Rusacks Hotel Expansion Approved, Home Hole Look To Change

There's only one Home hole in golf and only one Old Course, so it is a little scary that the Rusacks Hotel will be expanding with another six story building. Of more concern is the curious choice to go with a much lighter shade than the existing building, though "traditional materials" have been cited. Perhaps it'll just need 400 years and will blend right in.

From an unbylined BBC report:

The £7m extension to the 128-year-old hotel in the "home of golf" will also include a rooftop restaurant, bar, terrace and glass-fronted suites.

The extension was designed by Scottish firm WCP Architects.

Planning officials were told it would be built using traditional materials in keeping with its location.

Craig Smith in The Courier reports that Councillor Dorothea Morrison was against the project because of the harm it might do to the iconic look of the Links Road stretch.