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Wednesday 27 July 2016
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Lifechanger of the week
days of wine and roses in a
ALAMY
“Iceberg house” battle scene: Kensington Palace Gardens
converted barn in Sussex
It’s le silly Trophy home of the week racy
season mansion where Jaguars were born
£7.5 million: Wappenbury Hall is a
nine-bedroom Warwickshire pile
with a racy history. Sir William Lyons,
reception rooms, a games room,
cellars, a coach house, a three-
bedroom cottage and farm buildings
T
HE French appear founder of Jaguar, and his wife once with planning permission. Beautiful
to have scored an owned the hall and approved every gardens, tennis courts and a glorious
own goal in their new Jag prototype on their drive, just swimming pool can be found outside,
bid to stop the bil- half an hour from the factory where along with arable farmland, all
lionaire founder the cars were made. The imposing amounting to 330 acres. Through
of Foxtons estate agents dig- Victorian home has six elegant Knight Frank (020 8012 3423).
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ging a cavernous basement
below his house next to their “Surprised”: Jon Hunt can
ambassador’s Kensington
residence.
go ahead with his basement £1.75 million: a grape opportunity
awaits you in Warnham, West
London buy of the week cruise
Having failed to block Jon
Hunt’s plan for a four-storey,
excavate by Kensington and
Chelsea council, despite
Sussex, where this 16th-century
converted barn comes with a
around your elegant marina home
16,800sq ft space beneath objections from neighbours productive two-acre vineyard, a £263,000: if location
his Grade II-listed home in including the French and paddock and a lake. is everything but
Kensington Palace Gardens, Japanese embassies and the The vineyard can produce up to you’ve been priced out
the French embassy has now Indian High Commission. four tons of grapes a year, resulting of Shoreditch and
successfully used the 1961 Work began but wasn’t in several thousand bottles, while a Whitechapel, the
Vienna Convention to block completed. At the start of detached garage/workshop and solution could be found
a substantially scaled-down this year Mr Hunt applied to games room could easily convert in St Katharine Docks,
version — leaving the original amend his planning permis- to a vineyard shop and café to E1 and the Mary Sophia
permission for the “iceberg” sion, slicing 5,000sq ft off boost income further. — a two-bedroom
basement still in place. the size of the basement and The Old Barn itself is a treat with houseboat on a sought-
Mr Hunt, who remains reducing it to two storeys. beams galore in the drawing, after mooring within
free to build his earlier The French objected again sitting and dining rooms, as well as an über-smart marina. wood interiors and a outside dining space,
scheme, says he is “sur- and the council agreed with a lovely Aga in the kitchen/ There’s not a hint of luxury fit throughout while the powerful
prised” by the turn of them in light of policy breakfast room. Five bedrooms — cabin fever inside the the open-plan galley/ engine means cruising
events. The planning battle changes since the original including two en suite — enjoy Dutch barge, designed living/kitchen area and up the Thames is a
has been raging since 2008 permission was granted — views over more than 12 acres. to be light and airy in both double bedrooms. breeze. Through
when he and his wife Lois but the new policy cannot be It’s on the market with Savills By Faye summer and warm in A spacious upper Winkworth (020 8012
were given permission to applied retrospectively. (01483 660057). Greenslade winter, with bespoke deck provides lovely 0962).
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Presley’s selling up in Sussex
É LISA MARIE PRESLEY Elvis’s daughter, left, has
is selling her 15th-century had installed include a
manor house with three cinema, and it’s handy for
swimming pools south of upmarket shopping in
Rotherfield village in East Tunbridge Wells. A
Sussex. stunning circular garden
Located within the High room has dreamy views
Weald Area of Outstanding over the garden and lake,
Natural Beauty, the Grade while there are stables and
II-listed property, right, a cottage in the grounds.
named Coes Hall, also It’s on the market with
includes 11 bedrooms. Sotheby’s International
Modern luxuries which Realty for £4.5 million.
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Demi’s penthouse
Homes is a £45m bargain
É DEMI MOORE has taken a
gossip staggering £12.2 million off the asking
price for her New York City
penthouse atop the glamorous San
Remo building, below.
The 7,000sq ft triplex was originally
listed last year for £57.2 million.
However, in a bid to sell quickly, the
By Amira Hashish Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews actress, above, has slashed the price
of the six-bedroom home she bought
25 years ago with then-husband
The last remaining Harley Street home Firth film flat is Bruce Willis from Saturday Night
Fever producer, Robert Stigwood.
É ONCE the Thirties home of the
eminent Italian doctor Sir Aldo
in W4, actually The flat has its own lift entrance
and the spacious roof terrace has one
Castellani, who skipped England in a of the best views in the city.
rush after it was revealed the dictator É A GRADE II-LISTED apartment Hollywood’s A-list favours the
Benito Mussolini was his patient, the which had a starring role in the hit block, where neighbours include
last privately owned and occupied 2003 movie Love Actually has just Diane Keaton, Dustin Hoffman and
house in Harley Street is for sale. come on to the market. Steven Spielberg.
The grand central London property, The two-bedroom garden flat was
right, has been in aristocratic hands for the home of writer Jamie Bennett,
more than 100 years. Florence-born portrayed in the film by Colin Firth,
Sir Aldo, a tropical medicine pioneer right. Jamie lived there with his
and a marchese, practised there up girlfriend — until he found out she was
until the outbreak of the Second World having an affair with his brother.
War, when he backed Italy against the The property is in Chiswick and was
Allies and was its army medical chief. originally built for the English
In more recent years the property watercolour painter and lithographer
housed the Dowager Lady Killearn, Joseph Nash, who was apprenticed to
said to be the last of the truly old- the architectural draughtsman and
school London socialites, who would artist Augustus Charles Pugin in 1827.
regularly throw lavish parties and Malibu, where the guests included The layout is still centred around the
occupied the residence until her Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and Tom original artist’s studio which is used as
death at the age of 105. Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson. a big open-plan dining room with a
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A regular visitor today is model The family is ready to say goodbye wonderful large window and high
Liberty Ross, daughter of current to the five-storey property which ceilings.
owner Roxana “Bunty” Lampson. comes with three residential flats and It’s listed with John D Wood for
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Ross married record producer Jimmy medical accommodation. It is listed £1.5 million.
Iovine on Valentine’s Day this year in with Savills for £10 million.
