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SECOND-MOVE HOTSPOTS P8 HOMES IN ZONE 1 FOR £160K P9 LOVE STORY: OUR HOME P26 SPOTLIGHT ON BARKING P32 A new dawn in Docklands ’s top architects are turning Canada Water into an innovative town on the Thames Page 6 JOHN STURROCK London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News

Trophy home of ALAMY Character: bars and restaurants in Isabella Street ALAMY Buzzing: planners fear such businesses could lose railway arches near Waterloo and Tube out if rail arches are converted for residential use the week mix modern and Georgian grandeur Signal goes against £7,999,950: can’t decide between gorgeous Georgian and steel-and-glass flash? Then have both. This home in the heart of Clerkenwell is a railway arch homes listed and beautifully restored Georgian gem with glass ceiling that can be cellar. A cantilevered OUTHWARK is stepping in to all the trimmings — we love frosted at the touch of a staircase leads to a 30ft save its historic railway arches, the wig room. button, an integrated family room, six bedrooms following a rush of applications There’s a spectacular courtyard and — of course — and bathrooms and two roof to convert them into homes. modern extension to the rear a recently excavated terraces with views of St The council will impose new that includes double-height basement with a glass Paul’s and the Shard. rulesS requiring planning permission living spaces, a bespoke swimming pool, sauna, wet Through John D Wood (020 before an arch can be converted from kitchen/dining room with a room, cinema room and wine 8012 1766). commercial to residential use. Turning an arch into a home is allowed under current “permitted development rights” without the need Lifechanger to seek planning approval. However, Southwark fears such conversions of the week endanger the special character that arches add to the area. possibilities London’s thousands of railway arches All systems go: planning committee was expected to appeal to architects, who are attracted award-winning agree to withdraw permitted develop- are endless in by their romantic settings, and to Undercurrent ment rights, recently introduced by the developers, who like to include arches Architects is a Government, allowing railway arches this beautifully in schemes aimed at regenerating der- leader in to be used for residential purposes sprawling hall elict railway land. creating living without the need for specific planning Southwark doubts the suitability of and working consent. £1.1 million: this grand old its 800 railway arches as living spaces, spaces below However, not everybody would agree dame in the Georgian market with trains rattling overhead, but it is London’s busy with the council’s stance. Undercurrent town of Beverley, Yorkshire, also concerned about their fate, and railway tracks Architects won New London Architec- is a complete find. The Old that of the many small businesses — ture’s prestigious House of the Year Hall is a sprawling family from microbreweries to mini theatres award in 2013 for a two-bedroom, home with a mass of and one/two bedrooms. The windows and a lovely to yoga studios — that currently operate 1,600sq ft live-work unit built within a possibilities. main house could also be kitchen/breakfast room with out of some of them. 19th-century railway arch beneath a For starters there are two expanded into a fabulous an Aga and door down to a The council says: “Railway arches live train line in Southwark. Undercur- self-contained flats you can B&B with its six bedrooms, wine cellar. There is also a have become a focal point for local rent director Didier Ryan believes let out to boost your income. spacious living room, a double garage prime for businesses across the creative, manu- arches could provide thousands of new Each has its own private dining room that opens to conversion. Through Hunters facturing, culinary and service indus- homes for the capital. entrance, decent living space the garden through French (01482 861411). tries, and contribute a huge amount to the character of the area.” Southwark’s O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week advantages in light and space all point to a Wimbledon winner Editor: Janice £699,950: this Wimbledon Morley garden flat in a leafy road ticks all the boxes for location and space, both VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ inside and out. rules for details of our usual A sleek new interior promotion rules. When you refurbishment has brought respond to promotions, offers or under-heated dark wood competitions, the London Evening Standard and its sister companies floors to the generous may contact you with relevant reception room, where you offers and services that may be of can heap logs on the open interest. Please give your mobile fire and entertain friends in number and/or email address if the ample dining area. you would like to receive such This room is open-plan to offers by text or email. an über-chic skylit kitchen that’s fully equipped with Editorial: 020 3615 2524 integrated appliances, where Advertisement manager: glass doors lead to a good Ann Finan stretch of garden with wide both bedrooms enjoy fitted Advertising: 020 3615 0266 borders. wardrobes and plenty of Homes & Property, Northcliffe The master bedroom also natural light. Through House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, opens to the garden, while Foxtons (020 8012 6808). By Faye Greenslade London W8 5TT.

Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Live in De Gaulle’s London war base É AS LEADER of the Free French in the Second World War, general Charles de Gaulle, inset, France’s president from 1959-69, spent time at Stafford Mansions in Stafford Place, SW1, where the Free French navy was headquartered. These days the striking block, right, near Bucking- ham Palace and St James’s Park, is a The Clooneys’ residential hotspot. Hathaways has a beautifully refurbished two-bedroom £12m Foster flat flat for sale there at £1.25 million that

would make a perfect pied-à-terre. GETTY REX É GEORGE and Amal Clooney are expanding their property portfolio with an off-plan apartment designed Pull a pint for a by British starchitect Norman Foster in Midtown Manhattan. Python in your The Hollywood star and his human rights lawyer wife, below, have Kentish Town pub plumped for a high-floor flat in sleek 63-storey One Hundred East Fifty ÉTHE GIPSY QUEEN, a buzzing Third, adjacent to Mies van der Kentish Town pub used by celebrities Rohe’s famed Seagram Building. including comedy star Sacha Baron Lord Foster, the brains behind The Cohen and Monty Python legend Gherkin and Wembley Stadium, has Michael Palin, above, is on the incorporated a gourmet marketplace market. in his New York tower, along with a The pub, below, was recently fine dining restaurant to be run by treated to a rustic new look and star chef Joël Robuchon. Other comes with a beer garden and a two- luxury services include a library, a bedroom manager’s flat. 60ft sunlit swimming pool, above, a If you fancy moving in and wellness facility, Pilates/ballet and entertaining the luvvies, the yoga rooms, a sauna, and a spa property’s free-of-tie leasehold is treatment centre. The Clooneys are available at a guide price of £150,000 thought to have paid £12 million. with Fleurets and Savills. Eaton É A SUPER-STYLISH Belgravia home designed by interiors guru and Square socialite Nicky Haslam is for sale. Haslam — seen right with hotels by way heiress Paris Hilton — boasts a glittering client list including Roman of Paris Abramovich, Mick Jagger, Bryan Ferry and the Saatchis, and kitted out the two-bedroom flat in Eaton Square, above, with whimsical interiors. In a stucco-fronted 19th-century property, By Amira the flat has a regal Parisienne theme. Hashish Famed for his eclectic yet elegant style, Haslam selected art and vintage pieces throughout. Got some The large reception/dining area is gossip? Tweet @amiranews perfect for parties, with custom- made sofas in two bay windows and a six-seater dining table. The flat’s on Rokstone’s books for £4.25 million. REX

O For more celebrity news: homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip REX 6 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes Learning a bitter An elegant Thames crossing: on the lesson from the horizon in Canada Water, the world’s longest bascule pedestrian and cycle recent past, this time drawbridge, between Canary Wharf and Southwark’s bold , would open for tall ships vision for Canada Water looks good, says David Spittles

HE longest drawbridge in the world, London’s largest freshwater lake and biggest marina feature in the remodelling of Canada TWater — 46 acres of Zone 2 that now form the hottest of hotspots. This is a project so ambitious many thought it would never happen, but fresh from his triumph with the Shard, developer Irvine Sellar has turned his attention to this lifeless swathe of former Rotherhithe docks. Roger Madelin, the driving force behind the stunning transformation of previously blighted railway land around King’s Cross station, is also casting his spell over the area, spearheading a £2 billion project for British Land to create a sparkling waterfront town centre for Southwark, with 3,500 new homes, offices, shops, restaurants, high- quality public spaces including a

ALAMY three-acre park, a cultural and leisure

South Dock Marina: London’s largest marina in a spot where the builders are back centre and a new campus for King’s ENGINEERS WOOD ARCHITECTS/ELLIOTT REFORM A SPARKLING NEW WATERFRONT

