Wednesday 6 June 2018 THE CUTTING EDGE Designer glass: Page 14 15,000 NEW HOMES BARKING COOL RENTING SPOTLIGHT ON BERMONDSEY London transformed by 2021 London’s answer to New York Piccadilly line with hi-tech trains A tasty place to be Page 4 Page 6 Page 10 Page 28 Make the space work My home redesign: Page 18 2 WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | News THIS WEEK IN... 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GETTY 4 WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes A whole new neighbourhood: Network Rail will help to create 400 extra new homes in the second phase of building at Kidbrooke Village in Greenwich borough An important shopping trip for Londoners Thousands of acres of central London land will become new homes, villages and stations by 2021, says Lee Mallett NEW housebuilding project the Westway Trust post-Grenfell and Network Rail land: above, a site, next to Canning Town Tube Modern gateway: the masterplan for creating neighbourhoods cycling road safety, for years,” says mixed-use block with 291 homes station, for a new neighbourhood Twickenham station’s transformation and regenerating areas Hendy, who drives the bus, while in Wyvil Road, Vauxhall, in the with 1,500 homes, of which 600, or 40 includes 115 new homes and a plaza the across London is being Murray dons a conductor’s cap. Nine Elms and Battersea per cent, will be affordable. “The size of five tennis courts launched by Network Rail “We’ve seen what local authorities, Opportunity Area notion is a variety of villages and Aand Transport for London. The plan is developers and architects are doing. towns, with a station at their centre,” to make a big dent in the Mayor’s It was about time we showed them says Craig. “We can reshape London’s target of 66,000 new homes a year by what Network Rail and TfL are up to.” town centres; our focus is COMING UP building about 15,000 on land that the Even at £250 a head for this latest bus increasingly on Zones 3 to 6.