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Scotland approves plans for second Trump golf course to feature 450-room resort hotel, conference center and spa, named after his mother
- Plans for an 18-hole golf course were approved by the Aberdeenshire council on Friday.
- The course will be named MacLeod in honor of Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod
- It will be built alongside the original Trump International golf complex on its Menie Estate, north of Aberdeen, which opened in 2012.
- The area will also include a 450-room resort hotel with conference center and spa.
- It will have 950 vacation apartments and 500 houses and community facilities
Scottish officials approved plans by President Donald Trump’s family business to build another golf course in Aberdeenshire.
Plans for the new 18-hole golf course were approved by the Aberdeenshire council on Friday, despite local objections. Friday’s decision is expected to be final. Local district officials had already approved the plan for the second course in September.
The Aberdeen council said the development is subject to some conditions, such as measures to minimize the risk of flooding at the site.
The course will be called MacLeod in honor of Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod. It will be built alongside the original Trump International golf resort on its Menie Estate, north of Aberdeen, which opened in 2012.
Scottish officials approved plans by President Donald Trump’s family business to build a second golf course in Aberdeenshire. Trump is seen playing a round of golf at his other Scotland course at Turnberry in July 2018
The land had already been delimited in the local development plan for two 18-hole golf courses, a 450-room resort hotel with a conference center and spa.
It will also include 36 ‘golf villas’, 950 vacation apartments in four blocks and up to 500 houses and community facilities.
The course will share the golf house and related facilities that currently serve the Menie course and will provide 141 additional parking spaces.
Ecologists have criticized the first Menie golf course for partially destroying the coastal sand dunes in the area, saying the second course could cause the dunes to erode further.
“The council sided with Trump International,” said Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment at the London School of Economics.
“They accepted the economic case over the environmental case,” added Ward.
The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has also opposed the request, saying that the water management plan was inadequate and the environmental management plan was not appropriate.
Environmentalists have criticized Menie’s first golf course for partially destroying the coastal sand dunes in the area, saying the second course could cause the dunes to erode further. Trump seen playing golf at Turnberry in July 2018
Many locals have also opposed the request, citing the loss of public space and the impact it would have on the water supply, private roads and nearby properties. This image shows Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen, the same city where the new course will be built.
Many locals have also opposed the request, citing the loss of public space and the impact it would have on the water supply, private roads and nearby properties.
Sam Lowit, Morningside Avenue, Aberdeen, said: “It is clear that the existing underperforming development does not benefit this area, with low attendance figures and continued financial losses.
“Therefore, there is no valid reason to extend or increase this situation and denial of this request is the only viable route the local authority can take in this case.”
The existing golf course and luxury hotel on the estate have not been profitable since they opened.
Trump also owns another luxury golf resort, Turnberry, on the other side of Scotland.
