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Pets were part of the plan Our home: Page 24 DAVID BUTLER DAVID London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: first-time buyer homes break £300,000 barrier Property £290,000: this one-bedroom ﬂat search in Manbey Grove, Stratford, goes under the new record-breaking Trophy buy of the week average for a starter home in become lord of the manor London £5.5 million: take your millions to West Sussex, where O homesandproperty.co.uk/manbey gorgeous Coolham Manor sits in 100 acres of rolling countryside. A long sweeping driveway, past manicured THE average price paid for a home by first-time buyers in lawns, a tennis court, bluebell woods and paddocks, brings London has surpassed £300,000 — a new record. you to the wisteria-covered nine-bedroom pile with its By contrast, the average UK-wide first-timer must find oak-panelled rooms, an indoor pool and sauna, snooker £155,782. First-time buyers in the capital also have to pay a room, stables and indoor riding school. There’s a separate deposit of more than £67,000 to secure the average four-bedroom lodge house to keep staff close, but in their property, compared with £25,890 elsewhere in the own space. Through Sell My Home. country, claims research by Your Move and Reeds Rains. Despite the average London starter home now costing O homesandproperty.co.uk/trophy £304,205, some 9,100 first-timers bought a home in the capital in the first three months of this year.

O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week garden flat perfect for a long, hot summer Buy now: one-bedroom £725,000: set on the ground floor of and a breakfast bar. A mezzanine level a gated, Grade II-listed conversion in sits neatly above, behind cool, black homes rise by £75 a day Camberwell is this über-sleek garden glass panels — perfect as a home £325,000: in E16 flat. Solid oak floors lead from the office or guest bedroom. The garden this one-bedroom hallway to a fabulous lofty living is a treat, too, showcasing an alfresco ﬂat has terrace space with seven huge sash windows dining area and pretty summerhouse. views of Barrier and double-height ceilings over a Through Wooster & Stock. Park and is only a lounge area and open-plan kitchen, three-minute complete with high-spec appliances O homesandproperty.co.uk/botw walk from Pontoon Dock Life changer check into this DLR station (Tepilo) boutique B&B in Cornwall O homesandproperty.co.uk/barrier £645,000: if you fancy trying your hand at running a B&B, Little Brook in the prime Cornish location of Egloshayle ONE-BEDROOM homes in London are rising in value by could be perfect, for starters. The picture-postcard village £75 a day, according to a new report by estate agents is an ideal base for your guests to explore the market town Marsh & Parsons. Young buyers are prioritising location, of Wadebridge. There are four bedrooms (three en suite), a overall square footage and well-designed living spaces dining room and a kitchen ideal for cooking up a flurry of over the appeal of having a second bedroom and a longer full English breakfasts. A lovely garden with a small stream commute, increasing demand. We uncover the best-value completes the package. Through Cole Rayment & White. By one-bedroom properties across the capital. Faye O homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechanger Greenslade O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/onebedflats Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty

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É IF THE idea of living in a grand pub get the X Factor? 18th-century castle appeals but not the upkeep of such a historic pile, É COULD there be another look no further than Kemeys Folly. celebrity pub owner in London? The former hunting lodge in Wales, Stars including Dermot O’Leary, which featured on Channel 4’s right, and Matthew Wright are Grand Designs, has been radically regulars at The Albert in converted into a cutting-edge, Primrose Hill. Find satisfaction six-bedroom family home. When planning applications Investment banker Dean Berry and were submitted to turn the at Mick’s old place wife Sarah left behind a £1.3 million upstairs of the pub into flats, townhouse in Islington and bought the stars were among the É MICK JAGGER and Keith Richards the folly for £800,000. It’s now for locals who signed a petition moved into a house in Kilburn’s sale, with 24 acres of woodland, for to protect its future. Mapesbury Road during the early £1,995,000 through PA Black. The popular boozer has days of the Rolling Stones. come on the market for The pair, below, lived in the O homesandproperty.co.uk/folly £2 million with Fleurets, conversion with manager Andrew meaning the neighbourhood Loog Oldham. It is said to be where could form a co-operative and Jagger wooed the Sixties model and bid for the venue. actress Chrissie Shrimpton, while Primrose Hill Community John Lennon and Paul McCartney Association wonders if it used to pop round for late-night can afford to run the pub, while jamming sessions. a spokesman said two financial A studio apartment on the first floor big-hitters from the area are of the Victorian house is for sale interested. through Abacus at £249,950. At Now that Dermot has some 239sq ft this is a small flat, but the free time on his hands after large sash windows offer a feeling of announcing his exit from the space. With clever renovation, it X Factor, he might want to could become a little gem. By Amira Hashish follow in the footsteps of other stars, such as Sir Ian O homesandproperty.co.uk/mapes McKellen, who have become pub landlords. Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews

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DEMI MOORE, left, is selling the New York penthouse she has called home for 24 years. The Hollywood actress bought the triplex, housed within the San Remo building on the Upper West Side, far left, with her first husband, Bruce Willis. The 28th-floor, 7,000sq ft apartment is on the market for £49 million and comes with a wraparound terrace at the base of one of the building’s iconic towers, offering views of Central Park and the Hudson River. The buyer will find no shortage of celebrity neighbours. Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton and Steven Spielberg have lived in the prestigious block and U2 frontman Bono currently occupies the

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HATEVER the result of tomorrow’s general election, one thing is certain — London will be getting lots more newW homes. Developers will be taking the wraps off their summer launches just as soon as the election fever that has stalled so many buyers is out of the way. House building is a priority for all political parties and has the support of organisations across the board, from homeless charity Shelter to the Confederation of British Industry. Currently 51,120 new homes are under construction in London, more than the Mayor’s annual target of From £1,375,000: Wimbledon 42,000 and double the peak of 2007. Hill Park, a scheme of 110 homes Industry analyst MoliorLondon reports a “ballooning in development activity” since the start of the year. The figures show that sales of expensive homes, typically those priced more than £1.5 million, have dropped by a staggering 76 per cent, while homes less than £500,000 now account for two thirds of all sales, many being first-time buyer flats. DISCOUNTS AND DEALS Following last year’s sales frenzy, developers are having to try much harder to sell homes. Some are quietly reduc- ing prices, while others are dangling incentives. Barratt is offering end-of-financial- From £389,995: good-value homes at year deals at developments including The Exchange near Leyton Overground Sales of mansion tax-vulnerable homes have dropped but first-timers are busy buying. Now builders are promising a record number of new-season launches, says David Spittles The waiting is over and it’s time to decide —

