Lessons learnt from successful-unsuccessful recent UK new course developments

[Kalen Braley]

Something that might be worth considering:

In the US, you have 10 times more land per head of population in GB.

Not sure if that goes part way to explaining a less strict land planning procedure? I bet it goes part way to giving a different perception.

You just do things BIGGER in the States.

Hmmm....

The US has 9,826,675 sq km of land.  Subtract out Alaska which is basically empty and that goes to 8,108,819 sq km2.
Population of the US (minus Alaskas 737k) is 328,712,562.  That works out to 40.5 people per sq km2


Scotland has a population of 5,438,000 and 80,007 sq kms.  Which works out to 67.9 per sq km2

[Ally Mcintosh]

Well if you want to subtract out the least populous place in one country and the most populous place of the other...


Try doing that the other way round.

[Niall C]

The lesson for foreign investors: if your project depends on clear, stable property rights that are enforced as a matter of custom and law, take your capital and energy elsewhere.  Life is too short to mess with the politicians and there remain many places thankful to have outside money vote with confidence in the future of those societies.

.....and yet Dumbarnie was developed by foreign investors (US) as was Mach Dunes (Australian ?) and Kingsbarns (US) and Castle Stuart (US). Turnberry has just been totally redeveloped by foreign money (Russian  ). Then you have the development of G4 at Gleneagles which was done with middle east money. Balmedie, that's another one (US/Russian ?).

Maybe respecting the host countries laws and planning systems is the way to go ? (obviously I'm not including Balmedie in that last comment  ) I'd imagine all of the above investor/developers looked at the UK as a stable place to invest with it's relatively stable economy, laws and well established liberal democracy but perhaps I'm wrong in that

Niall

[Sean_A]

The lesson for foreign investors: if your project depends on clear, stable property rights that are enforced as a matter of custom and law, take your capital and energy elsewhere.  Life is too short to mess with the politicians and there remain many places thankful to have outside money vote with confidence in the future of those societies.

For anyone with half a brain, they would have known trying to build on the chosen site was a 50 /50 roll of the dice...at best. I spose you can blame the system, but going into the project with one's eyes wide open is the least that should be expected.

Ciao

[Thomas Dai]

In some countries only citizens of that country are allowed to own or co-own businesses and anyone from another country who wishes to develop an enterprise there has to have a local citizen as their sponsor, co-owner etc.

This isn’t the case I believe in GB&I but irrespective of where the money comes from (ref Niall’s numerous comments above), and trying not to be deliberately controversial or antagonistic, but would a new development in GB&I be more likely to succeed if, as I enquired above,

“.... the voices heading or fronting any such project, particularly those dealing with the planning and environmental authorities, local residents, local government, the media etc etc are those of indigenous folks with local accents .. ?”


Atb

[Tom_Doak]

In some countries only citizens of that country are allowed to own or co-own businesses and anyone from another country who wishes to develop an enterprise there has to have a local citizen as their sponsor, co-owner etc.

This isn’t the case I believe in GB&I but irrespective of where the money comes from (ref Niall’s numerous comments above), and trying not to be deliberately controversial or antagonistic, but would a new development in GB&I be more likely to succeed if, as I enquired above,

“.... the voices heading or fronting any such project, particularly those dealing with the planning and environmental authorities, local residents, local government, the media etc etc are those of indigenous folks with local accents .. ?”

Maybe, but that would be based on local politics, not on the regulations.  The regulations should be the same for all inquiries.