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Homes & Property | New homes
EXCLUSIVE STUNNING NEW STATIONS
Crossrail
pulls out all
the stops
The Elizabeth line, as it will be known in 2018,
combines superb new architecture with great
property opportunities, says David Spittles
T
HE just-released first images Brutalist architecture of the Barbican
of London’s upcoming new yet will have lighter design elements
Crossrail stations prove that reflecting the intricate craftsmanship
the eagerly awaited east- of the nearby Hatton Garden jewellery
west train line will deliver quarter.
more than reduced journey times for
the city’s commuters. ART ON THE LINE
All these new stations on the Elizabeth In the tradition of the marvellous
line, as it will be called when it opens in Moscow metro, Crossrail is melding art
two years’ time, have been designed by and infrastructure by creating fabulous
renowned architects to reflect the herit- murals, sculpture and installations,
age and character of their local areas, while a “Culture Line” initiative will
and several qualify as architectural link stations with neighbourhood art
showstoppers in their own right. galleries, exhibition spaces and
Indeed, for the first time with a major theatres.
UK rail project, there is joined-up build- One of the permanent artworks — A
ing design, with new stations and the Cloud Index by Spencer Finch — is
buildings above and alongside them embedded within a spectacular 120-
designed to ensure stations knit into metre-long glass canopy above the
their surroundings and improve the concourse at the new Paddington
urban realm. station, which “echoes the design
There will be lively commercial zones, legacy of Brunel’s existing terminus
a lot of glamorous new homes and some building”.
stations will be at the heart of large new Forty new public areas outside
neighbourhoods, particularly in Wool- stations are creating space equivalent
wich and Southall. More than 3,500 new in size to 19 Leicester Squares.
homes at Southall will border the Grand
Union Canal, with the first unveiled in WOOLWICH’S NEW ARSENAL £460,000. Call 020 8331 7130. More start at less than £150,000, according Show stopper: beneath Canary Wharf
the autumn (see opposite). Once a walled-off munitions factory than 2,000 people have already moved to local estate agent Peter James. Call station’s timber lattice roof is a 310m-
where a 5,000-home neighbourhood to this mini-district which also has 020 8858 2555. And away from the long park, below which are six levels
A PARK AFTER YOU RIDE is evolving, the new station entrance various shops and eateries — galleries, town centre and industrial estates, of shops, restaurants and cafés
The spectacular new Canary Wharf opens on to Dial Arch Square, a new museums and a children’s nursery too Woolwich has a Common plus leafy
station has been built within a dock green space flanked by prized listed — in historic buildings such as The tree-lined avenues and conservation impact” than anywhere else along the
that will remain a navigable channel buildings and classy new apartment Guard House. areas. route, according to the Crossrail
for boats. A striking timber lattice roof blocks. The station cements a long-held company. This is because journey
structure shelters a 310-metre-long Homes in these waterfront towers ambition of local planners to unite the ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT’ times to central London will be halved,
park, below which are six levels of cost from £440,000, rising to more riverside estate with Woolwich town Woolwich is only one of two Crossrail with a train every five minutes at peak
shops, restaurants and cafés. than £1,395,000 for duplexes and pent- centre, achieved through a new stations south of the river. The other is times.
houses, while a phase called Pavilion pedestrian boulevard. And there is a at nearby Abbey Wood, which in It is the biggest addition to the local
BRUTALIST ‘LITE’ Square includes two Georgian ware- Thames Clipper riverbus pier. transport terms at least is likely to train network since the North Kent line
Farringdon station is inspired by the houses converted into flats priced from Ex-local authority flats in the area experience a more “transformational was built in 1849. “It may be a bleak
Joined-up design:
how the new
stations will look
at Tottenham
Court Road, left,
Woolwich
Arsenal, right
and Custom
House, far right
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Fast rail and water
— a winning offer
WEST DRAYTON, HAYES &
HARLINGTON AND SOUTHALL
MORE than a century before Crossrail
got under way, another vital piece of
transport infrastructure was boosting
a swathe of London to the west of
Paddington.
The Grand Union Canal was cut
through much the same territory as
the current Crossrail route and these
two “arteries” are now feeding off
each other, with canalside
regeneration linking into new
Crossrail stations and bringing new
homes and neighbourhoods to places
such as West Drayton and Hayes &
Harlington.
A disused gas works occupying 88 3,750 homes: Southall Waterside is west London’s biggest regeneration project
acres of land alongside Grand Union
Canal is being transformed into Launching this autumn, the first want quick West End connections. It
3,750-home Southall Waterside, phase of apartments includes private aims to be an animated, 24/7 district,
west London’s biggest regeneration courtyard gardens, a gym, residents’ not a soulless commuter dormitory.
project. lounge and concierge. To register, Ealing council also wants to widen
“London has a great history of visitsouthallwaterside.com. Southall’s appeal by increasing the
building on this scale, like Bedford Post-war this part of west London area’s draw beyond its “Little India”
Park and Hampstead Garden Suburb became a neglected land, plagued by reputation, introducing different
more than a century ago,” says Sean plane noise and not a first choice place shops into the mix to attract people
Ellis of developer Berkeley Homes. to live. Crossrail will give it a boost. from outside the area. The local
The Southall site, a depressing Trains to Bond Street will take 17 housing stock is among the cheapest
piece of urban neglect, has more minutes, alluring for lower-budget in London with a four-bedroom house
than 1km of canal frontage and is first-time buyers and renters who available for about £250,000.
being opened up to the public for the
first time in generations. A linear Fast to the West
central park lined by apartment End: the new
blocks is planned, It will be longer Southall station
than Regent Street, a 30-minute for Crossrail,
stroll from one end to the other. from which
As well as new homes and a trains to Bond
Crossrail station, there will be a Street will take
primary school, neighbourhood 17 minutes
shops, a cinema and a small business
village. Four new pedestrian bridges
across the canal will link the
development with 95-acre Minet
Country Park and nature reserves.
Even a new road junction is being
built to serve this new community.
outpost now, but Crossrail will propel housing here dates back to the Fifties way for new homes for a new raised shared courtyards, creating waterfront will connect to the new
Abbey Wood into a completely new and Sixties when the London County generation. smaller communities within the larger Crossrail station.
demand bracket because it will be one Council built new estates on Peabody, the housing charity, is whole. And where there were once The area has been given “housing
of the best connected and most marshland. building a new neighbourhood that towers there will now be a sequence of zone” status by the Mayor of London,
affordable Zone 4 locations,” says Much of the uncompromising “reinterprets” the traditional 19th- streets and lakeside squares, one with meaning development will be fast-
Candice Matthews, director of property concrete architecture fell into disrepute century Peabody estates. Clusters of a focal point water clock tower and an tracked. New river crossings are also
consultant Cushman & Wakefield. Most and is now being bulldozed to make brick blocks will be grouped around arcade of shops. Three miles of planned in this part of London.
