The Evening Standard reports that a £900 per month studio flat in Notting Hill to rent with no oven and a toilet next to the kitchen. The top-floor apartment is on the market for £900 per month, but the prospective renters will have to contend with the lack of space. A flat in Notting Hill is available to rent for £900 per month, but there’s a catch. The space in the top-floor apartment is so small that the tiny kitchenette is directly next to the toilet and the flat has no oven. Instead, photos of the studio flat on Westbourne Park Road show a fridge, cupboards and a microwave secured to the wall. In the opposite corner a double bed and bedside table are placed beneath the flat’s single window. A dining table and two chairs sit at the end of the bed and next to the kitchen counter.

Southwark

Southwark News reports that the amount of social rented housing completed in Southwark decreased by 20 per cent between 2020 – 21, according to data published by the GLA. Social rent is low-cost rent offered by local authorities, comprising both council housing and housing association properties. This figure of – 20% refers to the number of new social rents delivered in the borough between 2020 – 21. It is a negative as the stat takes into account how many social rents were lost due to development or being purchased through the right to buy – amongst other things.

Tower Hamlets 

Property Week reports that Vagina Museum finds new London opening in Bethnal Green. The Vagina Museum has found new London premises in Bethnal Green after leaving its first home in Camden Market last summer. The world’s first bricks and mortar vagina museum has been hunting for a new location since talks between the museum’s founders and Camden Market landlord Labtech broke down last August and it left the following month when its lease expired. The museum has pre-let space at ENTER, a new collective building and creative hub for the arts under construction in Bethnal Green.The new premises are expected to be around three times larger than the Vagina Museum’s original 1,300 sq ft Camden location.

Property Week reports that Market Halls Canary Wharf are to open at end of March. Market Halls is preparing to launch another London site. The Canary Wharf venue, the company’s third London site, will open in late March and house a line-up of kitchens and bars and a programme of community-led events. This will tie in with the reopening of Market Halls Oxford St, following extensive refurbishment and changes to the site. The line-up at Market Hall Canary Wharf Cargo will include operators from the group’s existing sites, including Gopal’s Corner [Roti King], DF Tacos and BaoziInn, while also bringing in new and exciting additions including Le Bab, Pasta Evangelists and Inamo Sukoshi.

Property Week reports that Canary Wharf launches managed office concept. Canary Wharf Group (CWG) is launching a fully fitted and managed office space called MadeFor. Designed and built by CWG’s in-house team, MadeFor provides fitted, furnished and dressed workspace that’s ready for immediate occupation or which can alternatively be delivered “to order”. MadeFor also offers businesses a fully managed solution, including cleaning, Wi-Fi and IT services, full maintenance and ‘handyman’ services, and refreshments. Citi is MadeFor’s first customer and has taken 95,000 sq ft at Forty Bank Street while Citi Tower, its UK and EMEA headquarters, at 25 Canada Square, is being refurbished.

Estates Gazette reports that as traditional office owners wait nervously to see if their buildings fill bacm up as the pandemic cases, even the most established are being forced to rethink their offerings – with Canary Wharf Group the latest to try a new way of wooping tenants. All eyes will now be on the Docklands estate and wether it can prove that businesses still want and need their offices.

Wandsworth

Balance Out Living secures consent for Wandsworth co-living scheme. Property Week reports that Balance Out Living, a new co-living platform backed by Oaktree Capital, has secured planning permission for its first development, in Wandsworth, south-west London. The scheme will comprise 213-studio apartments close to Battersea Park with amenities such as co-working spaces, communal kitchens, resident lounges, a cinema room, café, bar and gym. The property, on Culvert Road, will also feature green walls, gardens and landscaped terraces offering panoramic views of London. Balance Out Living has also agreed to develop a sports facility for the neighbouring Harris Academy school.

Battersea Power Station unveils first tranche of F&B openings. Battersea Power Station has revealed the first tranche of cafés, bars and restaurants set to open inside the Grade II Listed Power Station from September 2022. Le Bab, Where The Pancakes Are, Poke House, Clean Kitchen Club, Paris Baguette, Joe & The Juice and Starbucks are among some of the operators joining the Power Station line-up. Other additions to the location include a 20,000 sq. ft food hall offering an all-day dining experience and Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen & Bar. Sam Cotton, head of Leasing at Battersea Power Station Development Company, said: “Battersea Power Station has emerged as one of London’s leading food and drink destinations and this will only become stronger with the great mix of cafés, bars and restaurants opening inside the location, creating thousands of new jobs for the immediate and wider local communities.

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