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Keiser's Coul Links Project (Embo/Dornoch)
Mark Pearce:
After McKenna's not entirely balanced piece last week, The Observer give some praise to golf's approach to sustainability this week: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/mar/24/time-to-follow-golfs-surprising-lead-and-find-different-ways-to-be-green
Niall C:
Mark
Do you mean the Guardian rather than the Observer ?
Bryan
My remarks were more aimed at Lou although I'm fairly sure Lou as a good idea of the courses near Dundonald.
Niall
Mark Pearce:
I think it was published today, so no, I mean the Observer. They share a website. If it was published yesterday then it was the Guardian.
Niall C:
Mark
Thanks, my mistake. I don't think I was aware that the Guardian and Observer were linked in the same way as the Times and Sunday Times.
Niall
Lou_Duran:
Re: my Dundonald comparison to the CL project- it was solely in response to the "gentle" Mr. Izatt who brought up the financial viability of Trump International (he implies that it is failing, I think) to question the financial/economic future of CL. I am suggesting that the much more moderate objectives and plans for CL better resemble those of Dundonald, a single 18-hole golf course with modest hard, fixed infrastructure. TI is about large, upscale real estate development. CL seeks to add a high quality item to a limited menu in that area. That the project enjoys strong local support including from its most likely competitors- R. Dornoch, C. Stuart, maybe even Skibo- suggests that it has a leg up. My comments regarding Mike Keiser have nothing to do with money running roughshod over the interests of the people. Quite the opposite, he has a strong record of investing wisely which very much incorporates careful consideration of his customers and the local communities.
Re: the ever-hyperbolic NiallC's characterization of my views of Scotland- the 51st state, a Soviet puppet, a banana republic- could this be an attempt to draw a distinction without a difference? For example, if the 51st follows in the mode of CA where experts estimate the regulatory cost of a new home is upwards 30% of the total price, does that differ from having to pay Vlad through one of his cronies a similar amount to build a hotel in Moscow? Might there be a reason other than political philosophy why developer Trump gave a lot of money to his pals Chuck, Hillary, and the Democrat NYC political machine? Could these top-down, highly corrupt practices be a good part of the reason why CA and NYC are not affordable for the vast majority at prevailing wages? Want to build along the Costa del Sol or in parts of other former Spanish colonies, get with the ayuntamiento and grease those skids. Visit Mexico for examples of the effects of central planning on real real estate as actually practiced.
It really comes down to private property rights, respect for the law, and who wields control. As I understand, the SSSI designation was imposed on the CL property owners by the central planners without compensation. Perhaps it is not the law in Scotland to fairly compensate those affected by adverse possession. With the shifting political sands, I wonder if someday London or Edinburgh might not see wisdom and necessity in mandating the use of spare bedrooms in private homes to alleviate housing shortages. In Cuba, they just let people stop paying rent and move into temporarily unoccupied homes, permanently. In Venezuela, that other socialist paradise, they closed golf courses to build shanties for public housing, until they ran out of oil money after the government and the military took their cuts from the top. What awaits the Western World? Be careful what you wish for. Don't respect private property rights, delegitimize the framework of laws, abandon common sense and it won't end well. Whew, I might have exhausted the subject matter!
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