Plans lodged for £480 million ‘five-star’ golf resort near Dundee
A planning application has been lodged for a “five-star” golf resort near Dundee.
Plans were revealed earlier this year for the £480 million Brae of Angus development at Wellbank, near Forbes of Kingennie in Angus.
The proposals include an 18-hole championship golf course, golf academy, country club with gym, swimming pools and spa, and what could become Angus’s first five-star hotel.
More than 180 housing plots are also part of the plans.
The 350-acre site at Shank of Omachie was recently bought by Angus Land Company Ltd (ALC).
Private investment company Mocca Capital is now working in partnership with Castle Properties, an established international developer with a history of delivering similar successful mixed-use projects, to progress the development.
A proposal of application notice – the first stage of the planning process – was submitted to Angus Council earlier this year.
Now, the development has moved to the next stage with an application for planning permission in principle.
No documents have yet been published with the application, but it outlines proposals for a “hotel, including hotel townhouses, corporate and fractional lodges, spa, conference facilities, 18-hole golf course, golf performance centre, golf academy and shop, golf driving range, golf and country clubhouses, training and kitchen preparation, staff accommodation, housing and associated uses, landscaping, access and all associated infrastructure works”.
If approved, the developers will need to lodge an application for full planning permission, which will set the proposals out in detail, before work starts.
Plans for a golf resort on the same land stretch back as far as 2009, but previous proposals have never come to fruition.
ALC says the project will bring significant economic benefits to the community and create numerous jobs.
The application will be considered by the local authority in the coming months.
This article appeared in the Courier on 6 November 2026