Policy information sourced from the Dartford Development Policies Plan

Future Uses Actions

Create more choice in the town to encourage extended visits, and attract a wider range of users of the town centre including families, students, traders and visitors.

Encourage an evening economy, particularly in the ‘mid evening’ period, in the town centre around the theatre by creating hubs of leisure, culture and places to eat and drink along Hythe Street and Spital Street. Promote uses, such as hotels and restaurants, to increase the evening economy spend.

Encourage adaptable floor spaces within new developments to ensure future flexibility of land uses to adapt to future market needs.

Provide a wider choice of comparison retail offer in the town centre with Meanwhile Uses encouraged to activate vacant stores and sites.

Encourage the reuse of the upper floors of town centre buildings.

Encourage key retail and leisure assets such as shopping centres to actively publicise/ advertise their facilities and the town centre to the wider area.

A range of leisure, retail, business, community and cultural facilities with new housing can be delivered around the station and Hythe Street to help regenerate this area of the town centre.

Support start-up businesses in the town centre.

Support development of a new health hub.

For more information please see the Development Policies Plan