College London. Southwark council’s Canada Water masterplan comprises more than a dozen different property developments, some already under way, and includes a sleek 41-storey skyscraper by renowned London architect and Stirling Prize winner David Chipperfield. Homes are for sale now at Quebec Quarter, a new micro neighbourhood with 220 flats priced from £560,000 — call 0333 0033663 — while Notting Hill From £432,000: Housing, which is partnering Sellar a mix of flats and Property Group, is poised to launch houses at The 234 apartments on the site of an old Timberyard in Decathlon retail shed overlooking a Deptford will dock basin. Call 020 3815 1234. benefit from a new linear park CONNECTIVITY IS KEY “The area is being discovered by young professionals priced out of shopping and leisure precinct but it Shad Thames and Borough,” says was a disaster, lacking any sense of James Hyman of estate agent Cluttons. Thinking of place. New estates of humdrum low- Transport connectivity is one of the rise housing were isolated, far from positives. The Zone 2 district is on the buying a essential services, while print works and a convenient midway and factories were built instead of point between Canary Wharf and the new-build neighbourhood facilities. West End. It is also a key interchange Now planned is a high street and on the Overground network. home? pedestrianised boulevard between A River Bus service links Rotherhithe Canada Water and train to Canary Wharf and on the horizon is station, with landscaped “greenways” a pedestrian and cycle bridge, a boon between refurbished Southwark Park for bike-riding and walk-to-work and Russia Dock Woodland, while commuters. It will be the longest Southwark council hopes to lure John drawbridge-style “bascule” bridge in Lewis and its Waitrose supermarket. the world, an elegant wishbone-like structure that opens to allow tall ships old docks, failed to deliver. In its BORROWING BILBAO’S STYLE to pass through. heyday as Surrey Docks, the area was An eye-catching new library, its Madelin believes the new district laced with waterways and docks, architecture inspired by Bilbao’s “needs to have a strong identity, be among them Greenland, Finland, Guggenheim Museum, has opened memorable, real, with a sense of Russia and Canada, denoting the and overlooks the largest freshwater cohesion and community” — which origin of the cargo unloaded there. lake in London, a legacy from the the first regeneration attempt 30 During the Eighties, city planners docks era. A Canary Wharf-type From £560,000: flats at Quebec Quarter in well-connected Canada Water, SE16 years ago, following the closure of the tried to revive the area with a giant cluster of tall buildings is ruled out EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 7 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property

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ICKNAMED “Little Cyprus” thanks to its strong Greek Cypriot community, Palmers Green, a north The best London suburb on the wrong side of the North Circular road, has a place Nin pop history. It is where a very young David places Bowie first entertained audiences, in mime. Only 20 minutes from Moorgate, today this district is the capital’s favourite location for “second steppers” — mostly couples and young for your families moving on from their first-time buyer flats to find more space and a garden. While the plight of first-time buyers is well second documented, those who already have a modest foothold on the property ladder are in almost as much difficulty as they grapple with the step on exorbitant cost of trading up. When they do move on they are forced out towards London’s fringes, according to an exclusive study today by Hamptons International, which highlights the 30 the ladder favourite locations for second-time buyers. Palmers Green tops the poll. Almost half the homes sold in the area are to people inching New research reveals the their way up the ladder. They pay an average £579,000, and partly as a result of their interest, capital’s top locations for prices in the area have surged almost 18 per cent in the last year. Nearby Southgate and Finchley first-time owners trading Central are also in the top 30, making three second-step options in leafy north London. up. Ruth Bloomfield BEST VIBE IN THE ’BURBS sounds out the suburbs With fast trains to central London being a big plus, Michelle Nicodemou, director of Tower CONNECTIONS OUT EAST Estates, says that for families, the area’s other major draw is St Monica’s Catholic Primary UPMINSTER takes second place to Palmers School. A three-bedroom semi in “The Ladder”, Green in today’s study with 46 per cent of homes a grid of streets within the school’s catchment sold to second steppers. It is also excellent value area, costs an average of £900,000. Further at £412,034 for a second-step home, up 17.8 per north, pushing towards Winchmore Hill, a cent in the last year. On the Essex borders, this is similar home would cost about £500,000. a trove of Twenties and Thirties semis. Terry The Intimate Theatre, where Bowie once Holmes, director at Beresfords estate agents, performed, sadly closed in the Eighties, but says one of these three-bedroom houses Palmers Green still has Green Lanes, a resolutely typically costs £600,000-£700,000. shabby street which absolutely thrums with He says Upminster’s key appeal is connectivity. energy and character in the evenings when its It is on the District line, and Overground services wonderful Greek and Turkish restaurants attract to Fenchurch Street take just 23 minutes. When diners from all over London. Crossrail opens in 2018/19 locals will be able to By day, Green Lanes is a little threadbare, and pick up the service from nearby Romford. locals complain about too many betting and “Upminster is right on the edge of the green charity shops, but it still has a vibe which few belt, with country parks, and there are some other suburbs can match. exceptional schools,” adds Holmes. Palmers Green is in Zone 4, and what today’s research underlines is that second steppers are moving to the ’burbs in droves. The best-value option in the top 10 is Welling, on the Kent borders, where 43 per cent of homes are sold to first-time buyers. They pay an average £393,000 for a property, and local prices are up an impressive 20.7 per cent year on year.

£750,000: second choice for second steppers is Upminster, where this detached corner house, close to Upminster Bridge Tube, comes with four bedrooms, a large garden and a decked area for barbecues. Call Hetheringtons (01277 577168) Thinking of moving? EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 9 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by First-time buyers | Homes & Property

HE SE1 postcode contains some of London’s primest real estate — think the , , and swathes The perfect of Southwark and Bermond- sey.T Not exactly first-time buyer house- hunting territory, you might think. But the Wandle Housing Association (wandlese1collection.com) has homes starter is aimed at first-time buyers in two chic new developments in this “golden tri- angle” just south of the Thames at less than £160,000 to just under £250,000. Music Box, in Grand Union Street, is just south being built within a cluster of new cafés, bars and restaurants in the hin- terland of Blackfriars Bridge, a short walk from Southwark Tube station. of the river Demand is likely to be strong for its ALAMY ALAMY seven shared-ownership flats, which A feast for first-timers: Borough Market, left, and Bermondsey’s Maltby Street Market are both draws are priced from £195,000 for a 30 per Shared-ownership is rare in Zone 1 cent share in a one-bedroom property with a full market value of £650,000. — but Ruth Bloomfield finds it As well as mortgage costs, buyers will pay rent at £379 a month for a flat plus on the menu in foodie SE1 £128pcm service charge. Two-bedroom flats start at £247,500 for a 30 per cent 4% % share of a property with a full price of £825,000. Rent each month comes in at £361 and service charge at £158.50pcm. 33  32 '1'+ IN TUNE WITH THE BUZZ !' % 4, '+ 1  #4% ' 2.7 +" % The Music Box (named because the London Centre of Contemporary Music +'$ (7$ 1' )$ 1 1  +'56 1 1+ is to be housed within it) will be com- pleted in January and is in an area well +" % (( -  worth exploring. A decade ago it was a forbidding mash- up of council flats and offices and a bit of a night-time no-go zone. Today it is all change. As well as glitzy high-rise developments, the area has become a focus for bars, galleries, and cafés. Pubs such as the Lord Nelson and the Union Jack have had good spruce-ups, and the Blackfriars Wine Bar and Union Theatre Café are buzzing in evenings. Gordon Ramsay’s Union Street Café is a more recent arrival to the area, joined by Mark Hix’s new venture Hixter Bank- side, on Great Guildford Street. And although Southwark is its closest Tube, Music Box residents will also benefit from the new Thameslink serv- ices from nearby Blackfriars. REBORN BERMONDSEY Wandle also has a tranche of first-time From £159,000: for a 30 per cent share of a one-bedroom buyer homes for sale at Grange Walk, flat at Grange Walk, above and top, off Tower Bridge Road '% +''$      037777 just off Tower Bridge Road, due to be finished in March 2017. Cooking up a their mortgage. Two-bedroom flats Again, this is a great location — Ber- treat: Gordon start at £162,750 for a 30 per cent share. 15' +''$      027777 mondsey Spa Gardens, the foodie heaven Ramsay, below, Monthly rent of £475,000, monthly of Maltby Street Market, the Fashion and has just opened service charge is £146.47, as well as Textile Museum, and the White Cube his Union Street mortgage repayments. & (%" *  !  ! % % Gallery are all in the surrounding streets, Café in SE1, Wandle Housing Association will offi-  (%" + '  %(  % plus the endless bars, cafés and restau- below left, in the cially launch the homes at Music Box and %! %! %! %   rants of the reborn Bermondsey Street. already buzzing Grange Walk next week. First priority The nearest station is , area soon to will be given to those already living or # (%" + %!  %   !+  ! just over half a mile away. house The Music working in the borough of Southwark,     '& (%" + %(  % % %+ Prices at Grange Walk start at £159,000 Box, below right and applicants must have a household for a 30 per cent share of a one-bedroom income of no more than £90,000.  "  %   ! "!)    flat. Owners will pay a monthly rent of Another reason for the flats’ appeal 