Great West Quarter, Brentford, and legacy benefits of the 2012 Games. See HIPSTERS LOVE Queensland Terrace, Highbury. for yourself by strolling down High QUEEN’S PARK Prices start from £480,000. Call 0844 Road Leyton, where traditional shop- Queen’s Park continues to entice hip- 811 4321. Bellway is offering up to fronts have been revitalised with a sters priced out of Notting Hill. £12,000 stamp duty savings at com- colourful facelift. Modest and neat Victorian red-brick muter homes projects including Silk Lea Valley is a giant back garden and cottages built for artisans and manual Meadows in Braintree. Call 01376 the area also borders Hackney Marshes workers now cost seven-figure 343443. and Wanstead Flats, among the largest sums, while the wider district’s late Expect a feast of launches during the areas of open land in London. Victorian and Edwardian houses, par- coming weeks as schemes that have At The Exchange, next to Leyton ticularly those in the conservation area been put on ice during the election Midland Road Overground station, ringing the eponymous park, with campaign are finally unveiled. Here are the emphasis is on large, good-value bandstand and tennis courts, have some to whet your appetite. homes for people who want to put media executives scrambling to put down roots. Three-bedroom apart- down sealed bids. IDEAL FIRST-TIME BUYS ments cost from £389,995, while Queen’s Park Place is a new-build St Clement’s is an imaginative rede- houses start from £574,995. Call Bell- scheme of 116 apartments in the Salus- velopment of a derelict listed way on 01689 886400. bury Road hub, a family-friendly neigh- Victorian hospital in Mile End. The bourhood that boasts a farmers’ 252-home estate has a mix of apart- ACTON’S ON THE RISE market, bistros, boutiques and delis. ments in refurbished older buildings With Crossrail on the horizon, Acton Prices start at £500,000. Call Aston plus new-builds in the grounds. has a spring in its step. The area is Chase on 020 7724 4724. It is also part of London’s first Com- packed with young renters and buyers munity Land Trust, which seeks to link priced out of Shepherd’s Bush. YOUNG FAMILIES LOVE the cost of 23 of the homes to the area’s An old corner pub in East Acton Lane CLAPHAM OLD TOWN average median wage, meaning one- has made way for Park Grove — 50 Clapham Old Town, the original Geor- bedroom flats will cost from about flats overlooking Acton Park. Prices gian quarter between the common and £150,000. from £400,000. Call Mizen Group on From £575,000: The Chroma Buildings in Lancaster Street SE1 feature 40 ﬂats High Street, goes from strength to The rest are available to buy on the 020 8903 2442. in two low-rise blocks on a site that was once a photograph processing factory strength. Gastropubs, organic food open market, some on a shared-owner- stores, galleries and fashion boutiques ship basis, priced from £325,000. Call A LAW UNTO ITSELF new scheme of 20 flats. The homes “extra”, meaning lower service have opened. Linden Homes on 0844 488 1678. Temple, at the heart of London’s have luxury interiors and are set charges. Prices from £1 million. Call JLL Run-down heritage architecture is legal quarter, is an almost secret resi- behind a new period-style façade on 020 7087 5111. getting a facelift and swish new homes GAME ON FOR LEYTON dential address. that dovetails with its ancient neigh- The Grays, opposite Gray’s Inn, are sprouting up on derelict sites sur- Leyton has no jazzy new skyscrapers Aldwych Chambers in Essex Street, bours. Two penthouses have views of postcode WC1, is another Rumpole- rounding the Polygon, a triangle or ritzy shopping mall to match nearby a cul-de-sac with an arched entrance the Thames. land project — 13 apartments priced formed by three roads. Stratford, but the area is basking in to the Inner Temple enclave of barris- The proposed Garden Bridge is from £895,000. Call CBRE on 020 Built in 1792, the Polygon is the hub post-Olympics sunshine, sharing the ters’ chambers and gardens, is a rare moments away. A concierge is the only 7240 2255. of the Old Town. Twentysomethings EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 7 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

From £1 million: Aldwych Chambers, 20 luxurious new ﬂats in the heart of the legal quarter in WC2

$ )' 1*5) ()* : &+#" & REX Green lung: buyers at St Clement’s, a hospital redevelopment in Tower Hamlets with new ﬂats from about £150,000, will be handy for Mile End Park, left, and Regent’s Canal, above spring’s new homes ) 6)/07) like the gyms, the arthouse cinema and parade of shops and cafés, improving 0 70/) 75)0;)) the Tube links, while the pond, child- A total of life for pedal-pushing young friendly cafés and gift shops attract 51,120 new professionals. families from the Northcote Road side The Residence has 86 flats with new #5,+);)" % 2),)*)-0/),,<0) of the common. homes are shops at street level. Prices start at Listello Buildings, in Bedford Road, now under £765,000 for two-bedroom duplexes. )"*% )2),))-0/),,<0: is a smart new-build scheme with Call Linden on 0844 644 2514. 58 apartments priced from £569,995. construction The Chroma Buildings in Lancaster Call 0845 257 6068. — more than Street is a redevelopment of a redun- %$,$,"",' %&%&& & )"%!#&% the Mayor’s dant photograph processing BAYSWATER RECLAIMS factory. This has 40 flats in two low-rise " "&$ && $"&%&" ) % $&&"%" * ITS CROWN annual blocks. Prices from £575,000. Call With a new crop of luxury projects, target of Fabrica on 0800 083 3199. born-again Bayswater is losing the *)-0/),,<0)2<)"*%) ) stigma of being the “wrong side” of 42,000 ANYONE FOR A Hyde Park. HOUSE IN WIMBLEDON? )-0/),,<0)2<)"4*%) A tired-looking hotel at Leinster Wimbledon is considered the country Square has been transformed into six in London, with a charming village .07,;;)5735)0.727.,7)7.; /0 large laterals and five townhouses with centre and a vast, wonderful common grand interiors. that stretches to Putney Vale. "&% "+ !#&%" "& The restored, listed Victorian terrace Houses and luxury apartments bor- )&%%&+&$,&,&+"&%" "$& forms one side of the private garden dering this semi-wooded expanse square, which is being refurbished as command the highest prices. &%"% #& part of the project. New developments are quite rare Prices from £4.2 million. Call Knight and tend to be small infill schemes %$,$,""&&' Frank on 020 7861 5499. or one-off houses, making Wimbledon %$,$, "%' ) % ( Hill Park, a scheme of 110 homes &"%$ % " ) & ($,&&* &" ""&&+ " ) %&"* CYCLE ROUTE in 19-acre grounds, somewhat " , +" , )" $" +, , &* TO A NEW HOME special. Several new schemes are set to launch The walled estate, formerly a in Blackfriars Road, which is part of the hospital, has a mix of traditional ,;;) *)!*4)!44 new cycle superhighway from Ele- and modern architectural styles — new- phant & Castle to King’s Cross. build houses as well as conversions — <,7;) ;/.5 .5,8 ;7 739.9 8 Construction work has started on plus there is a concierge, gym and this main boulevard-like section, residents’ club. &77) ;/.5 .5,89.9 8 which will have a safe, “segregated” Prices from £1,375,000 to £4.95 mil- route for cyclists and an enlivened lion. Call 020 8226 2126. 8 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Schools homesandproperty.co.uk with

Green light: Competition is fierce for the best Taylor Wimpey is building 290 school places — so moving to a homes at Nine Elms, Battersea, development with a new school and a new school building for on site could be the answer, St Mary’s Catholic Primary discovers Ginetta Vedrickas

HE highest birth rates since the post-war baby boom have put a squeeze on school places, especially in London with its rising popu- Tlation. This year, one in six primary school children failed to get into their top-choice school, but new housing schemes with new schools attached should help ease the shortage. King’s Cross Academy is the new primary school at the heart of one of London’s most exciting regeneration projects. Neatly tucked beneath the 14-storey Plimsoll Building that will house 255 new apartments, the pur- pose-built academy is now accepting applications for two reception classes and a 26-place nursery opening in September. Some 420 places will be A new home available at the school, which will share pupils come from new apartments. space with Frank Barnes School for “Many are from homes with no outdoor Deaf Children, and sign language will space,” says Fairburn, who is keen be on the curriculum for everyone. for pupils to enjoy the new nature Families from neighbouring Islington reserve and partnerships he is forging are now considering King’s Cross, says with nearby businesses such as developer Argent. They are attracted Google, Waitrose Cookery School and by the school and child-friendly fea- Eurostar. tures such as the fountains in Granary “The children can see the station Square and the new urban Gasholder through our huge windows,” he says. Park, set within the iconic iron struc- “Train drivers will be coming in for tures, which opens later this year. talks and pupils will be able to visit Headteacher of the academy, Emyr Paris, as we’ve adopted French as a Fairburn, estimates that 25 per cent of main language.” Planning ahead

DEVELOPMENTS with schools on site are proving a major draw for young families. Planning ahead for their six- month-old daughter inspired Mabs Alam, 38, and Shamsun Nahar, 35, to buy a three-bedroom terrace house at Arboretum in Epping, Essex. Higgins Homes has rebuilt St John’s CofE School at the scheme where the final phase of houses are priced from £650,000. “We knew we’d found the perfect place,” says solicitor Shamsun. “We’re hopeful our daughter will benefit from living in a secure neighbourhood.” Secure neighbourhood: Mabs Alam and Shamsun Nahar with their baby daughter EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 9 homesandproperty.co.uk with Schools Homes & Property

‘NURSERY IS JUST OVER THE FENCE FROM US’ MUM Katrina Borrowdale, 28, has bought a property at Berkeley Homes’ Holborough Lakes scheme in North Kent with husband Gary, 29, a professional footballer with Greenwich Borough. Three-bedroom houses start from £310,000 and, from September, children can attend the scheme’s Valley Invicta Primary School. Katrina, a sales consultant, plans to enrol two-year-old son Blake there when he leaves the on-site nursery. “It’s really handy for me getting to work,” she says. “We can literally pass him over our fence. I have made two best friends through the nursery. It makes such a difference to living here.”

