This is welcome news coming on the damning – but much delayed – SNH report of the damage done by the Trump golf course. Highland Council’s decision to approve the Coul links golf course has now been called in for review. RSPB have welcomed this decision

BBC ‘Scottish ministers are to scrutinise plans for an 18-hole championship course in the Highlands.

About 32 acres (13 ha) of the planned course would be built on dunes at Coul Links, near Dornoch.

Councillors voted to give the go-ahead to the development despite officials recommending that it be rejected. Conservation groups oppose the plans. Planning Minister Kevin Stewart said it was the “right decision” to call-in the planning application. He said: “I have called in the application as the proposal raises issues of national importance in relation to natural heritage issues and its compliance with Scottish planning policy and requires further scrutiny. “It is right that the decision is taken at the national level.”