to have been affected much, time to update new listings and work FRIDAY except perhaps with homes north of on our social media content. We are completing on a listed house in £2 million. Our core demand — homes the Cathedral Close and it’s all hands on from £450,000 to £850,000 — contin- WEDNESDAY deck to get things finalised before the ues to be driven by families relocating Walking to work, we pass through The weekend. or older couples downsizing. There has Close — the medieval walls which sur- After a busy morning, I head out to been a noticeable increase in rental round the cathedral — which is home to meet a local law firm. We are discussing enquiries, however. Also, we are busy three schools and some excellent listed property transactional matters for one with a big regeneration scheme and two properties, two of which we have sold of our clients. Being in a close-knit com- or three other smaller premium housing this year as a result of our network and munity means that we have built great projects. It is an exciting time. local contacts. As I reach the office, the relationships with the other local busi- sound of emails hitting my smartphone nesses and any legal matters can be TUESDAY heralds another busy day ahead. dealt with easily. Market day. It’s always good to take an I have three viewings today with a At close of business, Poppy and I early coffee and chat with the locals. I couple who are selling up in Belgium round up the team and we set off to our listen to their views of the current and returning to the UK. The husband favourite local pub for quiz night. This political situation before catching up on is a keen fisherman, so they have tar- THURSDAY viewing is at a wonderful manor house. is a serious affair for keen minds! We say offers and imminent exchanges. geted the Chalke Valley between Salis- Prospecting and leaflet dropping are Viewings are a delight and showing our goodbyes and take a turn around After running through the diary and a bury and Shaftesbury. the priority this morning. I muck in with expectant home owners around their the park before heading for home in our quick meeting with the team about two Our service is entirely bespoke and the team and we set off to try to secure next potential home is one of the best favourite “small” city. new applicants, I head out to value a client led. More than half our sales this new instructions. Qualifying clients and parts of the job. Everything is going to lovely country house. After 30 years in year have been off-market, which clients establishing an early rapport is essential plan, and the viewer’s in-laws are enjoy- O Matthew Hallett is director at the job, I still have to pinch myself when love, giving them the results they seek in a country office with big distances ing the tour, too. The purchaser’s three- Winkworth in Salisbury (01722 I am asked to market houses that most without the public airing of their sale. between properties. This afternoon’s year-old daughter cannot see any cows 443000).

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