Thanet has been dramatically cut from film studio plans because of a lack of interest from Thanet councillors, says the entrepreneur behind the scheme.

Chairman and managing director of Wessex Studios Corporation, John Hunter, had proposed to build a £125 million film and TV complex on the former Manston Airport site.

The revelation comes after a planning application featuring 2,500 homes on the 800-acre airfield, to be known as Stone Hill Park, was submitted to the council last week and showed no sign of movie-making facilities.

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TDC leader Cllr Rick Everitt says the matter relates to a “minor payment” made to Cllr Albon as part of a severance agreement when he stopped working for the council in 2016 – three years before he was elected.

He added the matter was referred to Action Fraud “simply as a precaution” and described the suggestion Cllr Albon has done anything wrong as “absurd”.

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