Wednesday 22 June 2016 Hot lips Homes& Trends Page 14 Property ALL CHANGE AT OLD KENT ROAD P4 NEW HOMES FOR GYM BUNNIES P6 MAJORCA P11 SPOTLIGHT ON FINSBURY PARK P30 It’s a very tall storey Our home: Page 24 CHARLES HOSEA 2 WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Trophy home of the week £240,000: a pleasant one-bedroom Victorian Linked up again: Lea Bridge railway station, in buy into bronze, conversion flat in Capworth Street, Lea Bridge, E10 Zone 3, was closed for 31 years. By 2031 it is for sale through Carrington Gray (020 8012 1583) expected to serve 350,000 passengers a year strike style gold £4.9 million: cutting a dash in NW8 is 50 St Edmund’s Terrace, a boutique collection of “pavilion” buildings of Portland New homes come stone and bronze, one containing this apartment. The über sleek living space has been designed to soak up divine views across Primrose down the line Hill and Regent’s Park through large picture windows in three OW that Lea Bridge has a bedrooms and bathrooms, and railway station again, this plush open-plan living areas run-down east London finished to the highest spec. outpost is to get its first There’s a subterranean spa major housing develop- complex with a 20-metre Nment. Hill, the award-winning house swimming pool and a gym, plus builder responsible for reinvigorating underground parking and a acres of warehouses around Cam- 24-hour concierge to take care bridge station, has been granted per- of your every whim. mission for a scheme of more than 300 Through Knight Frank (020 new homes in nine blocks. 7887 2590). About 60 of the homes in Lea Bridge Road will be affordable, aimed at low- and middle-income buyers and renters Lifechanger currently priced out of the private sec- tor. of the week The announcement comes a month after the long-awaited reopening of Lea serve scones Bridge station, which was closed in the Regeneration: Two-bedroom flats in period homes mid-Eighties as part of a cost-cutting developer Hill sell for about £325,000 to £350,000, in Cornwall exercise. By 2031 it is forecast that has permission and one-bedroom flats are available for more than 350,000 passengers a year to build 300 flats under £250,000. £600,000: this little Cornish will use the Zone 3 train station. It will in nine blocks, Prices in the area are already growing dream runs as a café by day take about five minutes to reach either including 60 strongly, according to Rightmove, and a restaurant by night, Stratford or Tottenham Hale and con- “affordable” which reports an increase from an aver- popular with locals and nect to London Underground. homes age of just under £305,000 in February holidaymakers alike for its Construction of the apartments starts last year to almost £413,000 at the start bright, airy ambience and later this year, and expressions of inter- of this year. outside space in the rural est are already being taken ahead of a Hill’s development will include a gym village of Manaccan, near reception bar and window bedrooms, plus a useful sales launch in 2018. and a few shops, in an area that cur- Helston. seats for enjoying coffee study and a gorgeous open- Right now the area has streets of Vic- rently has little to offer — you need to There’s space to seat 50 and cake. plan kitchen/dining room torian houses which, by London stand- travel to Stratford for a good choice of diners in the restaurant, a Upstairs finds a spacious and living area. ards, are highly affordable, with shops, bars, and restaurants. fully equipped commercial owner’s apartment with It’s on the market with three- to four-bedroom homes selling kitchen for cooking up a white walls and high Country & Waterside (01872 for between £500,000 and £600,000. 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Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 3 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Rent George Eliot’s blue plaque home É THE former home of 19th-century novelist George Eliot in Wimbledon Park Road, SW18, is available to rent. The five-bedroom Victorian house, right, bears a blue plaque in honour of the author of Middlemarch. Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, wrote The Mill on the Floss when she lived at the house, and also entertained Charles Dickens there. Available through Savills for £6,500 a month, the property has a pretty garden room and roof terrace. The Oxford flat where Aung San Suu Kyi dreamt of democracy É OXFORD undergraduates seeking a pad with provenance in the city need look no further than the former home of Burma’s revolutionary leader Aung San Suu Kyi, which is available to rent. The political freedom and human rights campaigner, below, lived in a four-bedroom flat, now available for £4,500 a month through Carter By Amira Hashish Jonas. The 1,500sq ft upper-floor Matt gears up flat is in a side road north-east of Got some gossip? the city centre, right next to the Tweet @amiranews to sell LA villa University Parks. The study, where the Nobel Peace É TOP GEAR presenter Matt Prize laureate must have spent LeBlanc, left, is selling his California many hours planning her return to Buy punk home for £5.9 million. Burma to bravely lead her people The American star of sitcoms to democracy, has a balcony pioneer’s Friends and Episodes bought the overlooking the gardens, above. Thirties villa, above, in 2007 for Seventies £5 million and has been renting it out for £8,890 a month. party pad It has four bedrooms, a panelled dining room, and a library that É SEX PISTOLS frontman Johnny opens on to a pretty garden with Rotten, right, threw wild parties at lovely views over Santa Monica his Chelsea home at the height of the Canyon. LeBlanc is busy in London band’s fame in the late Seventies. with his British TV career and The punk rocker used to visit Sex, particularly enjoys hanging out in Vivienne Westwood’s boutique Kensington, at The Goat Tavern and around the corner in King’s Road. Virgin Active health club. But he Now called Worlds End, Kanye West isn’t cutting all ties with his and Kim Kardashian shopped there homeland — he owns another three recently. properties in the States. 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Though it will be at least 10 years before Bakerloo trains to south-east start operating, the extension is already creating an up-and-coming area from a part of London currently starved of the Tube. Now that Transport for London has London decided on this route rather than a Tube line through Camberwell and Peckham, Southwark council has unveiled an ambitious regeneration masterplan for You can feel change coming. Old Kent Road and neighbourhoods Move in now and benefit from either side of it. Up to 20,000 new homes, schools and parks are planned, an ambitious masterplan for along with a new Overground station called New Bermondsey. Old Kent Road and its neighbours, The aim is to transform one of the David Spittles capital’s most famous highways from a says dispiriting, colourless urban mess into a modern, apartment-lined, pedestrian- friendly high street with traditional owner-run shops and cafés replacing uninspiring pound shops and super- markets.