“Mr. Trump has been granted planning permission to demolish my home, but I do not wish to sell, and I do not wish to be forced out"

Looks like The Donald is picking on a little old lady...again? Same thing in Atlantic City and he lost that one, no?

Peter Woodifield of Bloomberg reports on the case of Molly Forbes v. Trump"

“Mr. Trump has been granted planning permission to demolish my home, but I do not wish to sell, and I do not wish to be forced out,” Forbes said in the statement. “I never expected in my life to face eviction from my home, let alone for a golf course.”

Trump’s proposed development on the Menie estate north of Aberdeen was the subject of a public inquiry last year when the Scottish government intervened after Aberdeenshire Council rejected the first application. In September, the municipality granted planning consent for five areas of land, including where Forbes lives. Trump may seek approval for compulsory purchase orders if Forbes and the other owners refuse to sell.
The Trump Organization has about six months to negotiate an agreement before it needs to apply to the municipality for the purchase orders to ensure it can start building houses at the resort in two years, Donald

Comments

[Otterknowbetter]

I hope he chokes on his toupe.

[chico]

There has always been divisions over this project-with greed ultimately winning through.
Just hope that the councillors and planners who 'sold their souls to the devil' are starting to realise what kind of an organisation they have championed.

[Jim]

greed is good

[court]

Any bets that this will eventually be taken care of out of court ? Eventually, The Donald will find a number that she will accept to move.

[jim the rat]

Golf has always been a game built on the foundation of capitalism, without capitalism and class-ism golf does not exist. Like him or hate him, Trump is the epitome of capitalism and thus is acting in character. I don't think anyone approves of "picking on old ladies", but it's not the first time people have been forced to do things based on capitalist agendas and it won't be the last.

[court]

"Always" ? no.

"Class-ism" ? not sure the shepards banging rocks into holes would agree with you...or the people playing $10 muni's.

"Capitalism" - probably - at least once greens fees were invented.

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

Actually, Jim, in some places golf is a community activity instead of a "capitalist" tool for oppressing the masses. The Donald is the epitome of post-industrial finance capitalism, and as such he is only re-exporting the typical American approach to the Game: exclusive, expensive, boorish, unsustainable, and generally inexcusable. By his lights he will be a success. But his latest "greatest golf course in the world" will be a failure. The haar will frequently interfere with play. Due to the general North Sea weather and the shadow cast by the Grampians on those long summer evenings the course will be damp, cold and miserable much of the time. What a waste. And who knew that Kelo vs. City of New London was a binding precedent in Scotland?

[chico]

Wonderful post KLG.
What lpace this OTT development will have in real Scottish golf,goodness only knows.

[CBell]

And I trust, Ky, you're aware that the place where the Kelo house once stood remains a vacant lot, and in September of this year Pfizer announced they were leaving New London. The promised 3000+ jobs and $1.2 million annual tax revenue that lay at the heart of New London's argument? 0 jobs, 0 dollars.

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

@CBell

Yep. I know about Pfizer and their perfidy in New London. The Donald will be just as faithless. But I predict that he will first build the course, the hotel, and the glorified tract condominiums and then go effectively if not actually bankrupt, leaving the good people of Aberdeenshire with a blight on a landscape that is practically a world heritage natural area.

[chico]

I fear you are 100% correct Ky.

[F. X. Flinn]

As soon as you move golf off linksland, which is nearly self maintaining once you get the sheep going and regular play establising fairways and greens, it costs money to create and maintain a golf course. When golf moved inland it didn't start with the Scottish community-owned model in the forefront of people's minds, but instead the club model which was far more familiar and much easier to put to use. But once the game was introduced, plenty of municipalities jumped on the Scottish model. Golf gets a bad rap as a rich man's game because for the vast majority of golfers, it's a fun game played with instruments wholly unsuited to their purpose.