Jeremy Clarkson faces setbacks ahead of Clarkson’s Farm season two as plans to expand his Cotswolds farm are hit with a further blow.
The TV presenter recently had his planning application denied by West Oxfordshire District Council after requesting to build a 60-seat restaurant.
He has now faced even more seat backs as his new planning application for a 70-space car park for his farm shop has been put on hold after police claimed it is a potential “crime and disorder” site, Mail Online reports.
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The 61-year-old wants to build a cycle park, storage compound and landscape the entire area surrounding the shop and café, creating a sort of eco-park.
© Amazon Prime Jeremy Clarkson could be facing more bad news at a meeting next week
This will include an ‘infiltration pool’ and nine types of trees, 12 varieties of shrubs and ten styles of hedgerows, with 1,569 plants surrounding the site.
Since his hit Amazon Prime reality show first aired his Diddly Squat Farm quickly became popular among his fans who wasted no time visiting the farm – however it caused two-hour long traffic jams for locals.
Locals have previously complained that he’d expanded, with one saying: “There is already a significant problem with the number of visitors coming from far afield to visit the farm shop, which sells hats, aprons, T-shirts and candles and makes a point of not selling kale.”
© Getty Images Jeremy Clarkson and partner Lisa Hogan
However, Clarkson claims the new plans for a car park will “serve to aid the flow of traffic in the vicinity of the site entry and exit points on Chipping Norton Road and will alleviate pinch points within the site which together, with the provision of additional parking capacity, will ease congestion.”
To ease local fears of light pollution, the car park will be open the same hours as the farm store, 9.30am to 4.30pm, Wednesday to Sunday, and closed in January and February.
But Kevin Cox, Thames Valley Police Crime Prevention Design Advisor, slated the plans and told the local council he had “concerns that it may be vulnerable to crime and antisocial behaviour”.
“Currently I do not feel this application adequately considers the potential for crime and disorder,” he said.
He continued: “Planned broadcasting of the next series of the programme is filmed at the location, may lead to repetition of the highway disruption and subsequent safety issues seen previously.”
He also recommended that gates be added to the entrance and exit and that the car park has CCTV as well as recommending a meeting with Clarkson.
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