Ashford International Film Studios, a proposed £250 million ($305 million) new production facility outside of London, has received planning permission from its local authority.
The decision — which was made in a virtual council meeting Wednesday evening — means the development can now go ahead on the former site of Kent's Newtown Railway Works by U.K.
studio investment group The Creative District Improvement Company (TCDI) and developers Quinn Estates. Its backers claim that the project, first officially unveiled in March, is the biggest single investment in U.K.