• Close to Jubilee & DLR lines
• O2 and Canary Wharf just 6 minutes away**
Imagine a large open plan duplex over 2 • Large open plan duplex 1183 sq ft
storeys with 3 bedrooms and generous • Feature ceiling height to ground floor
• Good storage
celing height to your living space. A Lumire
• Outside terrace
duplex is on average 14%* larger by volume • Parking at extra cost
compared to the London Design Guide • Help to buy available on this 3 bedroom duplex.
standard similar apartment. • Move in by November 2016***
• 3 bedroom duplex to buy from £599,950****
Register your interest at Lumire-London.co.uk/duplex–living or call 020 7758 8481 to book an appointment at the Marketing Suite
Developers: Marketing Agent:
* Calculation based on London Design Guide standard 2 storey, 3 bedroom for 5 people which is 96 square meters. Lumire property has 109.9 square meters - a 13.9% increase.
**Travel time taken from tfl.gov.uk ***Anticipated completion November/December 2016 ****Prices correct at time of going to print
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Homes & Property | Commuting
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Dine by the river: The Compleat Angler hotel next to Marlow’s Thames bridge ALAMY Ideal for “Lexiters”: new waterside homes in Marlow
T
HERE’S something about
living by a river, whether it
conjures thoughts of sum-
mer evenings in a pub gar-
den watching boats cruise
by, or rowing club membership spur-
ring you to get in shape, or even buying
a boat of your own and simply messing
about on the water.
These feel-good associations mean
riverside homes are soon snapped up
despite often being at the most expen-
sive end of a London commute.
In the latest instalment of our guide
to the 50 best options for life after Lon-
don, we explore the finest riverside
towns within an hour of the capital,
from millionaire enclaves to surprising
first-time buyer territory.
MARLOW, Messing about
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE in boats: a
What it costs: an average property cur- crew takes to
rently costs £532,614, up 15.4 per cent in the Thames
the past two years. Houses sell for an
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Water playground: Henley on Thames is world famous for its rowing festival Grand setting: historic Cliveden House near Taplow
£683,587. Source: Savills/Land Regis-
try.
The commute: from 50 minutes to
Paddington, and an annual season SECOND
PHASE OF
ticket costs from £4,396.
APARTMENTS,
Top schools: Henley is really not a sink
LAUNCHING
school type of town. Nettlebed Com- SOON
munity School (primary) is “outstand-
ing”, while Frieth Church of England
Combined School, and Gillotts School
(seniors) are both rated “good” by
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Who it would suit: rowing fans will
love getting blazered-up for the annual
regatta. There are, of course, numer-
ous rowing clubs, most notably the
very posh Leander Club (members
include Sir Steve Redgrave and Mat-
thew Pinsent).
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leries, a cinema, and an annual literary,
CENTRAL
music and arts festival.
Buying agent Nick Mead, a partner at
The Buying Solution, has lived in
Henley since 2005. “It is increasingly
popular with people who are priced
out of London and want to live in a
buzzy place with loads of restaurants
and cafes and all that.”
And the downsides? Overcrowded
with tourists in summer, it is also very
expensive. The Victorian and Edward-
ian villas on the riverbank rarely come
up for sale, and when they do prices
hover around £8 million.
TAPLOW
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
while there are some great schools, £795,000: a What it costs: average property prices
Davidson warns that high demand three-bedroom have risen 13.5 per cent in thepast two
means catchment areas can be tiny and island cottage years, to an average of £407,088. An
premium prices are charged for homes with boathouse average house costs £503,961, and an
close to the best options. And since at Rod Eyot, average flat £245,632. Source: Savills/ *-,4 ))4- 1 0- 0)-$
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OXFORDSHIRE bedroom cottage Seniors have several high-performing
What it costs: house prices have risen at Hurstfield options in Maidenhead. SPACIOUS 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT
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As an added incentive Taplow is three
miles from Maidenhead which, when
the Crossrail Elizabeth line opens, will
mean direct trains to West End and A development by
City.
And the downsides? Not a village with
a centre as such. Houses a bit iffy —
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Homes & Property | Transport
This is
the age
HELP TO BUY
EVENT
of the
S AT U R DAY 3 0 T H J U LY
tram
As the London Tramlink
joins the TfL map,
HELP TO BUY, Ruth Bloomfield
finds homes profiting
HOW IT WORKS
from this clean,
green transport
T
HERE can be few more Top of the line: Croydon’s Saffron
unpleasant London Tower, above, with two-bedroom
experiences than travelling flats from £260,000. Below, this
on a hot and crowded rush- five-bedroom house in Nursery
hour train in the height of Road, Wimbledon, is £725,000
summer. But if you live in south through Hawes &Co (020 8012 2337))
London, there is another option.
Clean, green, and sometimes air-
conditioned, the London Tramlink
turns 16 this year, and Transport for
London has just decided to include it
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on London transport maps.
Since 2000, millions of people
living from Wimbledon to Croydon to
Beckenham and New Addington have Warren Pinto, senior sales valuer at
been able to use the tram, while Proctors estate agents, says buyers
along the line there have been some priced out of areas such as Crystal
healthy property price rises and high Palace, Penge and Sydenham have
levels of new-homes building. boosted prices around Birkbeck.
“Property hunters are starting to 40 per cent to an average £684,338. “There are some beautiful houses in
pay closer attention to homes on Houses in this area cost an average the area. I’d say that 90 per cent of
tram lines,” said Johnny Morris, £694,338, while flats cost an average the market is made up of period
research director at Hamptons £376,446. properties. And we get a lot of first-
International. “The tram is well used This is another location with great time buyers, buying together, and
by commuters living on the outskirts green space, with Deen City Farm and typically they want a two-bedroom
of Croydon, Wimbledon and the National Trust’s Morden Hall Park garden flat at about £430,000.”
Beckenham to reach links into nearby. Merton Park Primary and Belgrave Walk, just west of
central London. These connections Ursuline High School (girls) are both Mitcham Junction, scored a 33 per
have encouraged developers to move rated “outstanding” by Ofsted, while cent price uplift, to an average
into areas outside town centres. The Pelham Primary School and Rutlish £263,500, making it one of the most
number of homes built in Merton School (boys) are both “good”. affordable Tramlink options. Flats
Park and Wandle Park, two Other Tramlink areas well worth around Belgrave Walk cost an
neighbourhoods served only by the exploring include Birkbeck, another average £208,833, and houses sell for
tram, have increased rapidly.” area with an overground stop and on an average £318,167.
Exclusive research by Hamptons the northern fringes of South Blackhorse Lane, near Croydon,
International analysing performance Norwood Country Park. has enjoyed price growth of 31 per
along the entire length of Tramlink Prices here have risen 36 per cent cent, to an average £337,862. Houses
found average prices have risen 19 per in two years to an average £430,030. in this area cost £373,300, while flats
cent in the last two years, to an Flats here typically cost £304,187, typically cost £258,125.
average of £384,041. But half a dozen and houses come in at £304,187. West Croydon, focus of huge
locations have seen price growth of 30 This area has green space and well- amounts of regeneration investment
per cent or more in the same period. performing schools — Stewart Fleming and location of London’s third
The out-and-out Tramlink winner is Primary School gets a “good” Ofsted Westfield mall, has prices up 30 per
Mitcham Junction (which also has report —and while local shops and cent to an average £294,394. Flats
an overground station). It has seen pubs are basic, Crystal Palace’s cafés cost an average of £258,380, while
prices rise a resounding 43 per cent, and shops are only a mile or so away. houses typically sell at £406,938.
to an average price of £420,000.
