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Swinney to rule soon on £1bn Trump golf resort



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Published Date: 16 October 2008
By Frank Urquhart
DONALD Trump will know within four weeks whether his dream of building the "world's greatest golf course" on a protected stretch of the Scottish coast will become a reality.
John Swinney, the secretary for finance and sustainable growth, yesterday took delivery of the report from Scottish Government planning reporters following a four-week inquiry into the tycoon's proposals to develop a £1 billion golf resort at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire.

Mr Swinney, who will have the final say on the controversial plans, has pledged to deliver his verdict within 28 days.

The Trump development plan comprises two championship golf courses, a 450-room hotel, 1,000 timeshare apartments, 36 golf villas and 500 homes. Mr Swinney will have to make the crucial decision on whether the billionaire should be allowed to build the back nine holes of his main championship course on the shifting sand dune system within the protected Foveran site of special scientific interest.



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  • Last Updated: 15 October 2008 9:41 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Donald Trump
 
1

ThomasP,

16/10/2008 00:19:31
I better have a brand new place to play golf.
2

famous 15,

Edinburgh 16/10/2008 00:30:28
I just hope that Trump has enough money left to do it. it would be ironic if the Lib/dems wishes would come about because of their tomfoolery. Tavish supports the application on Tuesday and Thurdays and every second Saturday but not days he is meeting twitchers. Vicar of Bray Tav.
3

Dragonhead,

Dalian,China 16/10/2008 04:03:39
In the present economic climate this gift horse should be grasped with both hands!It would serve many right if Donald the combover champion decided to withdraw and leave you all to whistle!
4

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16/10/2008 05:20:36
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5

McNasty,

Edinburgh 16/10/2008 06:43:16
No more delay, this development must go ahead.

6

Guga II,

Rockall 16/10/2008 07:08:56
We'll soon need all the jobs going by the time Maggie Broon has finished devastating the Scottish economy.
7

Queen D,

Glasgow 16/10/2008 08:26:16
Does anyone seriously believe that in the economic climate we find ourselves in that Mr Trump will want to proceed?
If this project had got underway when first mooted it might have made it to completion, personally I think its a dead duck now.
How about the McDonald hotel ? Will it be abandoned because of funding?
8

Mallory,

Edinburgh 16/10/2008 12:12:16
Have Trump and his investors still got the funds or will this project start to crumble like the Platinum Point developer?
9

G,

dundy 16/10/2008 12:23:06
This development must go ahead...the SNP needs the money. Or has the bung alredy been paid and the SNP hasn't delivered on their part of the bargain???
10

kinneucher,

Amsterdam 16/10/2008 14:35:47
My opinion of D.Trump has grown considerably since I learnt that he advocates the impeachment of war criminal George W. Bush. However I still dislike his arrogance and contempt of Sites of Special Scientific Importance.
11

Destroy the Planet,

16/10/2008 17:45:54
I hope it doesnt go ahead, i'm running out of political parties to vote for.
12

The Federalist (the poster formerly know as NAUON),

17/10/2008 00:01:51
In the current economic climate I would not be surprised if Trump pulls the plug on the project.
13

Brad,

Glasgow 17/10/2008 18:04:46
It'll be interesting...
14

Myosotis,

17/10/2008 20:29:07
As Donald Trump has in the last few weeks pulled out of a development in Tampa (Florida), it does look as if he is having to watch his spending very carefully.

On top of which the needs for work in other less-prosperous parts of Scotland will surely influence John Swinney`s thinking.

I think John Swinney will support the inspectors in having a compromise, and let Donald Trump decide whether to fight or delay. Then DT will announce he won`t develop an "inferior" golf course, and instead that he intends to put forward a new plan for his land when the economic circumstances improve.

15

jerrymanders,

20/10/2008 16:50:05
Just as well this project did not start, there is no way it would have been completed under todays economic conditions. Who would have picked up the mess?
16

Andrew BOD,

Aberdeenshire 21/10/2008 23:20:55
Unless Trump now pulls out, in the current recession, this is a gift-horse. One of the strategies to be used by Darling, and probably by Salmond and Murphy to counter the recession, will be to use public money to spend on public projects. This will stimulate private industry who will be sub-contracted to complete these jobs, so to have private money invested when 15,000 construction industry jobs have been lost recently in Scotland, will be a godsend.
17

mobocaster,

Aberdeen 22/10/2008 16:43:47
#16 Anything but.

Trump has maintained that his scheme would be fully funded, without resorting to any borrowing.

Then at the PLI, his evidence clearly demonstrated that this scheme would be very substantially debt-driven. Which was a very risky strategy in good times but nothing more than suicidal in the current climate.

Since the PLI, if other reports are to be believed, Sorial has gone back to claiming that the scheme will be funded purely by Trump's petty cash.

If that does not demonstrate the contempt they hold for this country, what does? Throwing public money at that would be the highest degree of folly. Anyway, there is no shortage of construction projects in other plans for the NE.

 

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