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Controversial plans to build flats on a town centre car park look set to be approved. Proposals to build 51 apartments at Cockleshell Walk in Sittingbourne, near the town’s Lidl, are to be decided upon this week. If approved, three blocks, the tallest of which would be five storeys, would replace the car park off St Michael’s Road on the one-way system. The scheme is part of Swale council’s town centre regeneration project, which includes building 170 affordable new homes on council-owned brownfield sites. It has set up its own housing association, Rainbow Homes, to achieve this. Some other pa…

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