opening next year. At Berkeley Homes’ Kidbrooke Village in Greenwich, a £1 billion regeneration project is trans- forming the Ferrier Estate into a new neighbourhood, where Wingfield Primary School is opening seven years earlier than planned. Stylish: inside Holborough Lakes, where the Borrowdales, right, have a home Barratt Homes recently obtained outline planning permission for a development at Kingsbrook, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where a community of 2,450 new homes includes two primary schools and, potentially, a secondary school that with a new school next door could open by 2019. “The new schools and facilities will BOOSTING CHOICE Battersea development in the Nine make Kingsbrook a desirable location The Royal Borough of Kensington and Elms regeneration area. Alongside 290 for families,” says Barratt’s project Chelsea is the UK’s worst area for gain- private and affordable homes, there director Darren Farmer. ing school places. Only 61 per cent of will be a new building for St Mary’s A £7.1 million renovation programme children there reached their top-choice Catholic Primary School — the Evening is being unveiled tomorrow at All Saints school, but 210 new primary and 26 Standard’s flagship school for the Get School in Dagenham, a borough that nursery places will be available from London Reading campaign — that has a shortage of places. The Catholic September next year when a reception includes a new early years centre. school for 11- to 18-year-olds can accom- class opens at the new £16 million War- modate 300 extra students by 2020 in wick Road Primary School. In partner- TACKLING THE SHORTAGE its new three-floor building, which ship with the council, St Edward is The Government estimates that features four new science labs and a building the school at its 375 Kensing- 200,000 more primary school places food technology classroom. ton High Street development, where are needed by 2020 and their locations Year 11 student Holly Boyes says her homes start at £925,000. may entice families to buy in areas they school is now a happier place. “Being had previously overlooked. in a better, brighter environment helps NEW EARLY YEARS CENTRE Dalston — recently voted “coolest your learning,” she says. Wandsworth’s schools are so oversub- place to live” — looks set to attract more Headteacher Kevin Wilson believes scribed that from September next year, families as Telford Homes has part- the new building has transformed the borough council intends scrapping nered with the Holy Trinity Primary the school. “There’s a really positive sibling priority. Taylor Wimpey School at its Vibe housing scheme to feeling among staff and students,” recently won permission for a new produce a two-tier primary school Happy days: renovations at All Saints School in Dagenham meet pupils’ approval he adds. 10 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Events

By Barbara Chandler 1 URBAN VILLAGE FÊTE 2 Sunday, noon-7pm, Gateway Pavilions, Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula SE10 (urbanvillagefete.co.uk) SHOWCASING the best talents in the art and design world, this modern take on the traditional village fair marks the opening of Peninsula Gardens. A pooch parade, swing dance lessons and craft workshops feature alongside leading designers. You can also create a giant mural with artist group Urban Canvas, pictured. " "%//'%,"(" &,"!" 3 #&""$'&"%'0#" 2 HEAL’S SPRING WORKSHOPS ##0' Friday and Saturday, Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road W1 " %'//'"#"/,." (heals.co.uk/page/healsevents) *"0,-""&" ,%,#" TEXTILE designer Gemma Kay Waggett will screen-print in store on "0,-"" #'/ Friday, and you can have a go, too 4 (noon-5pm, free). On Saturday, Royal " #"("+'",'"/0" College of Art graduate Claire de ')''#,"#'# Quénetain Brunse will offer a demonstration of her nature-inspired " #&%#'&" $/,%" #' work, pictured (noon-4pm, free).

" "#"+" #/."" 3 MADE IN CLERKENWELL #''#"#. Tomorrow and Friday, 21 Clerkenwell Green and 33-35 St John’s Sq EC1 (craftcentral.org.uk) EXPLORE two characterful Victorian ,%/#,0'"0#)'"#'"%0 '")''#'&"#&"#'" studios crammed with about 100 ,&,%#, '"/-" '",0'"$"#,/-" %'"#,#/"#,/ artists and designers who make their wares by hand. Admission is £3, but under-16s go free. You can snap up textiles, jewellery, ceramics, prints and furnishings. The cotton cushion, pictured, is part of the Princes collection by Gauche Design. 4 INSPIRED BY SOANE: I FOUND THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU postcard artworks inspired by 100 May 19-June 6, Sir John Soane’s Museum, objects from this exquisite Georgian Lincoln’s Inn Fields WC2 (soane.org) house’s huge collection. Visitors to WELL-KNOWN personalities such this free show can enter a raffle to as presenter Jon Snow and designer win a postcard. We like this sketch of Paul Smith have offered their own the museum’s façade, pictured, by Burberry’s Christopher Bailey. 5 5 DULWICH FESTIVAL Friday-May 17 (dulwichfestival.co.uk) ENJOY history, music, theatre, fairs and a new food trail at this celebration of the arts. You can meet the artists tucked into studios under the arches at Peckham Rye station (May 9, 15 and 16, Blenheim Grove SE15; the-arches-studios.com). One of the studios is Blenheim Forge, with a group that custom-makes kitchen knives, pictured. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 11 Events Homes & Property

By Pattie Barron 1 RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2 May 19-23, Royal Hospital, Chelsea SW3. Tickets advance purchase only (rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs- chelsea-flower-show) GIANT test tubes holding perfumed plants, hedges of pineapple-guava, thickets of acrylic rods… it can only be Chelsea Flower Show, where the world’s most innovative garden designers create spaces that thrill us. Highlights include Dan Pearson’s 3 take on Chatsworth’s wilder corners and Marcus Barnett’s colour-block garden. For a detailed preview of the show, see next week’s Outdoors page. 2 FULL OF SPICE FESTIVAL May 23-September 6, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (kew.org) BOOK yourself on to a cardamom rickshaw and follow the spice trail through Kew Gardens. Giant nutmeg, 4 garlic, chilli and ginger inflatables will be dotted around for you to peek inside and view their inner workings, while a Spice Mix super-computer will enable you to dream up your own unique blend to take home. Dance the Tamarind Tango in the Strictly Spice Dance competition or knead your own spiced loaf at the Dough Kitchen. After all this, you will be ready for spiced gin cocktails 4 LOSELEY PARK: at the Pop-up Botanical Bar and THE WALLED GARDEN possibly an exotic spiced feast in the Weekdays until September 30, Orangery and Pavilion restaurants. Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey (loseleypark.co.uk) 3 CHELSEA FRINGE VISIT several gardens in one space, May 16-June 7, throughout London as Loseley Park’s Walled Garden is (chelseafringe.com) once more open for the summer THE fourth year of London’s season. Within its two-acre span, alternative gardening festival kicks you will find a spectacular garden of off with a decorative floral flotilla more than 1,000 roses, a perennial setting sail at Henley-on-Thames. flower garden coming into bloom, Expect to see Inner Temple a serene white garden featuring Gardens garlanded with dotty knits, silver and grey foliage, as well as a wildflower bee hotel in Turnham an organic vegetable garden and Green and floral mayhem for three herb garden. whole weeks. 5 HORATIO’S GARDEN PARTY 5 May 21, 7.30pm-9.30pm, The Chelsea Gardener, Sydney Street SW3. Tickets £50 (horatiosgarden.org.uk/events/ chelsea-drinks-party) MEET the world of horticulture’s most amusing double act, celebrated garden designers James Alexander- Sinclair and Cleve West, at a special fundraiser for Horatio’s Garden, the charity that builds beautiful therapy gardens at spinal centres in the UK. 12 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property First-time buyers homesandproperty.co.uk with

