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Wednesday 26 August 2015
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DANIEL LYNCH
London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk
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Trophy buy of the week
their own home, five-floor beauty in Belgravia
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being set up by most refined way, where better than Belgravia? This wide
the Mayor stuccoed beauty commands a prime position between
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5,000sq ft of space across five floors. High ceilings add to
MAYOR Boris Johnson wants to back London’s aspiring the grandeur of the reception rooms, while five über-plush
Grand Designers by helping them to find plots of land and bedrooms, a media room, gym/sauna and roof terrace
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The Build Your Own London Home Register launches
this week and will initially give City Hall a database
showing the level of demand for self-builds. London buy of the week a new flat in
O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Canning Town’s booming centre
£460,000: a few years ago you first phase, modern two-bedroom flats
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is dramatic regeneration in progress
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It includes the creation of the balconies overlooking a leafy garden
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to transform
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Life changer Elizabethan
add a luxurious
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£1.25 million: this magnificent, seven-bedroom, Elizabethan
THIS Bank Holiday weekend could be your last chance to hall in Worfield, Shropshire, comes with a two-bedroom
get those DIY jobs done before autumn sets in. cottage to let, a further three-bedroom cottage (by separate
A new coat of paint is perhaps the cheapest and easiest negotiation) and fishing rights on the River Worfe, which
way to transform a room. For the more adventurous, new runs through its three acres of gardens. There’s an outdoor
wallpaper can add a luxe touch, while upcycling a tired swimming pool and, indoors, wood-panelled reception
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Homes Kate’s cut-price
Italian hideaway
gossip É SUPERMODEL Kate Moss,
right, rented a cottage when
By Amira Hashish she was visiting Spoleto
in Italy for her agent’s
wedding.
However, while the pretty
O For more celebrity gossip, visit medieval Umbrian village
homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip home, called Cisterna, was
reserved until recently for
celebrities seeking solitude,
Foster’s home gets it is now available through
holidaylettings.co.uk for a
the star treatment budget-friendly price of
£72 a night during
É A GLASS pavilion, sun terraces, off-peak times.
a pergola and a swimming pool on
the roof... these are among the
Tucked away in the tiny,
exclusive holiday village of
Madge’s mansion back in vogue for £18m
wow-factor features you might Borgo Di Baci, the one- É MADONNA’S stunning Beverly estate for £7.6 million and sold it nine
expect at a London penthouse that bedroom cottage makes a Hills mansion is back on the market years later, in 2012, for £12.4 million.
was once home to Norman Foster. perfect retreat. for £17.8 million. In secluded grounds at the end of a
Before he moved to Geneva, the It has a private terrace and The Material Girl shared the nine- grand gated drive, the property
starchitect, below, lived “over the shares a pool and outdoor bedroom home on Sunset Boulevard covers a whopping 5,800sq ft, with 15
office”, in the penthouse above the fitness area with four nearby with her then-husband, British film bathrooms, a duplex dining room, a
Foster + Partners practice at his luxury suites. director Guy Ritchie, from 2003. cinema, two offices, a gym, two
Riverside One development in A housekeeper is also on They divorced in 2008. Madge guesthouses, a tennis court and a
Battersea. hand for those living or bought the French country-style resort-size swimming pool, above.
It is now believed that the man who staying in any of the five
brought the Gherkin to the London properties.
skyline has plans to turn the dazzling
apartment into two separate flats.
Scandal
A planning application for the
alterations has been submitted to Got some gossip?
at the
Wandsworth council. Tweet @amiranews Sherlock
house
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É CALLING all Cumberbitches. Fans six-bedroom house in Newport,
of Harrow-educated actor Benedict South Wales. Built in 1860 as a
Cumberbatch can stay in Grade II- gentleman’s residence, the property
listed Fields House, above, where he can sleep up to 10, while Doctor Who
filmed scenes for the TV series followers may recognise the dining
Sherlock. room as Captain Latimer’s study
With Martin Freeman as Dr Watson, from the 2012 Christmas special.
Cumberbatch, inset — now playing Fields House is available to rent
Hamlet at the Barbican — recorded from £365 a night on Airbnb — search
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Browse awhile: Katy Saphir of Flaming Nora, one of many vintage shops in Church Road, Crystal Palace
4 for all Zone 4 is a marketplace full of choice. Ten of the
cheapest areas around its stations have average
house prices under £301,000. By David Spittles
A
S LONDONERS are pushed District line, proves the contrary. 23 minutes of the three “best value” Zone 4 com- was confident the same would happen
further from the capital’s Surrounded by an enormous 2,500 from the centre: muting areas, has jumped by 26 per in Wembley. The public transport links
centre in search of homes acres of oak forest deer park, river the “secret cent since the start of the year. The are good and it’s just £20 in a taxi to
they can afford, Zone 4 walks and great views from Richmond food market” average house price is £248,407. Heathrow,” she says.
has become the budget Hill, a prospect protected by an Act of at Haynes Lane Wembley is a Zone 4 area with Zone 2 Barone also has a home in Milan.
