Mon 10 Dec 2007
The Scottish government said on Tuesday it would review controversial plans by U.S. tycoon Donald Trump to build a $2 billion golfing development in Scotland after they were rejected by the local council. It said it was intervening because the project, to build two championship golf courses, around 1,000 homes, a luxury hotel and 36 villas on a pristine stretch of northeast Scotland’s coast, was too “important” to be dealt with by the council.
Real estate magnate Trump had threatened to relocate the project to Northern Ireland after it was rejected by Aberdeenshire Council on environmental grounds last week. In a statement issued late on Tuesday, a Scottish government spokesman said it would be “calling in” the project for review.