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Past: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club was formed in 1882, and initially played on Tottenham Marshes in navy blue kit. Future: the club is planning a £400 million expansion of its stadium with capacity for 56,000 fans. It hopes the venue will open in time for the 2018-19 season. It has been designed by KSS, the architectural practice that also designed the Rivers Apartments. Trivial pursuit: Rivers Apartments are within a few minutes of Bruce Castle, once owned by Sir William Compton, whose claim to fame was Match day: La Barca restaurant is a popular haunt of Spurs as King Henry VIII’s Groom of the fans, but the area has yet to create an alluring café culture Stool, a role which, ahem, involved assisting the king with his bodily functions. What it costs: the average Tottenham property costs £333,161, up 10.89 per cent in the past year, Everyone according to Zoopla. The average rent for a two-bedroom flat in the area is £1,355 a month. First-time buy: water views shares in usually cost a fortune, but a one- bedroom flat, close to Tottenham Hale station, is on the market with Kings Group for £220,000. Landmarks: Gothic-style Tottenham Tottenham High Cross, erected on the site of a wooden wayside cross on the High Road in the early New development kicks the 17th century, marks the centre of Tottenham. hated ‘poor doors’ policy into Eat: sample West African and Caribbean cuisine at African Torch touch, says Ruth Bloomfield in High Cross Road. HERE can be problems Drink: locally brewed beers at when affordable homes are the Beavertown Brewery integrated into private hous- (beavertownbrewery.co.uk). ing developments, with £66,000: for a Buy: hand-made cheeses from young first-time buyers 30 per cent Tottenham’s microdairy, Wildes Tbanned from using communal gardens share of a one- Cheese — or book a course and or the gym, which are only available to bedroom ﬂat at learn how to make your own. “full-price” residents. Despised “poor “all-affordable” Walk: stroll to the Tottenham door” entrances can mean shared- new Rivers Marshes, less than a mile away, and ownership occupants never cross the Apartments near walk by the River Lee Navigation. path of the full-pricers. White Hart Lane A sensible solution at a new Totten- ham development called Rivers £66,000 and £87,000 respectively. trendy cafés or nightlife on the door- chicken shops and Spurs-themed He likes to think the area is growing out Apartments, close to Tottenham Buyers will also pay a monthly rent, step, and gets uncomfortably busy on greasy spoons — and kicks off plans for of its criminal ways. “A few years ago Hotspur’s stadium at White Hart Lane, starting at just over £350 a month, and match days. the complete redevelopment of White people would have said the same thing is to make the entire scheme shared a monthly service charge. More seriously, Tottenham is an area Hart Lane stadium, with additional about Hackney and look at it now — the ownership. There are 100 affordable The homes are due to be move-in of serious deprivation — more than plans for scores of new homes and prices are ridiculous and the people apartments for sale in this 22-storey ready later this month. The Tube 42 per cent of households in Totten- offices along the High Road. moving in are more law abiding.” tower through Newlon Home Owner- station is Tottenham Hale in Zone 3, a ham Green are on low incomes, accord- Haringey council has secured As well as new homes, the ground ship (newlonhomeownership.co.uk; 20-minute walk, but Overground ing to Haringey council — and its crime £1 billion in investment for the area, floor of Rivers Apartments will provide riversapartments.co.uk). services from White Hart Lane railway rate is one of the highest in London part of it pledged by the Government space for local start-ups and the site station, which is on the doorstep, get at 12 offences per 1,000 population, to help the area recover from rioting in — a former rubber factory — will include What it costs: the full market prices of you to Liverpool Street in 25 minutes, more than doube the rate in nearby the summer of 2011. a new building for the troubled Harts- apartments at the scheme, on which making it a great option for City Crouch End. Jordan Maynard, branch manager of brook School. This free school opened shared-ownership prices are based, workers. Kings Group estate agents, says most in 2012 and was quickly criticised as start at £220,000 for a one-bedroom But on the plus side: Tottenham is a buyers come from north-east London, “inadequate” by education watchdog flat and about £290,000 for a two-bed- Downsides to this undeveloped quarter focus for major regeneration. A new as well as Hertfordshire, in search of Ofsted. It has now been renamed Brook room property. The minimum 30 per of north London: Tottenham High Road Sainsbury’s supermarket has upgraded an affordable first home and are House Primary School and is under cent share, therefore, works out at is determinedly ungentrified, without local shopping — currently heavy on attracted by the good transport links. new management.

Tower of strength: left and far left, the Rivers Apartments have a contemporary feel with views over the city

The future: right, the planned redevelopment and replacement of White Hart Lane stadium EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 13 homesandproperty.co.uk with Homes abroad Homes & Property On Spain’s most exclusive coastline ‘This area really has got it all’ Unexplored stretches of the Costa Brava are the country’s biggest secret, says Cathy Hawker

HE stretch of the Costa Brava from Blanes to Begur makes up one of Spain’s loveliest coasts. This area of north-east SpainT has unspoilt bays and beaches backed by heavily wooded hills. There’s easy access to ski resorts in the Pyrenees, while Catalonia’s culture-soaked capital, Barcelona, is only 60 miles south. British visitors first discovered the Costa Brava in the Sixties, holidaying around Lloret de Mar before many abandoned it for the steamier temperatures of southern Spain. That, combined with the steep Fiesta time: Catalonia’s annual Cuban Lured back: the Band family are natural geography, means that festival and fair is held in pretty Begur building their own holiday home building on much of the coast is substantially less dense than along some other Spanish Costas. every July and August in beautiful GABBY and Nick Band, from Englefield “The Costa Brava has long since gardens close to Palafrugell. This Green, Surrey, bought a house outside shed its image as a low-cost holiday summer, acts include Sting, Ben Begur in 2009. “We lived in Primrose destination and is now widely Harper, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. Hill and found the Costa Brava beautiful regarded as one of Spain’s most and quick to reach,” says Gabby. “Our stylish and exclusive coastlines,” says HOMES ON OFFER house was on the coast heading Tom Maidment of estate agents Lucas Properties range from £216,000 towards Sa Tuna and we holidayed Fox. “It has a rich cultural history for a three-bedroom seaside there at least four times a year as well and is very family-friendly.” apartment to about £1.5 million for as renting it for up to £2,500 a week.” Inland, the main city is historic large country houses. A detached Two years ago Nick set up his own Girona, a foodie hotspot loaded with waterfront home can easily reach business and, wanting to free up some Michelin-starred restaurants and the nearly £3 million. money, they reluctantly sold the house. gateway to the rural Empordà region. Domus Begur has a two-bedroom But they soon discovered that frequent The average price of a home in Girona apartment with sea views and a holidays and weekends away with their province is £270,000 — some 155 per communal pool less than a mile from two children, Milo and Ella, now eight cent above the national average, the beach at Les Oliveres, reduced and six, were costly. according to Kyero House Price Index from £262,300 to £226,500, and a “We decided the best solution was to — and peaks in Begur town. three-bedroom detached, single- buy a small, sensible holiday home,”

ALAMY storey house a mile from Begur, recalls Gabby. “We looked in France A SPANISH LIFESTYLE Cultural: historic Tossa de Mar on Spain’s beautiful Costa Brava coastline reduced from £326,000 to £251,000. and Italy, but they were too quiet. “Empordà is a beautiful area with a A character-packed and fully When we went back for a weekend to rugged coastline and rolling restored four-bedroom house in a Begur, we realised the area had it all — countryside,” says Jimmy van der quiet street in Begur, with arched beaches, countryside, Barcelona and Velden of Domus Begur. “It’s relaxed ceilings and exposed beams, is Girona nearby and easy access.” and still relatively undiscovered. £591,500, also through Domus. Nick and Gabby found a wooded half- There is good demand for Newly on the market in central acre plot in the next bay to Aigua Blava apartments close to the beaches of Begur, with exceptional views and are building a three-bedroom Aigua Blava, Sa Tuna and Sa Riera, of the cathedral, is a four-bedroom 2,100sq ft house. On completion this and for stone houses inland. Begur is 19th-century townhouse with a summer, their total spend will be the main focus, with chic boutiques, separate two-bedroom studio, £430,000. “We have always wanted to bars and famous festivals.” garden and plunge pool for £671,750, build our own home, but never thought Empordà might be quiet, but it has through Lucas Fox. we could afford the Costa Brava,” says a packed cultural calendar. There are £375,650: a renovated two-bedroom £791,000: a traditional four-bedroom Gabby. “With the pound so strong jazz festivals and fiestas in Begur and townhouse with pool and good views house close to Begur in Empordà, 10 O Lucas Fox: lucasfox.com against the euro, our money has gone the Cap Roig music festival is held by the coast at Sa Tuna (Domus Begur) minutes from the beaches (Lucas Fox) O Domus Begur: domusbegur.com much further than we predicted.”