frontier. The average price of a home Parliament, the area is perfect for com- in Gipsy Hill, a transport connections — you can get to After the birth of her daughter, she
there is £421,000. In Zone 2, the aver- muting families. good-value south Baker Street in 13 minutes, according decided to let her one-bedroom flat at
age is £723,000 while in Zone 3, it is Most new homes in the protected London suburb to Paul Hogarth of developer Quintain, Wembley and buy a bigger apartment
£488,000. Yet the typical train journey town centre are as a result of regenera- on the borders of which is building a 5,000-home neigh- at the development. On-site Brent
to central London from Zone 4 is a tion. Wickham House is a conversion Zones 3 and 4 bourhood wrapping around the famous Library is another attraction.
reasonable 33 minutes, with some of former publishing premises and has football stadium. A new open-air shop- “They have a children’s area and
journeys taking only 15 minutes. a striking new mural in the entrance ping mall has raised the bar and offers playgroups during the week and at
For example, the average price in foyer depicting printing presses. well-known names, chain eateries and weekends,” adds Barone.
Morden, at the southern end of the Prices start at £569,000 — above the a multiplex cinema.
Northern line, is £368,726, while in average for Zone 4, but still lower Apartment blocks are being built in UNCOVERING HIDDEN GEMS
South Wimbledon, one stop earlier and than homes near the closest Zone 3 clusters overlooking courtyards and Unsung Alperton in north-west London
on the Zone 3/4 cusp, it is £641,164. station. Call Featherstone Leigh on squares. Prices at Emerald Gardens, has such a low profile that many people
Zone 4 sits between the inner city and 020 8940 1575. the latest phase, start from £366,000. living in the capital haven’t even heard
the suburbs, a ring marked by Green- Nearby Isleworth is a cheaper option. Call 020 3151 8601. of it. But the area is emerging from the
ford in the west, Mill Hill in the north, Capital House, an office-to-residential From £387,952: shadows as developers hit upon its
Upney in the east and Morden in the conversion, has yielded seven for homes at WEMBLEY’S A WINNER hidden assets — the Grand Union Canal
south. Ten of the cheapest areas apartments priced from £295,000. Call Truro Place, the Elisabetta Barone, a lecturer at Brunel and fast Tube links to the West End.
around Zone 4 stations have average 020 8847 0488. redevelopment Business School, was one of the first A B&Q superstore has made way for
prices less than £301,000. of a listed 19th- people to buy at the development. 441 homes as 243 Ealing Road, part
“Some areas are significantly under- OVERGROUND BOOST century mansion “I’d seen regeneration have a huge of a Brent council master plan to trans-
valued given the relatively quick com- The newly integrated Overground net- in Palmers Green impact on other parts of London and form the neighbourhood into a resi-
mute times to the centre — they’re easy work — an amalgam of lines connecting dential haven, with a new school and
to get to work from and have potential areas outside central London, allowing shops, health centre and business
for price growth,” says Jennet Siebrits, passengers to travel from any area premises. Prices from £299,250. Call
head of residential research at property of the capital to another without chang- Network Living on 020 8997 3373. The
consultant CBRE. ing trains — is also boosting Zone 4 Piccadilly line station is a 200-yard
However, you have to choose care- districts. walk from the development.
fully. Some Zone 4 areas have already Prices along the Northern line are Palmers Green and Southgate lie
become pricey thanks to their speedy worth studying, too, because this route beyond the traffic-choked North Cir-
commuting times. Bounds Green, uniquely links cheaper locations both cular Road and have neat, untroubled
Wanstead and South Woodford, with north and south of the river with the streets of comfortable interwar houses
25-minute journey times, have prices main employment centres of the West and a sprinkling of new developments.
averaging £440,000 to £450,000. End and City without the need to Both are places where people put
change trains. down roots. Buyers aspire to the dis-
AFFORDABLE OPTIONS East London, fuelled by a property trict on the way up the ladder and
Some people may dismiss Zone 4 as a boom rippling through Shoreditch and downsizers on the way down.
Photographs : chunk of unpleasant urban sprawl, but Docklands, continues as a growth area. Southgate’s Piccadilly line station is
Adrian Lourie Richmond, at the southern end of the Demand for homes in East Ham, one arguably the area’s most surprising
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From £366,000: flats at Emerald Gardens, Wembley, in landscaped grounds and in Zone 4 — but with Zone 2 transport links
THE 10 CHEAPEST
ZONE 4 STATIONS
TO LIVE NEAR
Average
Station house price
Barking £198,852
Norwood Junction £247,556
East Ham £248,407
Hounslow Central £257,557
Hainault £274,566
Woolwich Arsenal £276,411
Upney £282,252
Wembley Central £292,509
Greenford £294,100
Alperton £300,836
Source: CBRE
landmark. A spirited Thirties design, French-influenced interiors have been From £569,000: new homes at splendid Victorian villas, many now NOW JOIN US ONLINE
the listed circular building looks like a restored, along with a coach house, Wickham House in Richmond. At the converted into flats. USE our online interactive map of
spaceship heading for Mars rather than while 25 new homes are being built in southern end of the District line, the The East London line extension to Zone 4, which allows you easily to
leading down to the Underground. the two-and-a-half-acre grounds. Prices area is perfect for commuting families West Croydon has revitalised the area, identify areas within your budget.
