Wednesday 31 July 2019 STYLE UP FOR SUMMER Fabulous homeware for your garden: Page 20 DO YOUR HOMEWORK FIRST-TIME BUYER CLAPHAM RENTING IN HAMMERSMITH SPOTLIGHT ON UXBRIDGE The big schools house hunt for 2020 Hotspot that’s not just for rich kids A great place for work and play Buy into Boris’s constituency Page 6 Page 8 Page 10 Page 24 Making a city fit for cycling 140km of extra bike routes near new homes: Page 4 GETTY 2 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | News THIS WEEK IN... Property search ‘If cycling is to be a universal remedy, there must be rules’ Lifechanger of Janice the week stage Morley your own antiques roadshow EDITOR £600,000: right on the village BRITAIN’S biggest festival of cycling takes place green at Finchingfield, near Trophy home of the week Period detail and chic this weekend, in some ways giving us a snapshot Braintree in Essex, is this lovely house and antiques shop. The modernity blend perfectly in this Victorian beauty of life to come. There are 140km of London cycle property has several showrooms paths under way, with work starting this month and a workshop to handle and display your cleverly selected £3 million: let’s face it, there is something effortlessly classy about a handsome Victorian villa on Cycle Superhighway 4 from Deptford to auction finds, while the house has standing confidently in one of London’s largest conservation areas, in this case Mapesbury in NW2. Tower Bridge. It’s all part of a £2.3 billion project three reception rooms, a pretty The generous rooms in this lovely house have been completely refitted, resulting in a bright, airy orangery-style kitchen/breakfast kitchen/dining space lit by a bespoke glass extension that includes a whole wall of sliding glass to expand the capital’s network of safe cycle room opening to a roof terrace doors to a gorgeous 100ft garden — just right for summer soirées. French oak parquet floors routes. A government report tells us that people and three bedrooms. Permission continue in a spacious reception room with high ceilings edged in original cornicing. Five living in modern cities benefit from cycling and is in place for further expansion bedrooms including a lofty guest suite span the upper floors. Award-winning Mapesbury Dell Park — we suggest a cute little is truly one of Cricklewood’s hidden gems, and it’s just a short stroll away. Through Marsh & walking. Air pollution, climate change, traffic teashop might go down well with Parsons (020 8012 0423). congestion, stress, obesity, asthma, all the rotten your browsing customers, who will love all the beams and stuff we suffer (brought on by problems we exposed brickwork that your London buy of the week Browse the downstairs created in the first place) will diminish, it architect will want to exploit. promises. Developers are listening, building Through Savills (01279 756800). gallery, then throw an arty party on your roof terrace homes near cycle routes. Yet if cycling is to be a £775,000: this corker of a flat tops the universal remedy there need to be rules. Seventy striking Arthaus in London Fields E8, a former art storage warehouse that’s per cent of cyclists are men aged 25 to 44 who, now a great mix of homes, two popular the moment they put on go-faster Lycra… go restaurants and a cutting-edge art gallery in the lobby. Engineered timber faster. So, London needs cycle tracks not floors, sleek lighting and floor-to- racetracks — safer for all, not just cyclists. ceiling glass doors open to a decked roof terrace off the kitchen/dining/ living room. The two bedrooms have VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our fitted wardrobes and full-height usual promotion rules. windows, while the bathroom is all polished quartz and high-end fittings. Editorial: 020 3615 2650 Broadway Market, coffee shops, bars Advertisement manager: Ann Finan and a Picturehouse cinema are close. Advertising: 020 3615 0538 Call Fyfe Mcdade (020 8012 6345). By Faye Greenslade Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5EE Think before cohabiting, Boris and Carrie AS BORIS JOHNSON and Carrie Symonds prepare to become the first cohabiting couple in Downing Street, the spotlight is falling on the millions of other unmarried couples in the UK who live together but risk losing everything when their other half dies. The cohabiting culture is growing, according to a new report. One in eight adults in England and Wales lives as half of an unmarried couple and this proportion has risen every year since 2004, to six million people now. Half of them co-own property and financial assets including cash and shares but the perception of their But in fact, if one cohabiting partner Blazing a trail: rights when a partner passes away