EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2017 1 Wednesday 13 September 2017 Decorex Homes& and Focus The big shows come to town Property Page 26 VICTORIA REIGNS: NEW HOMES P6 COMMUTERS GO WEST P12 DESIGN FESTIVAL DIARY P20 SPOTLIGHT ON SHOREDITCH P32 A new way of working Designer offices for start-ups: Page 8 REX London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Trophy home of the week new flat with electrifying style at Chelsea Waterfront Transformation: High Road West regeneration includes 2,500 homes, a public square and a library £7.4 million: there’s lots to bedroom suites — all pool, gym and spa, 24-hour show off at the newly luxuriously kitted out — plus concierge and secure unveiled show apartment at a media room and a underground parking. The Chelsea Waterfront, the substantial living/dining and transformation of the former redevelopment of the former kitchen space with wall-to- power station also creates a Tottenham riot zone Lots Road Power Station, wall river views. Doors open shopping mall and waterside designed by architect and out to a private garden and restaurants. Completion of master planner Sir Terry terrace right on the banks of the show flat is due by the Farrell. the Thames. end of this year — call the is set for £1bn rebirth Impressive floor space of Perks include a private Chelsea Waterfront sales some 2,806sq ft covers four health club with a swimming office on 020 7352 8852. HIS is what Tottenham High Editor: Road could look like, above, under a £1 billion plan to Lifechanger Janice regenerate the street that Morley became the unfortunate of the week iconT of the 2011 London riots. saddle up for a VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ Its burned-out Carpetright building rules for details of our usual and a blazing double-decker bus aban- money-making promotion rules. When you doned on the carriageway became respond to promotions, offers or symbols of the violence, vandalism and smallholding in competitions, the London Evening looting that spread to Birmingham, Standard and its sister companies Manchester, Liverpool and Bristol in rural Essex may contact you with relevant summer six years ago. This week, Tot- offers and services that may be of tenham High Road’s future is looking £1.1 million: if a love of the interest. Please give your mobile significantly brighter. outdoors and not being number and/or email address if Haringey council is expected to agree afraid to muck in — or muck you would like to receive such to join forces with Lendlease, the devel- out — sounds just the ticket, offers by text or email. oper behind the Elephant & Castle then Silverwood Farm, a surround a nicely spruced-up barn and manège have regeneration, to transform a swathe of gloriously rural smallholding three-bedroom bungalow separate gated access and Editorial: 020 3615 2650 the High Road next to the new Spurs in Rettendon Common near with plenty of charm and currently run as a successful Advertisement manager: soccer stadium which opens next year. Chelmsford in Essex is a ample living space. There’s livery business, while large Ann Finan Called High Road West, the scheme will must-see. It comes with 17 also a separate cottage-style agricultural buildings Advertising: 020 3615 0266 bring 2,500 new homes including 750 acres of grounds to horse studio in the garden with provide further money- Homes & Property, Northcliffe affordable, a public square with shops around in, including half an potential to let as an annexe. making potential. Through House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, and eateries, a new park and a library. acre of pretty gardens that Stables, tack rooms, a hay Fenn Wright (01245 930062). London W8 5TT. O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week a family-size flat near good schools and Ally Pally Park in Muswell Hill £650,000: do your homework and buy a place near good schools, such as this Muswell Hill flat in a leafy N10 road, a stroll from Coldfall Primary and Fortismere comprehensive schools and Alexandra Palace Park. The 17ft reception/dining room lit by big bay windows is laid with solid oak floors through to two double bedrooms, a contemporary bathroom and a sleek kitchen with matt white units, solid wood worktops and white metro tiles. Broadway has some great delis, a There’s potential to create family fishmongers and a choice extra living space or a third of restaurants. For sale with a bedroom in a decent-size share of the freehold through loft. Nearby Muswell Hill Hamptons (020 8012 1180). By Faye Greenslade Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2017 