Wednesday 27 June 2018 WORLD CUP STITCH UP Londoners take to tapestry: Page 12 WAPPING’S NEW QUARTER IT’S SUMMERTIME! NEW DESIGNERS SPOTLIGHT ON CHISLEHURST 1,800 new homes on 30 acres Family country home rentals Be the first to buy the best The perfect village Page 4 Page 6 Page 16 Page 24 The impossible dream Turning a derelict gin factory into an award-winning family home: Page 18 DAVID BUTLER DAVID 2 WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | News THIS WEEK IN... Property search ‘Londoners turn tough stuff into success stories’ London buy of Janice the week The Morley living’s easy in W5 IT IS NOT unusual in London for a huge £595,000: in Ealing’s charming conservation area, opposite leafy Trophy home of the week regeneration project to be launched on 30 Montpelier Park in W5, this neat, acres. In Wapping it means a stunning new detached house has been recently You’ll be expecting Mr Bond… extended and renovated. Picket quarter with 1,800 new homes. It is not fences enclose an easycare faux- £22.5 million: you might need a modest defence budget to unusual in this diverse city for Hackney’s turfed garden, while the home’s afford this swish penthouse on the 16th and 17th floors of the London Embroidery Studio to tackle a smart new interior showcases a landmark Riverwalk scheme in Pimlico SW1 — but just look palette of pale greys and white at that view. The block sits opposite MI6 HQ and has already daunting project: one in celebration of the throughout a dual-aspect 14ft proved a bit of scene stealer in the Bond movies. The flat World Cup that creates an epic 650-panel reception room. An impressive contains gadgets galore across 6,471sq ft of living space with Shaker-style kitchen has dark grey 360-degree views over the river and the city. There are five journey through football, a sporting Bayeux cabinetry and underfloor heating. bedroom suites, a Boffi kitchen and a 2,500sq ft south- Tapestry. It is not unusual in this city to find Two double bedrooms with fitted facing roof terrace. Through Savills (020 7828 3007). a brave young family in search of a home wardrobes and a spa-inspired luxury bathroom are upstairs. For prepared to buy without planning and take sale chain-free through Hamptons on a rat-infested old gin distillery in (020 8012 1530). Lifechanger of the week Well worth the cab fare Whitechapel — one so grim not even £750,000: it’s amazing what can come property developers wanted it. They turned out of a former industrial building, it into an award-winning home. Because it especially one used to build the first 17 London taxis until 1907, in the village of is not unusual in this city for Londoners to Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. It was tackle the tough stuff and turn a crazy idea bought in 1997 by a local architect who into a success story. transformed it into a sleek, three- bedroom eco-home. 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By Faye Greenslade Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT. Generation Rent is quitting the city ENERATION RENT is moving out of expensive London flats to better- value and quality rentals in the home counties Gwhere, even when commuter fares are added in, they are still better off. Twenty- and thirtysomethings, who once only moved out of London to buy, now need cheaper rents if they are to raise the deposit for their own home, the exclusive research by Hamptons International shows. Young marrieds, meanwhile, are £1,250 a month: Spelthorne’s more popular towns, moving out for more space and a a two-bedroom take 48 minutes to London and an better quality of life for their children, flat with a patio in annual season ticket costs from but at the same rent. Staines Road East, £2,432. But this cost is countered by a Most of these exiles, thought to Lower Sunbury. typical local two-bedroom flat costing number about 50,000 a year, stay Through Dexters £1,200 a month to rent, with a four- within the M25. More than two thirds (020 8255 8899) bedroom house at £1,800-£2,000. of all homes rented in Spelthorne, a swathe of Surrey along the M3 ⬤ Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story and discover the Top 20 corridor, went to people leaving out-of-town rental destinations at homesandproperty. London. Trains from Sunbury, one of co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 3 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes Property INSET: DAVE BENETT DAVE INSET: REX Buy dad’s place and feel at home, Sophie Rio takes SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR and her father and Crafts-style property £1.5m hit Robin clearly have similar taste in bears a distinct homes. The singer, pictured, bought a resemblance to her to move dilapidated five-bedroom house in dad’s five-bedroom Turnham Green near Chiswick with place, above, in on with husband Richard Jones, bassist with Berwick, East The Feeling, and they turned it into Sussex, which he Kate their dream home. The Victorian Arts has now listed with Homes Winkworth at £2.35 million. It sits in two acres with a gossip XKATIEWRIGHT/INSTAGRAM swimming pool. Amira Hashish By RIO FERDINAND took a price hit but the age of 34. The lavish home has a has found a buyer for his home in swimming pool, Jacuzzi and a gym Got some gossip? Alderley Edge, Cheshire. The former with floor-to-ceiling windows, and Tweet @amiranews England and Manchester United overlooks rolling hills. Ferdinand, 39, football star, above, now in Russia as a is dating Kate Wright, 27, who quit BBC World Cup pundit, was asking The Only Way Is Essex last year after £4.5 million for the seven-bedroom their relationship began. She regularly house but sold it for £3 million. posts Instagram snaps at the home, He’d lived there with wife Rebecca above. She gave up her own home in Ellison. Mother of his three children, Essex to move to Cheshire but the pair she died of cancer three years ago at are now house hunting in London. You’re in vogue, with £1 change from £2m PATTERN HOUSE in Clerkenwell earned its name from its past incarnation as a pattern factory for Loved-up Ariana finds a futuristic Vogue magazine. The building, which was also once a flat in Hadid’s New York palace warehouse for Ingersoll watches, was bought by publisher Condé Nast in POP PRINCESS Ariana Grande, left, heart attack aged 65 in 2016. Grande, the Fifties. These days it is home to and her Saturday Night Live star fiancé 25, and actor-comedian Davidson, 24, industrial-style flats and the latest Pete Davidson are the latest celebrities reportedly engaged after a whirlwind one on the market is worthy of a to move into a futuristic 11-storey New romance, are thought to have moved fashion shoot, with exposed York apartment block designed by into a £12.05 million, 4,000sq ft five- brickwork, original steel girders, big acclaimed British architect Zaha Hadid. bedroom flat with a much-coveted Crittall windows and iron radiators. room. As well as the 2,000 sq ft of In a prime position on the High Line private terrace. Residents have access The open-plan master bedroom internal space, there is a shared roof linear park, 520 West 28th Street was to an Imax cinema, a spa and 75ft pool. ensuite resembles a modern garden with panoramic views across the last residential building Hadid Ariana and Pete’s famous neighbours Moroccan hammam, while an the city. It is listed with The Modern GETTY designed before her death from a include Sting and wife Trudie Styler. oversize hammock spans the living House for £1,999,999. 4 WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes Cityscape: London Dock homes and businesses are being set among east London landmarks old and new — the scheme’s Cashmere Wharf will be one in its own right Wapping makes a splash One of the capital’s largest projects pierces the skyline with a 26-storey tower set in 30 acres among 1,800 new homes, discovers Lee Mallett ASHMERE WHARF is chosen to relate to those used in unveiled this week, the nearby historic landmarks the Tower THE POWER latest phase of the of London and Tower Bridge, while its TOWER ambitious 1,800-home, height will provide a new navigation From £835,000, mixed-use London Dock landmark within Wapping. The look homes with one, C development. One of the largest will be mid-rise blocks, built from two or three projects in the capital, London Dock west to east across 30 acres.