Clarkson's Farm star Jeremy Clarkson 'wins car park battle'
Clarkson's Farm star Jeremy Clarkson has reportedly won a planning battle over the car park at his pub The Farmer's Dog.
Jeremy Clarkson has reportedly won permission to extend the car park at his pub.
The Clarkson's Farm star has been keen to expand the parking facilities at The Farmer's Dog in Cotswolds - the venue which was featured in his Amazon Prime show - because it has been drawing huge crowds of visitors since it opened its doors in 2024 and now The Sun newspaper reports Clarkson has been granted permission to add more space to accommodate all the pub-goers.
The former Top Gear host has rented a nearby field where visitors to the pub can park and applied to West Oxfordshire District Council for retrospective planning permission for the change of use - and the publication reports officials have granted the TV star permission to use the field as an over-flow car park until 31 December 2029.
According to The Sun, Clarkson's team stated in the application: "The Farmer’s Dog started trading just over a year ago and has proven to be very popular.
"There is parking on site, but in order to deal with the level of demand alternative arrangements were made to ensure the safe movement of vehicles and people to and from the site."
It comes after Clarkson revealed that the pub is still struggling to make a profit despite the huge number of visitors flocking through the doors.
In a column for The Times newspaper in December 2024, Clarkson admitted punters taking beer glasses home with them was hurting the pub's finances.
He wrote: "The theft, for example, is extraordinary. People seem to have it in their heads that if they come in for a pint they are entitled to go home with the glass in which it was served.
"Last Sunday 104 went missing. And that cost must be added to the £100 a day we spend on fuel for the generator, the £400 a week it costs to provide warmth on the terrace and the £27,000 a month we must spend on parking and traffic marshals to keep the council off our back.
"It’s galling to see how much effort is required to make so little money on the farm. It’s worse at the pub.
"The customers are coming. There’s no problem there. But turning their visits into a profit is nigh-on impossible."