Palmers Green was a bastion of from £387,952 to £2.95 million. Call yet homes around Norwood Junction Simply click on a station to get the
Edwardian respectability and is a good Comer Homes on 0800 0121222. are among the cheapest in the capital, average property price and rental
place to look for larger homes. Tumbling down from the heights spa town around a mineral water with an average price of £247,556. rate for the area, plus the journey
Truro Place is a redevelopment of a of Crystal Palace are the inner suburbs spring in Beulah Hill never material- Two-bedroom flats at new scheme time to the West End (Oxford Circus)
listed 19th-century mansion that had o f We s t N o r w o o d a n d S o u t h ised, but the arrival of the illustrious Beaumaris Gardens cost from and the City (Liverpool Street).
been on the Heritage At Risk register Norwood. Crystal Palace, spectacularly destroyed £265,000, with shared-ownership
of Historic England — formerly English Ambitious plans in the early 19th by fire in 1936, gave the area an enor- options available. Call Hyde New Find the map at:
Heritage. The house and its classical century to establish a Regency-style mous boost, and led to the building of Homes on 0845 6061221. homesandproperty.co.uk/zone4
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The Cotswolds you don’t know
If you lust after a Kerb appeal:
Cotswold stone Thame offers a
charming blend
cottage, here’s how of old and new
to find the best
investment closest
to London, says
Ruth Bloomfield £2.5m: five-bedroom house, Shillingford
(see homesandproperty.co.uk/shilling)
WALLINGFORD: FOR
C
OTTAGES smothered in
wisteria and pretty rows of UNSPOILT CHARM
townhouses with perfect Another market town that has put on a
countryside on the doorstep good property recovery is Wallingford.
— these are among the Prices fell 0.7 per cent last year, but are
reasons so many people yearn to live in still up 14 per cent on 2008, and stand
the market towns of Oxfordshire. at an average £308,033. Commuter
However, if you are a serious daily trains from Cholsey, three miles away,
commuter, you need to choose a town take from 54 minutes to Paddington. An
with good-value homes that is a bearable annual season ticket costs £4,976.
travelling distance from London. Wallingford School (seniors) is rated
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Here, we shine the spotlight on three “good”, and there is a clutch of prima-
of the best. ries with similarly high standards.
Thames-side towns tend to be lovely
THAME: FOR STRONGEST “Thame is a wonderful place to live and WATLINGTON: BEST FOR a modern British menu including such to look at and Wallingford is no excep-
PRICE GROWTH it has kerb appeal,” says Stephen THE LONG-TERM dishes as eight-hour cider-braised pork tion, with its ancient stone bridge,
A study of eight key locations by estate Rutledge, a partner at rural estate agents Beyond Chipping Norton, the market belly, is a favourite. market square, lovely walks along the
agents Knight Frank reveals the town of Fisher German. town that has seen the strongest long- Education is also excellent, with an Thames Path, outdoor lido, a cinema
Thame has enjoyed the strongest price Thame’s property is mainly Victorian term growth according to the study — “outstanding” rating for Watlington and theatre, and a good range of inde-
growth over the past year, with a 14.3 and Georgian terraces. A two-bedroom and the best recovery since the Primary School, while for seniors, pendent shops and pubs.
per cent rise to an average £310,665. house would cost from about £300,000, recession — is Watlington. Icknield Community College gets a “It is a beautiful location, with a nice
At least Thame has, by Oxfordshire and you could pick up a four-bedroom Prices rose just 0.5 per cent last year, “good” report. thriving shopping centre and lovely
market town standards, a pain-free property for about £500,000. For an suggesting a slight plateau, to an average “Watlington is easy to sell because it villages nearby,” adds Guy Glover, a
journey to London. Trains take from edge-of-town manor house with an £393,924. But this is a hefty 36 per cent is very pretty and only a couple of miles director of Thomas Merrifield estate
38 minutes to Marylebone from acre or two, you could easily spend above 2008 values. from the M40. It is also very close to agents.
Haddenham & Thame Parkway station, £1.5 million. The nearest station is Henley-on- the beautiful Chilterns,” says Nick A two-bedroom Victorian or Edward-
which is two-and-a-half miles from the Thames, a 10-mile drive away, where Sherston, director of Robinson ian cottage in town would cost about
town. An annual season ticket costs services to Paddington take from 65 Sherston estate agents. £350,000, while a five-bedroom house
£4,632. The M40 is also close by. minutes. An annual season ticket costs “It is a small town with only about would be priced at about £650,000 to
Oxfordshire’s schools are generally from £4,356. 3,500 people, so it also has a real £700,000.