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RANCE pulls in more British skiers than any other country, thanks to its dazzling choice of resorts. It delivers across the board from vast ski areas —F step forward the Portes du Soleil and Three Valleys — to smaller, snow-sure resorts such as La Rosière where skiers swoop across to Italy.      Home buyers can chose between value flats in purpose-built resorts of great convenience but questionable architectural beauty, such as Flaine and Les Arcs, and internationally famed Alpine resorts including Val d’Isère and Courchevel, where wooden chalets with multimillion price tags line the slopes. “New-build apartments rather than chalets are leading the revival we have seen in sales volumes,” says François Marchand of specialist agent Erna Low. “They go hand in hand with a surge of new infrastructure projects including the mini-resort Mille8 in Les Arcs and Aquamotion waterpark, Courchevel.” Some new-build homes in France allow owners who choose to rent to benefit from attractive VAT rebates, saving 20 per cent of the purchase price. Couple that with French interest rates at a 100-year low providing mortgage rates from 1.85 per cent fixed for 20 years, and France looks appealing. Here are some new-season highlights.

OLD FAVOURITE UPDATED Europe’s longest black slope is in Alpe d’Huez, 90 minutes from Grenoble airport. New investment will connect

Alpe d’Huez to Les Deux Alpes creating ALAMY France’s third-largest ski domain. In Climb every mountain: taking to the piste near Méribel in the vast ski area of total £129 million is being spent on lift Three Valleys, which claims to offer 600km of ski runs in the French Alps   Fresh scope on the slopes New-build ski homes are on the up in France, says Cathy Hawker

   improvements, doubling the ski area to OFF-RADAR SAMOËNS 280 miles, and £172 million is going into The attractive 13th-century village of accommodation on offer, with new five- Samoëns might not have the interna-   star hotels and tourism residences. tional cachet of Méribel but its plus Hameau de Clotières is a ski-in-and- points include a one-hour transfer from out residence with 55 one- to four-bed- Geneva and direct links to high-altitude       room freehold flats in Alpe d’Huez, from Flaine and the Grand Massif ski area. £269,000 with Athena Advisers. There Club Med plans to open a 420-bedroom      is a flexible rental obligation and resi- resort there next year. )3  2     dents share the neighbouring hotel’s Résidence Alexane close to the pool and spa. Grand Massif Express Gondola has 13     one- to four-bedroom off-plan apart-     39)/ VALUE IN MÉRIBEL ments divided Buyers can find value, even in star-stud- From £421,500: between two cha- ded Méribel in the mighty Three Valleys. Les Chalets lets with indoor        L’Hévana is an off-plan scheme close d’Olympe in pool, gym and spa. to the main lifts at Chaudanne, with Méribel Les These homes come       one- to three-bedroom flats priced from Allues fully furnished and    " .  £290,000 through Erna Low. are due to be com- While in general the big money focuses From £241,500: pleted in summer  "))  on substantial chalets in Méribel Centre, apartments 2018, with prices quieter villages further down the moun- around an indoor starting from pool in Résidence £241,500 through Alexane, Samoëns MGM. Future plans on the site include tain link into the entire ski domain. leaseback homes and a four-star hotel.        Knight Frank is selling a new develop- Alpine Homes’ property portfolio in ment of four modern flats in a tradi- Samoëns includes three-bedroom    tional wooden chalet in typically apartments for £476,500, large farm- Savoyard Méribel Village. The three- to houses to renovate from £537,000 and five-bedroom homes start from comfortable, light-filled chalets with 10 &,!'1-6%$+(+4$ £1,259,000 and offer access to the same bedrooms for £1.3 million. thigh-numbing 430 miles of piste. A little further downhill in Méribel Les O MGM: mgmfrenchproperties.com Allues at 1,120 metres, Les Chalets O Erna Low: ernalowproperty.co.uk d’Olympe is a scheme of 14 off-plan flats O Alpine Homes: alpinehomesintl.com From £290,000: L’Hévana has one- to and chalets 150 metres from the cable O Knight Frank: knightfrank.com three-bedroom apartments close to car. The two- to six-bedroom homes O Athena Advisers: athenaadvisers. the main lift station in Meribel Centre start at £421,500 with Alpine Homes. com

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OSY, chic, bouncy — and stores and on the high street,” says Gar- unexpectedly colourful — rick, who has also used upholstery from wool, the ultimate natural Sofa.com, throws and cushions from fibre, is an ace act for London Welsh weavers Melin Tregwynt, pouffes homes this autumn. It’s from Tetrad in Harris tweed and weaves inherentlyC fire-retardant and a brilliant £34: large Fluffy from Abraham Moon (founded in 1837 insulator. See how it ticks all these fur- Cloud Cushion by and one of the last British “vertical” mills, nishing boxes in a sassy show home in Weft Blown, dyeing, blending, carding, spinning, Islington that opens today until Sunday. “weaver of warp-weaving and finishing fabrics). The Wool BnB is a main attraction of Scottish weather” Campaign for Wool’s annual Wool Week, (weftblown.com) Opposite the living room is a bedroom, with events in shops and showrooms more subdued, with deep olive green nationwide. Conveniently, the home is walls and a luxurious Vispring bed with open until 9pm — no need to book, entry thick Shetland wool mattress, plus free. Demos, talks and workshops are in wool headboard and bed base. There a special studio room — reserve a free is a stack of wool-filled cushions, layers place at campaignforwool.org of throws and blankets and thick plain The Wool BnB is a petite well-propor- Knit large: Lucy curtains “puddling” the floor. tioned Georgian townhouse given a total Sparrow’s woolly Then comes the fun part: the ubiqui- woolly makeover, to the last knitted breakfast is one tous and exuberant handmade craft and lampshade and felted door knob, by of the features art. There is a full-English totally knitted designer Karina Garrick, who’s been upstairs in the breakfast table by Jessica Dance on a styling for the Campaign for Wool since Wool BnB in a circular table — eggs, bacon, sauce bottle it started in 2010. workroom and all — where even the toast has a “Wool has always had a feel-good fac- hosting free craft ribbed edge. A huge white tangled art-

tor, and these days it’s fresh and mod- ALL PICTURES: PETER DIXON sessions work hangs from a batten over the ern,” says Garrick. “I wanted my house enclosed wood-burning stove. There are to reflect this new energy, using over- woven flatweave rugs in jolly colours, sized textures and lots of strong colour. and pile carpets on the wall as art. Com- Wool does take colour so beautifully.” pletely knitted table and standard lamps are plugged in ready to work. Other The wool starts at your feet. In recent touches include cheeky felted toys and times people have dismissed patterned Wool Week knitted clouds along a mantelpiece. carpets as a style no-no, with wooden “Craft today is cool and increasingly floors paramount in the capital. But here By Barbara Chandler Feel-good popular,” Garrick observes. “These are carpets with attitude, bold and a factor: Wool BnB pieces are inspirational, full of ideas, and touch brash, from a new collection by designer Karina we’ll be hosting workshops for basic Alternative Flooring whose style cred Garrick in the skills.” Out in the garden is a small rain- comes from Liberty archives. There’s an living room with bow-coloured flock, with a knitted sheep uncompromising floral with ditsy daisies wool furnishings, in the wooden “shepherd’s hut”. in candy pinks, sage, off-white and corn- art and craft flower, and a slightly quieter but very Sheep are wittily celebrated. Up on the swirly paisley. These patterns are even Far left, top: shocking pink wall of the snug (off the used together, in two halves of the long Marcie Knitted living room) are mounted and framed living room. Windows at each end Wool Table Lamp prints of different breeds — from a scary enhance colours and highlight textures. by Melanie Porter ram with double horns to a frilly-fleeced “Pattern on the floor actually makes from £450 ewe. The UK has more than 60 pure less impact than it does on a wall,” says (melanieporter. breeds, more than any other country, Garrick, who has picked a rich midnight com) plus around 25 cross-breeds. blue paint to unify the room. Wool car- British wool is exceptionally strong, pets have a secret weapon, it seems: durable and resilient, perfect for house- they absorb and neutralise pollutants hold furnishings. Just one example is in the atmosphere (such as VOCs), which Exmoor Horn, from about 120 sheep vacuum-cleaning later picks up. And a farmers. pattern disguises stains. They’ve commissioned merchandise to show off their wool, supplying cush- On the stairs are practical flat weave run- ions for the show house. They also sell ners by Roger Oates, in stripes leading Far left, below: knitting wool dyed in a range of moor- upwards. Upstairs is an elegant geomet- handwoven Moss land colours. ric rug from Marks & Spencer, which has cushion by also supplied cushions. “Wool is afford- Warped Textiles, O The Wool BnB is at 35 Englefield able and accessible to everyone, with lots £95 (warped- Road, N1 (campaignforwool.org). Book of wool products now in department textiles.com) a stay through Airbnb from October 24.

