It seems that the TV presenter and star of the hit Prime Video show Clarkson’s Farm is at loggerheads with the council again. This time it’s over trees. Fans of the show will be well aware of Jeremy Clarkson’s run ins with the West Oxfordshire District Council in the previous series, and it seems it’s happened again.
The 63-year-old, reveals that he had been sent a letter recently by the council in his latest column for the Sunday Times. It was in relation to the new Environment Secretary, Steve Barclay, and his plans to encourage the use of timber to build homes in a bid to curb climate change.
Speaking about his latest row with the local council, he said: “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… “
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He continued: “I recently received a missive from West Oxfordshire district council telling me that my plans to plant some trees must be scaled back.
“I’m not making that up, by the way.” The letter was in regards to Clarkson’s planning application in March to build a new car park with trees and bushes screening the parked cars.
A 3-metre high hedge with some crab bapples and field maple saplings would be enough, a landscape and forestry officer suggested, to which Clarkson commented: “There does not appear to be a need for so many potentially very large trees along the boundary hedging around the car park.”
The Mirror reported that the local councillor Dean Temple commented on his article saying: “Essentially the landscape and forestry office didn’t feel he needed to go that far… I don’t begrudge Mr Clarkson spinning it into a humorous article. I’ve long been a fan of his written work and found his prose a delight. I appreciate the irony he says but I also can see where the council officer is coming on this.”
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