Developers of an exclusive £25 million golf course and clubhouse on the outskirts of St Andrews insist there is no risk that it will fail to materialise.
Controversial Feddinch golf course is half-built 12 years after planning consent was first given for its construction.
An application has been lodged for renewal of planning consent for its clubhouse, a 41-bedroom hotel with a restaurant and shop and a renewable energy plant.
The green light was given for the 18-hole course in 2004 and although work has started nearby residents have described the site near Craigtoun Country Park as derelict and the project a “lamentable saga”.
In a statement to Fife Council, applicant Scotia Investments LP’s planning consultant Neil Gray, of Rapleys, said: “There is every confidence that the scheme will proceed to completion.”
He said several million pounds had been invested by Scotia Investments already and that the project would remain fully funded.
Creation of the resort, which will have invitation-only membership costing up to £200,000, has been beset by delays.
It was previously intended it would be open this summer but now the Feddinch Club, a new company set up to take it over from Scotia Investments, aims to open in summer 2018.
Delays in construction were blamed on the prolonged ill health of its director, Ewan McKay, and poor weather last year.
It was also stated that a planning condition prevented the clubhouse being started until the course was complete.
Mr Gray said: “Providing good weather conditions prevail in the spring of 2016, the Feddinch Club is confident that the golf course construction will advance to the stage whereby following approval by Fife Council the clubhouse development can proceed in line with (the) condition.”
St Andrews Community Council has objected to the development from the beginning.