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Aberdeen Central MSP Lewis Macdonald is calling on Alex Salmond to act urgently to get the Donald Trump proposals for a world-class golf resort in the North East back on track.
Mr Macdonald is tabling a Motion tomorrow in the Scottish Parliament which calls on Ministers to deal with any appeal by Donald Trump against the decision to reject his plans as a matter of urgency. This follows rejection of the golf resort proposals last week by the Infrastructure Committee of Aberdeenshire Council.
`Aberdeenshire Council leaders seem to think there is nothing they can do to reverse their disastrous decision to reject Donald Trump's plans to invest in the North East,` Mr Macdonald said today. `They still need to hold a full council meeting urgently to make the views of the whole council clear, and do whatever they can to put matters right.
`At the same time, an appeal to Ministers may well prove to be the only way forward. Donald Trump is understandably reluctant to go into a long and expensive appeals process. I believe the only hope of persuading him to do so is if he is convinced that Ministers will treat an appeal with the urgency it deserves.
`I hope Alex Salmond will recognise the importance of this proposal to Aberdeen city and shire, and that he will agree to fast-track any appeal.`
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
MOTION
Date of Lodging: 4 December 2007
Short Title: Golf Resort Development in Aberdeen City and Shire
S3M-00971 Lewis Macdonald (Aberdeen Central) (Lab):
That the Parliament deplores the decision on 29 November 2007 by the Infrastructure Committee of Aberdeenshire Council to reject Donald Trump's application to develop a world-class golf resort in the north east; believes that decisions of such strategic importance ought to be taken by all members of a planning authority and determined on the basis of the interests of the wider community and Scotland as a whole; calls on Aberdeenshire Council to act urgently to review and if possible reverse its decision, and calls for any appeal by the developer to be dealt with as a matter of urgency by Scottish ministers.
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