Trump Refusal Faces Legal Stand Off

Trump Refusal Faces Legal Stand Off

Published on 05-12-2007 by Skyscrapernews.com
Following the rejection of Donald Trump's massive plans for a golf complex in Aberdeenshire by the local council, it now looks like he is going to get a second chance in realizing the resort.

Although securing a green light from an earlier committee, Trump's resort scheme was thrown out after concerns about the effect it would have on the local environment. It is planned for an area that has some of the best sand dunes in the whole country and this fragile environment would be highly susceptible to damage from nearby development.

There's been an outcry from some quarters about the sheer amount of investment that will be lost if Trump walks away with his £1 billion scheme to somewhere else with supporters of it citing the 1200 jobs that could be missed out on.

Indeed Trump has threatened to move the resort to somewhere else, perhaps Northern Ireland, if he fails to get an approval. During the original proposal process however Trump made much of his Scottish heritage using it as one argument as to why he wanted to build in Scotland.

With this in mind, Scotland's devolved government has decided that ministers themselves will now get to decide without a public inquiry. What makes the move surprising is that no-one has ever had such treatment from the government before - usually proposals only get passed to ministers when a public inquiry has been concluded and all other avenues exhausted.

As an amazing coincidence, one of the MSPs in the current Scottish government just happens to be the local representative of Aberdeenshire, Brian Adam, whilst SNP leader Alex Salmond comes from a neighbouring consistency that could also benefit.

Quite why Trump should get special treatment, has yet to be explained. Indeed if he does, the Scottish government could find itself bogged down in lawsuit hell as campaigners against the decision seek a judicial review by arguing Scottish ministers had made errors in their choice.

Without a public inquiry to cover ministers legally, this would be remarkably easy to argue in court.

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