Jeremy Clarkson has decided to fight back at the council and open his controversial farm restaurant after all.
He plans to appeal West Oxfordshire District Council’s decision to ban his beef-based eatery on his Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds with a hearing planned for March 14.
The council initially refused plans to extend the farm shop car park and ordered Jeremy, 62, to cease trading in his restaurant because the business “continued to operate outside the planning permissions granted” and that “advice has been ignored”.
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The Top Gear star wrote to the council stating he no longer wished to open a restaurant – but has since had a change of heart it seems.
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After only making a measly £144 profit last year, according to reports, Jeremy needed to diversify and wanted to transform his lambing barn into a restaurant serving his own meat.
However, according to his letter, his efforts were “thwarted by the enforcement notice” and he was forced to sell most of his cows.
The car park idea is reportedly a priority for Jeremy as he does not want to turn Diddly Squat farm into “Disneyland”.
He added: “It is, after all, where I live.”
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The runaway success of Amazon’s Clarkson’s Farm meant the previously sleepy area of Chipping Norton is now attracting thousands of visitors, causing huge traffic and parking issues.
To solve the problem, Jeremy applied for permission to open a parking area in an adjacent field but it was refused by West Oxfordshire District Council in May 2022 due to concerns over sustainability and the impact on the surrounding countryside.
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Meanwhile, Jeremy was forced to confirm that Clarkson’s Farm will return for a third series despite reports he’d been axed from Amazon Prime Video.
Following Jeremy’s controversial comments about Meghan Markle in a column for The Sun, there were calls for his show to be axed.
The former Top Gear host reportedly sparked the ire of Prime Video bosses after the controversial column, in which Jeremy suggested Meghan should be “paraded naked” through the streets and pelted with “excrement”.
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Sources claimed that his tenure at the streaming service would not reach beyond 2024, or after the series of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm that have already been commissioned and that he wouldn’t appear in any further Prime shows, however the streaming giant is yet to confirm.
And now, it seems Jeremy’s farm series will be back on screens as he issued a three-word statement on Twitter.
Replying to a fan on Monday (February 13) Jeremy was asked: “I loved it watched it on Saturday that just passed, loved the show can’t wait for a season 3 if there is one.”
To which he simply responded: “There is one.”
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