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Luxurious features at this three-bedroom home in sought-after Queen’s Gate Mews, South Kensington, include an über-chic ground-floor reception room with a glass floor THE regeneration spotlight is set to fall on what is arguably giving a glimpse of a lower-ground reception/dining room London’s most unloved corner — where flats can still be that’s designed to impress, with a Poggenpohl kitchen and bought for £150,000 — thanks to an £11.6 million project to great gadgetry. Glass stairs lead to the first floor, with three reopen a railway station shut for nearly 30 years. bedrooms plus two Italian marble-finished bathrooms. There Waltham Forest council and Network Rail have agreed to is also a large garage for the supercar. Through Hamptons. fund the reopening of Lea Bridge station, on the Lea Valley Line in north-east London, in a boost to the area east of O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/trophyken Leyton Marshes. 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