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Right: Natasha Daintry’s Skin Deep installation in slip-cast and hand-modelled porcelain, £12,750, Adrian Sassoon, COLLECT HAND Below: Toshio Tokunaga’s Vibrato chair in crafted Japanese cedar, £2,000-£2,500, London Craft Week launches today and will Ippodo Gallery, COLLECT throw established and emerging designers into the spotlight, says Corinne Julius

ONDON Craft Week economy, and involves more than celebrates British and 12,000 businesses. London Craft international craftsmanship Week founder and chairman, Guy Right: fruit bowl with a range of exhibitions Salter, says it “highlights centuries-old by Hazel Thorn, in design shops, luxury skills and new talent. We want people made using departmentL stores and “secret to understand how things are made, Britannia silver, studios” across the capital. and try making things themselves.” £2,800, The event runs until Sunday and is Contemporary Applied Arts in Gallery Ten, supported by the Crafts Council, Southwark Street has a pavilion COLLECT which says the industry makes a specially designed for the event by £3.4 billion contribution to Britain’s architects Allies and Morrison. The gallery hosts The Crafted City, where audiences will talk, learn Below: bowls about and explore craft. In Hwa Lee’s The Crafted City has objects and dot series are materials that reflect Southwark’s made in white craft associations, including porcelain, £500- architectural glass by Kate Maestri, £800, Gallery glass lights by Michael Ruh and LVS, COLLECT sconces by ceramicist Robert Cooper. Catarina Riccabona, who takes inspiration for her work from Grinling Gibbons, is weaving in front of an altarpiece honouring the renowned 17th-century woodcarver in St James’s Church, Piccadilly. Fortnum & Mason presents Crafted, featuring demonstrations by potters Chris Keenan and Billy Lloyd, textile maker Charlene Mullen, and silversmiths Ndidi Ekubia, Angela Cork and Shona Marsh. Craft Week segues neatly into COLLECT, the Crafts Council’s annual selling show of the best of international craft. It starts at the Saatchi Gallery in SW3 on Friday with Above: Flower Theatre by Robert Cooper, who combines 35 international galleries from 14 Victorian items and new ceramics. On show at The Crafted City countries on display.

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Left: Marta Comini and Raffaella Fossati’s Madame Butterﬂy crystal bowl, £1,000, Fatto ad Arte Gallery, COLLECT

Below: Angela Above: Eleanor Below right: Below far right: Right: Roland Cork’s elegant Lakelin’s Time Marion Kane’s Pippin Drysdale’s Daraspe’s oxidised and Texture sugar bowl and Radiant Promise Esturgeon Balloon Vases, vessels, made cream jug in hand- bowl in painted caviar server is made in sterling of sandblasted raised silver and porcelain, made using silver silver, £495 English oak, rose gold, £1,670, £8,800, on and gold, and £1,400, £590, Cockpit featured at show at Joanna £22,000, The on show at Arts’ open Bishopsland, Bird gallery, French Craft Craft Central studios COLLECT COLLECT Project, COLLECT

FOLLOW THE CRAFT ACTION: 33–35 St John’s Square EC1 (020 7251 master and apprentice weavers Crafted programme, with a “meet the Max Lamb and Jon Lewis will give a SELECTED EVENTS 0276; craftcentral.org) demonstrate the traditional handloom maker” event on Friday (020 3004 tour and a talk, discussing their techniques used when they created the 2554; thewalpole.co.uk) Bleigiessen sculpture collaboration for The Crafted City: tomorrow until Cockpit Arts Spring Open Studios: British Library’s RB Kitaj tapestry the biomedical research charity’s Sunday, 10am–4.30pm, Contemporary Friday 6pm–9pm, Saturday and COLLECT: Friday noon–6pm, Saturday collection. Friday, 10.30am-11.30am, Applied Arts, 89 Southwark Street SE1 Sunday 11am–5pm, Cockpit Yard, Crafted at Fortnum & Mason: and Sunday 11am–6pm, Monday 215 Euston Road NW1. Booking (020 7620 0086; caa.org.uk) Northington Street WC1 (020 7419 tomorrow until Sunday, 11.30am–6pm, 11am–4pm at Saatchi Gallery, Duke necessary — 12 spaces, free of charge 1959; cockpitarts.com) 181 Piccadilly W1 (020 7734 8040; of York’s HQ, Kings Road SW3. (020 7611 2222; wellcome.ac.uk; Made in Clerkenwell: tomorrow fortnumandmason.com) Tickets cost £12 (020 7806 2500; heatherwick.com; orbicglass.com; 5–8pm, Friday noon–8pm, Saturday Dovecot Tapestry Studio: weavers craftscouncil.org.uk) saltglassstudios.co.uk) and Sunday noon–5pm at Summer at the British Library, Friday 10am–5pm, The Walpole: a curated showcase Open Studios, Craft Central, 96 Euston Road NW1 (0330 333 1144; and demonstrations by more than Wellcome Trust: Heatherwick O For more details about all the 21 Clerkenwell Green EC1 and bl.uk; dovecotstudios.com). Dovecot 25 leading designers from Walpole’s architectural studio and glass artists events, visit londoncraftweek.com 20 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Interiors homesandproperty.co.uk with

1 How doth the little busy bee 2 3 Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

HERE’S a big buzz about the UK pavilion at this year’s World Expo, which DesignDesesisigiigniggn trendstrtrerenreeendndds opened in Milan last Friday. The enclosure has By Barbara Chandler Tbeen designed to look like a gigantic bees beehive amid a wildflower meadow. The “hive” of perforated metal hums and glows via speakers and with lots more in their merchandise. Barneby Gates. It’s 52cm wide and LED lights in response to live bee This Empire Bee cushion comes in costs £78 for a 10m roll. Visit signals in the UK, reflecting the theme green, red, teal or brown. It’s £80, lukuhome.com or call 020 8943 3683. of Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. printed on cotton and features a duck The story of bees in design goes feather pad. Visit timorousbeasties. A PRETTY ceramic vase has a bee back hundreds of years. The insect com or call 020 7833 5010. 4picture, hand-sketched then was an important icon of the early glazed and fired, so that each piece kings of France and Italy’s Medici THIS Imperial Apiary wallpaper is different. It’s £28 from family. A bee was even the personal 2 by Timorous Beasties (as above) is theoldlaundrette.etsy.com. insignia of Napoleon Bonaparte, so 52cm wide and priced at £240 for a let’s celebrate them at home on 10m roll. Also available from Liberty, NEW from Archer + Co is this walls, fabrics, china and furniture. Regent Street W1. 5Raffa Arm Chair in oak, £1,550 (archerandcompany.co.uk) with BEES have always been big at AN ELEGANT touch for any room upholstery in a bee garden pattern. 4 5 1Timorous Beasties. The Glasgow 3is this formal geometric wallpaper Buy the fabric separately at £39.50 a design duo Alistair McAuley and Paul in charcoal with shimmering metallic metre from Greenwich-based Lush Simmons have a bee as their logo, golden bees by Wiltshire-based Designs. Visit lushlampshades.co.uk.

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USEUMS aren’t generally library and the public galleries, and pliers. A grand, Gone With The Wind- known for their style, will also host live events. Shearcroft style staircase dominates one end but to please the Warm Wellcome was determined to do something unu- of the room, which is scattered with 550,000 people who sual in the area that was originally used cushions for a cosy, relaxed feel. walk through its doors as a sculpture gallery. “I wanted it to Ercol chairs and a sofa form part of eachM year, Wellcome Collection in Science has never been so sexy nor a museum be delicious and delightful,” he says. the furniture, all upholstered in a Euston Road, north London, has a The result combines research and fun, brocade fabric that Shearcroft had spectacular £17.5 million new look and so stylish, discovers Philippa Stockley with a modern, homely atmosphere. specially woven using a Wellcome 40 per cent more space. A museum has Above lies a mezzanine, which forms archive print that started life as a never looked better. major transformation, injecting fabu- revealing the life of Henry Wellcome, part of Wellcome Library. It contains Thirties sketch of insulin. lously modern good looks throughout. who founded the trust in 1936. 2,500,000 books and is a members- There are also straitjackets on the STEEL, GLASS AND VA-VA-VOOM The Wellcome Trust biomedical Napoleon’s toothbrush and a lock of only area, although anyone can join wall, just some of the “handling” Inside Wellcome Collection’s new research charity spends millions of George III’s hair are displayed here. for free. objects scattered around to prompt atrium, a stunning steel helicoid pounds a year on science and educa- Warm oak flooring features in the exploration, while 48 copper lamps by staircase weighing 17½ tons spirals tion and that is reflected in the quality ROOM FOR DISCOVERY Reading Room, half of which is dark, Dutch firm ViJ5 shine a light on all the upwards through the levels to connect of its displays, which explore the links At the top of the spiral stairs, Geoff while the other half is light. The formal curiosities the room has to offer. the permanent galleries, a new gallery between medicine, art and life. Shearcroft of AOC architects has cre- white walls hold paintings from the and a smart restaurant. Its main exhibitions currently include ated a 4,197sq ft, double-height social collection — some of which are O Wellcome Collection is at Stirling Prize-winning architect The Institute of Sexology and Medicine space called the Reading Room. It gruesome, such as an 18th-century 183 Euston Road NWI. Visit Wilkinson Eyre was at the helm of the Man — the latter a permanent show forms a bridge between the research blacksmith yanking out a tooth with wellcomecollection.org

