Viral video shows car parking chaos at Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm ahead of appeal hearing

Since Jeremy Clarkson took control over his Diddly Squat Farm in 2019, not much has been able to stop him from making a somewhat successful business and a more popular TV show on Amazon Prime, be it Covid-19, Brexit rule changes or a sliced-off thumb.

However, in season two of Clarkson’s Farm it became apparent that his greatest barrier to further his progress with his farm in Chipping Norton was both the locals and the West Oxfordshire District Council.

Although Jeremy was able to appease most of the locals through a town hall meeting and good deeds like sponsoring the football team, the WODC still held their ground against the former Top Gear host not only building a farm restaurant but also creating a car park alongside his popular shop.

Jeremy initially wanted to establish a farm-to-table eatery to support local farms that were finding it difficult to stay afloat after new Brexit regulations and Tuberculosis outbreaks in their animals.

Despite *spoiler* opening his doors to a restaurant at the end of season two, the local council imposed a closure notice meaning Jeremy had to give up his dreams of an eatery for the meantime.

That was until Clarkson’s Farm season two was met with critical acclaim and fans critiqued WODC for the way they handled Jeremy’s plans, leading the Grand Tour host to appeal their decision.

Jeremy’s appeal is going to be discussed in a hearing tomorrow (14 March) and it could not come at a better time as a viral video has shown the car parking chaos at Diddly Squat.

In addition to Jeremy wanting to open a restaurant, he was keen to create a safe car park adjacent to his farm shop to stop visitors parking on the side of the road and wrecking the grass - but the council denied his project.

As Diddly Squat Farm Shop enters its second month of being open for the spring/summer season and ahead of the appeal hearing, a video, which has now amassed 1.5 million views, circulated on Twitter urging the council to allow a car park to be built as queues of vehicles parked on the road’s verges.

The video was tweeted by racing driver Alice Powell, who said: “And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why @JeremyClarkson #DiddlySquatFarm needs a car park!! Parking on a main, busy road and also on private property to get off the road. @OxfordshireCC come on, putting lives at bl***y risk.”

While some sources insinuated that Alice was angry at the hoards of fans arriving in Oxfordshire to visit Diddly Squat, the racing driver then corrected them suggesting that, instead, she is ‘unhappy there is no decent car park big enough for all the visitors to the farm’ and ‘that visitors have to park on a dangerous and busy road and private land.’

With authoritative voices joining the cause, could the council swing in the favour of Jeremy Clarkson tomorrow at the appeal hearing?