Model does not exist on Azure MVC Web app - asp.net-mvc

Question

We have an MVC 5 web app that is currently running fine on a Windows Server locally but we now want to push to application into Azure. It builds and runs fine locally, on multiple different dev machines and has been working for near 9 months on the server. On deployment to Azure I get the error page with a message of 'model' does not exist in the current context.
I have done a bit of research and everything points towards the issue being with the 'Views' web.config. I have edited as below but to no avail, has anybody else experienced a similar problem?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
<section name="host" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
<section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<system.web.webPages.razor>
<host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Optimization"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
<add namespace="Zahara.Web" />
<add namespace="Zahara.Web.Models"/>
<add namespace="Microsoft.PowerBI.AspNet.Mvc"/>
</namespaces>
</pages>
</system.web.webPages.razor>
<appSettings>
<add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0"/>
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
</appSettings>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<remove name="BlockViewHandler"/>
<add name="BlockViewHandler" path="*" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Full error message as requested
Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
Compiler Error Message: CS0103: The name 'model' does not exist in the current context
Source Error:
Line 1: #model Zahara.Web.Models.HomePageDataViewModel
Line 2: #using Zahara.Data
Line 3: #using Zahara.Common