The former Top Gear presenter, 62, wrote to West Oxfordshire District Council to say he 'no longer wished' to open the dinning venue, but defended his plans for the site saying he did 'not want to turn Diddly Squat Farm into Disneyland'.
Now he says he has dropped his plan for the restaurant altogether. Writing to the council to explain the idea behind the plans, he said:"On the farming front, I had read about something called mob grazing.
"The problem was that if I sold the cows in the conventional way, I'd lose about £200 on each one. So I decided that to make a profit, the beef should be cooked and served in a restaurant, which I'd create by converting our lambing barn. "As a result of this, I've had to sell most of the cows I bought. And now I'm back to using chemicals. I no longer wish to open a restaurant."as part of an appeal by Clarkson against the authority's decision to reject his planning application.
He wrote in his letter:"We do not wish to expand the on-site businesses any further. We are perfectly happy with what we have."A little shop, and the lambing barn, which can be used for lambing in the spring and as a place for people to sit in the summer while they have food and a glass of our own beer from the mobile van."Contrary to some of the claims being made, I do not want to turn Diddly Squat Farm into Disneyland. It is, after all, where I live.
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