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Be bold: cushions give the sofa a bright, modern touch Painterly: wallpaper picks up headboard shade PAWS FOR REFLECTION PetsPyjamas website founder Denise Elphick adores her dogs so her pretty pink-and-bijou-white home is designed for them all to share, discovers Philippa Stockley

OVE them or hate them, dogs with its cafés, boutiques, green spaces and doggy paraphernalia are and the river nearby, is perfect for pet big business. Just ask former lovers and families. Evening Standard writer Elphick bought the terrace house with Denise Elphick, who set up the her first husband, an accountant, who Lsuccessful PetsPyjamas website with she married when she was 23. entrepreneur Karen Hanton in 2011. The couple had previously moved to The site, which offers everything from Hong Kong where, though trained as a stylish pet accessories to a glossy secretary, Elphick started dealing in magazine for pet lovers, also has a furniture. successful new strand offering posh When they returned to London, she places to stay where pets are welcomed raised daughter Camilla and wrote for with open paws. the Evening Standard on interiors and “We launched it in May last year and it design. took off,” says Elphick, 53, whose two She was still writing for the Standard Norfolk Terriers, Rufus and Heidi, play in 2000 when she met Hanton in a café a key role in the operation. “You can stay around the corner from her home. at Cliveden House in Berkshire, Le Hanton had just had the idea of Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxfordshire TopTable, so Elphick joined up with her and many other places. to offer creative input. “Rufus and Heidi are our pet inspec- Given that Elphick is crazy about dogs, tors. They turn up in little tweed coats you might think it odd to have an almost and hats. Ring our pet concierge service all-white house, but she pooh-poohs this to discuss.” idea at once. Before PetsPyjamas, Elphick and The white-gloss painted floorboards, Hanton were founding partners in now attractively mellowed, which go TopTable website, which let restaurant everywhere including up the uncarpeted owners advertise and book customers stairs, were done five years ago with directly. The business was sold in 2010 ordinary gloss and just get a wash every to a company in the United States for a week and a wipe if necessary. reported £36 million. “Start at the top, She vacuums the upholstery with a that’s my motto,” she says. “Get the best pet-dedicated cleaner. “Have rugs rather in, and the rest will follow.” than fitted carpets and clean or replace Elphick has lived in Parsons Green when needed,” she says. “Though since 1989. This part of west London, you can’t prepare for everything — a EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 25 y.co.uk with Our home Homes & Property

Faithful friends: Labradoodle once peed on the coffee Lena Proudlock, whose son Oliver owns to hang glass chandeliers. Taken Pretty in pink: WHAT IT COST Denise Elphick table and its owner was mortified.” Serge de Nimes and stars in Made in together, the effect is one of brightness a bedroom, top, is House in 1989: £310,000 with her dogs. But when Elphick and her then hus- Chelsea, suggested the idea of a light, and prettiness. The mirrors are surpris- given a splash of Value now: £1.85 million She says the band moved in, the house wasn’t white classical Swedish palette. ingly easy to live with and definitely colour in a break white-glossed at all. “It was pure Colefax and Fowler, Elphick started out with pale grey, but create a sense of extra space. from the pure GET THE LOOK ﬂoorboards are very dark,” she says. “But it was also well soon went for pure white, both for walls Against this backdrop Elphick, who white palette Architect: Nick Farnell at NFA Architects easier to clean done, so I left it.” and floors. says she loves cheerfulness and light, has (nfaltd.co.uk) than ﬁtted The house, a classic three-storey, quite Proudlock also suggested mirroring all introduced sofas, chairs and beds that Light approach: Fabrics: Designers Guild at carpets shallow Victorian terrace, had a narrow the panels of the doors and cupboards, all have a distinct 18th-century feel. an extension designersguild.com little kitchen and a rather plain lawn. and the walls of the little enclosed hall. While they are mainly antiques, bought with skylight, Velvet spotted cushions: from The Cross The white stuff: Elphick stuck with it until 2005, when This last idea is terrific, turning an ordi- locally over the years, they’re all above, is home (thecrossshop.co.uk) the modern she and her husband divorced. Soon nary small entrance into a glittering, upholstered in fresh, contemporary to a dining area Sofa cushions: from local emporium kitchen with its afterwards, she met her new husband, mini Versailles Hall of Mirrors. Proud- linens, silks and velvets in strong pinks, for entertaining Holly’s House (hollys-house.com) breakfast bar Rory Foster, a Guardian journalist, on lock’s other suggestion, apart from limes, turquoises and taupes, many from guests Harry Allen gilded pig (on mantel): try has a bright, what turned out to be a romantic skiing putting big antique mirrors everywhere Designers Guild, which keeps the look for something similar on ebay.co.uk open feel, which trip. Perhaps the dazzling white snow possible — there are 17 in the house — was modern. Garden design: Jane Fairclough at runs through the inspired her, but it was time for a major It is a good palette, repeated in the plantworkscollection.com rest of the house home makeover. convivial and sunny courtyard garden, White gloss paint on floorboards and in Parsons Green In one fell swoop, out went the dark Mirrored door panels, walls designed with seating all the way round, throughout: dulux.co.uk colours. On went an extension with a big and cupboards turn the small potted olive trees, and jaunty colour- White walls: All White by skylight over where the dining table entrance into a glittering, mini pops from lavender and geranium. farrow-ball.com would be, making an incredibly sunny Elphick’s home is certainly pet-friendly, Photographs:: kitchen-diner. Elphick’s friend, designer Versailles Hall of Mirrors but it’s not pet-dominated. David Butler O PetsPyjamas is at petspyjamas.com 30 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Reader promotion homesandproperty.co.uk with

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IX WEEKS before these pictures were taken, this Chiswick courtyard was a sad, little-used space with a floor of grubby, ridged decking and Sbrick walls of mixed provenance. Now it has trickling water, two seating areas, a space for cooking and a shady arbour for dining and entertaining, as well as olive trees, a grapevine, fragrant roses and a citrus tree. “We’ve taken the principles of the ancient Persian gardens — shade, water, perfume, fruiting trees and places to sit and reflect,” explains designer Claire Mee, who was asked to create a garden following the redevelopment of the house. They were spurred on by the news that a three-storey block of flats was about to be built directly behind the garden — a more modern dilemma — and they needed some screening. In a Creating privacy: a step leads up to the customised arbour small space, people are cautious about Smart planning: a linear template includes a shady arbour, trickling fountain and bench in the sun Grubby mess to Persian bliss Water, shade and fruit trees transform a drab courtyard into a haven with privacy putting in too much. “But the more you in kitchens, but used here to suspend lavender and purple linaria, face the put in, the bigger the space becomes,” The precise lanterns. To create more seating space, main entrance from the house so that, says Mee. “You’re leading the eye rectilinear we made built-in benches around two explains Mee, they veil the view beyond around and different elements are sides, and added banquette cushions and reveal the garden gradually. enticing you in. You need different design is to tie in with another bench on the levels, too, because there’s nothing softened opposite side of the courtyard, which IN SUMMER the courtyard becomes a more boring than a dead, flat space.” with catches the late afternoon sun.” great party space, with a dining area You also need to unify the space so The requested fountain, created with that seats 10. There’s plenty of room to that all those different elements don’t planting a copper chute that directs a constant stroll around, a bench to lounge on and result in a hotchpotch. throughout flow of water into a square pool a freestanding wall that’s just the right “The messy brick walls were ren- beneath, is across the way, too, so that height for resting drinks. dered using white cement mixed with when the clients sit in the shade, they At night, the fountain is illuminated, sand, which gives a lovely, soft ochre hear the restful sound of trickling spotlights gleam through wicker colour,” says Mee. This delivers the water. hurdles backing the arbour and the Mediterranean feeling the clients four olive trees are dramatically lit from wanted and ties in with the colour of Photographs : A RENDERED block wall delineates the beneath, so from the house throughout the paved travertine floor. “People Marianne cooking area, next to a deep raised bed the year the courtyard becomes a room think that travertine is impractical, but Majerus at the back of the garden. This is with a very special view. I find it easy to maintain, plus it stays planted with a loquat tree and a muscat cleaner than other stones.” grapevine, which is encouraged to O Expect to pay about £30,000 to turn scramble over the arbour so that, in a flat garden into a multifunctional PRIVACY from the proposed block of Deﬁning time, clusters of grapes will hang outdoor space. For more details, visit flats is provided by a customised arbour, areas: below, through the rafters. clairemee.co.uk given due importance by raising it two a quartet of The precise rectilinear design is sof- steps on to a deck, rather like a plinth. olive trees is tened with planting throughout the O For outdoor events this month, visit “We used cross beams to create a pat- underplanted courtyard. The arbour is lined with homesandproperty.co.uk/events terned shade, so there is an attractive with lavender; fragrant walls of pink New Dawn rose slatted effect on the dining table. A nice below right, the and evergreen jasmine. Four olive O Garden queries? Email our RHS touch, installed by the clients, is a shaded dining trees, set in a square within the paving expert at expertgardeningadvice@ metal hanging rail more usually seen table and underplanted with stipa grasses, gmail.com

