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Olympicopolis Page 6 Wednesday 18 November 2015 Get smart Homes& with your phone Property Page 13 AFFORDABLE TECHNO HUBS P8 BRILLIANT BRICKS P10 OUR HOME: SHADOW HOUSE P26 SPOTLIGHT ON PURLEY P32 London’s new city: Olympicopolis Page 6 (&(' .-, .' &,. -+ ( $- * $ -( .' &,. ,( &/--+ ( %($-*. # $' %('/ $$/( - (( # " #) ! ! 4 WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News stop press: Lifechanger of the week perfect business venture ISABEL INFANTES Making a stand: comic Russell Brand backed mothers who could be the cat’s whiskers occupied empty flats on the Carpenters Estate in Newham Trophy home of the week stamp of Ghost estate approval for stunning £9m new build £8.95 million: things are so easy little land tax, and only then starting when you’re rich. Take this yet-to- the build, the new owner saves be-built house on the exclusive £360,000 in stamp duty. disgrace in St George’s Hill estate in Weybridge. Stick with the present plan and you Planning permission has already get a 20ft-high reception area, five been granted and the architects are bedroom suites, a private cinema, a ready to go with their detailed spec, gym and an amazing swimming pool Newham which you are free to adapt. But by and spa. Through John D Wood buying the plot first and paying a (01932 485020). HE saga of a ghost ported in their stand by estate in London comedian Russell Brand. £1.1 million: there’s more than where hundreds of The process of rehousing enough room to swing a cat in this homes have lain tenants and buying out own- property — which is just as well, London buy of the week spacious empty for almost a ers has been going on since given that it has been a successful and bright a mile from the common Tdecade — in a borough with 2005, after the council cattery for more than 30 years. more than 16,000 on the decided to demolish the The house, in the village of housing waiting list — could estate. Regeneration plans Keston in Kent, has a versatile £499,950: this be coming to an end. were on hold due to the reces- layout, with two to four reception Streatham Vale home, After a failed attempt to sion and Newham has been rooms, one with windows looking in a well-kept modern reinvent Carpenters Estate paying since for maintenance out on to the garden, pictured. street, comes with in Stratford as a smart uni- of the estate — a location for It also has a sleek kitchen 1,000 sq ft of living versity campus, plus years 2011 film Attack the Block. leading to a conservatory and space and a 50ft-long of delays blamed on the The council hopes to find three bedrooms upstairs. lush green garden. recession, Newham council a developer to co-fund a A detached garage — used as a Inside is open-plan at is this week expected to joint venture. It wants to storeroom — has a fully fitted ground level, with approve plans to revamp the build 2,000 new homes on kitchen for preparing kitty ample reception and site, where just 54 house- the site, plus shops and cuisine, while the cattery can dining areas. It has holds currently live among potentially a new school. house 50 moggies. Should you pale walls and wood 700 boarded-up homes. But Joe Alexander, of the need staff living space, planning floors leading into a Upstairs, there are leading off the second Local residents protested Greater Carpenters Neigh- consent is in place for an annexe. white kitchen fitted three decent-size bedroom. Streatham against the situation, includ- bourhood Forum, said the Through Alan de Maid (01689 with stone worktops bedrooms with an Common is a stroll ing a group of mothers who regeneration plans would 499706). By Faye and high-spec, en suite to the master away. Through Foxtons occupied flats and were sup- “destroy the community”. Greenslade integrated appliances. bedroom and a balcony (020 8150 5400). O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty Only the best will do Editor: Win a £900 range cooker THE countdown has begun for Janice developers great and small to submit Morley We have a Leisure Cookmaster to give away their projects for the Evening STYLISH range cooker brand Leisure Standard New Homes Awards 2016. VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ is passionate about making The most coveted in the rules for details of our usual entertaining at home a simpler and housebuilding industry, our awards promotion rules. When you respond more enjoyable task. With a selection let developers and architects to promotions, offers or of colours and sizes available — from showcase homes and achieve competitions, the London Evening 60cm to 110cm — there is a model to recognition from the buying public. 