Jeremy Clarkson has been backed by fellow farmers, meals producers and native Oxfordshire residents after his plans to construct a hilltop restaurant had been turned down by the council.

The Amazon Prime star, 61, mentioned he was ‘very’ pissed off after native officers refused his try and construct a brand new restaurant and 70-space automobile park on the positioning of his 1,000-acre Diddly Squat farm close to the quiet village of Chadlington, Oxfordshire.

Mr Clarkson personally attended a gathering of West Oxfordshire District Council’s planning sub-committee on Monday in a last-ditch try and push his plans by means of however seven out of ten councillors voted towards the plans.

The Grand Tour host left the assembly saying it was a nasty day for farmers and labelled one of many planning officers a comic.

However he has discovered assist in his group amongst those that say council planners are dismissive of latest concepts in farming.

Jeremy Clarkson has been backed by fellow farmers, food producers and local Oxfordshire residents after his plans to build a hilltop restaurant were turned down

Jeremy Clarkson has been backed by fellow farmers, meals producers and native Oxfordshire residents after his plans to construct a hilltop restaurant had been turned down

Pete Ledbury, who farms on the North Cotswolds Dairy along with his spouse Emma a couple of miles from the Diddly Squat farm, advised The Guardian: ‘We all know that we now have to diversify to make a dwelling and create extra jobs for the countryside. 

‘Turning down initiatives like this does not assist. I feel it is fairly shortsighted of the planners.’

His spouse Emma mentioned their farm has misplaced 40 of their 100-strong herd of pedigree holstein cattle to bovine tuberculosis in recent times as she outlined the stress farmers are dealing with for the time being.

A litre of milk prices them 32p to supply, and grocery store patrons are at the moment paying them 28p a litre.

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson's controversial bid to expand his popular Diddly Squat farm failed after councillors rejected his application

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s controversial bid to develop his widespread Diddly Squat farm failed after councillors rejected his software

She mentioned: ‘British farming is a large number.’

Clarkson has overcome a few of these obstacles by promoting on to the client by way of a merchandising machine at his farm store.

He hoped to incorporate his personal produce together with milk, cream and butter at his restaurant earlier than his plans had been dismissed.

Fellow Cotswolds resident Max Abbott, who owns Sourdough Revolution bakery in Lechdale, had hoped to provide bread to Clarkson’s potential restaurant.

He mentioned: ‘Jeremy is using individuals, bringing in cash. He isn’t everybody’s cup of tea however what the council is doing appears absurd.’

Pictured: The landscape proposal for Diddly Squat Farm including a 70-vehicle car park

Pictured: The panorama proposal for Diddly Squat Farm together with a 70-vehicle automobile park 

Pictured: The planting proposal for the cafe which would sit just behind his current farm shop on the site

Pictured: The planting proposal for the cafe which might sit simply behind his present farm store on the positioning

Victoria Steffens, who works within the Chadlington village store, says it’s primarily newcomers who’re upset with Clarkson over the degrees of visitors his farming success has delivered to the realm.

Describing the TV character as ‘marmite’, she mentioned she nonetheless helps him to offer jobs within the space and locals who’ve been there for a very long time know the struggles farmers are dealing with. 

In the meantime district councillor Merilyn Davies who supported Clarkson’s proposals, mentioned the plans had been ‘fascinating’ and mentioned officers have to recollect individuals stay within the area and want to offer for themselves.

Greater than 50 objections had been registered with the council over fears of elevated visitors within the village following the success of his hit sequence Clarkson’s Farm.

For the reason that Amazon present’s debut final summer season, tons of of Clarkson followers from throughout Britain have brought about visitors chaos by queueing for hours at a time to get contained in the star’s beloved farm store.   

Since the Amazon Prime show¿s debut last summer, hundreds of Clarkson fans from across Britain have queued for hours at a time to get inside the star¿s beloved farm shop

For the reason that Amazon Prime present’s debut final summer season, tons of of Clarkson followers from throughout Britain have queued for hours at a time to get contained in the star’s beloved farm store 

One neighbour even introduced a authorized problem towards the restaurant plans, alleging that the realm was at risk of turning into a ‘Jeremy Clarkson theme park’.

At Monday’s assembly, Mr Clarkson insisted that he’s merely making an attempt to ‘diversify’ his enterprise and warned that farmers shall be unable to correctly take care of the pure atmosphere due to their funds.

‘Farmers take care of the woodland, they give the impression of being after the hedges, the streams and the fields, they preserve it stunning,’ he mentioned.

‘Farmers will not be going to have the ability to try this for for much longer due to the farmers’s state of funds. We now have been advised as farmers to diversify — that’s precisely what this proposal is.’

Although councillors on the assembly had been cut up over Mr Clarkson’s proposals, native officers agreed to refuse permission.

They argued that the cafe can be ‘out of maintaining’ with the Cotswolds Space of Excellent Pure Magnificence.

Mr Clarkson personally attended a meeting of West Oxfordshire District Council's planning sub-committee in a last-ditch attempt to push his plans through

Mr Clarkson personally attended a gathering of West Oxfordshire District Council’s planning sub-committee in a last-ditch try and push his plans by means of

His pleas fell on deaf ears, with seven out of ten councillors voting against the measures

His pleas fell on deaf ears, with seven out of ten councillors voting towards the measures

Locals are split about the surge in tourism, with some saying it has put the Oxfordshire village on the map and boosted the local economy

Locals are cut up concerning the surge in tourism, with some saying it has put the Oxfordshire village on the map and boosted the native financial system 

Council planning officer Joan Desmond mentioned: ‘By purpose of its siting, design, scale and placement, the proposed improvement wouldn’t be sustainable and wouldn’t be suitable or constant in scale with the present farming enterprise or its open countryside location.

‘By purpose of its design, scale, siting and nature of the use throughout the Cotswolds Space of Excellent Pure Magnificence, the proposed improvement would have a visually intrusive and dangerous impression on the agricultural character, scenic magnificence and tranquillity of the realm.’

Councillor Dean Temple, who represents Chadlington, advised the assembly: ‘With a heavy coronary heart, I suggest we reject this proposal.’

And councillor Elizabeth Poskitt added: ‘There are many much less obtrusive locations the place one may have a restaurant.’

The TV presenter had hoped to transform a lambing shed in-built 2020 after shopping for a brand new flock of sheep to develop the farm enterprise. It has now been merged with one other native farmer’s flock.

Paperwork state that the constructing has since been used, with out planning permission, as a restaurant and a bar space.

Chadlington Parish Council mentioned it held a public assembly in November to determine its view on the ‘divisive and contentious’ software, however a vote was inconclusive.

Marketing campaign to Defend Rural England West Oxfordshire mentioned any new restaurant can be a ‘main incursion’ into the AONB and would ‘spoil the agricultural nature of the Higher Evenlode Valley’.

Mr Clarkson’s representatives had already been pressured to vary transport plans for the scheme with a brand new a method system and overflow automobile park to attempt to appease the mounting variety of objectors.

He had additionally been served with a discover following complaints that the farm store had breached authentic planning circumstances by promoting out-of-town souvenirs.

The council served the contravention discover amid allegations that merchandise bought in its store weren’t grown, reared or produced on the farm, or from different native producers.

If proved, that might be in contravention of a situation of the planning permission in November 2019, the council warned.  

Source: Every day Mail

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