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Ottomans by day: left, Hetty and Henry beds Smart in boxes, from £530. (sofa.com) space Extra hanging space: right, Copeland red metal four- poster bed, £395 savers (habitat.co.uk) Autumn sees new Ultra lightweight: flexible furniture to below, Gronadal rocking chair, cope with a space £145, (ikea.com) crisis. By Katie Law

UR best designers are desk is genius: a slim desk that sits mattresses that arrives vacuum- rising to the space right up against the wall on pads to packed in a cardboard box. Order challenge this autumn by avoid scuff marks and folds away flat. online before 2pm and it arrives next inventing ever-smarter Designed by recent Cass Faculty of Art day and will fit through the smallest ideas to help us make the and Design graduate Tim Summers, it front door. You’ve got up to 100 nights Omost of our precious square feet. won Heal’s Discovers 2016 to decide if you want to keep it and a From beds in boxes and flip wall competition. Kitchens can suffer 10-year guarantee (simbasleep.com). desks to slimline kitchen tables and badly from cramped space syndrome To accommodate extra guests in easy to store rockers, everything is so invest in Ikea’s Forhoja birch places you didn’t even think you had, shrinking, flexing and folding. Here’s kitchen trolley, which has heaps of Sofa.com’s new pop-up beds in boxes our pick of the new collections: storage, a generous work surface and are a brilliant solution. Henry and rolls around on castors. Hetty act as ottomans by day with LIVING ROOMS cushioned fabric tops and turn into AND KITCHENS BEDROOMS AND beds with a flip of the lid by night. The budget-friendly House range at BATHROOMS Choose from 150 house fabrics. John Lewis focuses on versatility with In-house Habitat designer Matthew The Lycksele Murbo chair-bed from its slim line, soft-edged Anton oak Long’s Copeland four-poster red Ikea is a chair by day and bed by night. table and desk, stackable Fluent oak hollow metal bedframe is light as a Long-time champion of the cheap and Ladder style: far chairs and the beautifully compact feather and its sides double up as cheerful Sainsbury’s has just launched right, Everyday Arlo sofa, which will fit into the extra hanging space — smart, simple a new Everyday Luxury range — a cut Luxury white tightest space yet feels generous and functional. above in terms of design and quality. ladder lace thanks to its plump seats. If you need a mattress in a hurry and Try pure white Egyptian cotton bed bedlinen £45, Ikea’s brightly painted metal Lixhult don’t have time to try them all out in linen and throws, thick white cotton double white cabinets can be either wall-hung or the shop, consider Simba, one of a new towels and hang them on the Ragrund quilted throw used as side tables or cabinets. For a generation of clever dual spring and towel rack chair, an ingenious two-for- £30, white foldaway home office, the oak Flip memory foam, one-size-fits-all one idea from Ikea. Egyptian cotton bath towels from Beautifully £2, face cloth/ compact: Arlo bath sheet £17.50 sofa, medium £599 (johnlewis. Box clever: right, com) Lixhult cabinets from £15 (ikea. com)

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WHERE I LIVE By Pattie Barron With my husband, restaurateur Richard Polo, I’ve lived in Notting Hill for 20 years. Like much of London, it’s a vibrant mix of old and new. I never tire of Portobello Market and the green spaces of Holland Park. We live in a Victorian villa on four floors Myy desdesideesisi that is full of light and has a mix of classical and modern elements, such as old cornicing with contemporary doors. I think of my garden, which I love, as another room. The dining area is beneath a canopy of pleached LondonLoLonondndoddonono lime trees, set in a square. We also have a holiday home in Umbria. TRICIA GUILD CREATIVE DIRECTOR, Outdoor living: Tricia Guild in the DESIGNERS GUILD garden she thinks of as another room ACK in 1970, Tricia Guild, pictured, then a young interior designer, was frustrated at the lack of exciting textiles on the Bmarket and so created her own small collection, based on Indian hand-blocked prints. Two years later, she opened a shop on the King’s Road, selling fabrics, ceramics and furniture in bold, dynamic colour and pattern that has become the Designers Guild signature. Now the 80 showrooms worldwide are joined by a third opened this month in Paris, and the company, offering a choice of more than 12,000 fabrics and 3,000 wallpapers, produces everything from sofas, paints, tableware and bed linen to rugs, stationery and room fragrance. In 2008 Tricia Guild was awarded an OBE for services to interior design. This autumn, Designers Guild, which has a turnover in excess of £50 million, will launch 14 new collections of textiles and wallpapers in more than 80 markets around the world. HOME COMFORTS I’m passionate about a home being comfortable as well as beautiful. Being surrounded by good design is one of life’s pleasures. People associate me with colour and pattern, but I live with lots of neutrals and plain textures, too. I love to feel the house changing with the seasons, so in summer, I swap cosy cashmere throws for lighter linen and silk ones, take up the rugs and let the floors breathe. Introducing touches of white always feels summery. I love to use flowers through my home to mark the seasons, too: in spring, the first buds of blossom, hyacinth and camassia; in May, it’s peony time and in the autumn, my dahlias are out in full force. GREAT SOURCES FOR THE HOME Aside from Designers Guild, Summerill & Bishop for beautiful vintage French kitchenware and Alfie’s Antique Market. Retrouvius, the architectural salvage place in Kensal Green, always has something interesting. I’m a passionate supporter of the fantastic talent within our art colleges. The end-of- year graduate shows like New Designers and the RCA’s are brilliant hunting grounds for original and creative pieces. MOST COVETED DESIGN OBJECT At the moment, it’s a fabulous black and white ceramic jug by the Scottish painter and sculptor Bruce McLean, Secret shop: Retrouvius, in Kensal which I spotted at the Bernard Green, for fine architectural salvage Jacobson gallery. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 17 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Design | Homes & Property

SECRET SPACES TIPS TO Marianne North CREATE A was an intrepid ROOM OF botanist in the YOUR late 19th century OWN and the Marianne North Gallery, left, at Kew Gardens is packed full of Transforming artistic and a room: keep botanical to a palette of inspiration. I no more than could spend four colours, hours in there, says Tricia Guild marvelling at the places she O Identify the very thing that balance to the others, and visited and excites you ... that feels and looks encourage you to be more documented in good. It might be a perfect shade of experimental. Combining pattern her paintings. blue or a particular ombre pattern, a with plain will help maintain a sense She was a real vintage-inspired sofa or a beautiful of harmony. innovator. rug. O Try using larger-scale patterned O Colour has the power to fabrics in smaller rooms. Often the transform your interiors and scale itself makes an interesting enhance your life. If you are nervous statement. with colour, try using small accents O Creating a mood board will help first, such as a cushion or throw. gather your thoughts visually. It’s Even flowers can make that change. important to keep samples in O Keep to a palette of no more than proportion, ie a larger fabric four colours in a room and make swatch for a sofa, smaller for a sure that one of them is white or a cushion, so you have a clearer great neutral, which will provide a vision of scale.