Flats are priced at £296,535, and
houses at £440,000. TOP 10 TRAMLINK HOTSPOTS
The area passes the green space Annual Average Flats Houses Two-year price
Beyond your expectations test, with both Mitcham Common passengers price growth
and Poulter Park close by, while the
1 Mitcham Junction 645,837 £420,000 £ 296,535 £440,000 43%
local Cranmer Primary School is
2 Morden Road 477,111 £684,338 £376,446 £694,333 40%
good with some outstanding features
3 Birkbeck 184,126 £430,030 £304,187 £510,570 36%
according to Ofsted. The housing
4 Woodside 319,623 £345,078 £281,494 £373,690 34%
stock can be uninspiring — plenty of
5 Belgrave Walk 350,272 £ 263,500 £208,833 £318,167 33%
Thirties to Sixties terraces with three
6 Blackhorse Lane 342,972 £337,862 £258,125 £373,300 31%
bedrooms, priced at about £350,000
7 West Croydon 1,352,291 £294,394 £258,380 £406,938 30%
and ripe for improvement.
8 Harrington Road 207,139 £350,932 £264,624 £380,952 29%
Morden Road, two-and-a-half
9 Lebanon Road 503,278 £340,586 £292,136 £420,530 29%
miles from Mitcham Junction, has
10 Sandilands 1,058,037 £317,247 £270,340 £467,350 27%
done almost as well, with prices up
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FRANCE: CHAMONIX
Chamonix is the year-round resort
where Roddy Aris of Knight Frank
(knightfrank.com) tips for lifestyle and
investment. “It has the best of every-
thing,” he says. “Through the tunnel
into Italy there is the Aosta Valley,
Liguria and the Italian lakes, right in
front of you is Mount Blanc and the
best of the western Alps and the Swiss
resort of Verbier is one hour away.
Building is restricted but it is a buzzing
year-round resort and one where I
think prices have yet to peak.”
Buyers are less interested in large
multi-million Euro chalets, preferring
the practicality of a lock and leave
property or one with full on-site man-
agement Aris adds. La Cordée in a
Bargain
sunny spot by the lake in La Plaine des
Praz is a collection of 80 one to three-
bedroom apartments priced from
escapes to
£250,000. The homes are due for com-
pletion in 2017 and come with a pool,
gym and underground parking.
Le Cristal de Jade is a five-star resi-
keep you fit
dence due for completion this winter
with 56 one- to four-bedroom apart-
Rock-bottom euro mortgages
ment in four-storey chalets. Fully fur-
nished prices start from £458,500 for
are a good reason to buy in an
one-bedroom and from £469,000 for
three-bedrooms exclusive of 20 per
Alpine valley. By Cathy Hawker
cent VAT through the leaseback
scheme. Homes will be fully managed to the golf course, st ar t from
205 Holland Park Avenue by MGM (mgmfrenchproperties. £508,600.
com). “Rock-bottom euro mortgage rates
Also in Chamonix with MGM but are one of the key factors in recent
with no rental obligation, two- to four- strong interest in Alpine property with
bedroom apartments at Chalet Han- 15-year fixed rates as low as 1.40 per
nah, in the hamlet of Les Tines close cent,” says Francois Marchand of Erna
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Homes & Property | New homes
At home
on a bike
As this weekend’s Ride London
proves, two wheels is the way to
go. Now developers are wooing
cyclists, says Ginetta Vedrickas
M
O R E t h a n 1 0 0,0 0 0 Think bike: far
cyclists are expected to left, Pocket
hit the streets this week- Living’s scheme
end as the capital hosts at Weedington
Ride London, the Road, NW5 offers
world’s biggest cycling event. Cycling cycle storage
is now Londoners’ second most popu- inside flats and
lar form of transport after the Tube and extra-large lifts
developers are building for the cycle — for those who
fraternity. Make your commute easier can’t bear to be
and buy a home near a cycle lane, get- parted from their
ting an apartment with bike storage bike once they’ve
cabins — some even provide storage in ridden home
your flat — and near repair facilities. from work, right
Known as “the gateway to tech city”
Old Street roundabout challenges the
most fearless rider but a planned
£25 million overhaul will bring segre-
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gated cycle lanes to one of London’s
)*-4-+6 busiest junctions. The nearby Atlas
Building, just off City Road, will also be cycle tours so that they get to know have easy access to the Barking to Tower
finished by 2018 and its 302 apartments their neighbourhood and which dan- Gateway Cycle Superhighway and can
'
have access to 350 free cycle spaces. gerous junctions to avoid. be in the City within a seven-minute
Sales director Andrew Hawkins, says Just off Homerton High Street in Hack- spin. Just one three-bedroom penthouse
!
planning requirements now demand ney, E9, Rosina Street is near a major remains for sale at £740,000, annual
bike storage takes precedence over cars cycle network enabling residents to service charges are £2.50 per sq ft with
— the scheme has just 28 car parking ride to Canary Wharf in 23 minutes, completion this autumn. Call Telford
spaces, which will be pricey and the Olympic Park in 13 minutes and Homes on 020 3538 4859.
restricted to higher value apartments. Dalston in eight minutes. Ready by Thousands of commuting cyclists use
He says: “There’s a big push to make December, 29 one-bedroom apart- the Stratford to Aldgate Cycle Super-
European cities more bike friendly.” ments have access to secure bike stor- highway which runs for about 4.3 miles.
Bike storage is in the basement with age but the five-storey scheme also has At one end of the route, just one two-
lift access to apartments. Studios start an oversize lift for anyone who can’t bedroom apartment is left for sale at
from £628,000 with annual service bear to be parted from their bike. Stratosphere, priced at £780,000, with
charges from £6.07 per sq ft. Call Rocket Annual service charges start from annual service charges of £3.73 per sq ft.
Investments on 020 7205 4570. £1,170 with prices from £282,000. Call Completion is spring 2017. Call Telford
Pocket Living: 020 3040 6250. Homes on 020 3538 9273. At the Aldgate
SUPERHIGHWAYS MEET In Shadwell residents at The Junction end of Barclays Superhighway 2,
Grab a chocolate smoothie while get-
ting your puncture fixed at Look Mum,
No Hands! The popular bike repair café
shares its location with new scheme
250 City Road which has free, secure
storage for 1,486 bikes in its basement.
