Just four businesses remain at a town centre leisure complex that cost £75 million to build – despite council bosses being “supremely confident” it would take off. Six years on, KentOnline reporter Chantal Weller looks at why Ashford’s Elwick Place is struggling and what its future holds… “I’m sure Elwick Place will be buzzing in six months’ time.” Those were the words of Cllr Gerry Clarkson, the former leader of Ashford Borough Council (ABC), as he opened the authority’s shiny new development in December 2018. The project saw a cinema, then run by Picturehouse, and a Travelodge hotel built …