Plans to replace a derelict department store plot with a “car-free village” and a boutique cinema have taken a step forward. Dartford council has agreed to further finance revised plans to transform the site of the empty Co-op building, between Spital Street and Hythe Street in Dartford, into a mixed-use development. The future of the regeneration project had previously been thrown into doubt after developers insisted a previous version of the schemeneeded to be bigger to justify costs. But since taking the scheme in-house the council has appointed a project team and award-winning architects P…