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Across Show off entries with high-quality number and/or email address if you Providing plenty of space to cook 13 categories, the awards embrace photography and clear descriptions. would like to receive such offers by up an entire feast on the seven-burner the spectrum, from first-time buyer Tell us about the architectural text or email. hob — including a wok burner — flats to one-off luxurious mansions; ambitions and the construction the Leisure Cookmaster CK100F232 city centre high-rise developments to challenges that have been overcome. also features two ovens, a separate dual fuel. The ultimate in low conversions in the countryside, and Winners will be announced at a gala dedicated quick-heating grill and a maintenance, this model also has from boutique apartment schemes to luncheon at The Dorchester hotel in Editorial: 020 3615 2524 convenient storage compartment. easy-clean technology to burn off dirt large-scale regeneration projects. Mayfair on May 20, and the closing Advertisement manager: Offering the ideal centrepiece to any and grease, giving you more time to Refurbishments and restorations date for entries is Friday, February 12. Jamie McCabe kitchen, it is available in black, cream, concentrate on honing your culinary qualify, as well as new builds. For more information, or for an Advertising: 020 3615 0266 red or blue and in electric, gas or skills rather than arduous cleaning. Housing associations are encouraged entry form, call 01568 708163 or Homes & Property, Northcliffe to enter, and we look forward to email [email protected]. House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, TO ENTER submissions for shared-ownership London W8 5TT. For a chance to win this popular Leisure Cookmaster model worth £900, visit and affordable housing initiatives. Twitter: #nha2016 homesandproperty.co.uk/cooker before December 6. Terms and conditions apply. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2015 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Van-tastic! Live in Bennett’s street É THE film adaptation of Shepherd arrived in 1974. Alan Bennett’s play The Bennett is played in the film Lady in the Van has opened by Alex Jennings, seen left in cinemas to rave reviews. with Dame Maggie Smith as It tells the true story of Shepherd. The tree-lined the author’s turbulent street is in Primrose Hill friendship with homeless conservation area, and the eccentric Mary Shepherd, Grade II-listed house for who lived in her van on the sale, right, is on the books driveway at his London of Savills St John’s Wood home. He said she could for £4.25 million. park temporarily but she The property has five stayed until her death 15 bedrooms — all en suite — a years later. kitchen, double reception Now a house is for sale in room and front and back Gloucester Crescent, where gardens, but — perhaps Bennett lived when Miss fortunately — no driveway. GETTY Got some gossip? Pretty Woman sells Tweet @amiranews her penthouse O Find more É JULIA ROBERTS has sold her celebrity gossip home in Greenwich Village, New at homesand York, after a bidding war. property.co.uk/ The Hollywood star of Eat Pray gossip Love and Pretty Woman, above, put the apartment on the market just a By Amira Hashish few months ago for £2.9 million, but it went for nearly £650,000 more than the asking price. Financier Nicolas de Croisset, husband of Vogue special events associate Phoebe de Croisset, was Buy Michelangelo’s Tuscan home determined to secure the deal and outbid others who were interested. ÉMICHELANGELO, the The three-bedroom penthouse star of the Italian features a roof terrace, below, with Renaissance, whose spectacular views over the Big staggeringly beautiful Spy chief’s £15m house Apple’s skyline. works include the statue of David and the ceiling of the ÉRALPH FIENNES, right, the influence behind Sistine Chapel, bought a has a pretty swish Ian Fleming’s character. Tuscan home in 1549 that apartment for his role as C and his team remained in his family for ÉMI6 This boss is Msome in Bond text moviethat goes ontravelled and between more than 300 years. onSpectre, and is but not 21 meant Queen to mean number 21, above, and It has been restored by its anythingAnne’s Gate, and the is all about that swathethe MI6 HQ in nearby current owner and is now ofWestminster text thing that home the of othere the textBroadway, using for sale at £5.36 million.
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