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Tom English: ‘Trump will either win you over.... or run you over’

Monday, 23 January, 2012 - 18:14

THE turbines will be located about a mile and a half off the coast of the Menie Estate, 11 of them in total, each one coming in at 640ft high from top to toe.

If they get built – and it looks like they will – Donald Trump will have a majestic view of them from his golf course, from his clubhouse, from his hotel and from the luxury housing he plans – or should that be planned – to build around the site. As he says himself, the turbines are going to be 64 storeys high. They’re going to tower over his links, an undesired backdrop to...

Menie refusenik and Donald Trump aide clash as golf clubhouse approved
Monday, 23 January, 2012 - 18:13

ONE of Donald Trump’s senior aides has branded a prominent independent councillor a “disgrace” after she launched a vitriolic attack on the controversial design for the tycoon’s new clubhouse at his luxury golf resort.

George Sorial, the Trump Organisation’s managing director of international development, told Councillor Debra Storr, a leading opponent of the Trump development, she would be out of a job after the council elections in May as he left a meeting of the planning authority where councillors approved plans for the Gothic-...

Donald Trump may fail to follow through on Scottish golf resort plan
Monday, 23 January, 2012 - 18:11

Millionaire poised to give up on 'world's greatest golf course', blaming offshore windfarm application

Donald Trump is on the brink of abandoning his plans for the "world's greatest golf course" near Aberdeen after claiming his £750m project is being threatened by an offshore windfarm.

The billionaire property developer has disclosed he has frozen plans to build the second 18-hole golf course, the five-star hotel, the luxury villas and houses and the timeshare apartments that make up the planned resort until a final decision...

Donald Trump 'halts golf resort work over wind farm'
Monday, 23 January, 2012 - 18:09

US tycoon Donald Trump has said work at his golf resort near Aberdeen has stopped until a decision is made on plans for a wind farm off the coast.

Mr Trump said the plans for 11 turbines in Aberdeen Bay would spoil the sea views for his customers at Menie in Aberdeenshire.

He said if the turbines were approved the last thing he would do was build a hotel looking out at it.

A decision on the wind farm is awaited from Scottish ministers.

A planning application for the wind farm off Aberdeen Bay, 2km (1.2 miles)...

Temporary Menie clubhouse and permanent car park approved by Formartine councillors
Wednesday, 11 January, 2012 - 20:58

Temporary Menie clubhouse and permanent car park approved by Formartine councillors

Plans for a temporary golf club house and permanent car park at the Menie Estate, Balmedie, have been supported by councillors.

The applications by Trump International Golf Links Scotland were considered by the Formartine Area Committee at a meeting in Ellon this morning (Tue, Dec 13).

The applications had been recommended for approval by planners, subject to a number of conditions, and were deferred from the committee’s meeting last...

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