Donald Trump’s hopes of creating a “world class” coastal retreat on the west coast of Scotland have been dealt a major blow after Scottish Government officials rejected his company’s calls for a change to planning policies.

The Trump Organisation has spent years attempting to develop swaths of farmland around its flagship international golf resort at Turnberry, with plans to build hundreds of luxury properties, leisure facilities, and shops by the Firth of Clyde coastline.

In a development aimed at wealthy golf enthusiasts and retirees, architects enlisted by the former US president’s drew up a masterplan detailing hundreds of “high end” private houses which, they said, would provide “permanent tranquillity and respite,” while also helping meet what it described as “an ever increasing demand for investment opportunities”.

Donald Trump to pursue Turnberry expansion despite Scottish Government planning setback