Trump’s second golf course clears final planning stage
Plans for a new 18-hole golf course at the Menie Estate by Donald Trump's company were approved by Aberdeenshire Council planners this week as the application completed its final stage of the planning process.
The course is to be named MacLeod after Trump’s Scots mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, and if actually brought forward for construction would be built adjacent to the current course
The area of land already has an 18-hole golf course and a resort hotel which have been constructed.
It is also marked or 36 golf villas, 950 holiday apartments in four blocks and up to 500 houses and community facilities, none of which have been built.
The new course which was first brought forward in planning in 2015 will share the golf house and related facilities currently serving the Menie course and will provide an additional 141 parking spaces.
Several years of wrangling through the planning system saw it brought as a standalone development within the wider already approved masterplan for the site, which was granted on appeal by the Scottish Government.
In September of 2019 it ended up before members of the Formartine area committee who passed the application, with reserved matters passing to planners and the Scottish Environment Protective Agency for resolution and which have now been signed off by both parties.