 

Botanical inspiration: the Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens    

Light show: Tricia FAVOURITE LONDON TREASURED POSSESSION Guild, top, likes LANDMARK Hard to choose my favourite but my the idea of With the new Switch House wing, Howard Hodgkin pictures make my adapting rooms (pictured) the on the heart skip a beat every day. I to suit the season, South Bank has got even better. It’s couldn’t live without art. I am an with different a breathtaking monument to art avid collector of Memphis glass and furnishings and and culture and industry and I feel ceramics have always been a flowers, above proud of its status in our city. passion of mine. Kate McBride’s work (pictured) and that of Kathy Dalwood and Liz Hodges offer TRICIA GUILD ADDRESS BOOK different styles of ceramics that I O Bernard Jacobson Gallery 28 Duke Street, W1; love and sell in the shop. 020 7734 3431 (jacobsongallery.com) O Summerill & Bishop 100 Portland Road W11; 020 7221 4566 (summerillandbishop.com) SECRET SHOP         

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Home in on the House Kate WHERE better to make your mark than the House Try to see it my way: the Empathy Museum invites you to step into someone else’s shoes of Commons? The Museum of Empathy comes to Gordon

Parliament on October 31 until November 4 FOUNDER OF LONDON ART STUDIES showing off “A Mile in My Shoes”. Launched in 2015, the Empathy Museum is the first arts space that travels round the world in a box: it takes a Property form people recognise (a shop) and turns it into readers. an experience. This version has been developed Afterwards you with the Health Foundation, and can be found in can book the the Upper Waiting Hall, where you’ll be given set-price dinner someone else’s shoes and some headphones at Carousel, the offering a description of their life. Find out more restaurant at empathymuseum.com. Also keep an eye out below the art for Arts Council chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette’s gallery that book The Empathy Instinct, How to Create a presents a     More Civil Society, due out in January. regularly changing programme of     Garden chefs from around the circles world. Email [email protected] to reserve your place at the talk, dinner or both.           MARGOT Heller, director of the            South London Gallery in Strike (65- 67 Road a pose SE5, south ERWIN londongallery. Blumenfeld’s org) is one of the new exhibition UK’s star at Osborne curators. Her SLG Samuel in exhibition Mayfair, “From programme is a Dada to Vogue”, model for is a must for bringing art into the community. This year the anyone gallery has opened a sister venue in Peckham’s interested in old fire station and its latest project sees famed photography in Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco re-designing the the early 20th century (23A Bruton Street, garden at the back of the building. It will be a W1, osbornesamuel.com). As curator Lou permanent artspace, with York stone Proud says: “It’s fascinating how someone concentric circles, water features and seating who did everything possible to stretch, bend areas for both “courting couples” and groups. and break the existing boundaries of The new garden also includes a walkway to traditional photography managed to create & ,  * ! !+ and from the Sceaux Gardens housing estate, works that reach far beyond what we could             which the gallery has been working with in ever dream that photography would and recent years. No member of the community is could deliver.” Meanwhile, Blumenfeld’s       too young to be involved: the gallery has taken daughter-in-law Helaine has her own over a dilapidated former shop on the estate sculpture show a mere five minutes’ walk and renamed it “The Shop of Possibilities”; it’s away at the Hignell Gallery in Shepherd’s an afterschool play area, where recycled and Market (12-14 Shepherd Street, W1). '#'  donated toys are used to encourage the artists of tomorrow.    && Quotes )  !    %'- ---  !& %" --- Where garages are art to live by (- * &   %# --- NEW galleries continue to open in the capital: ALSO out this  &      %( --- first on our list to visit is the 5,000sq ft week is a brilliant (   && Skarstedt in St James’s (8 Bennet Street, SW1, book of quotations )  !    %- --- skarstedt.com/exhibitions). After a major by artists for  !& %(- -- redevelopment of the space, the gallery has just everyone. It (- * &   %( --- opened with a museum-quality show of works includes life & ,  * ! !+  &      %'-" -- by Cindy Sherman (above right) and David lessons, private Salle. Architect Thomas Croft has brought a bit revelations and     ##   "$)))) '    ##   ")))) of New York to the space; the gallery echoes frank thoughts on existing galleries in Chelsea (NY) and the Upper money, sex,        "   East Side. And on the opposite end of the failure, creativity  $ $ $ """     spectrum off Baker Street (71 Blandford Street, and originality. It W1), PayneShurvell offers a quieter, more takes its title from    !   #"    contemplative view with modernist paintings of Gerhard Richter: “Art is the highest form of — yes — garage doors by Andrew Curtis. Co- hope.” We can only add that art also brings us      # # #      # %(  %  # #  #( %   (      (%  #  %  (# director James Payne will chat with the artist together. Or to quote Dorothea Tanning: “Art has   #   ( #  #  %   #  (%   ( % #  #     &  # (  &  ' and give a short introduction to the work on always been the raft on to which we climb to save Wednesday October 26 at 6.30pm for Homes & our sanity.” (Phaidon Editors, £14.95) 26 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Our home homesandproperty.co.uk

Probate sale: the Putney house, bought for £1.6m in 2006, is now worth almost £4m

Creative team: architect John Dyer Grimes and his interior designer wife, Jemima A LOVE STORY Jemima and John grew up next door to each other. She became a designer, he became an architect … now read on. By Philippa Stockley Best of old and new: each room has retained a fine stone or marble fireplace

ORGET Bridget Jones for a Martins. After college, both found jobs erty, when Jemima drove down a road garden walls were collapsing. Once romantic story: here’s a design abroad but were to meet again in 1996 in Putney she had not noticed before. inside the house, however, the couple duo who grew up next door to at Jemima’s father’s funeral. They started A derelict Victorian detached three- were amazed by the wealth of original each other in Richmond, where going out the following year. storey house covered in ivy had a small detail, including parquet, mouldings, their parents had known each In 2006, seven refurbished homes for sale sign. Jemima went home in tears, old servants’ bells, gas fittings, and — Fother for 20 years. later, with Dolores, the fourth of five saying she’d found their dream home especially — a fine stone or marble fire- vation area, so John went to Wandsworth “My mother has known John longer children on the way, it was time to find but it was too late. However, they went place in every room, with its original planners for preliminary discussions. than me,” says Jemima Dyer Grimes, 46, a forever home. Jemima put her foot to look and put in an offer at once. It was grate, but boarded in, with electric fires His basic plan was to take the small interior designer at her husband’s archi- down: “I said, ‘I can’t face one more a probate sale, and within weeks they on top. The joined kitchen and scullery, extension off the back and replace it with tectural firm, which specialises in ultra- move!’” But by putting their combined owned the place. set lower than the rest of the house, were a striking vertical window, reflected in modern high-spec homes in London and creative energies into doing up houses cramped and dark. the garden by a pond. Bulldozers would the South-East as well as sensitive refur- and selling them, the couple had learned HIDDEN TREASURE John did some sketches and they got a clear the garden, preserve the ancient bishments of old houses. a huge amount, as well as saving up for The solid brick 3,000sq ft house had a costing, but it was twice what they could tree, and lower the ground level so that As in the best stories, the children grew their family home. small vertical Victorian extension on the afford, so Jemima, who is practical and the kitchen and scullery, knocked up and went their separate ways. John, They’d been looking for two years from back. It had a big garden, utterly over- forthright, told him to be their contrac- together, could become one bright room now 49, to Glasgow to study architecture; a cramped Fulham flat, and were finally grown with trees, including a 250-year- tor and builder. So began a two-year with sliding glass doors to a sculptural Jessica to do fashion design at Central St on the point of completing on a prop- old oak, and foxes running amok. All the labour of love. This house is in a conser- garden framed with new trees. That  EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 27 powered by Our home | Homes & Property

Light fantastic: the kitchen and scullery, knocked together, have become one bright room with sliding glass doors to a sculptural garden

On reflection: the vertical window is mirrored in the garden by a pond

What it cost House in 2006: £1.6 million Cost of works: (no fees, self-build) £500,000 Value now: estimate £3.95 million

Get the look Architect: John Dyer Grimes at dyergrimesarchitects.com Interior design: Jessica Dyer Grimes at Dyer Grimes as above Builder: Galower at galowers.co.uk Joinery by Toby Hunt at tobywoodwork@ aol.com Floors and dark oak stain by AH Peck Flooring at ahpeckltd.co.uk Striking bespoke stair runner woven by Bowloom at bowloom.co.uk Cornices renovated/replicated by London Plastercraft at londonplastercraft.com Ceramic dark wood floor tiles by Capitol Tiles at capitol-tiles.com Kitchen by Magnet at magnet.co.uk with Prime viewing: the children and cats love sitting on the landing, staring at the garden steel tops made by builder Mirrored Perspex from Denny at dennyplastics.co.uk Feature wallpaper in children’s rooms by mrperswall.co.uk Striped rug in girls’ room by Paul Smith for The Rug Company at therugcompany. com Sofa in drawing room covered in Eight Thirty Turquoise fabric by Pierre Frey at pierrefrey.com/uk Plants and trees from Evergreen trade plant nursery at evergreenext.co.uk Paint throughout: Brilliant white by Dulux at dulux.co.uk