good and Thame is no exception, led by Another transport option is to take village-y feel.” Glover suspects that this value-for-
Lord Williams’s School, rated “outstand- the “Oxford Tube” coach service to About 20 per cent of his buyers are money versus the London suburbs and
ing” by Ofsted. Victoria. An annual season ticket, from from London, often first- and second- commuter dormitory towns is one rea-
Thame is the traditional good-looker Lewknor, costs just £1,193, although timers attracted by Watlington’s beauty son why buyers are willing to accept the
with an annual show, a Tuesday market, the journey takes between an hour and and affordability. slightly longer commute.
great cafés and restaurants, a cinema 40 minutes and two hours. A two-bedroom terrace house would “It is proper country out here, pictur-
and a theatre. Cuttle Brook nature If a town is to be judged by the quality cost about £250,000 and a five-bed- esque, with some lovely villages close
reserve is a perfect place to get away £929,950: four-bed, near Wallingford of its pubs, then Watlington is doing room house with a really good garden by,” he says. “It has a lot of charm — and
from it all, and there is a leisure centre. (homesandproperty.co.uk/walling) well. The Fat Fox Inn gastropub, with is about £750,000. it hasn’t been spoiled.”
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It’s becoming
Poplar down
by the Wharf
If you are struggling
W
ITH Canary Wharf
well established as a
prime property
market — more than
to afford a home in
200 flats in its latest
skyscraper, Maine Tower, sold within
sought-after Canary
four hours of going on the market Wharf, check out the
this summer — it is only natural that
interest is now turning to Poplar, its spot next door, says
low-key neighbour.
Just a mile “inland” of the Wharf, Ruth Bloomfield
Poplar is one of the few undiscovered
corners of Zone 2 left to first-time Mosaic (familymosaicsales.co.uk) has
buyers. Although it is not nearly as a selection of shared-ownership
shiny as its high-rise neighbour, the homes aimed at first-time buyers and
cranes on its skyline are evidence priced from £97,500.
that regeneration is beginning. New Festival Quarter is designed by From £97,500: for a 30 per cent share of a one-bedroom flat at New Festival Quarter, where almost 500 homes are being built
Bellway Homes’ New Festival award-winning architects Stock
Quarter is one of the largest housing Woolstencroft, and most flats rent, plus their mortgage and a
schemes in the area, with almost 500 feature private balconies or terraces, monthly service charge of £110.27. THE KNOWLEDGE
new homes being built on a site plus rooftop gardens and small Two-bedroom flats start at
opposite Bygrove Primary School, residents’ parks. £118,000 for a 30 per cent share. Past: Poplar’s location close to Gardens, subject of an intense
which is rated “outstanding” by One-bedroom flats start at £97,500 Buyers must earn at least £42,304, London’s docks meant it was ravaged preservation campaign backed by
Ofsted. for a 30 per cent share, and buyers and will need to pay £460 a month in during the Blitz. Norman Foster. See it while you can
Full market prices at the scheme must have a household income of rent plus a £132.71 service charge, as Future: Poplar Baths, built in 1933, because it is due to be demolished
are nudging towards the £500,000 between £34,846 and £71,000. They well as a mortgage. have been shut since the late later this year.
mark, but housing association Family will need to pay £379.17 a month in There are three-bedroom flats Eighties, but work is now under way Eat/drink: nothing great on the
available, priced from £455,000. on their regeneration as a new doorstep, but it’s only a 10-minute
Buyers must have a minimum leisure centre plus 100 homes. walk to Limehouse.
On the household income of £49,516 so they Trivial pursuit: BBC drama Call the Buy: whatever you can haggle for at
right lines: a can afford mortgage payments, plus Midwife is set in Poplar in the Fifties. old-school Chrisp Street Market.
Docklands Light rent at £530.83 a month and a
What it costs: an average property Walk: local parks include Poplar
Railway train monthly service charge of £174.69.
costs £519,659, up 4.6 per cent in the Recreation Ground and Bartlett Park.
passes through The area is served by two
past year. Renting a two-bedroom
Poplar station, Docklands Light Railway stations —
flat costs an average £2,511 a month
which is set to Langdon Park and All Saints — and,
(source: Zoopla).
get busier from 2018, locals will be able to pick
up Crossrail services to the West End First-time buy: a two double-
and Heathrow from Canary Wharf, bedroom flat on the 11th floor of the
which is a mile away. Fusion Building, with great views
Poplar has yet to develop a over Canary Wharf, is on the market
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fashionable café culture of its own, with Landmark Estates at a guide
but the Olympic Park and Westfield price of £400,000.
Stratford City shopping centre, plus Landmarks: the condemned Open for business: the Idea Store in
the expanses of Mile End Park, are Seventies council block Robin Hood popular Chrisp Street Market
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within walking distance.
