Plans to erect a “car-free” five-storey apartment block aimed at young professionals in the centre of a town have been approved. The “build to rent” development will house four two-bed apartments and ten one-bed flats in Dartford. An application was submitted by the developers in August to demolish two existing buildings at 31 Orchard Street and erect flats built with prefabricated “rammed earth blocks” in its place near the junction with Hythe Street. The existing site, which features a main building and a smaller outbuilding, sits opposite Westgate car park – which forms part of the town’s h…