‘It’s shortsighted’: farmers lament veto of Jeremy Clarkson restaurant

Cotswolds food producers argue case illustrates disconnect between planners and farmers' need to make living

He left the meeting in a right old huff, chuntering that it was a bad day for farming and dismissing one of the planning officials as a comedian, after his scheme to build a hilltop restaurant on his Oxfordshire farm was flatly turned down.

But Jeremy Clarkson, petrolhead turned farming reality TV show star, may be heartened by the concern and interest in his case that rippled through the Cotswolds this week.