is dies without leaving a detailed will, the the new Tory PM “severely skewed”, according to the survivor won’t automatically inherit the Boris Johnson and study by financial analysts Farewill. estate, and that includes any part of partner Carrie The survey shows almost a third of us the shared home. Symonds will be wrongly believe that living in the same “The law as it stands isn’t set up for Downing Street’s house for more than five years or the modern family,” warns Farewill first cohabiting raising children together entitles chief Dan Garrett. couple people to ownership of property and investments when the worst happens. ⬤ Read Anna White’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 3 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes Property Jamie presents a hot property TELEVISION and radio presenter Jamie Theakston, inset, who co-hosts the Heart Breakfast show with Amanda Holden, is selling his four-bedroom house in Barnes after a complete renovation. In Cardigan Road and listed with Winkworth for £2.75 million, the period property, above, has been given a Homes modern twist through Theakston’s Prinston Property Gorgeous supermodel Gandy was here Partnership development and design company. There’s now a blush pink bathroom, retro furniture and glazed doors from gossip A VICTORIAN conversion flat in Ryan Reynolds. DJ Annie Mac and the kitchen out to a cute garden with a mature magnolia tree. Poplar where supermodel David Davina McCall have also worked on Amira Hashish Gandy, above right, is among many campaigns at the two-bedroom, two- By an A-listers to have posed for the bathroom duplex. It has been cameras, is available for hire. recently renovated but retains its Got some gossip? The 3,000sq ft apartment in a warehouse look, with exposed brick Tweet @amiranews converted dog biscuit factory has walls and quarter-sawn reclaimed featured as the backdrop for photo oak flooring. It is available via shoots and movies including The sprattsfactory.com with the price Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017) starring depending on enquiries. Cruz is crazy for the family hot tub DAVID and Victoria Beckham have splashed out on a plunge pool for their Cotswolds home — and son Cruz is its biggest fan. The 14-year-old, right, posted pictures on his Instagram account of the timber tub on the lawn in front of the garden “igloo” sauna at the family’s barn conversion near Soho Farmhouse in Chipping Norton. Scary £2.4m price cut The garden is the focal point of the Beckhams’ country base. They enlisted AFTER two years on the market, a Chelsea Flower Show winner to Scary Spice Mel B has finally found a create a fairytale theme with an buyer for her Hollywood Hills home. The orchard, natural swimming pond and a four-storey house sold for £4.5 million — barbecue area. Friends are saying that nearly £2.4 million less than the original asking they are now eyeing up a £36 million price. It went on the market during the singer’s condo in Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand divorce from film and TV producer Stephen Museum building in Miami. David is Belafonte. They paid £3.5 million for it in 2014. moving part-time to the city to launch The master suite has private terraces his Major League Soccer team there, so overlooking downtown LA and there’s a cinema, they will need a home from home. They gym and recording studio. The outdoor were seen at the 62-storey tower only swimming pool and entertainment space also PHOTOGRAPHS: GETTY, SPRATTS FACTORY SPRATTS GETTY, PHOTOGRAPHS: this week. has a cinema, along with an open-air kitchen. 4 WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes HIS weekend 100,000 cyclists, from small children with stabilisers to professional riders, will take part in the UK’s biggest Tfestival of cycling, the Prudential RideLondon. On Saturday a seven-mile stretch of central London will be closed to cars allowing families to bike past the capital’s landmarks in safety. This precedes Sunday’s 100-mile race which starts at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, runs through the Surrey Hills and finishes on The Mall. In some ways, this is a snapshot of life to come. With 140km of London cycle paths under construction or in planning, road-by-road the bike is being prioritised over the car. Work started this month on Cycle Superhighway 4, a route for commuting cyclists that will run from Deptford in south-east London to Tower Bridge, with new pedestrian crossings and a redesign of Rotherhithe roundabout — a notorious accident blackspot. It’s part of a Transport for London £2.3 billion project to expand the capital’s network of safe cycle routes to encourage more people to choose two wheels over four.