Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat farm reveals expansion details with new application

Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat submitted a new planning application that reveals details of its expansion.

The former Top Gear host had landed himself in a long-running dispute with planners over the site. However, he was granted permission on appeal to use it for agricultural purposes as well as include a cafe, farm shop, parking, and lavatory facilities.

However, as a caveat he needed to submit a site development scheme. The latest application to West Oxfordshire District Council is to 'discharge' this condition by dealing with issues such as use of the lambing shed, mobile unit provisions, picnic tables, lighting, hard surfaces, parking, and landscaping.

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The applicant's agent said: "The lambing shed itself will be used to serve food and drinks, store products to be sold, sell products from temporary stalls, consume food and drink purchased on site and accommodate picnic tables for seating for customers, and for agriculture. The above uses will be accommodated within the lambing shed variously and from time to time but not necessarily continuously."

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The application also confirmed there would be no more than 40 picnic tables on-site as well as zero external lightning on the lambing shed alongside fire exit lighting on the farm shop building. A limited area of paving is proposed to aid wheelchair access between the disabled parking and the farm shop and along the north side of the lambing shed which experiences most foot traffic.

Parking provision will include four disabled-accessible parking spaces with access to the shop building. A further car