Its position “where the information
superhighway meets London’s cycle
superhighway” makes it “the ultimate
location for bike enthusiasts”, says
Berkeley Homes, adding that hundreds
of TfL cycle hire bikes are also within
easy reach. One-beds start from
£850,000 with completion set for the
end of 2018 and service charges of £5.21
per sq ft. Call 020 3040 6250.
Holland’s cities rank among the best
for cyclists and Dutch-born CEO Marc
Vlessing wants Pocket Living to be Lon-
don’s most cycle-friendly developer.
“Cycling is in my DNA,” Vlessing
explains. “We are passionate about bikes
and all Pocket sites are built with com-
)55 . / '! // ,- munal cycle storage and a bike-sized From £620,000 :
5)+-, * 1 ' - &"( cupboard in each apartment.” Camden
Vlessing cycles to all meetings and Courtyards is
33 2 6 ) 0 - Pocket’s workforce shares a Tokyo bike car-free with 296
),$ "%' ), ' #-2)6 in the office. Residents are given guided free cycle spaces
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Aldgate Place contains 313 one-, two- two- and three-bedroom apartments and Skyline view: the
and three-bedroom apartments and duplexes. The car-free scheme has 296 302 apartments
three- and four-bedroom duplexes set free cycle spaces. Ready next summer, in the Atlas
across four towers with 800 free secure apartments start from £620,000 with Building, just off
cycle spaces for residents. Ready by annual service charges from £3,085. Call City Road, will ‘Canal location was the pull’
June 2018, prices start from £797,000 Barratt London on 0844 225 0032. have access to
for a one-bedroom apartment with In N1, next to Wenlock Basin where 350 free cycle JAYNE MCNALLY and under 15 minutes along
annual service charges of £2,830. Call you can ride into central London along spaces in the Emmanuel Néret, both 26, the towpath.
0844 225 0032. the towpath, City Wharf has storage for basement — and work in the ad tech “As a cyclist the location
Canal towpaths offer relaxed routes for more than 300 bikes in its secure base- only 28 car industry in Soho. They was the main pull, being
the nervous cyclist. Three minutes’ walk ment. Two-bedroom homes at the latest parking spaces bought a one-bedroom, near to Angel, Old Street
from the canal at Regent’s Park, NW1, phase, The Merchant Building, start apartment at Fabrica’s and within cycling
which runs from Paddington to Lime- from £760,000 with annual service City Wharf development distance from our
house, new scheme Camden Court- charges of £3.05 per square foot. Call and can cycle to work in offices,” says McNally.
yards in Camden Road contains one-, Fabrica on 020 3642 8973.
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Picture this: furniture designer Henry Hardy made this dining table. Deborah
Baker filled it with images and art from friends and her travels around the world
She put her
heart and
sole into
her home
Shoe company director-designer Deborah
Baker grew up in Shoreditch — and
transforming a Victorian button factory there
was sheer joy, she tells Amira Hashish
D
EBORAH BAKER lives for studio and strip club before becoming
shoes. Much of her child- Baker’s “happy retreat”.
hood in Bermondsey was In her unassuming style, Baker tells
spent playing in her grand- me: “I started looking for a business and
mother’s miniature shoe flat in London in 2012. This place
cupboard before her passion turned into attracted me because it is a beautiful old
a career path. She trained at the famous corner building that hasn’t ever really
Cordwainers (now part of London College been altered or had extra floors added,
of Fashion) where her contemporaries so it is the shortest building on the
included Emma Hope and Patrick Cox. road.” and semi-open plan bathroom. Old brick table made by furniture designer Henry are stark. So much for those “modern
This year she celebrates the 15th anni- walls and plank floorboards are stained Hardy. Rather niftily, she has filled the day” hipsters.
versary of her brand Fiorentini+Baker. She splashed out £980,000 and made her with a star and diamond print that has glass top with artwork from friends and Baker describes her style as eclectic
With stores in London, Bologna, New mark. The ground floor is the main show- faded over time. her travels around the world. and unplanned. “All sorts of stuff appeals
York and Los Angeles, Baker is always case for her leather wedges, boots and “I love the original features so I tried YouTube is fired up: “In the Sixties, this to me and I pile it all in and hope for the
jetsetting. A great deal of her time is heels. Painted with a two-coloured not to change too much,” she says. “I put property was home to The Antiuniver- best.” This applies to her fashion as well
spent in Italy where she oversees rhombic pattern, it is a mishmash of a kitchen on the first floor as it was sity of London. Rumour has it that Yoko as interiors. “I think lots of people with
production at the region’s artisan vintage lamps, retro furniture and dis- originally in the basement. Most of the Ono would come and listen to lectures the time, money and inclination dress
factories. play stands. The first floor is an open- work we did was in the shop space. I here. This video from 1968 shows footage their houses almost as much as them-
In London the lines between work and plan kitchen and living room which probably spent about £25,000 in filmed in this very room.” selves, even changing themes and trends
home are blurred. Her apartment sits doubles as a gallery (check out the Jan- total.” As we watch bearded men in over- every season,” she muses.
above her Shoreditch shop on the corner ette Beckman photography exhibition After a quick browse at her latest col- sized, scruffy jumpers indulge in intel-
of Rivington Street. Once a Victorian on punks, running until July 31) while lection we settle in the dining area. She lectual chat about the parallels between Her colour scheme regularly alters but
button factory, it served as a recording the top floor is an attic-style bedroom places her laptop on a mid-century style the Shoreditch of the Sixties and 2016 the base palette tends to consist of auber-
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Top floor: the attic-style bedroom features bedside tables from Kokon to Zai
Eclectic charm in the living space: for Deborah Baker, left, “all sorts of stuff appeals to me. I pile it all in and hope for the best”
Lofty style: the semi-open plan bathroom is also on the uppermost storey
Art of cooking: gine, slate blue, grey, white and black. responsible for a striking star-shaped light In the store: great toilet tiled with Scrabble pieces in the ceiling so I’m just waiting for the
the open-plan She sources pieces from eBay and mar- from a fairground. “I love my De Sede above right, a a restaurant somewhere or the deca- renovation day when I will change those
kitchen and kets such as Portobello, or Spitalfields sofa as it is so very comfy. It is sectional friend gave Baker dently overcrowded upstairs at the Bridge as I do like pendant lamps a lot and I have
living room on a Thursday. Her go-to furniture shop and each bit folds out into a bed. I like its the striking star- Bar on Kingsland Road. The V&A and the a collection of them to be used. Plus, I
doubles as a for kitchen items and rugs is SCP, rather versatility for when friends want to stay shaped light from Barbican are contrasting favourites of have some nice Fifties brass wall and
gallery conveniently on Curtain Road around over,” she says. Then there is Lola: “A a fairground mine.” table lamps.”
the corner from the flat. Bedside tables completely useless and slightly cumber- Beyond Britain, there is a shop in
F
were found in Kokon To Zai on Golborne some life-size fibreglass mannequin. She OREVER thinking of new ways Downtown Los Angeles on the cards, a
Road, Notting Hill, while a striking Biba was apparently a prop in the stage pro- to evolve her space, Baker is premises in the city centre of Bologna
picture came from a vintage shop in duction of Hair and is a bit bizarre.” working with an architect and the conversion of the barn next to
Kempton Park. friend to increase the shop size her Italian farmhouse in the country. In
Her photo of Iggy Pop, a present from Inspiration comes from all over: “The by opening up the basement, her words, she likes a project.