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Homes & Property Holiday homes homesandproperty.co.uk with
Share the cost of having a good time
Holidays are precious. Read the
W
HY shell out for a there each year. Two- and four-week From £105,000:
holiday home with the fractions in five new four-bedroom, for a fractional
small print to see if fractional hassle of year-round sleekly contemporary villas, each with share of a flat at
charges for service and private pool and garden, are priced Atlantic House,
ownership works for you, says maintenance if you are from £34,500. Maintenance charges, above, in North
not free to enjoy it for more than a few which include all gardening, pool care, Cornwall. Right,
Cathy Hawker weeks a year? internet and insurance, amount to the courtyard
One alternative is fractional owner- £1,500 per week. Sales have gone well gardens of Terre
ship, which is quite different to the with 34 different buyers, the majority Gialle in Tuscany
discredited timeshare model of the past. from the UK.
In fractional ownership, one home is Fractional villas at Royal Westmore-
shared between several buyers. This is land are held freehold in a third party
a relatively new idea in the UK, but long trust and governed under UK Common-
established in the United States. wealth property law, with the owner-
Operating models vary, but generally ship share fully transferable.
O Royal Westmoreland
-"#&.&-$0 owners have an outright share of the
property. (royalwestmoreland.com)
Kim Goddard, who sells fractional From £34,500:
villas at Royal Westmoreland in Barba- ITALY two weeks a year
dos, says: “Our clients want to control A TWO-HOUR FLIGHT AWAY in a Royal Palm
+
their lives, but often aren’t ready to Deep in agricultural, unspoilt Tuscany Villa, right and
commit to one location for a second on the lower slopes of Monte Amiata, top left, at
home. Shared access to luxuries such two hours from Florence, Rome and Barbados’s Royal
as cars, private planes and staff is grow- Pisa, Terre Gialle offers a lakeside view Westmoreland
ing exponentially and our fractional for £19,000. That buys four weeks each
ownership fits in with these trends.” year in perpetuity in a fully kitted-out, account until 40 per cent of the frac-
Remember to look carefully at on- new one-bedroom apartment on a gated tions are sold. Then it will be released
going maintenance costs and investigate 20-acre holiday resort with pool, tennis to complete these facilities or otherwise
fully any restrictions on selling the frac- court and on-site management. Annual be returned to buyers.
tion. For buyers who proceed with care maintenance charge is £900. Terre Gialle is five minutes from Castel
there are interesting worldwide options Terre Gialle has 42 older apartments del Piano, a charming town with a
for this method of purchase. available to rent and 14 newly com- population of 4,750, seven churches, a
pleted one-bedroom fractional apart- hospital, shops and schools. It has the
BARBADOS ments with plans for further two- and impressive distinction of being the only
AN EIGHT-HOUR FLIGHT three-bedroom units in a later phase. Italian town besides Siena with an
Royal Westmoreland — an established, “Timeshare has a bad image, but this annual Palio, a festive and exhilarating
well-maintained, 750-acre gated golf is so different,” says Simone Rossi of horse race around the town square
and leisure resort two miles inland from Terre Gialle. “It is yours for four weeks dating back to 1402.
Barbados’s exclusive west coast — has forever and we provide membership of O Terre Gialle Residence & Resort
been selling property to holidaymakers, RCI and Hutchinson & Co, two leading (terregialle.com; 020 3637 2215)
including sports presenter Gary Lineker holiday exchange companies who
and England football star Wayne have inspected Terre Gialle thoroughly. NORTH CORNWALL
Rooney, since 1994. Starting prices for
full ownership of apartments and villas
are £253,700 and £738,500.
This allows you to swap your weeks in
Tuscany for hundreds of other
destinations.”
FIVE HOURS BY CAR
Above the beach at New Polzeath, with
direct access to the sands, surf schools
In December, Royal Westmoreland
launched its first fractional option, call-
ing it a “stepping stone” to full owner-
Future plans at Terre Gialle include
building a restaurant and indoor pool
and spa. Rossi points out that early buy-
From £19,000:
Terre Gialle in
Tuscany offers
and restaurants below, Atlantic House
is being built to replace a former family-
favourite hotel.
ship for its many repeat, time-poor
buyers who spend only a few weeks
ers are protected because their money
goes into a secure escrow (third party)
four weeks a
year for life
The new, modern Atlantic House is
due for completion next spring and will
have 14 hotel rooms and nine two- and
three-bedroom apartments for sale on
a fractional basis on a 999-year lease.
The apartments average 1,100sq ft, all
with balconies facing the beach, and
will be sold fully furnished, priced from
£105,000 to £145,000 for five weeks
spread throughout the year. Annual
service charges are £1,500 and owners
can rent any weeks they do not use.