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Is this flat luxurious? You can bank on it É LOOKING for an impressive bolt hole abroad? One of Stockholm’s most exclusive flats, with links to Sweden’s top banking family, is on the market. The corner flat on Strandvägen is in a building bought by financier Marcus Wallenberg Sr in 1901. This grand home, right, with views over Djurgården island, has five bedrooms including a master suite in the third- level turret room. With 3,831sq ft of living space this home oozes elegance, from the first-floor hall to It’s £8,000 a week dining rooms and living rooms with sumptuous décor and lintels. A fifth — but you’ll have to generation of Wallenbergs is still prominent in banking. The flat is share with the Pope listed at £6.7 million through Sweden Sotheby’s International Realty. É AS YOU might expect, the Knightsbridge home of Roland Emmerich, below, director of blockbuster hits Independence Day, Godzilla and Stargate, is like a film set inside — and just the job for a fascinating short let. From outside, the five-bedroom, five-bathroom house appears much like its neighbours. Inside, however, you’ll find huge murals of Saddam Hussein and Chairman Mao among By Amira Hashish the quirky artwork and bespoke furniture. From a life-size zebra statue to a waxwork of Pope John Paul II O For more celebrity gossip, visit Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews sitting under the stairs and a study homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip room with blackboard floors and ceilings, there are so many unusual St Pancras starchitect draws up in Kingston touches. KFH lettings manager Daniel Bickerdike says: “Residents will be equally challenged, fascinated and Emily sells again entertained by the décor.” The rent is £8,000 a week but this ÉWANDSWORTH-BORN actress Emily house is unique — and it’s in SW3. Blunt and her American film-maker husband John Krasinski are selling their Brooklyn townhouse for £6.06 million. The Hollywood power couple, who have two young daughters, bought the place two years ago for £4.5 million but say they don’t spend enough time there. Blunt, star of The Girl on the Train, and Krasinski sold three houses last year as they É DESIGNED, owned and lived in by Alastair Lansley OBE, the lead architect switched from west coast to east coast. in the rebuilding of St Pancras station, this five-bedroom home, above, in Krasinski has said work makes Coombe Hill conservation area, Kingston, is on Hamptons’ books at £3 million. “nomads” of them. They renovated the Filled with light and white space, the detached gated house in landscaped seven-bedroom townhouse but kept gardens is rather more contemporary than the neo-Gothic train station. The original stained glass and panelling. buyer will be able to boast it’s the work of one of the UK’s top building brains. GETTY ALAMY 6 WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes CHRISTOPHER V HADDOW/MATHEW J STRETEN V HADDOW/MATHEW CHRISTOPHER From £1.5 million: above and below, Barratt three- and four-bedroom flats at Chapter Street, SW1 (0844 811 4321) Above: Cardinal Place retail and office hub near Victoria station. Right: The Albert pub’s a Victorian gem Left: Timmy Green, one of 18 top new eateries at Nova’s restaurant From £720,000: studios and flats at Nova, Landsec’s quarter, signature development in Victoria. Call 020 8012 2684 AND GROW HUFTON Nova Food A very good reason why we should learn A £2.2 billion regeneration project is transforming this prime central London spot, realising its potential with luxury ONDONERS don’t like to Buckingham Palace Road to the north. dawdle. It’s just not in our Until recently, most of the food and Thinking of nature. When we commute shopping options were concentrated we’re eyeing up the quickest, in Victoria Street, referred to by Mark moving? most direct route before you Fisher of local commercial property Lcan say Citymapper. And for years, agents Union Street Partners as “a Six- Start your there have been few areas more frus- ties canyon”. Historically an uninspir- trating to navigate than Victoria. ing area of government buildings, search on The station is one of the biggest and Victoria has done little to charm us. best-connected transport hubs in Lon- Until now… don but take a wrong turn as you step outside and before you know it, you BIRTH OF A HOTSPOT are lost in a complex network of back Victoria is at last learning from its mis- streets lined with high-rise blocks — or takes. The civil servants have moved face to face with a wall of dust and out, bars and restaurants have moved and a changing vibe for the whole dis- building machinery.