Assumption was credulous in the extreme

Cllr Jane Ann Liston, Letter to Editor, Courier, 22 May 2000

You reported that Dr Panoz is disappointed that the Kingask development will not be ready in time for this year's Open. The answer to that surely is, he should have put in his planning application far earlier.

It was incredibly naive for Dr Panoz to assume that a development of such a scale would pass quickly through the planning system.

Of course, if he had proposed building a hotel on the site of the old steading, as specified in the existing outline consent, and 50-60 bedrooms in size, as specified on the accompanying document, it is quite probable that his application would have had a much smoother ride than it did.

However to have assumed that a hotel of four times that size on a different site, plus all the accompanying auxiliary buildings would be nodded through without a murmur, as he seems to be suggesting, is credulous in the extreme; either that, or, if anyone advised him that this would be the case, he was very badly misled.

Oh and by the way, Dr Panoz, the name of the tournament is simply "The Open" not "The British Open." I fear this is yet further evidence of his being out of touch with St Andrews and North East Fife.