Photographs:: photographer friend Danny Clinch, is a wallpaper at Madame Jojo’s or the tiny redoing the stairs and possibly building
Adrian Lourie prized possession and another pal is courtyard and bar at Trisha’s in Soho, a up half a storey. “I still have spotlights in O fiorentini-baker.com
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Homes & Property | Outdoors
Exclusive preview
Kew sets
a record
The Royal Botanic Gardens
today launch the world’s longest
herbaceous borders. Wow.
T
HE spectacular new Great Full-on Dynamic duo: Kniphofia Tawny King
Broad Walk Borders at Kew flowering: the highlights Agapanthus Midnight Star
Gardens, which open today, borders are
are set to put all other bor- designed to If they start to fade, you just cut them
ders, private or public, produce a back, and off they go again. Alstroeme-
completely in the shade. It’s not just succession of ria Indian Summer, with yellow-
their length — they stretch a 20-minute colourful blooms streaked orange flowers, keeps going,
stroll from the Palm House to the from May right too, and is very resilient. We had it in
Orangery and at 350 yards are the long- through to another scheme, lifted it, planted it in
est pair of herbaceous borders in the October a nursery bed and replanted it here,
world — but the dazzling spectacle they and it’s blooming merrily.”
produce, with 30,000 garden plants His favourite flower from what’s in
in huge swathes and drifts of colour, bloom right now? “Kniphofia Tawny
selected to hit their flowering peak King. I love the colour, a subtle yellow/
between May and October. orange. It’s been flowering for quite a
This is the place to come for inspira- while, and when it goes over, it will be
tion, not just at the start of summer, followed by brighter orange triangula-
but right through the season and espe- ris, which will still be looking great in
cially when your own borders are flag- Photographs: : October. I’ve teamed it with Agapan-
ging during the dog days of August. At Ralph thus Midnight Star, a deep blue, and
that time, for instance, you will inevi- Hodgson added a bit of Russian sage, Perovskia,
because it makes a good hazy lavender
Pattie contrast to the two verticals.”
The perennially popular Geranium
Barron Rozanne gets his vote for the longest-
flowering geranium, but he also recom-
mends similar Orion, which is taller,
and has been going strong since May.
“I’ve also used shocking pink Ann Folk-
tably be seduced by the flirty New ard because it scrambles through other
Mexican salvias in their carnival pinks plants. I’ve got it growing through sky
and firecracker reds, as well as admire Plant partners: blue Eryngium bourgatii and lemon
at close quarters, via a series of path- below left, yellow Achillea Moonshine.”
ways within the borders — which reach Geranium Ann
D
over 15 yards at their widest point — the Folkard YNAMIC colour combos
huge circle of the Compositae plant scrambles abound throughout the
group that encompasses the finest through Achillea borders, such as pink-pet-
varieties of daisy flowers, including Moonshine; alled Echinacea purpurea
rudbeckias, heleniums, sunflowers and below right, scarlet popping up among
asters, mildew-free, of course. Echinacea Crocosmia Lucifer, and rust Achillea
Purpurea flatters Terracotta flattering deep blue Salvia
Kew’s head of garden design, Richard the vibrant Caradonna. Salvias are high on Wil-
Wilford, is the man with the plan that flower sprays of ford’s list of top summer performers.
took six months of scribbling on prob- Crocosmia “They’re such useful garden plants,
ably the world’s longest piece of paper, Lucifer not least because of their length of flow-
before transferring the series of circles ering. We have a salvia border at Kew
to canes and landscape spray on the of plants that made the final cut com- visiting other gardens, just as we might Walk was landscaped in the 1840s by that looks amazing in September and
bare ground. Aside from their major prise quite simply of plants Wilford choose plants for our own rather architect William Nesfield to heighten October. Early salvias were one of the
petal power, the 220 different varieties likes, as well as plants he noted from smaller borders. The original Broad the drama of the approach to the newly first plants to appear this summer: light
constructed Palm House. “I enhanced blue Serenade, deeper Dear Anja and
the perspective by planting an avenue Caradonna. Later on, less-hardy New
of 14 four-sided pyramid yews at inter- World salvias like Maroon and lilac-pink
vals along the front, which really trans- Peter Vidgeon take the limelight.”
forms the space,” says Wilford. Despite their size — and that sensa-
tional vista is seemingly endless — the
“What also makes a big difference is that new double borders offer many lessons
now you can wander and sit among the for gardeners with borders of a more
plants, instead of just admiring them modest size. For instance, those pyra-
from the central path. When we put mid yews planted at intervals, setting a
down the benches, within minutes formal note, could be scaled down to
people were sitting on them.” box balls. Wilford also advises: “Have
Interpretation panels through the fewer plants, but more of each one. By
planting will give visitors botanical reducing the number of varieties, you’ll
information. But which of the vast have more impact. Come and look at
selection on display does Wilford espe- the borders and see what will work for
cially recommend to give prolonged you.” That’s the best tip of all.
blasts of colour through summer for
London gardens? CELEBRATION WEEKENDS
“Penstemons are great value, espe- To mark the launch of the new borders,
cially bright red Penstemon Firebird Kew is hosting three celebratory
which has kept on going from June, and weekends through summer, starting
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MONDAY
Coffee in hand, I review the diary for
the week ahead while the buzz of the
Flat full ing, all-dancing marketing suite in April
and even for those who spend their day
to day lives examining marketing
sales calls have already begun. For our
sales team it will be a week of property
viewings, cheers for deals agreed, tears
of groovy suites, this one stands out from the
crowd. The show apartments look
amazing and it is evident that design
for deals that were not to be, and some
amusing stories along the way.
First on the agenda are new show
Sixties has been at the forefront of this project.
Complete with health club, Cowshed
spa, Soho House Club and the best
apartments for a boutique development
on Vicarage Gate. These are classic
Kensington flats — high ceilings, ornate
chic independent restaurants and cafés,
this scheme just oozes cool.
We make our way up to the Pergola
fireplaces, grand entrances — and I’m on the Roof which has been trans-
expecting the typical beige on beige formed into an open food court under
with beige detailing. How delightful to a canopy of flowers and ivy, and every
be proven wrong! Designers N Studio table is packed. Miraculously the sun
and Viewport Studio have gone to town
with the colour, plenty of it. Think Six-
Diary of has emerged and we spend the evening
sampling Salt Yard tapas with a glass
ties California meets classic London pad
with splashes of mustard yellow, lime an estate or three of rosé.
green and deep blues, tropical flora and
an original Frank Gehry light feature.
