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Keiser's Coul Links Project (Embo/Dornoch)
Jon Wiggett:
litterarum vestigia reliquisti :-\
Rich Goodale:
--- Quote from: Jon Wiggett on June 28, 2018, 12:31:23 PM ---litterarum vestigia reliquisti :-\
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semper ubi, sub ubi :)
Jon Wiggett:
--- Quote from: Rich Goodale on June 29, 2018, 07:47:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: Jon Wiggett on June 28, 2018, 12:31:23 PM ---litterarum vestigia reliquisti :-\
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semper ubi, sub ubi :)
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apparently that is not the Scottish way. Or at least as folklore would have us believe ;)
V_Halyard:
--- Quote from: Adam Lawrence on June 28, 2018, 04:25:32 AM ---Ally -- a brave statement to make bearing in mind the fortune Mr Keiser must have made out of Bandon and is in the process of making at Sand Valley and Cabot. Although, you might have a point bearing in mind there's only scope for one course at Coul, it won't be a resort, and the original proposal was that Keiser/Warnock would turn the course over to Royal Dornoch once they had made their money back.
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Agreed. My bet is that the breakeven follows the conservative Keiser model: deliver great golf and the subsequent utilization will determine the scope of future investment. Looking at the original intent of Bandon, the original Keiser model was to build great golf because,... and see what happens, then perhaps turn over to a trust overseen by a "golf organization..." It is well documented that the compound profits and visits came by surprise. Same with Sand Valley. The team knew the golf community was potentially out there but projecting that my pals from Chicago and Minneapolis would travel to Sand Valley >6x/year (hi Morgan!) would have been an irresponsible business assumption. I suspect the projections for Coul are equally conservative and am guessing are built to compliment the "neighborhood" (Dornoch, Brora,Golspie) It is currently a single-course business model. There is ample opportunity for "Collateral Success" across the region, but unlike Bandon or Sand Valley, these courses are already on bucket lists. In this case, unlike Bandon and Cabot, Coul is a new kid on an old block.
Brian_Ewen:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16325672.why-not-report-on-the-coul-links-planning-application-approval/
Why not report on the Coul Links planning application approval?
I READ the excellent piece on The Highland Council North Planning Committee’s ill-considered approval of the application to build a golf course on the locally, nationally and internationally protected conservation site at Coul Links by Kevin McKenna in today’s copy of The Observer.
Then I turned with anticipation to the Sunday Herald to get an informed and hopefully unbiased Scottish perspective on this debacle. Not on the cover. Perhaps pages 5-7 where there are often articles of note? No.
I then carefully went through the paper to find total silence on this vitally important issue. So amazed was I at the missing article that I handed the paper to my wife to check, assuming that I had somehow missed a feature. Still nothing.
This is the most important Scottish environmental planning decision since the Trump/Salmond fiasco in 2007 and has ominous echoes of that development.
Why is the Sunday Herald not calling for something of this importance to be called in by the Scottish Government? Do we fear a cover-up and kowtowing to the might of another American multi-millionaire? I hope not.
David W McAllister
Tain, Ross-shire
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