News Shopper readers would most like to see a cinema on the Lowfield Road site in Dartford after Tesco’s withdrawal, research has suggested.
Twenty-eight per cent of participants in News Shopper’s poll (129 readers) would like to see a cinema set up with a close second suggestion being ‘it should become part of Central Park’ with 26 per cent (122 readers).
While all the options drew in a substantial number of votes, the most unpopular option was a residential development.
Tesco pulled out last week despite having planning permission for an 8,000sq m store and 34 one-bed and 73 two-bed flats and despite having begun demolishing the site.
The designs for 26 to 142 Lowfield Street were the latest in a long list of plans for a store on the street, first mooted in 2002.
But Tesco announced on January 8 it was closing 43 unprofitable stores across the UK and shelving plans to build a further 49 new "very large" stores - including Lowfield Street and Albion Road, Bexleyheath.
POLL RESULTS: What would you like to see done with the Lowfield Street site?
- Another supermarket should take over News Shopper: 19 per cent (87 votes)
- A leisure centre: 15 per cent (70 votes)
- A cinema: 28 per cent (129 votes)
- A residential development: 13 per cent (61 votes)
- It should become part of Central Park: 26 per cent (122 votes)
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