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Viewing point:
right, a glass
floor panel in the
veranda, created
when the flat was
taken up into the
loft, lets you look
down into the
living space
Photographs: :
Christian
Kraatz
Clever touch:
wallspace beside
the staircase to
the loft extension
has been turned
into bookshelves
On the way up, max out on sty.le
Philippa Stockley discovers actor Ben Forster is raising the roof with his latest production
B
EN FORSTER knows a thing sixth-floor home in a Nineties block in veranda with a glass floor, through Longman. “It has added a lot of light
or two about dramatic trans- 2011 it was laid out on one floor, but had which you can see down into the flat. and space. We’re so happy with it.”
formations. The actor, left, a timbered loft space big enough to By moving the bedrooms upstairs, the
played Jesus in the revival of make habitable. The flat as it stood was floor below became one large living- What it cost:
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock dull, dingy, divided and dated. Forster dining room. Lots of skylights make the Flat in 2011: £367,000
opera Jesus Christ Superstar in its 2012 said it looked like a cheap rental. whole space very bright. Total spent including decorating:
arena tour, and he’s taking the role of “We got a few quotes, some were “Planners will want you to leave the £130,000
Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Show ridiculously expensive, some wouldn’t existing roof,” advises Woods. “This Value now: £950,000
at the West End’s Playhouse Theatre even look because it was so high up,” job took 12 weeks as it was a large loft,
from September 11. says Forster. But the quote submitted and we had to use scaffolding and a Loft conversion by Simply Loft at
So it was no surprise that Forster, 34, by surveyor Rob Woods won the winch. A simple loft conversion might simplyloft.co.uk
and his partner, interior designer Paul couple’s approval. take eight weeks.” Simply Loft’s prices range from about
Longman, wanted to put their stamp After lengthy discussions, Forster and The verdict: “Rob and his team were £30,000 plus VAT for a small loft
on their Rotherhithe flat by creating an Longman added two bedrooms with open to all our suggestions and from conversion to £90,000 plus VAT for a
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additional floor. When they bought the en suite bathrooms, plus a small day one it was so smooth,” says large one.
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Town Station
1 min
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4 mins
Canary
6 mins
Westfield
Wharf
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Centre
13 mins
London Eye
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27 mins
Suites, one, two and three bedroom apartments.
Kings Cross
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Moving on up: one of the two bedrooms, this one opening out on to the veranda, which both feature en suite bathrooms
WILL YOU NEED PLANNING PERMISSION?
WHETHER you enlarge your home “Their concern is looking after the
upwards, out at the back, sideways wall. It is a very sound system.”
— or all three — above-ground In the case of lofts, if you own
extensions are the best and your house — again not listed and
cheapest way to improve, bringing not in a conservation area — you
light, space, plus the unquantifiable will likely be able to extend up into
aspect of joy into your life. the space, including putting
If you own a house that isn’t in a dormers of a certain size at the
conservation area, or listed, you back, without planning permission.
can do some of these things without However, for a flat, you will need
planning permission. Existing those permissions.
permitted development rights You can’t put dormers at the front
mean you can add a certain amount without permission, and there are
of extra space without it. These rules about how much volume you
rights have been extended in the can add. Verandas and terraces
past few years so that larger always need permission, wherever
extensions can be built without they are.
planning consent. This is a brief snapshot, but
As architect Neil Dusheiko says, there is a really useful guide at
when you are building up to the planningportal.gov.uk/general/faq/
party walls of a neighbour’s faqplanpermhome#Whatarepermit
property, you will also need party teddevelopmentvolumelimits
wall agreements. For this, you Don’t forget, you can always have
appoint a party wall surveyor and a chat with local council planners,
will likely have to pay for an who are happy to give advice at the
independent one for your start of any project. Either ask them
neighbour, too. “These surveyors yourself, or your architect can do it
are impartial,” says Dusheiko. for you.
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EMPHIS was a design Memphis designers. Now London
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championed bold and ceramics, while Made.com is wallpaper by designer Ettore Sottsass was a
colours and quirky patterns. The doing cushions and furniture. design duo founding member of Memphis
name, inspired by a Bob Dylan track, However, less could be more when Quirk & Rescue — and Darkroom pays tribute to
described furniture, fabrics and it comes to Memphis. “You won’t is digitally the visionary with its So Sottsass
lamps in playful geometric shapes want to do a whole room — keep it for printed and collection. The range consists of
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squiggles and dots. cushions or ceramics,” says Habitat choice of four vases, £350 each, pictured; three
It was intended as an antidote to the creative director Polly Dickens. colourways, ceramic plates, £80 each; wrapping
conventional style of the Seventies, Other brands to embrace the style including red, paper in an abstract pattern
but back then it never registered so include Wrong for Hay, where pictured. It costs described as “bacteria print”, £3 a
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It was seen at the Milan Furniture original Memphis co-founder. “Now
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Lee Broom captures the playful spirit of De Lucchi offers a fun way for you to Poggio bedside table in oak is the award-winning Adam Nathaniel
Memphis. Created with mixed materials get your caffeine hit with the Pulcina epitome of Memphis’s loud and proud Furman. Prices for his limited-edition
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acrylic and Corian, get it for £5,850 with Illy for Alessi, it is priced at £45 statement piece for any bedroom, from £500 to £1,500 (adamnathaniel
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Quick thinking:
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fast to snap up
and refurbish
his Georgian
townhouse near
Regent’s Canal
in Islington
Do you want to
know a secret?
