ST ANDREWS BAY EXAMPLE TO DONALD
TRUMP AND HIS COHORTS

What happens next in the Donald Trump International Links saga?
Will there be an appeal against the casting vote of the chairman of the Aberdeenshire committee that turned down the New York billionaire's plans to build two golf courses, a four-storey hotel and enough housing to create a small town on the Menie Estate?
If the example of St Andrews Bay is anything to go by, Trump and his cohorts should stick with it.
It is often forgotten, although it is only eight years ago that the plan to build a £50 million hotel and two golf courses on the clifftops to the south of St Andrews was, in the first place, rejected by the development committee of Fife Council.
A few months later in 1999, the position was reversed and developer Don Panoz was given the green light.
Opponents had claimed the development would turn the area into a theme park and that planning consent went against local structure and transport plans.
Where are those oppponents now?
Fairmont St Andrews - its new name - is now one of the most successful hotel/golf course developments to be opened certainly within Scotland but arguably within the British Isles in the last decade. It is a asset to the tourist industry in the Kingdom of Fife.
Of course, there is a lingering question. If a hotel and two golf courses can be a a viable concern at Fairmont St Andrews, why does Donald Trump need to build an even bigger hotel plus 1,000 holiday homes, apartments and villas to make his two-course plan a money-making venture?