Well, if he thinks he does you should be afraid. This has nothing to do with the absurd “Donald” being American and everything to do with the looming reality that folk will be compelled to sell their homes to accomodate his desire to own an even bigger part of Aberdeenshire.
To recap: Donald Trump wants to build a couple of golf courses on the Aberdeenshire coast. He also wants to build nearly 1,000 “luxury houses” on the site. Apparently the main course is supposed to be the “Geatest Course in the World”. Well, maybe. It is hard to see how the ghastly holiday village can even pretend to make such a comparable claim.
But now the Trump organisation thinks they need more land. Which means they need to buy out a handful of owners who are, rather spendidly, opposed to selling to Trump. Not a problem! Apparently. It seems that all this extra land will, in the end, be covered by a compulsary purchase order.
Yes, really.
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