It’s all very chic for Kensington and the
agent FRIDAY
Another new scheme won, in W2 this
time, and another team of consultants
sales team are impressed. to meet with. This time the architect
resembling a presidential tome, and joins us and the discussion is focused
TUESDAY they look great. Weeks of effort and late around the importance of waterways
Having celebrated the news of winning nights go into these so the final presen- to Londoners and how this has been
a project in Westminster on Friday it is tation to the client must be perfect. After incorporated into the design. A site
now time for the hard work to begin. The three hours of gruelling questions I’m visit is required and I am the image of
developer wants to launch in six weeks exhausted and the cabbie has decided elegance in my fluorescent jacket, hard
and the first project meeting is under- to share his impassioned views on the hat and (now) muddy heels.
way. A series of creative designs are referendum. There is no escaping. It’s been a busy week and by 5pm I’m
presented to the boardroom and deci- only too happy to finish it by helping
sions on colour palettes, logos, bro- THURSDAY my colleague celebrate her recent deal,
chures and launch dates must be agreed. After a day of back-to-back meetings a stunning penthouse apartment in
First we need a name for the develop- an invitation to check out the new Victoria. Our local pub is overflowing
ment, do we have any brilliant ideas? rooftop pop-up bar at Television Cen- and there is only one rule on arrival —
tre is gratefully accepted, but before no talk of Brexit.
WEDNESDAY this the wider development depart-
Three days in and no one has uttered a ment are keen to see what our team has O Alexandra Vincent Martelli is a
word of Brexit, which makes for a wel- been getting so excited about. London residential development and
come change. We have another pitch Television Centre, once home to the investment consultant at Strutt &
today; the documents have arrived, BBC, opened the doors of its all-sing- Parker (020 7318 4677).
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Green space: St Mary Magdalene Gardens in Holloway Road Classic line-up: from left, Tenzin Dolkar Lama, Nicole Caulfield, Laura Candela (manager), Rebekah Pledger and Lucia Pla
covers four acres with ash, lime and London plane trees Sanchez of Vivien of Holloway in Holloway Road. a specialist in Forties and Fifties vintage-style women’s attire
Spotlight on Holloway
Holloway Prison is closing and new homes will attract families priced
out of Islington who are seeking a Zone 2 location. By Anthea Masey
A
WAY from its noisy main — just a short distance from the town
road, Holloway has streets centre at the Nag’s Head crossroads in
of fine Victorian houses Holloway Road. The 10-acre site, which
that attract young couples could be worth £200 million, could
and families priced out of provide as many as 5,000 new homes.
areas such as Islington and Highgate. This is why estate agent Steve Barron
Meanwhile, London Metropolitan Uni- from local firm Drivers & Norris says
versity is bringing in wealthy overseas the district still hasn’t reached its full
students who can afford to rent the new potential. Up and coming:
purpose-built flats in this north London Holloway stretches out on either side street life in
neighbourhood. of Holloway Road, the Great North Holloway Road.
This is the Holloway where Charles Road or the A1, starting close to the With thousands
Pooter, the social-climbing clerk and Highbury and Islington roundabout of new homes in
hero of George and Weedon Gros- and ending two miles further north prospect, the
smith’s The Diary of a Nobody lived so close to Archway. The Nag’s Head, at district has yet to
comically. Holloway’s heart, is sadly no longer a reach its full
His Holloway home, The Laurels, be top City bankers than humble clerks. pub but an amusement arcade. potential, says a
Brickfield Terrace has possibly been This summer, nearby Holloway Prison Only four miles from central London, local estate
identified as number one Pemberton is closing down and the site is likely to Holloway has Highgate to the north, agent
Gardens, a road of large Victorian be earmarked for housing. The removal Highbury and Stoke Newington to the
Local fixture: Julie McKenna, left, and Che Narine-Howe of houses in Upper Holloway, where of the grim, fortress-like jail building in east, Islington to the south and Tufnell
Arsenal-themed café Piebury Corner, Holloway Road today the residents are more likely to Parkhurst Road will transform the area Park to the west.
£675,000 £400,000 £440,000
A PERIOD conversion two-bedroom flat A ONE-BEDROOM flat with a terrace in Westbourne MOMENTS from plenty of shops and restaurants,
with a share of the freehold in Yerbury Road, Road, near Upper Street, within walking distance of a newly refurbished studio flat in Axminster
Tufnell Park. Call Keatons (020 8012 3875). five train/Tube stations. Call KFH (020 8012 2755). Road. Through Foxtons (020 8432 4343).
£1.1 MILLION
To find a home in Holloway, visit rightmove.co.uk THIS split-level three-bedroom apartment in a converted
Victorian terrace in Tufnell Park Road comes with a large
For more about Holloway, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/holloway private garden. Through Dexters (020 7267 5530).EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 31
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WHAT HOMES COST
BUYING IN HOLLOWAY
(Average prices)
One-bedroom flat £425,000
Two-bedroom flat £609,000
Two-bedroom house £783,000
Three-bedroom house £811,000
Four-bedroom house £1.42 million
RENTING IN HOLLOWAY
(Average rates)
One-bedroom flat £1,455 a month
Two-bedroom flat £1,837 a month
Two-bedroom house £1,936 a month
Three-bedroom house £3,124 a
month
Four-bedroom house £3,382 a month
Source: Rightmove
Community champion: Luke Howard, disability officer at Arsenal Hub
FOR MORE, VISIT
homesandproperty.co.uk
O Use our School Checker to find
catchment areas and inspection
reports for local schools
O The best Holloway shops and
restaurants
O Local arts, leisure and sport
O Holloway’s best streets — and the
up-and-coming areas
Gunners site: new-build properties on the edge of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium
Photographs: Daniel Lynch
THE PROPERTY SCENE
HOLLOWAY has a mix of large, Holloway. The Beaux Arts Building in over the past 10 years. The stadium 44 new-build two-bedroom flats in
mainly three- and four-storey Manor Gardens, a former Post Office conversion yielded 650 flats, while Tufnell Park Road. These are ready
Victorian houses — most of which in the elaborate Beaux Arts some 1,000 new affordable homes are to move into, with prices starting at
have been converted into flats — and architectural style, was converted scattered around the neighbourhood, £425,000. Call Foxtons on 020 7973
estates of social housing. There are into 162 flats 20 years ago. most notably around Hornsey Street. 2020. Eight three-bedroom new-build
two main conservation areas: the There is also a large Barratt Homes mews houses are on the market at
Hillmarton conservation area covers ■ NEW-BUILD HOMES development of more than 300 proper- Lotus Mews, off Sussex Way. Also
the roads around Hillmarton Road, As part of the redevelopment of the ties opposite the new stadium. move-in ready, prices for these homes
while the Mercers Road/Tavistock Arsenal football stadium, about 2,000 However, only smaller-scale develop- start at £849,950, through Mulholland
Terrace conservation area is in Upper new homes have been built in Holloway ments are currently for sale, including (020 7272 7705).