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OOK around much of London at the moment and you would hardly know there is a general election taking place tomorrow. Not so in Tufnell Spotlight LPark, where many residents openly show their political colours. The area is a blaze of red, on boards Tufnell Park £1,599,950 and in windows, in support of popular A FOUR-BEDROOM house in a church Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn. He is conversion in Tytherton Road, N19. expected to cruise to victory in Isling- Through Foxtons. ton North, the constituency covering O homesandproperty.co.uk/tyther Tufnell Park, which he has represented since 1983. This north London suburb has attrac- State schools tive Victorian houses, many of them so large that they have been converted into spacious flats and maisonettes. Increasingly well-heeled and with a thriving shopping and café scene success story’s around Tufnell Park Tube station, it’s a place where families still favour state primary and comprehensive schools. £935,000 Such is the popularity of one primary, IN A gated school conversion, this Eleanor Palmer, that Camden council a vote-winner two-bedroom flat is in Hornsey was forced to clamp down on Road, N7. Through Chestertons. parents temporarily moving into O homesandproperty.co.uk/horn rented flats close to the school in order This north London suburb is a top choice to secure a place for their children. Now the community has something with families looking to put down roots in a else to worry about. It is furious about community, discovers Anthea Masey the temporary closure of the Tube station for nine months from next month while lifts are replaced. Carleton, the heiress wife of William but with four- and five-bedroom houses Tufnell Park occupies a relatively Tufnell, briefly the MP for Colchester now selling for at least £1.5 million, small, diamond-shaped area four miles in the early 19th century. buyers are increasingly coming from from central London, bordered by the City or are top earners in the law Brecknock Road to the south-west, WHAT THERE IS TO BUY and media. £4.85 MILLION Junction Road to the north-west, Tufnell Park has large and medium-size There has also been a big influx of HUGE, five-bedroom Tramways Holloway Road to the north-east and Victorian houses and converted flats. French families since a French school, House is a tram shed conversion in Camden Road to the south-east. The most expensive house in the area La Petite École Bilingue, opened in Camden Road (Space Station). It is named after the Tufnell family, is a conversion of a former tramshed Kentish Town in September 2012. “The O homesandproperty.co.uk/tram who acquired the local manor in the in Camden Road. Known as Tramways new shops that have opened in the last mid-18th century. House, it has five bedrooms and is for few years along Fortess Road are a Serious building in the area started in sale for £4.85 million. reflection of how Tufnell Park is chang- the mid-19th century. Scottish architect The area attracts: estate agent Paul ing,” says Mould. George Truefitt developed most of the Mould, from Benham & Reeves, says Staying power: according to Mould, villas and, in 1865, built the landmark Tufnell Park draws buyers who once families have worked out where St George’s Church in Tufnell Park cannot afford the move up from a flat their children are going to school, they Road. Originally for Anglican secession- to a house in more expensive districts tend to stay. ists, it is now a Nigerian church. nearby, such as Primrose Hill, Hamp- Carleton Road, Carleton Gardens and stead and Belsize Park. The area has SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS Carleton Villas are named after Mary traditionally attracted a bohemian set, There are independent shops along Fortess Road, Brecknock Road, £615,000 Junction Road and around Tufnell Park One scoop or two?: Julie Fisher, owner A STRIKING and stylish 951sq ft two- Tube station. of Ruby Violet ice cream parlour bedroom duplex flat in Despard Rustique café in Fortess Road, a long- Road, N19, very close to the Tube. standing favourite with locals, has a Fortess Road, while Meat NW5 is an Through Anscombe & Ringland. vast array of second-hand books which independent butcher. Artisan ice cream O homesandproperty.co.uk/despa Photographs:: you can read there or buy. maker Ruby Violet touts itself as Daniel Lynch Stingray is a popular bar and restau- “London’s Victorian dairy”, Bear + Wolf rant that serves great pizza, while is a family-friendly café and Bronwen Nuraghe in Dartmouth Park Hill is Whitaker runs a renowned picture- another Italian gem. For a taste of framing business in Campdale Road. Africa try Lalibela, which specialises There is a branch of Budgens in in Ethiopian cuisine. Campdale Road, Waitrose in Holloway Home interiors shop Future and Road and a popular Saturday morning Found has moved to bigger premises farmers’ market in Tufnell Park Road in Brecknock Road. Fishmonger outside Tufnell Park Tavern. There are Jonathan Norris is a newcomer to more shops along Brecknock Road near HAVE YOUR SAY TUFNELL PARK @alijoedesigns: #Tufnell Park private tea party venue. 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CHECK THE STATS ■WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN TUFNELL PARK (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £434,000 Two-bedroom flat £610,000 Two-bedroom house £625,000 Three-bedroom house £1.04 million Four-bedroom house £1.68 million Source: Zoopla RENTING IN TUFNELL PARK (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,556 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,942 a month Two-bedroom house £1,950 a month Three-bedroom house £2,907 a month Four-bedroom house £3,381 a month Source: Zoopla

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the junction with Camden Road. Here, long-standing Bumblebee has three health food shops and Salvino is a popular Italian delicatessen. LEISURE AND THE ARTS Aces and Eights puts on comedy, DJs and live music in a Fifties-style rock’n’roll cocktail bar. Boston Music Room and The Dome, where Noel Gal- lagher and his High Flying Birds played in February, are another two live music venues. Boston Arms is a traditional Irish pub, while Islington Arts Factory offers courses and workshops in art, dance and music. The Odeon in Holloway Road is an eight-screen cinema. Travel: Kentish Town, Tufnell Park and Archway Tube stations are on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line. Holloway Road is on the Piccadilly ! line. From Kentish Town there are Thameslink trains to Farringdon and City Thameslink. Upper Holloway is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Overground line. All stations are in Zone 2 and an annual travelcard to Zone 1 costs £1,284. The No 390 bus takes a useful route from Archway to Notting Hill via ! King’s Cross and Leicester Square. Council: most of Tufnell Park falls ESHomesAndProperty

within Labour-controlled Islington, with Band D council tax of £1,276.01. Near Kentish Town it falls into Camden, ! also Labour-controlled, with Band D ! Firm local favourite: Rustique Literary Café in Fortess Road council tax of £1,336.81. !"