Jemima’s tips DON’T rip out period features, work with them. MIRROR can be cut to size from an accurate template by any glass supplier, Back elevation: the gigantic window Bright and beautiful: the restored front rooms feature diligently repaired cornices then glued in place. For areas of possible knocks (such as Jemima’s brilliant shoe height glass wall. Light moves freely from steel work surfaces set on to glossy white FTER two years’ building cupboard with concertina doors in the front to back, and the front room became kitchen carcases. The look is finished off works were finished, the hall) use mirrored Perspex instead, a safe play-space while the parents with metro tiles. It’s a far cry from a dingy gigantic glass window was which won’t shatter if bashed. cooked. low-ceiling Victorian kitchen with a hob flown over the roof with grate and quarry tiles. cranes. What had been Heart of glass: the front room became a FIRST IMPRESSIONS Jemima designed all the interiors and boarded-upA darkness was suddenly John’s top tip safe play-space while the parents cooked To John, what you see when you first walk some of the furniture, using an elegant utterly transformed. AFTER bringing the bedroom fireplace into a house is vital. In this case, from the palette: white walls, dark wood floors, Juggernauts of light streamed in to forwards two feet or so, John built meant removing 100 skips of earth. The wide hall with new oak floorboards, the ceramic wood-effect tiles in kitchen and filled the house like a glass vase. Now invisibly sprung wardrobes across the house’s lovely bricks, a mix of glazed majestic old staircase rises up against the bathrooms. And mirrors: to edge book there are no dark corners. spaces to either side, replacing the white Gault and London Stock, were all huge glass window. There is light every- cases, for a bespoke shoe cupboard in The children and cats love sitting on cornicing, so you don’t even realise that lovingly cleaned and repointed. “The where: from the restored front rooms the hall, to mirrored bathroom cup- the landing, staring out dreamily at the wardrobes are there. This modern take builders thought I was mad when I went with their diligently repaired cornices to boards. “It’s effective and cheap,” Jem- garden. on the tradition of building cupboards in up and cleaned the bricks on the chim- the striking kitchen-diner. This room, ima says. The children get feature “It is better than even we imagined,” the alcoves is clever stuff. ney,” John says. A stroke of genius was which the family loves, is great. The side wallpapered walls in their rooms — dis- says Jemima. to replace the old wall between kitchen- wall of floor-to-ceiling cupboards is tressed concrete-effect for the boys, who Photographs: Jack Hobhouse diner and front sitting room with a half- entirely mirrored. More light comes from have taken over the old servants’ attic. Twitter: @stockleyp Portraits: Juliet Murphy  28 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Outdoors

Fruitful pickings: apple branches herald autumn in style Novel containers: vintage brush pots make fittingly bright holders for anemones Winter whites: hellebores spring from white china swans

RUE to her first name, floral stylist Willow Crossley is renowned for her naturalis- The simple tic flair, favoured by compa- nies such as Mulberry, AnthropologieT and Jo Malone. Whether you find your flowers at the florist, flower market or your own back garden, answer her message is that you don’t need a large bouquet to make an impact, and Forget grand bouquets — floral in her new book Flourish, she shows how it’s done, Crossley style, with style is best done naturally. Just apparent ease but to great effect. For example, several single stems of the follow Willow Crossley’s top tips same flower in individual bottles, jam jars or bud vases, clustered in a group or ranged down a console or dining table, look artlessly wonderful. “Just a couple of branches or a few wispy stems in a vase make all the dif- ference,” says Crossley, who likes to cut a metre or two of passionflower vine from her house wall and lay it down the centre of a dining table, or twine trailing ivy around banisters for a quick-fix festive garland. “Get to know your local friendly florist and ask them to order things in for you if they don’t have it already. Go for walks in your local parks and woodlands, look at the way the plants and trees grow in their natural habitat, study their shapes, colours and tones. Arrangements should look as natural as possible.”

O AS IN the garden, foliage is as impor- number of hydrangeas and eucalyptus Crowd scene: tant as flowers, and Crossley, who has branches, and coaxes mini phalaenop- single stems of Pattie just designed a range of faux flowers sis orchids — which don’t need soil — lupins in old Barron and foliage for lifestyle store OKA, has into large recycled glass jars, glass bottles her fall-backs that act as leafy fillers. terrarium-style. have more These include box, purple smoke bush, impact than one heuchera and Solomon’s seal, though O FOR the more creative, she has many large bouquet she uses stand-alone foliage too, such ideas that are worth taking more time where you go, try to find the oddest as ferns, which she fixes to candlesticks over, such as a “disco ball” — a giant thing you can.” As well as jam jars, so that, with curving eucalyptus sprays, pompom, suspended from the ceiling. Photographs:: which are her staples, she suggests mus- they replace candles with cascades of “It looks as if my garden has exploded Emma Mitchell tard pots, drinking glasses, glass pickle lacey green. and I’ve rolled it into a ball and hung it jars, vintage jugs and milk churns. Thus Like all of the new breed of artisan up again,” says Crossley, who assures it Floral disco ball: foxglove plants come in from outdoors florists, Crossley is keen on reducing requires relatively little skill to make. Lysimachia and and are fittingly displayed in old wooden carbon footprint by buying British and Perish the thought of using a standard- larkspur sprays apple crates, while blue delphiniums buying seasonal, so that flowers look issue glass vase. “As far as I’m con- burst from a are ideally suited to a large and silvery more as if they’ve been hand-picked cerned, anything with a hole in the top base of green zinc planter. For winter, hellebores, from the hedgerow. For autumn, along can be used as a container for flowers,” hydrangea over a which last longer as small plants than with dahlias and Japanese anemones, says Crossley. “Make it a game — every- foam sphere cut flowers, are settled into kitsch china both of which need little arranging or swan holders, to stunning white-on- addition, she suggests a simple but eye- white effect. catching display of cut apple branches or smaller Golden Hornet crab apples, O ON THE practical side, Crossley sug- laden with golden fruits. In spring, gests keeping a stash of cut-down plas- stems of blossom or ornamental quince tic water bottles, in different sizes, for have a similar effect. At this time of lining containers that aren’t watertight, year, too, she uses old man’s beard — or use bucket liners for larger ones. Of the wild clematis that has silken seed- course, you can bypass containers heads — to fashion into wreaths and entirely and just use moss to display garlands. your creations, as in her enchanting As well as our huge choice of British moss wreath centrepiece of springtime flowers, exotics have their occasional aquilegia stems, or white jasmine place, too. Crossley uses miniature wrapped in a ball of moss, secured with pink pineapples on long stems to aug- parcel twine. ment more formal arrangements or, cut down, likes them as placement card BOOK OFFER: Flourish (Kyle Books) holders for dinner guests and to hold costs £19.99, but Homes & Property gilded candles. In winter, for a dra- readers can buy it for £15.99 including matic large-scale display, she mixes five p&p by calling 01903 828503 and or six amaryllis stems with the same quoting code KB HP/FF 32 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Property searching Spotlight on Barking Prices almost half the London average and a riverside regeneration claimed to rival Barcelona — time to look east, says Anthea Masey

ARKING is a town with a long history and bright future. It hovers in that hinterland between London and Essex and still likes to celebrate its Bpast as a centuries-old busy fishing vil- lage on the River Roding but it is now proudly looking forward to the future with east London’s largest single regen- eration project — — now steaming ahead on a large brownfield riverside site south of the town centre. This massive 15-year project will deliver 10,800 new homes housing 29,000 people on a former power station site on a two-kilometre stretch of the River Thames. Estate agent Kay Nevill from the local Bright future: Arboretum Place, above, Launching the new masterplan this branch of Sandra Davidson describes close to Barking’s bustling centre, right summer, local council leader Darren Barking Riverside as the Essex equiva- Rodwell compared the project to Bar- lent of London’s Docklands. She has £276,145, just 57 per cent of the average celona and other cities around the worked in the area for 22 years and says London house price of £484,716. “Bark- world that have developed old wharves Barking is increasingly attracting first- ing appeals to people on average and vacant harbours into vibrant time buyers from east London who incomes who can afford to rent and waterfront attractions. The vision for come in search of affordable homes buy here, something which is increas- what is effectively a new town includes and a quick commute to the City on the ingly rare across London.” an extension of the Overground from A13 or by train to Fenchurch Street Barking is 10 miles east of central Barking to the riverfront, a promenade, station. London with Ilford to the north, Dagen- bars, restaurants, public squares, wild- Estate agent Matt Cobb from Currell ham to the east, the Thames to the life reserves and a marina with a river- says the average house price in the south and Stratford, East and West Hats off: Barking Market is open four days every week boat service to and from London. borough of Barking & is Ham to the west.

