Policy information sourced from the The Dartford Plan

Policy D4: Westgate Allocation

Development at Westgate should provide a mix of uses and enhance Dartford’s leisure, visitor and mid-evening economy and/ or health and wellbeing ofer.

Proposals should demonstrate through masterplanning, appropriate layout, form, design, massing and use that they:

  • retain the former Co-op façade on Spital Street;
  • include active uses on existing street frontages and ensure safe public and private areas; c. reconnect historic roads/ routes, ensuring an east-west pedestrian route across the site; and d. feature a new public square.

3. Development is expected to deliver:

  • a cinema/ strategic leisure facility, or cultural/ visitor/ wellbeing/ community service/ shopping anchor use of equal signifcance;
  • up to 5,000sqm of uses within Use Class E, other main town centre uses, and/ or a hotel (within Use Class C1); and
  • 120 dwellings (or more).

Policy information sourced from the The Dartford Plan