Wednesday 22 November 2017 Go with Homes& the grain Wood Awards Property Page 14 AFFORDABLE LIVE-WORK HOMES P8 EX-COUNCIL HOUSE BARGAINS P10 OUR HOME P20 SPOTLIGHT ON TOOTING P26 Now I can call it home Crossrail and Canary Wharf build a community PagePaage 6 JULIET MURPHY 4 WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Red-hot ruckus Trophy home AMDEN TOWN’S biggest new housing project — to of include a rooftop chilli farm and a microbrewery — is the week ‘lock poised for the go-ahead. But up and leave’ Cresidents claim it will overwhelm the popular Camden Market tourist luxury in W1 is hotspot and threaten the livelihood of local bars and clubs. just right for jet “Change of this magnitude has not occurred in the area for 30 years,” says setters Gavin Sexton, Camden council’s prin- cipal planner, who reported on the scheme. The planning committee is £6,495,000: a quiet cobbled façade, with just this one doors frame a generous expected to allow proposals for 573 mews just off Marylebone remaining. Nods to its reception room, while the new homes on a disused railway yard High Street holds the key to industrial past include upper floors play host to four site between Camden Roundhouse and the perfect lock up and leave striking steel staircases, bedrooms and bathrooms. Stables Market. luxury London base, on the bronze ironmongery and Security is taken care of by The reboot of Camden Goods Yard by former workshop site of metalwork details through discreet digital screens in site owner Safeway Stores and devel- Bramah UK, the capital’s each of its five floors. each room that let you keep oper Barratt London will also feature ALAMY oldest locksmith. There’s a cinema, gym and an eye on your home from cafés, restaurants, shops and a park Three unique houses have fabulous kitchen/dining wherever you’ve jetted off to. alongside railway arches. The chilli Huge change: in a series of glasshouses that could been created behind the space across the lower floors. Through Sandfords (020 farm will be on top of one of the blocks, objectors say hold 1,800 plants and produce almost company’s original historic One floor up, glass and iron 8012 3075). Camden Town, 5,000 kilos of peppers a year. There already a tourist will also be space within what is billed magnet, will be as the UK’s largest rooftop urban farm Editor: overwhelmed by for residents to grow their own crops. Lifechanger Janice the area’s Thirty-nine per cent, or 184 homes, biggest new will be affordable, earmarked for priced- of the week Morley homes scheme out first-time buyers and tenants who can’t afford local rents. But some resi- welcome the VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ dents say that hundreds of new neigh- rules for details of our usual bours in an area that draws 28 million happy couples promotion rules. When you tourists a year will spell chaos. respond to promotions, offers or to your rural competitions, the London Evening Glimpse of the Standard and its sister companies wedding venue future: on a may contact you with relevant former railway £1.4 million: all the right offers and services that may be of goods yard site ingredients for a blissful interest. Please give your mobile number and/or email address if will be new wedding venue can be found you would like to receive such homes, shops, a at Rowley Manor in the rural offers by text or email. microbrewery, Yorkshire village of Little from 16 bedroom suites, a Previously used as staff living cafés and the Weighton. grand panelled dining room space, it would make a Editorial: 020 3615 2650 UK’s biggest The Grade II-listed East that can seat up to 120, a superb spa and leisure suite Advertisement manager: rooftop urban Riding pile sits in three-and- cosy bar and function rooms once converted. Ann Finan farm, including a-half acres of gardens and — all right next to the local The historic market town of Advertising: 020 3615 0266 glasshouses for grounds bordered by church. There’s further Beverley is just six miles Homes & Property, Northcliffe growing chillies undulating countryside, money-making potential in away. Through Carter Jonas House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, providing a glorious outlook an adjoining lodge house. (01904 200062). London W8 5TT. O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week enjoy drinks on your private roof terrace before dinner in pukka Putney £615,000: this handsome Victorian house in West Hill, close to Putney, SW15, has been converted into eight luxurious, clean-lined flats using high-spec materials. On the first floor, this one is all about light and space, with pale wood floors, white walls and plenty of windows. There are two plush double bedrooms — one en suite — and a generous kitchen/ dining/living room that’s ideal for entertaining, with ample floor space and glass doors out to a private 15ft roof terrace enclosed by glass balustrading. Off-street parking is available, while East Putney Tube and Putney train station are within walking distance. For sale with Winkworth (020 8012 4291). 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The dark and uk/gossip above, is for sale with including Harry Styles, REX Riverhomes at £395,000, inset, and Sir Mark Rylance. down from £425,000. The vessel is now moored Built in 1926 as a cargo in Limehouse Basin Marina, vessel, Xylonite worked the between Canary Wharf and THE HOT SPOT: east coast for 51 years. The City. Limehouse Basin ESCADA Privately owned since 1977, website says a mooring fee SLOANE STREET she’s now a luxury floating for a residential boat of this home, below, with fitted size is about £875 a month Our tip for star galley, four bedrooms and and live-in owners pay two bathrooms. The owner council tax. spotters and style seekers ÉSOCIALITE-turned-interiors Martin and the model and ex- furniture designer TH Robsjohn- guru Fran Hickman, whose Made in Chelsea star Millie Gibbings (1905-1976). The walls previous projects include Soho Mackintosh, inset right, plus feature gold cascading leaves, House, Chess Club and Benedict actress Camilla Rutherford and hand-painted with an ombré Cumberbatch’s family home, singer Tallia Storm. effect. Styled with colourful has thrilled Chelsea’s finest with Elegant and inviting, objets d’art and iconic her design concept for the new inspiration for the interiors has literature, it is a luxurious Escada fashion flagship store in been taken from ancient addition to Belgravia’s high-end Sloane Street. At the recent Japanese art and the classical boutique shopping scene — and launch were DJ/model Zara designs of British architect and perfect for a bit of star spotting. GETTY 6 WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by This thriving financial centre is relying on the Elizabeth line and a programme of new homes to attract families and build a sense of community, says Emily Wright N ICONIC cluster of glass behemoths, Canary Wharf is a beacon of London’s financial prowess.