This page contains information about my report on Donald Trump's golf course development at Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire.

Download the report here (5Mb pdf)

Press Release 15 May 2011

Video of the background to report.

Some damning footage of Donald Trump from US Satellite TV programme "Donald Trump's Fabulous World of Golf"

You've Been Trumped
Th stunning new documentary by Anthony Baxter and Richard Phinney

youvebeentrumped

Review by Abderdeen Voice

DOCUMENTS

Letter of 4 March 2009 from Dundas & Wilson on behalf of Trump International requesting that Aberdeenshire Council exercise powers of compulsory purchase. (1.7Mb pdf)

Draft Statement of Reasons prepared by Dundas and Wilson (4.3Mb pdf)

Letter of 7 April 2009 from Christine Gore, Director of Planning to Ann Faulds, Dundas and Wilson in relation to proposed new planning application designed to ease the way for compulsory purchase. (668kb pdf)

Invoice of 21 December 2010 sent to Milnes by Trump Organisation for erecting new fence on boundary (737kb pdf)

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Deciding the Fate of a Magical, Wild Place by Councillor Martin Ford. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, vol. 4 (2), pp. 33-74
An excellent account of the circumstances surrounding the planning application by Trump Organisation written by the Councillor at the centre of the storm.
Letter of 12 October 2010 sent to David & Moira Milne by Dundas and Wilson CS LLP