From a soup kitchen
T
HE secret of gracious living is and design. It was brilliant and changed at the asking price in September. His Richards, who demonstrates by going
lots of storage for towels and the way I looked at things. One day we team of builders and traditional crafts- into the deep opening between bedroom
in Spitalfields to an Tupperware, says Dominic
Richards, standing in what
used green oak in Kent, another, tradi-
tional lime mortar somewhere else.”
people — almost all from Suffolk — were
practically standing on the doorstep and
and bathroom and springing open both
sides to reveal concealed wardrobes.
Islington townhouse, looks like a deep doorway,
but is actually a cleverly concealed FAST MOVER
went straight in. Amazingly, all the
substantial works were completed by
Throughout the house, such ideas blend
traditional and modern, with a look that
this man has to save dressing room in his newly refurbished When he finished the course, Richards November. manages to be light yet formal. The stair-
Georgian house near Regent’s Canal in bought a factory in Brighton that faced case is painted as if it had a carpet runner
it in style, says Islington. demolition and restored it to create live- SMART SPACES in soft blue, the drawing room has
Richards, 49, is director of sustainable work homes. The house was stripped right back and parquet flooring — but there’s also a Bang
Philippa Stockley development company Architekton, Next, he bought a striking Jewish soup given new wiring, new plumbing, a new & Olufsen speaker. The sofa and chair are
adviser to the Prince of Wales’s Founda- kitchen in Spitalfields where, in 1902, roof and panelling throughout. covered with beautiful, mid-yellow, end-
tion for Building Community — of which up to 8,000 people who had fled the On the top floor, where there were two of-line budget linen, but the sockets are
he is a former chief executive — and Russian pogroms were fed each day. tiny bedrooms and an even tinier bath- shiny polished steel.
creator of new venture Retreat East, Under its monumental, soaring room, Richards created one master bed- In the basement kitchen, Richards has
a glamorous private members club beamed roof, Richards inserted a mod- room and an en suite. With its Italian created a lovely urban-country look,
in Suffolk. ern apartment that has featured in marble tiled floor and walk-in Lefroy with top-to-toe panelling in tones of
This serial entrepreneur with an many books. But his eye is always on the Brooks shower, the bathroom is stunning duck egg blue, and a central island
admitted “addiction to building things” next project, so when he saw dilapidated but practical. “When you put in panel- topped with Carrara marble.
got the money to fund his first construc- Yaxley Hall in Suffolk in Architectural ling, you can tuck in cupboards,” says Again, it isn’t a stuffy look, and the Aga
tion project by making teddy bears. Digest, he bought it and restored it back City 60, which is a pretty butter colour,
He was born in England but the family to its former glory. And, while living in is efficient. A Smeg fridge flaunts a Union
moved to Australia before he was two. Suffolk, he met his partner, show-jumper Flag, and the window seat is dressed in
Richards came back to read theology at Martin Harrison. checked linen that Richards bought in
King’s College, Cambridge. After a decade at Yaxley, which he still Shanghai a decade ago.
Passionate about beautiful things, he owns, Richards missed London, so he “The house will tell you what it wants,”
bought a fabulous Regency chest of went house hunting. he explains. “Don’t try to do everything
drawers-cum-wardrobe with an entire “We’ve got a dog, Bertie the terrier, so at once.”
term’s fees and then had to get a job to we needed a garden. We didn’t want to
pay for it. It still takes pride of place in go back to Spitalfields, so we looked at WHAT IT COST
his bedroom today, second only to his Whitechapel, then Islington, and now Price of house last year: £1.15 million
crimson-hung four-poster bed. I’m having a love affair with Islington,” Money spent: £350,000
While at Cambridge, Richards set up he explains. Value now: £1.65 million
the English Teddy Bear Company. When Assistant Richard Orton, who helps to
he sold it 10 years later with a dozen organise design projects, points out that Dominic Richards is founder of
shops in England and Japan, it gave him Richards both makes decisions and Architekton (architekton.uk).