£425,000 £370,000 £245,000 A THREE-BEDROOM house with garden WITH a garage and a good-size back garden, this three- A ONE-BEDROOM flat with balcony at and patio in Salisbury Avenue, handy bedroom home in Eldred Road is a short walk from Barking Bath House in Arboretum Place. Call for trains. Call Steps (020 8012 2244). station and the town centre. Porter Glenny (020 8012 2138). Campbell Residential (020 7517 6070). £460,000 THIS four-bedroom modern townhouse in Campus rightmove.co.uk Avenue, with double glazing, wooden floors and a garage, To find a home in Barking, visit is less than a mile from the future Crossrail station at For more about Barking, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/barking Goodmayes. Through House Network (01245 930165). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 33 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by Property searching | Homes & Property

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STATS CHECK WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN BARKING (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £203,000 Two-bedroom flat £239,000 Two-bedroom house £298,000 Three-bedroom house £395,000 Four-bedroom house £476,000

Green escape: gardens around the remains of and its churchyard RENTING IN BARKING (Average rates) THE PROPERTY SCENE One-bedroom flat £1,020 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,269 a month BARKING has a good supply of Longbridge Road on the edge of Two-bedroom house £1,264 a month Thirties semi-detached and terrace . Three-bedroom house houses. The most desirable are on the £1,569 a Leftley Estate between Barking and ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES month Upney stations but nearly as popular Hart Place (020 8591 7563) in Bevan Four-bedroom house £1,765 a and closer to the town centre is the Avenue is an Abbey New Homes month Faircross Estate. There are modern development of 24 three- and four- Source: Rightmove flats in the much-photographed bedroom houses; prices start at regenerated town centre with its new £484,995 and the development will square in front of the town hall and its complete next spring. blocks of flats with brightly coloured Rivermill Lofts (01279 873 300), a balconies. Academy Central is a new Weston Homes development of 118 FOR MORE, VISIT development of nearly 1,000 homes one- and two-bedroom flats overlook- homesandproperty.co.uk on a former University of East London ing the River Roding in Abbey Road, site between Lodge Avenue and launches in the middle of next year. O Use our School Checker to find catchment areas and inspection ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES reports for local schools Help to Buy is available at Barking Riverside where Bellway is selling O The best shops and restaurants in off-plan one-, two- and three- Barking bedroom flats at Caspian Quarter O Local arts, leisure and sport (020 8594 9709) off Galleons Drive. O Barking’s best streets and open One-bedroom flats start at £237,995 spaces with two-bedroom flats at £281,995 and three-bedroom flats at £349,995. Weavers Quarter (weaversquar- ter.co.uk; 020 8227 3904) is the regeneration of the Gascoigne Estate TRAVEL on the edge of the town centre. FAST trains from Barking to Housing association East Thames will Fenchurch Street take between 15 be building 1,575 new homes, two and 20 minutes. Barking is also on the new schools, a community centre ■ WHO RENTS HERE? District and Hammersmith & City and a new public square linking the Agent Kay Nevill says young city Underground lines and the Barking to estate with the town centre. The first workers like to rent the town centre Gospel Oak Overground line. Upney is phase, designed by Levitt Bernstein flats. Barking has a large East on the District line. Both stations are and Allies & Morrison, will have 421 European community and many rent in Zone 4 and an annual season ticket one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom houses in the area. to Zone 1 costs £1,860. homes of which 221 will be for shared New district: the arty Icehouse Quarter along the banks of the River Roding ownership. Photographs: Daniel Lynch 38 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Ask the expert Are all these huge letting agency fees legal? WHAT’S I HAVE just finished doing up a house that I Fiona YOUR plan to let out. I have the usual buildings McNulty PROBLEM? Q insurance in place but my sister says that I IF YOU have a need to have landlord insurance as well. OUR LAWYER ANSWERS question for What is it — and is it really necessary? YOUR QUESTIONS Fiona McNulty, please email LANDLORD insurance is not compulsory but it is MY GIRLFRIEND is looking legalsolutions@ prudent to have it in place. Indeed some lenders for a one-bedroom flat to standard.co.uk A offering buy-to-let mortgages require the Qrent and saw one in Sheen or write to Legal borrower to take out landlord insurance. The that she liked. The flat was Solutions, Homes insurance is designed to protect a landlord from a variety being offered by a well-known & Property, of risks that are likely to cause the landlord to be out of letting agency, which said that the London Evening pocket. rent would be £1,300 per month. Standard, 2 Derry Your buildings insurance will cover the actual structure That was fine, but she would also Street, W8 5EE. of your property against flood, fire and so on, and these have to pay £500 for them to take We regret that are all important, but a landlord insurance policy can the flat off the market, £300 admin questions cannot covers other eventualities such as loss of rent if the fee, a deposit of six weeks’ rent and be answered property remains untenanted for a period of time, plus an inventory fee of £200 to £220 individually, but landlord’s contents insurance, which is advisable if you even though the flat is we will try to intend to let your property either fully or partially unfurnished. feature them furnished. The £500 would be returned by here. Fiona There can also be cover for accidental damage, with taking it off the last month’s rent. McNulty is a regard to such issues as staining on carpets and rugs, etc. She did not take that flat in view of legal director There is usually legal expenses insurance, which would the high fees, especially keeping preparing the inventory. Though it is you can complain to Trading in the private be useful in possession proceedings. Landlords’ home the £500 until the last month of entirely up to the agents how much to Standards or the Advertising wealth group of emergency cover would include the cost of emergency her tenancy. Can landlords charge charge for these fees, they must Standards Authority. Foot Anstey repairs up to a certain limit and landlord liability all these fees? publicise full details of all fees they Property-listing websites are (footanstey.com). insurance which, in fact, is often essential in some intend to charge the tenant that are in exempt from the publicising instances such as student lets. IN ADDITION to the tenancy addition to the rent and the usual requirements. There are several landlord insurance policies available, deposit, letting agents tenancy deposit. Often the holding deposit will be so I would suggest you do your research to see which one generally charge tenants a A list of the fees should appear on taken off the first month’s rent. To is best suited to your needs. A holding deposit to reserve the letting agent’s website and in their hold £500 until the last month of the the property before the tenancy offices where they meet tenants. tenancy does seem unduly harsh agreement is signed; an In view of this you can compare and, arguably, this is simply part of More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on administration fee to cover such their fees and choose which letting the tenant deposit and should either Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. things as credit checks and preparing agents you wish to use. If an agent be properly protected under the Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar the tenancy agreement, plus a fee for publishes misleading information, tenancy agreement or returned. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor. 42 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Inside story Battersea’s top of Diary of an estate our lettings league agent