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Picture this: Bronwen Whitaker has a local framing business 38 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Ask the expert homesandproperty.co.uk with Even cash buyers shouldn’t skip searches Fiona WHAT’S I HAVE some savings earning nothing in the YOUR bank, so thought I might put the money into a McNulty PROBLEM? Q buy-to-let flat as a better option. I don’t need IF YOU have a a mortgage, but do need some advice on OUR LAWYER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS question for where to start. Fiona McNulty, please email THE type of tenant you expect to have can have I AM buying a house and legalsolutions@ an impact on the choice of property you buy and plan to pay by cash. It is a standard.co.uk A the locality. For instance, a professional couple Q new-build. Could you let or write to Legal may like an apartment or a mews house me know which are the Solutions, Homes convenient for commuting, but a family may want a most important searches that I & Property, property with a garden close to good schools and parks or ought to get done? London Evening leisure facilities. Standard, 2 Derry Your property can be rented unfurnished or furnished — IN YOUR case, with no Street, W8 5EE. if it is the latter, ensure you have an inventory of your mortgage, there are no We regret that fittings and contents. A lender’s requirements to questions cannot You can manage the letting yourself or use reputable satisfy so you can just have be answered letting agents who would assist you in satisfying the the searches you want. Indeed, as a individually, but various statutory obligations, such as gas safety cash buyer, you could decide not to we will try to certification. have any searches at all. feature them You should enter into an agreement with your tenant, But that’s a bad idea. It is prudent to here. Fiona such as an assured shorthold tenancy agreement, and get your solicitor to undertake all McNulty is legal the tenant’s deposit should be protected in a tenancy those searches and enquiries that director in the deposit scheme. are appropriate for the property you real estate Consider videoing or photographing your property at are buying. You need to find out as team of Foot the start of the tenancy to record its condition. much as possible, remember caveat Anstey LLP Do remember that tax is likely to be payable on the emptor — buyer beware. (footanstey.com) rental income and if you sell your property for a profit The developer’s/seller’s solicitor you may be liable for capital gains tax. may include searches in the contract Ideally you want your property to increase in capital package, but these may be out of date charges register, including enquiries locality other searches may be useful value and to yield a good rent. and you cannot rely on the results as of the local authority and a drainage — mining, underground railways, they were not carried out for your and water search. Generally a proposed new tunnels or line, and so More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on benefit or in your name. chancel repair liability check and on. Be guided by your solicitor, who Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. As a minimum it would be advisable environmental search are also should also obtain details of any Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar to carry out a search of the local land carried out. Depending on the relevant planning consents. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor.

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MONDAY After a relaxing two-week honeymoon Diary of in Thailand, I’m back in my Canary Wharf office raring to go. I catch up with my team to discuss what has been an estate happening in my absence and the new instructions we have taken on. agent We have been instructed on an amazing 2,722sq ft duplex penthouse in Basin Approach, overlooking the further delays. Due to a demanding job Limehouse Marina, priced at £2.2 mil- and an unrelenting schedule, it looks lion. This is one of my favourite areas like there will be no way that he can of east London — easy access to Canary complete the necessary paperwork Wharf and the City as well as the res- today. I rush over to his office, meet initially bonded over our mutual love 6pm so he has precisely two and a half London schemes. The show home taurants and bars of Narrow Street and him in the lobby, get the paperwork of Southend United and, over the years, hours to spend his £1 million budget. leaves the team buzzing. It’s an exciting Wapping. It is a beautiful place to relax signed and get it over to the solicitor we have developed a great working Luckily a great penthouse apartment time to be in east London with so many after a hard day’s work. The penthouse with just five minutes to spare. This relationship. with panoramic views of London’s new developments in the pipeline and has recently been renovated and I have means that the exchange can go ahead Buying, selling, letting or moving skyline immediately springs to mind. a real demand for housing. The open- never seen anything quite like it. as planned on Friday. house are stressful times for clients We view the property and shake ing of Crossrail is getting ever closer, and buyers. My job is to ensure that hands on the deal there and then. The and the potential for both investors and TUESDAY WEDNESDAY everything runs smoothly throughout sale is agreed within an hour of us individual home owners is huge. The morning is spent completing Today I have lunch with an investor and the process. meeting and my client makes it to Hea- It’s my weekend off and I have been paperwork and catching up with we have a long discussion about the throw with plenty of time to spare. I given two tickets to Southend United’s clients, then I set to work on a transac- housing market in Canary Wharf. THURSDAY feel like the Superman of sales. game tomorrow — a thank you from tion that is taking a lot longer than It is such a popular area with office In my job you never know what’s com- my investor. anticipated to progress. workers looking for a pied-à-terre. ing next. A lovely man walks into my FRIDAY My vendor needs to sign a document There’s no doubt it’s the ideal place to office to enquire about penthouses in I’m in early to handle three exchanges O Darren Gibbinson is a senior sales and return it to his solicitor by the close invest, for both rental returns and the area. The difference in his case planned for today. The day starts with negotiator at CBRE in Canary Wharf of business if we are to avoid any capital growth. My investor and I being that he is flying to Shanghai at a site visit to one of our big new east ([email protected]).

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OT all landlords are greedy bloodsuckers The accidental landlord obsessed with squeezing the last penny from tenants. Sure, we all want toN make a nice profit at the end of the day, but how much rent a tenant is Money isn’t prepared to pay isn’t the only factor to consider and I, for one, don’t always accept the highest bidder. I can’t speak for other landlords, but I am more likely to accept an everything. . . offer from a tenant I warm to than a higher rent from someone I really A new tenant offers less rent than his rival don’t much like. I want tenants who I feel I can trust, who I think will look but brings his own tasteful art and furniture. after my property and who will be easy to deal with. Victoria Whitlock hopes he stays forever I recently had two offers on a flat, from young, single chaps, but one great as I hope they’ll be. This guy when he explained very nicely how £650 a week: at Charlesworth House, Stanhope Gardens SW7, John D Wood has a was slightly higher than the other. offered to go for a fixed two-year let. he just really wanted to make the two-double bedroom ﬂat available to rent with two bathrooms, an open-plan However, I accepted the lower offer Steady on, I said, let’s start with six place his own, I told him to give them kitchen and use of a communal garden. Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/alrent because the guy was so enthusiastic months and see how we get along. all away on Gumtree. about the property that I was So far it’s all going well, even I don’t have a problem with tenants instantly drawn to him. Also, he was though the day after he moved in he making it their own and hanging £750 a week: chatty and seemed very open and asked if he could chuck out most of their own artwork on the walls. rent this two- honest. After a 15-minute my furniture. Everyone likes to have their own stuff double bedroom conversation I felt confident he’d To be honest, it was a collection of around them. warehouse ﬂat take really good care of the flat. mismatched items, including a sofa I popped in recently to check all in Shad Thames The fact that he seemed to be my first-ever tenant had persuaded was well with him and, wow, the old and you get looking for a home, rather than a me to buy in a sale years ago when flat looked amazing. With his cool access to the crash pad, also went in his favour. I was too inexperienced to realise furniture and tasteful art it was hard on-site gym and Marketing a property is expensive that when someone asks for a to believe it was the same place. swimming pool. if you use a letting agent and specific piece of furniture, Hopefully now this tenant has made It is available time-consuming if you don’t, so it particularly one that you believe to it his home, he’ll stay — forever. The through often makes sense to accept a little be truly hideous, the correct ideal tenant. Result. Hamptons less rent for the possibility of a response is to tell them to buy it International Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/alrent2 longer let. themselves — and to make sure they O Victoria Whitlock lets three However much I like a tenant I take it with them when they leave. properties in south London. Find many more homes to rent at would still only start with a short The other pieces were left behind To contact Victoria with your ideas contract, just to make sure they’re as by other tenants over the years, so and views, tweet @vicwhitlock homesandproperty.co.uk/lettings 44 WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with

Restored: above and right, King Edward VII Estate is a converted 1901 hospital Stylish Streatham takes on big brother Brixton By David Spittles BRIXTONITES are heading about improving the town, up the hill to Streatham, with good places to eat where prices are lower and drink, jazz and dance and the town centre is venues and comedy clubs. becoming respectable. Streatham Park has In its Fifties heyday, become a new hub in SmartSmSmamarartrt momo Streatham was a stylish Streatham High Road, with leisure district, with a 250 new homes alongside Locarno ballroom, theatre, a new supermarket, a ice rink and the first ever leisure centre and ice rink, Waitrose. bus terminal and a Decline set in and refurbished listed church. In good health reached a low point in the Two-bedroom flats cost Nineties after the closure from £452,500. Call Savills EW properties set the heart horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll, the of Pratts, a once-revered on 020 7016 3743. racing as much as grand appeal is even greater. department store. Norwich House, above, homes carved from King Edward VII Estate near Then Streatham High is another new arrival in architecturally prized Midhurst, West Sussex, was built in Road was voted Britain’s the same street. It’s a colleges, convents and 1901 as a sanatorium for TB sufferers. worst street in 2002. tasteful Art Deco-inspired hospitals.F When the setting is a Closed five years ago, the hospital commuter belt address, with 162 Stung into action, the block of 98 apartments. 165-acre estate in the South Downs has been rescued from dereliction by homes in the refurbished original council and Transport for Prices from £260,000. Call National Park, with gardens heritage developer City & Country, building and 247 new properties in London joined forces to set KFH on 020 8222 7200. originally laid out by acclaimed which has turned it into a splendid the grounds. A restored Arts & Crafts

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