time to rethink. works — fast. Buying and transforming Retreat East is a new collection of six
“I gave myself a year, and went to the his Islington townhouse is a prime beautifully refurbished barns in Suffolk,
prince’s Institute of Architecture,” he example. Richards saw the 1830s prop- Treasured piece: the Regency chest of where you can buy a debenture — a
says. “It was all about architecture, art erty in March last year and exchanged drawers Richards bought with uni fees share of the freehold. Visit suffolk.farm
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Blending
traditional with
contemporary:
left, light parquet
flooring and
yellow linen on
sofa and chair
complement
classic décor
Photographs::
Charles Hosea
Full of character:
below, the kitchen
offers an urban-
country style with
an Aga and Union
Flag fridge
Fooled you:
above, the stairs
are painted with a
“runner” in a
shade of soft blue
Sweet dreams:
left, the pink
four-poster bed
is the star of
the show in the
master suite
Get the
look
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Get the look
REVEAL YOUR
TRUE COLOURS
Dominic Richards says patience and a
dash of creative flair can make a home sing
W
HEN it comes to your Marble tiles in bathroom by Natural
home, don’t let other Stone at naturalstonetileshop.co.uk
people tell you what’s Taps and shower from Lefroy Brooks
best for you. Trust at lefroybrooks.co.uk
your own judgment. All paint from Little Greene at
My townhouse used to have small littlegreene.com
bedrooms, but I transformed it into a Linen for curtains and bed hangings
gorgeous one-bedroom home because in bedroom from Volga Linen at
that’s what I wanted. Don’t worry volgalinen.co.uk
about what estate agents will say. Yellow linen in drawing room from
Don’t rush it, either. Do the basics, Romo designer fabrics at romo.com
yourself, such as the wiring and plumb- Lighting by The Limehouse Lamp
ing and basic painting. After that, think Company at limehouselighting.com
about what you really want and who Play speaker by Bang & Olufsen at
you want to bring in. bang-olufson.com/en
With craftspeople — upholsterers, Polished steel sockets by Jim
curtain makers, carpenters — I don’t Lawrence at jim-lawrence.co.uk
overspecify. They are really skilled and Aga City 60 electric cooker from
Warm welcome: creative at what they do. If you want to agaliving.com
the entrance guide them, find a picture. Union Flag fridge from Smeg at
hallway is kitted I also love colour. There isn’t enough smeguk.com
out in an elegant colour in interiors today. Everything is Timber mouldings copied
combination of bland — three shades of brown and from originals by WRP at
teal and cream taupe. Not for me. wrp-timber-mouldings.co.uk
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styling: Richards
enjoys tea in his
drawing room,
left; the
bathroom,
above, with
black-and-white
marble tiles; the
luxurious four-
poster in deep
pink, right
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Hot colours and fiery chilli plants
bring summer to a scorching end
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OTS of autumn chrysanthe- Cute and
mums and winter-flowering compact:
cyclamen are appearing on Japanese
garden centre shelves, but anemone Pretty
why rush into the next season Lady Susan is a
when this one still has so much to smaller version
offer? of the familiar
Get rid of the dead weight, the duds
and the shameful weeds that are clut- found, like pepper plants, at garden sedums, indispensable hardy succu- garden centre, ranging from frilly let-
tering up your garden — bindweed centres, florists and even market stalls. lents that flower from now until tuces, red-flushed Little Gems and
flowers might be pretty, but they With their smoky-green foliage and autumn. curly kales to rainbow chard, rocket,
belong on waste ground, not garden lavender flowers, followed by glossy Sedum Thundercloud belies its name. perpetual spinach and Chinese cab-
Gardening
problems?
ground — and make space for late sum- purple fruits, they look even more Hundreds of mint-green buds crowding bage. If you don’t have bed space,
mer stars that will carry your plot handsome in slate-grey pots than con- the grey-green stems open to starry, choose a dozen or so plants from an Email our RHS
through to autumn in grand style. ventional terracotta. pink-flushed white flowers that keep on edible that is decorative both in the pot expert at: expert
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hanging baskets, then give them fresh, checking out plants within the house- and half as wide again, it makes the pret- leaved Mustard Red Frills, and settle
vibrant life by planting with a compact, plant or conservatory section of the tiest front-of-border or centre-stage them into a zinc trough filled with
multi-headed chilli pepper such as Fiery partners: garden centre, or the florist’s, with an container plant. Just cut back the old compost, or a wine crate lined with a
Prairie Fire, which has pretty, pointed chilli pepper eye to seeing them on your patio growth in spring to keep it compact. plastic bin liner, holes punctuated for
foliage and masses of small, upright Prairie Fire, instead of in the living room. Sedum Jose Aubergine, with glaucous drainage. Placed in light shade, they
scarlet fruits that follow on from the below, and Sansevieria, or mother-in-law’s foliage as dark as its name suggests, and will be ready to harvest in a matter of Instant glamour:
small white flowers. succulent tongue, suddenly looks fresh and con- with deepest pink flowers, makes a weeks — if you can bear to spoil the buy a ready-
Pick one at your peril: they’re tongue- Kalanchoe temporary in an outside space, espe- dynamic contrast. display. grown fruiting
tinglingly hot. Masquerade is similar, thyrsiflora, cially when the long, sculptural, Japanese anemones, with their finely aubergine plant
but has novel violet fruits. Aubergine below right, are green-and-yellow-striped leaves cut leaves and cupped daisy flowers on O For outdoor events this month, visit from garden
plants are in fine form now, and can be great on patios emerge from a crisp, square fibreglass tall stems, are an elegant choice for a homesandproperty.co.uk/events centre or florist
container. Kalanchoe thyrisflora, a late summer border, but often need
large and luscious succulent with a staking and can be invasive. For small
rosette of outsize flat, rounded leaves, gardens and even for containers, the
positively benefits from a place in the dwarf Pretty Lady quartet, just reach-
sun, where those paddle-like leaves ing 60cm or so, are shorter, better-
take on striking tones of tomato red. In behaved and need no support to shine.
winter, just bring it indoors where it They’re also rather beautiful, espe-
will keep quietly ticking over. cially deep pink Pretty Lady Susan.
Create a buffet for butterflies — and This is also the moment to find the
boost your borders or containers — with next flourish of baby veg plants at the
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