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Everything Jeremy Clarkson can and can’t do at Diddly Squat Farm after huge win against the council

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Published 11:57 16 May 2024 GMT+1

Everything Jeremy Clarkson can and can’t do at Diddly Squat Farm after huge win against the council

Clarkson's Farm season three saw Jezza score a huge win against West Oxfordshire District Council

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Earnshaw

The third season of Clarkson's Farm saw Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa Hogan celebrate a huge win against West Oxfordshire District Council.

Ever since Jezza took over the full-time running of Diddly Squat Farm back in 2019, he's had issues with the local council over his ambitious plans to diversify the 1,000-acre plot's income streams.

From the opening of a farm shop to an al fresco restaurant and more recently, growing mushrooms and rearing pigs, Clarkson has explored what feels like countless avenues in his attempts to make Diddly Squat profitable.

At the beginning of the season three, Jeremy is handed an enforcement notice by the council which says he must shut down the Diddly Squat Farm restaurant immediately.

But he doesn't take the decision lying down, appealing it to the government's national planning inspectorate.

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This was alongside an appeal to extend a car park at the farm in Chadlington to stop people parking on the main road outside the farm shop and causing traffic issues.

After a two day hearing, the planning inspector gave his decision on both matters in June last year.

Diddly Squat Farm (Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Diddly Squat Farm (Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Diddly Squat Farm restaurant

The second season of Clarkson's Farm shows Jeremy open a restaurant in an old lambing shed already constructed on Diddly Squat Farm. After being refused permission to build a restaurant, he said he used a 'loophole' in planning law to open within the existing building.

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This was swiftly shut down by the council's enforcement notice, saying it had rejected the plans due to it having a 'significant impact on the local community'.

With the matter sent before the planning inspectorate, planning inspector R J Perrins ruled that the restaurant cannot reopen in the lambing shed.

Perrins said that the restaurant had 'resulted in harm' to the local area and was rejected in order to 'protect the intrinsic character of the area and landscape; to conserve the natural beauty, scenic beauty and landscape of the AONB [Area Of Natural Beauty]'.

Inside the Diddly Squat Farm Shop (James D Morgan / Getty)
Inside the Diddly Squat Farm Shop (James D Morgan / Getty)

Farm shop, parking and cafe

The second part of the appeal was about the farm shop, parking and toilet facilities on site, and the presence of a cafe on the farm.

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Clarkson had argued that the parking and toilet was a necessity for people visiting his farm shop due to it being an immediate success; something the council ended up agreeing with.

He said that the parking issues on the main road next to the car park were exactly why the car park on site was needed.

Making a decision, the planning inspector gave Jeremy a huge green light on all above matters. Perrins ruled that he would grant planning permission for the extended car park; something we see being built in season three. He ruled Diddly Squat had become a 'victim of its own success'.

In doing this, Perrins also granted permission for the land to be used as 'mixed-use', giving a thumbs up to the farm shop, toilet facilities, and a cafe.

The farm shop is incredibly popular (Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The farm shop is incredibly popular (Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Clarkson's reaction

The third season of Clarkson's Farm captures the very moment Jeremy receives the planning inspector's decision.

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"We've won the appeal," a jubilant Clarkson says to Lisa.

"Point 41... I shall for the purposes of clarity and understanding - this is the planning inspector - correct the allegation to a change of use of a mixed-use comprising agriculture, cafe, restaurant, farm shop, parking and lavatory facilities.

"This is the biggest f*** you to the council ever."

Featured Image Credit: Qian Jun/MB Media/Getty Images/Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Topics: Clarkson's Farm, Jeremy Clarkson, Politics, Business, Food And Drink, UK News

Tom Earnshaw
Tom Earnshaw

Tom joined LADbible Group in 2024, currently working as SEO Lead across all brands including LADbible, UNILAD, SPORTbible, Tyla, UNILAD Tech, and GAMINGbible. He moved to the company from Reach plc where he enjoyed spells as a content editor and senior reporter for one of the country's most-read local news brands, LancsLive. When he's not in work, Tom spends his adult life as a suffering Manchester United supporter after a childhood filled with trebles and Premier League titles. You can't have it all forever, I suppose.

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