Clarkson’s Farm season 6: Diddly Squat farm set for 2027 return planning documents confirm

Following news Season 5 of Clarkson’s Farm will be arriving on screens soon, it has now been revealed the sixth season will air next year - confirmed in planning documents. As Jeremy Clarkson and the team continue their eternal wrangling with the council over parking, information submitted and subsequently made public, has let slip future plans for the Amazon Prime Video series.

The reality TV series follows former Top Gear presenter Jeremy and his crew as they navigate the challenges of running his Diddly Squat Farm near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The fifth instalment of the series is launching on Prime Video in June this year.

After the 66-year-old revealed in his Sunday Times newspaper column in February that filming of the sixth series had been suspended because of the poor weather, it will come as relief to farm fans that they are still ploughing ahead with the show.

The programme, which first aired in 2021, brings to light problems which British farmers face and the costs of running a farm. In 2023 a planning dispute between the TV star and the council over the use of land adjacent to the shop for additional car parking was resolved when a planning inspector granted permission for its use for three years.

Planning documents recently submitted to West Oxfordshire District Council regarding an extension to the agreement also inadvertently revealed news of the sixth run of the hit TV show. Clarkson is seeking an extension until 2030 for the operation of the site and use of the adjacent land for car parking due to the popularity of the farm shop and further commissions of his show.

“At the time of the appeal the second series had just aired and it was renewed for a third series,” wrote a planning consultant on behalf of the former Top Gear presenter. “The three-year time limit was chosen on the basis that if the third series was the final one, then two years of monitoring after airing was sufficient to assess demand.

“It is currently renewed for the fifth series which is yet to air. In light of the continued popularity of the site and associated television programme, we are requesting a further extension of the limited period consents for the use and associated development to provide car parking.

“The inspector clearly identified that the association with a popular current television programme is a unique circumstance which generates a time limited demand. The rationale is clear – at such time as the television programme no longer airs then demand may reduce and the parking required for the operation of the farm shop can be assessed and appropriate provision made.

“Given series five is yet to air we are requesting a new time limit is imposed ending on December 31 2030. Season five will air this year and season six has been commissioned and will air in summer 2027. Three further years to monitor and review thereafter seems appropriate.”

The planning application will be determined at a later date.

Clarkson bought the then Curdle Hill Farm, which sits within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, nearly 20 years ago. After deciding to run the farm himself in 2019, he renamed it Diddly Squat Farm over its lack of productivity.

He then opened a restaurant on the site – allegedly without planning permission – but it was later shut down by West Oxfordshire District Council. Two years ago Clarkson opened the Farmers’ Dog pub, formerly known as The Windmill, at Asthall, near Burford, which sells produce grown or reared by British farmers.

He has become a vocal supporter of farmers and attended a protest in London against the Government’s move to introduce inheritance tax on farmland in November 2024.