Poor Donald. He isnt in the US inc. where we have laws that say that a business interest can merely show that their using your land has greater economic benefit than your using your land and swipe it from you.

He actually has to go about it the fair way, and convince them of their own free will to sell.

What a hardship for him.

Many people already have protested....this plan is very unpopular here, and there is no way he's getting this without a battle. He doesn't own all the land he needs, doesn't have planning permission yet, since he doesn't own the land, and hasn't secured the compulsory purchases he needs to complete either. Most of the small property owners have vowed never to sell to him and his arrogance is astounding.

I spend a lot of time in my childhood on Balmedie Beach, which is an SSSI...a Site of Special Scientific Interest, basically a nature reserve, and it's like another world....beautiful, wide sandy beach and 4000 year old dunes. I need to do a bit of research on this, but I do believe it's illegal to build on them anyway, so how the hell he thinks he can get a golf course wherever he wants is beyond me. Back handers to grovelling little local councillors on the planning committee, and Alex Salmond, of course.

We're kind of praying that the global downturn will hit the monsters like this first, and he just won't be able to raise the finance to do it...it's far from certain.

[edit on 11-3-2010 by caitlinfae]