On the corner of Holloway Road and
TRAVEL Fortnam Road, Mulholland is also sell-
ing off-plan, for completion in summer
THIS district is well connected but the next year, 12 new build two- and three-
choice of how to get around depends bedroom flats with prices starting at
on where along the Holloway Road £585,000. Again, call 020 7272 7705.
you happen to live. On the Tube,
Caledonian Road, Holloway Road, ■ WHO RENTS HERE?
Arsenal and Upper Holloway stations Rental manager Josh Mills at Drivers &
are on the Piccadilly line; Archway is Norris says nine out of 10 tenants are
on the Northern line and Highbury & young professionals while the rest are
Islington is on the Victoria line. students. Rents in Holloway are at least
There are Overground trains from 20 per cent cheaper than Islington, yet
Upper Holloway to Barking and from the attractions of Islington’s Upper
Highbury & Islington to Dalston Street are still a bus ride or walk
Junction and Stratford. Drayton Park away.
and Highbury & Islington have trains
to Moorgate. All stations are in Zone ■ AFFORDABLE HOMES
2 and an annual travelcard to Zone 1 No new shared-ownership homes are
costs £1,296. There are bus services currently available locally, but Newlon
to destinations including London Housing Trust, the main housing asso-
Bridge, Moorgate, Waterloo, ciation in the area, often has second-
Trafalgar Square and Euston. The realm of Charles Pooter: Sounds great: manager Simon Talbot hand shared-ownership homes for Eye-catching: modern flats at Eden
Victorian properties in Furlong Road at Bartlett’s Hi-Fi, established in 1958 resale. Call 020 7613 7480. Grove can be rented for about £400pw36 WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD
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£1.1 million: two-
bedroom flats at
205 Holland Park
Avenue, left and
right
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THE now-fashionable river bus pier. At Chelsea AVID CAMERON’S move only about £153,000 in today’s
riverside neighbourhood Creek, apartment blocks to a £17 million mansion in money. Back then, many of the grand
of Sands End, once a cut- are being built alongside the Holland Park is likely to old properties were hard to sell in an
off corner of south-west new docks and waterways, turn an unwelcome glare area considered too close to the
London blighted by a while the stunning best on to a super-rich inner council estates of Notting Hill. This
gasworks and dissected by
train tracks, has been
redevelopment of Lots
Road power station is
new suburb favoured by privacy-seeking
celebrities, among them Elton John,
kept Holland Park’s early Victorian
architecture intact for a later
transformd by a under way and on sale, homes the Beckhams, Simon Cowell, Robbie generation of gentrifiers.
flourishing community of with homes that enjoy Williams, Richard Branson and Led Now with conservation groups
interior design and sweeping river views. Zeppelin rocker Jimmy Page. keeping guard over these listed
homewares companies. Chelsea Island is the Green and spacious, the Holland buildings, there appear to be few
Chelsea Harbour and its latest scheme, offering 89 Park district, as distinct from the park opportunities to squeeze in new
Design Centre, nearby apartments in blocks with itself, covers the western flanks of homes, but a site has been found at There are five linked pavilion
hotels and apartments, communal roof gardens, Campden Hill and holds the highest 205 Holland Park Avenue. An buildings up to 10 storeys high with
built in the Eighties, paved above, designed by concentration of large houses, some office block has been bulldozed to landscaped grounds, underground
the way. Later came “couture florist” Neill now embassies, in the Royal Borough make way for 41 flats in what is the parking, 24-hour concierge and work
Imperial Wharf, a 1,600- Strain. From £925,000. of Kensington. first apartment scheme for 50 years spaces at street level. Prices from
home neighbourhood with Call Hadley Property A nine-bedroom home could be in this busy tree-lined road that runs £1.1 million for a two-bedroom flat.
a new train station and a Group on 0800 540 4377. bought there for £8,000 in 1954 — still westwards to Shepherd’s Bush. Call Redrow on 020 3538 2058.
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ON THE outskirts of Architects
Harlow in Essex, Newhall
is a new address being earn their
built on farmland, with a
forward-thinking design
homes award
approach that has scooped
Royal Institute of British thatch. Many homes have
Architects and Royal Town double-height space, spiral
Planning Institute awards. staircases and extensive
Homes at this 280-acre glazing. There will be 2,800
neighbourhood meet a homes eventually, while
strict overall design code, old farm buildings have
but have architectural been remodelled into a
variety and a modern community centre and
twist, while fitting neatly there are advanced plans
into a semi-rural landscape for a primary school,
with pedestrian-friendly doctor’s surgery, art studios KIDBROOKE’S NEW SHOOTS
zones, woodland, streams, and a performance venue.
lakes and hedgerows. Fusion, below, the latest DOWNHILL from areas across the 276-acre
Roads are tree-lined and phase, offers four-bedroom Blackheath Village in estate. Flats and
homes have bay windows, houses from £464,500. Call south-east London there is townhouses with roof
domed or steep pitched 01279 436046. Harlow is a no trace of the Ferrier terraces overlook this
roofs, timber-clad walls or Stansted Express stop, council estate, where green expanse, and buyers
powder-coated aluminium putting it 30 minutes from concrete tower blocks and are looking here with fresh
coloured panels. Copper, Liverpool Street. The M11 houses have made way for eyes. Properties are a step
steel and glass façades mix gives direct Stratford and Kidbrooke Village, above. up for the area, with
with Welsh slate and even Canary Wharf access. Described by developer smart, space-efficient
Berkeley Homes as a “new interiors. A new three-
garden suburb”, this once- bedroom “urban house”
blighted area now has new design features a roof
homes, shops, a school, a garden rather than a
health centre, leisure conventional back garden,
facilities, a hotel and a new while the space-efficient
transport interchange at back-to-back terrace
Kidbrooke station, offering format means twice as
a 15-minute commute to many homes can be built.
Another 72 apartments are being Land expects to finish the project by London Bridge. The 1,442sq ft houses can
built on land that was part of the end of this year. It is a surprisingly green be adapted as occupants’
Holland Park School, a state And the Candy brothers’ CPC setting, bordered by needs change. Prices from
secondary known as the “Socialist Group has won a planning battle to attractive Sutcliffe Park, £800,000. One-bedroom
Eton” because Labour MP Tony Benn demolish an existing block of flats in which has a lake and flats start at £407,500. Call
and other party grandees sent their Holland Park, the road, and build 24 wetlands, with landscaped 020 8150 5151.
children there. Developer Native luxury apartments.You can also read
