Golf Resort May Trump Scottish Council

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The Scottish government may overrule a local council’s rejection of Donald Trump’s plan to build a $2 billion golf resort on the North Sea coast, describing it as a development requiring national involvement.

The government’s decision to “call in” the application came after the American real estate entrepreneur’s plans for Scottish links were rejected by an Aberdeenshire Council committee on November 29. Mr. Trump said he would decide in the next 30 days whether to buy land in Northern Ireland to build an alternative course.

“The Scottish Government quite rightly feels this application raises issues of such importance that they require scrutiny at a national level,” the leader of Aberdeenshire Council, Anne Robertson, said on the council’s Web site. “What is important in all this is securing the economic future of the north-east of Scotland.”

“This is in reaction to the unprecedented support our Aberdeenshire development has received,” Mr. Trump, 61, said in a statement.

Since his plan was rejected, Mr. Trump has received more than 50 offers of land for his course. Would-be sites have included one suggested by the Irish government and others in Europe and South Africa. Mr. Trump won’t appeal the decision to block his plans for a resort on the 1,400-acre Menie Estate on the northeast coast of Scotland, his U.K. project director, Neil Hobday, said Tuesday ahead of the government’s announcement.


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