Frustrated Jeremy Clarkson joked he should “join the Masons” in order to receive permission to make improvements to his Diddly Squat farm, in Oxfordshire, after laying into the “not terribly bright people” who sit on council planning desks.
The popular broadcaster, who took over the running of his own farm in 2019, said he “simply can’t get planning permission” for alterations he wants to make and reckons local planners are influenced by “people in the village who wear red trousers”.
Jeremy, 62, said when it comes to his property, “no” is the local council’s answer to “everything”.