MONDAY changing and improving, and I always in the Pimlico area. The location is bril- Today marks the beginning of an excit- come across interesting new places to liant and the views across London from ing new week — our new lettings office recommend to my clients. I am a par- the upper floors are spectacular. The in Battersea and Nine Elms opens this ticular fan of Italo Deli in Bonnington launch is well attended and our sales morning. My day starts with our very Square and always try to take clients to team secure a number of reservations first team meeting in the new office, the Nine Elms Tavern on the Thames on site from potential buy-to-let inves- where we discuss our current listings, for the fantastic views. tors. When the project nears completion communications with applicants look- Just as I’m getting back to my desk, my we will start marketing the flats to rent, ing for a home in the area and our phone rings and it’s the model from yes- so it’s brilliant to see the scheme all the forthcoming opening event. terday. She loves the apartment and way through from such an early stage. My afternoon is filled with viewings. wants to make an offer. I’m thrilled to get We already have a number of beautiful another deal agreed and immediately THURSDAY properties on our books, and a long list get to work organising the paperwork. Another early start, as I’m in the office of applicants who want to find their This afternoon, I’m leaving the office sooner than expected. The new office is ideal home through us. My first one is early to head to West Ham United’s old just round the corner from Vauxhall sta- with a successful model who has just football ground, Upton Park, for a char- tion, so such an easy place to get to. been in town for London Fashion ity tournament hosted by one of our When the Northern line extension opens Week. She wants to find a stylish new developer clients. It’s the last ever match in a couple of years, the Nine Elms area pad close to central London, but some- to be held at the ground and we’re all will be even more accessible — savvy where a bit different — as an area expe- feeling privileged to have been invited. buyers and tenants can see the potential riencing lots of development, Nine Despite a valiant effort we’re knocked already, and are securing new homes in Elms fits the bill perfectly. The apart- out in the semi-final, but loved the thrill anticipation of all the improvements. ment she views first is in one of our new of playing in such a special place. developments and boasts incredible FRIDAY facilities, including a private dining WEDNESDAY As Friday comes around I manage to tie room and cinema room. I’m feeling I get in early this morning for a meeting up the paperwork on the first deals from confident she’ll snap it up. with one of our developers, to discuss our new office. The model has agreed ways to help promote their scheme. the lease on the very first flat I showed TUESDAY I’m so passionate about the area that her so, to celebrate, I buy the office a Though I know the locality well, I I’m full of ideas and it’s a hugely pro- bottle of champagne to share. We raise spend the morning soaking up the ductive meeting. I don’t notice we’ve a toast to a very successful first week. atmosphere, walking between proper- overrun and I have to take a brisk walk ties and researching the amenities in to my next market appraisal. O James Hughes is the lettings the area. The regeneration and local In the afternoon I head to the launch of manager at CBRE in St George Wharf, development means it is constantly one of our exciting new developments SW8 (020 3257 6482). %*4$07&3 -*'& */ 5)& )&"35 0' 5)& $*5:

                

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USIC to my ears, that’s what it is, when this young single mum who I’m showing round my When the two-bedroom flat tells Mme she much prefers renting directly from a landlord than going via a letting agent. “It’s so much nicer having a going gets personal relationship with the landlord,” this young mum tells me. “Yes, yes,” I say, nodding enthusiastically. I agree with her again when she says that we don’t tough you need a letting agent “getting in the way”. I expect you can see where this is going. She seems very sensible. It is indeed much better, I think, to hand- need a pick tenants myself so that I can be sure I can get along with them and, as the tenant will be dealing with me throughout the tenancy, it’s only right that we should meet first so they good agent know what they’re letting themselves in for. Victoria Whitlock understands The Property Ombudsman (TPO) saw a why tenants want to deal directly 33 per cent increase in complaints about letting agents last year, 48 per with owners. However, her cent of which were in London and the South-East. In total, 1,965 sympathy only extends so far complaints were resolved, 83 per cent of which were supported by the TPO, leading Ombudsman Katrine Sporle to warn agents that they need The to raise their standards. The top three causes of complaints accidental to the TPO were management including repairs and maintenance, landlord communication and record keeping and end-of-tenancy issues including If a tenant were to fall on hard times deposits, disputes and damages. after they’ve moved in, obviously I’d Tenants’ campaign groups have try to work something out with them also been pretty vocal recently about with regard to the rent, but I’m not a the fees charged by letting agents, so, charity, I’m trying to run a business, I given all of the above, I’m surprised have a mortgage to pay and there aren’t more tenants like this maintenance costs. I’m definitely not young mum who try to avoid them. going to take a tenant who warns me in advance she will struggle to pay. I’m thinking that the two of us are going to get along just fine when she HE tells me she will let me tells me the real reason she’s keen to know her decision soon and rent directly from a landlord. She I drive home wondering how says she needs to make sure that they to politely refuse if she will be “understanding” when “from makes an offer. When she time to time” she can’t pay the rent. emailsS later to say that she doesn’t “I can only rent from someone who think the property is right for her, I gets that I’m single with a little girl to realise she clocked my expression look after on my own and that when she told me her tale. Well, sometimes I’ll struggle,” she says. that’s a relief! The grin slips from my face. I am not That Landlord. It might be hard- O Victoria Whitlock lets four hearted but I think it would be properties in south London. reckless to take on a tenant who tells To contact Victoria with your ideas me from the start that she’s a liability. and views, tweet @vicwhitlock 50 WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes By David Spittles SmaSmarSmmarmarr Cast off

New landmark: Ebury Place will offer 47 apartments in a 10-storey block by the chichi boutiques of Pimlico Road for Fish Your passport to a reborn and posh new Pimlico Island PIMLICO shares Belgravia’s enclave of traffic-free EVELOPERS are casting architecture but has never streets and culs-de-sac. their net over Fish Island, been as smart. However, Ebury Place, a new Want a former industrial zone, the district has a new-found scheme of 47 apartments, now a “creative colony”, cachet thanks to fancy is rising right on the cusp to buy in Hackney Wick. housing developments such of this conservation area. DThis little-known backwater, once your as Grosvenor Waterside and The 10-storey block is part of a thriving industrial suburb workshops and small business Creative colony: the 448 luxury homes soon alongside train tracks into first where in 1865 the Gas Light and Coke premises. former factory to be at Chelsea Barracks. Victoria, but its finely company established a small factory Carpenters Wharf, once a Carpenters In the 18th century textured stone and home? town, now a conservation area, has furniture and shoe making factory, is Wharf is the first Grosvenor Estate’s master aluminium aims to create a been thrown into the spotlight by the the first of the new canalside of Hackney builder Thomas Cubitt laid stylish new landmark. transformation of Stratford. apartment schemes. Architect Studio Wick’s canalside out Pimlico’s handsome Developer Taylor For the past 20 years, the decaying Egret West has picked up on the area’s apartment terraces, wide streets and Wimpey is also trumpeting 50-acre site bordering Queen Elizabeth industrial heritage by designing an schemes squares. For much of the the scheme’s very close Olympic Park has offered cheap studio exposed frame and timber-clad 20th century, the area was proximity to the chichi space to hundreds of artists, but the warehouse-style building with a rather run-down. The boutiques and galleries under-utilised land and buildings are central atrium and a residents’ roof turnaround started in the along Pimlico Road. Prices now part of a masterplan to create a garden. The ground floor is given over Nineties, especially within from £699,000. Call Taylor new neighbourhood with more than to an exhibition space and café. Prices the Pimlico Grid, a peaceful Wimpey on 020 3319 3516. 5,000 homes, live-work dwellings, from £415,000. Call 020 7519 5917. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 51 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes & Property

HISTORIC country house, hotel and hospital conversions continue to cast a spell over home buyers. King Edward VII Estate, near Midhurst in West Sussex, lies within the South Downs National Park and has been hailed as an Arts and Crafts masterpiece. At the end of a mile-long private road, the sense of arrival is impressive. Originally a sanatorium, the property has listed grounds — “therapeutic gardens” created by renowned TOP DOWNS overlooking courtyard horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll gardens and lawns. — that link with the wider SUSSEX HOMES The hospital’s original dining landscape. New footpaths are room and reading room have being created, with four miles IN A DESIGNER been turned into communal of walks through the estate’s MASTERPIECE spaces for residents, while a mature oak woodland and Grade II*-listed chapel is heathland. earmarked as a café and shop. City & Country, an Evening to the project, crafting 132 Later, there will be a leisure Standard New Homes award homes with retained period suite with pool and gym plus winner that specialises in features in the refurbished tennis courts. Prices from heritage conversions, has buildings. The latest flats to be £395,000 to £1.15 million. Call brought customary panache unveiled have private terraces 01730 817979.

The heart of Tunbridge Wells SHEPHERD’S DELIGHT IN THE blink of an eye Brackenbury GRAMMAR SCHOOLS and station. Royal Wells Park, “Village”, up the road from an easy commute keep above, has avenues of Shepherd’s Bush, has moved from Kent in the good books of Regency-style houses with up-and-coming to fashionable, with family home buyers. first-floor verandas and up still just-about-affordable, if small, A town centre hospital to six bedrooms. family houses, a well-regarded redevelopment in Apartments and smaller primary school, smart restaurants, prosperous Royal mews houses are available, gastropubs and a park. Tunbridge Wells brings too, all set in landscaped Brackenbury Square is a new- houses and a new free grounds. build scheme of 45 flats that slots school for local residents Prices from £530,000 to into the conservation area. Prices and is also only five £1.65 million. Call 01892 from £665,000. Call 020 3137 9530. minutes from the train 532 011.