
A guy nicknamed Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘nemesis’ has set up a fundraising in an attempt to derail the TV personality’s restaurant ambitions, as revealed in Clarkson’s Farm season 2.
The presenter began on his well publicised intention to construct a restaurant next to his farm’s shop in the current series on Amazon Prime Video, taking over the lambing barn to do so.
He spoke with many local farmers in episode five of the second season to see if they might collaborate on donating food for the meal.
The 62-year-old was later called to a council planning meeting to examine which organisations had or had not objected to the proposals.
He then addressed ‘two areas of opposition’ after hearing that they had backing from the Parish Council, the Cotswold Conservation Board, Thames Valley Police, and Oxfordshire County Council Transport, among others.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England was one of several who protested to Clarkson putting up extra lights, despite the police maintaining it was necessary for security reasons.
As for the second – ’The second opponent was a local who had decided to be my nemesis,’ Clarkson said.
‘One of the people in the village, Hamish Dewar, has employed a London planning barrister to submit his objections on the application,’ he explained.
It was stated that in his objections, Dewar claimed that Clarkson intended to build ‘two million square metres’ – a significantly larger number than the truth.
Meanwhile, Dewar explained his objections to Clarkson’s desire to convert the lambing barn into a restaurant in a CrowdJustice fundraiser, writing: ‘I am hoping to raise funds to bring a legal case to ensure that celebrity and wealth alone cannot force through a planning application without the case of those with reasonable, and passionate, objections being taken into account.’
‘The idea to transform the use of the lambing barn into a 50-seat café and restaurant is, in my opinion, problematic in so many ways, and should be rejected,’ he said, emphasising that he had no ‘personal vendetta’ towards Clarkson.
Dewar has gathered over £20,000 since initiating the crowdfund, explaining that £25,000 would ‘provide me an initial fighting fund should this proceed to Judicial Review’.
Clarkson’s Farm season two sees the Grand Tour star establish his restaurant, but it doesn’t go as planned, devolving into a chaotic nightmare.
In July 2022, he announced on Twitter: ‘I’m thrilled to announce that you now have a chance to try the amazing food we grow and rear on my farm at the brand new (but quite rustic) Diddly Squat Restaurant.’
However, it was reported in January of this year that the restaurant had been shuttered due to the difficult planning struggle.
Clarkson’s Farm is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.