Jeremy Clarkson collared by council AGAIN as Clarkson's Farm star dumbfounded by latest Diddly Squat spat
Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat farm is located near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire
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Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he's been sent a new missive by West Oxfordshire District Council due to his plans at Diddly Squat farm.
The Grand Tour star is no stranger to finding himself at loggerheads with the local council over his plans for his Chipping Norton farm as documented throughout the Amazon Prime Video series, Clarkson's Farm.
Over the course of two seasons so far, viewers have witnessed Clarkson go toe to toe with council authorities over issues such as the roof on his farmshop as well as the expansion of a Diddly Squat car park.
In season two of the show, fans got to witness firsthand the struggle Clarkson faced to build a restaurant on his property after the council voted to put a stop to his plans to convert his lambing barn.
When he decided to convert a different pre-existing barn on the farm to an eatery, he and his land agent Charlie Ireland were both flabbergasted to discover the council had put a stop to his plans to build a farm track on his farm to said barn.
Clarkson's latest demand from West Oxfordshire District Council isn't to do with another shop, restaurant, or other money-making scheme, but rather the fact he planned to plant more trees on his property.
Jeremy Clarkson and Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper have starred throughout two seasons of the Amazon show
AMAZONThe former Top Gear host explained all in his latest column where he criticised Environment Secretary Steve Barclay's plans to encourage the use of timber in the building of new homes.
The government announced its plans and a roadmap to see more new homes built from wood in its bid to curb climate change ahead of COP28.
"Increased timber construction in England is an opportunity to increase demand for homegrown timber, driving more domestic tree-planting,” officials said in the roadmap after they'd collaborated with industry and academia professionals.
But that message wasn't relayed to Clarkson who wrote in his Sunday Times column: "I recently received a missive from West Oxfordshire district council telling me that my plans to plant some trees must be scaled back."
Seemingly dumbfounded by the demand, Clarkson continued: "I’m not making that up, by the way."
He went on to ridicule the prospect of wooden homes as he surmised: "The upshot is that if we can find people to plant trees, and we can’t, and the trees survive, which they won’t, then what?
"We start building little wooden houses, like beach shacks, for families to live in. I find that incredibly defeatist but tragically, indicative of the times...
"I have a better idea. Let’s not. Let’s use stone instead because there’s a limitless supply. You’re literally standing on it every time you go outside.
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"And it can’t be eaten by deer or squirrels or worms, and contrary to what Steve Barclay might think, it’s an environmental irrelevance because it’s inert."
GB News has contacted West Oxfordshire District Council for comment.
Fans will be able to witness much more of Clarkson's rollercoaster time running Diddly Squat when the third season arrives next year.
And there's plenty more Diddly Squat drama to come as Clarkson shared an "important announcement" about the show's future earlier this month.