Westside - January 2010

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WestSide
January 2010
www.westside.greatbritishlife.co.uk
SCHOOL
days
Toby Young’s new column
on education in Acton
Sibling
RIVALRY
ALSO THIS MONTH
TRAVEL FASHION HEALTH & BEAUTY FOOD & DRINK
Iberian idyll Forties glamour Fab facials Win a fruit juicer
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savills.co.uk
Townhouse with lawns leading to the river Family house - design led features & garden
Chiswick Quay, W4 Wilmington Avenue, W4
Open plan reception room/dining room/ Savills Chiswick Reception room ■kitchen/family room ■ Savills Chiswick
kitchen■study■3/4 bedrooms (2 en suite)■ Victoria Palau 4 bedrooms ■2 bathrooms ■utility room ■ Hannah Richards
separate w.c/utility■roof terrace■patio [email protected] garden [email protected]
leading to river■double garage■parking 020 8987 5566 020 8987 5566
and off street parking for 2 cars
£1,000 per week Furnished £950 per week Unfurnished
Good sized mansion flat on first floor Substantial house with off street parking
Sutton Court, W4 Chesterfield Road, W4
Double reception room ■kitchen ■ Savills Chiswick 2 reception rooms ■open plan kitchen ■dining Savills Chiswick
3 bedrooms ■bathroom ■off street parking ■ Victoria Palau room ■4 bedrooms ■3 bathrooms (2 en suite) ■ Victoria Palau
communal gardens [email protected] utility room ■guest cloakroom ■dressing area ■ [email protected]
020 8987 5566 sauna ■terrace ■garden ■garage 020 8987 5566
£475 per week Unfurnished £2,500 per week Furnished
2010. Savills welcomes
you to the
decade of opportunity.
Happy New Year. As a new decade begins, all kinds of new opportunities are emerging.
Right now, buyers are out there. In the last quarter, some 2,500 people
looking to buy property between £1m and £3m alone registered
with us – with over £4 billion to spend between them.
When it comes to moving, this is going to be the decade of opportunity.
Our research team predicts prices will rise by 27% by 2015, and that
prime properties will be a resilient investment which is
certainly food for New Year thought.
Buying, selling, letting or renting, its time to do property, properly.
Savills Chiswick
263 Chiswick High Road
London W4 4PU
Christopher Bramwell - Sales Victoria Palau - Lettings
020 8987 5550 020 8987 5566
[email protected] [email protected]
savills.co.uk
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LTD 5 minutes walk from Portobello Road
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LOCAL LIFE FOOD AND DRINK
10 NewsAll-digital Vue cinema opens in Westfield 36 Under reviewPersian cuisine at Chella
12Take fiveThis month we’re loving… 37 Table talkThe Dove pub flies again
15 DiaryA Kiwi love story hits Hammersmith
17 It’s a family affair Romola Garai,Poppy Miller and PROPERTY
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Clare Dunne star in Three Sisters 62 Property news
19 Toby Young The crusading journalist starts his 82Eric Walker,MD of Bushells
monthly column
45 Q&A Anthony Worrall Thompson chews the fat PROMOTIONS
20 January sales feature
LIFESTYLE 38 Restaurant raves
21 CompetitionWin! An Anthony Worrall Thompson fruit juicer 42 Interiors treasure trove
23 FashionForties glamour
25 Beauty news Best skin moisturisers
29 TravelPortugal explored
31 Kids’cornerMusical workshops in Chiswick
35Retail therapy New Year cheer
Romola Garai as
Anne Keyes in the
film Glorious 39.
The movie is
screening at the
Riverside Theatre on
20 January 2010.
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Landmarks are very useful things - monuments to power,
status symbols and emblems of civic pride. Local ones
tell you how near you are to home and they are also
invaluable for guiding confused tourists to where exactly they
need to get to.
And plans are afoot for an imposing new structure.The
Gateway landmark at Chiswick roundabout is inching slowly to
fruition,with new proposals due before the planning committee
in early 2010.For some,modern architecture is the spawn of the
devil,a blot on the landscape,a ghastly carbuncle.The
Chiswick building was designed by ‘Gherkin’architect Ken
Shuttleworth and already denounced as a “massive octopus”
structure by one local resident.Well,everyone’s a critic.
To me,it looks like an alien from Dr.Who and this is the fun
aspect of landmarks in that we can all let our imagination run
wild with flights of fancy,some with a Freudian twist.I’m not
sure who first said that landmarks were phallic symbols: some
definitely are such as the Post Office Tower but the proposed
one at Chiswick roundabout seems more gender confused.
After all,who can guess at the precise sex of aliens?
And last but not least,congratulations to Thomas Pryde from
Belmont Primary school in Chiswick.The seven-year-old has
won the Marmalade Christmas Card competition,beating off
over 70 entries.Well done,Thomas!
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New play area designs for nine
Hammersmith and Fulham parks
have now been revealed.Over £1m
has been allocated by the council for
play equipment which embraces
natural features of the borough such
as grassy mounds,sand and climbing
boulders.Over the summer,the
council has been consulting local
eight to thirteen year-olds about the
play features they’d like to see in the
area.Cllr Paul Bristow,cabinet
member for residents’services,said:
“We have been out and about all
summer chatting to youngsters and
finding out exactly what they want
from their parks.I am sure that they
will be impressed with the new plans
on show.”
RoundUP
New Vue in Westfield
February 2010 will see the launch of an
all-digital Vue cinema in Westfield.Once
open to the public,the 14 auditoria
Calling all potential thespians plus new play areas. complex will show popular films as well
as 3D movies.The largest auditorium
By Marina Kolobova
will seat nearly 500 and three of the
screens will have luxury seating and
Stagecoach Ealing Continues to Expand their own private wine and champagne
Ealing’s Stagecoach Theatre Arts School has added another school to its local base,on bar.Tim Richards,chief executive officer
top of the two already in the Ealing catchment of Vue Entertainment,said: “Vue
area in Hobbayne and Grange Primary Schools. Westfield London will be a new state-of-
Gabrielle Nolan,Ealing’s Stagecoach principle, the art world class leading multiplex
said: “Although I have waiting lists,I really feel cinema and easily the most exciting new
that the pupils should have the chance to go to cinema to open in London in years; it
another local Stagecoach venue if they wish, will be a flagship site within our circuit.”
rather than continuing to wait for a spot at one of
our established schools.”For further details
contact [email protected]
A happy ending
Following on from our story in last
month’s issue about postcard collector
Andy Hoang,we are relieved to hear of
the outcome.Jonathan Weisgard,
communications officer at
Hammersmith & Fulham Council said:
“It became apparent that this was a
hobby and not a business,so the
matter was dropped and Mr Hoang
was not fined a penny.”The hobbyist
can now breathe a sigh of relief that he
can carry on creating his “art gallery in
my bedroom.”Wish you were here indeed…
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