Donald Trump at his gofl resort at Turnberry, Scotland. | Getty

Donald Trump loses appeal to block Scottish wind farms

UK Supreme Court unanimously rejects the US presidential candidate’s challenge.

Donald Trump dismissed the Scottish government as "foolish, small minded and parochial" after he lost a court case to stop offshore wind farms from being built close to his £1 billion golf resort in Scotland.

The U.K. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the U.S. business tycoon's case against the Scottish government, which had approved the plan to build 11 wind farms located 3.5 kilometres from Trump's resort.

The Trump Organization said it was an "extremely unfortunate" ruling and it would "continue to fight" the proposal, according to the BBC.

The Scottish government argued that the wind farms would boost the local economy and stimulate renewable energy use.

Trump got approval to build his luxury Trump Turnberry Resort in 2010, with golf courses, conference rooms and luxury lodging. He faced considerable opposition from locals and environmental campaigners before the project was rubber-stamped.

Until recently, he enjoyed the support of the Scottish government, with which he has kept close ties. Trump's mother is Scottish and he has often commented on his Scottish roots. But a series of legal challenges against the government in the Scottish courts and then in the U.K. Supreme Court has soured the U.S. presidential candidate's relationship with Scotland.

More recently, a number of leading Scottish politicians condemned Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and called for him to be banned from entering the U.K. More than half a million people in Britain have signed a petition on a government website to ban Trump from entering Britain.