Local council drama is one of the most pathetic things to ever watch in real life.
By locals they mean weekend country people who buy a home in a country village and It sits empty 5 days a week.
Area of outstanding natural beauty is a load of bollocks. There’s nothing natural about ripping out all the trees, plowing the wild meadows, killing everything and destroying every habitat and turning it a giant farm where the grounds so dead you need cattle to shit on it to even be able to grow stuff on it. 70% of the country looks exactly like that. Sick of hearing this natural beauty bullshit every time someone wants to do something simple like build a car park on their own land.
I have a really hard time with greenbelt legislation. When I was born my father applied to have the roof raised 10 inches to put in a second floor of our bungalow which was denied because of greenbelt issues.
Fast forward 18 years, I’m working part time in a council down south where the guy in charge of greenbelt/brownbelt explains to me that you can’t build on the greenbelt, but you can re-designate greenbelt then build on it, no problem.
Fast forward another 2-3 years and theres a plan to build 800 homes on the farmers field/golf course practice ground entirely surrounding our house. 10 inches of roof was too much, but 2 housing developments and nearly a thousand homes is fine 🙂
‘Chadlington resident Hilary Moore said on Tuesday that tourists attracted to the farm were “motorheads” who drive slowly on surrounding roads to “show off their cars”.’
This is a first, a bunch of old people complaining about slow drivers …well, well, well, look how the tables have turned.
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The annoying thing about the whole conflict in season 2 is there’s an obvious solution that works for the farmers and the villagers:
Clarkson buys/goes into partnership with a restaurant in the nearest town/more built up urban area that can handle the traffic.
No one even considers this and it’s very frustrating. But I guess the show wouldn’t work without the conflict.
Didn’t Clarkson get in a tiz when people were using a public footpath near his old home like 15 years ago or am I imagining things?
So than people are going to park on the road to visit the farm. They are not going to give a fuck they are clarkson fans.
> The council claimed the car park expansion indicates a change in the use of Clarkson’s land from being for the shop to being for “leisure activities”
So does that mean my local farm shop with car park, cafe and outdoor seating is considered a leisure activity? What about the garden centre too?
Obviously the show gives a very one sided account, but everything I’ve ever experienced about local government suggests it’s an accurate one.
I looked up the councillors from the planning meeting in series 2.
The woman who supported the proposal on the back of it providing needed jobs and supporting struggling farmers- Labour. Lost her seat in the subsequent election.
The ignorant guy- Lib Dem. Local Lib Dems are worse than Tories when it comes to NIMBYism.
That’s Clarkson always looking for TV ideas
“Tonight on pitchforks and handbags we have, in the left corner, from Chipping Norton, the six-fingered Tory voting Penelope-Bonnet Smyth….in the right corner, weight 350 lbs, it’s Farmer and reality TV star Ben “Get orf my tractor Jeremy” Ainslee……gladiators, in 3, 2, 1….FIGHT!!!”
The villagers sound petty and bitter. Surely the farm has raised the value of their homes?
The local council sounds like a bunch of bureaucratic jobsworths too.
“Allowing more vehicles would further disturb the tranquility of the Cotswolds area of outstanding natural beauty, WODC added.”
What kind of selfish nonsense is this? Maybe they also want to implement annual passes for entering/visiting the Cotswolds and limit them to 10 people per year.
tourists attracted to the farm were “motorheads” who drive slowly on surrounding roads to “show off their cars”.
No that’s not how those people work
This area of outstanding natural beauty IS ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE OUTSIDERS ARE NOT WELCOME EVEN IF THEY COME TO SPEND MONEY.
I hope they knock the entire village down and replace the whole thing with one big car park for the only thing worth seeing in that otherwise miserable place.
This a local shop for local people, we’ll have no trouble here.
There does seem to be a lot of petty cunts living in that village. Admittedly he’s bought a lot of this on himself due to his personaility and bad behaviour over the years. Something he appears oblivious to on the TV show.
I live in local tiny villages, the amount time I have been shouted at for walking down my lane is ridiculous. Always 50+ saying I don’t live there
My neighbours used to own a bakery in town did reasonably well but then the council hiked the rates (beofre coivd)
Did lower them or help during coivd and that
Still haven’t lowered it now (same as the companies and landlords that own buildings in town)
So they had to shit it down in mid 2021 ans its still empty as is half the town 🤷.
And speaking to them and others basically the landlords ans councils would pretty rather see places empty then lower rents ect to help business out…
But don’t worry they’ve approved a load of new builds and flats a new aldi and that not near town and in a place that really really can’t handle that many new people.
Pretty much just to line there own pockets
Oh, I love the virtue signaling from all forms of government.
We want to protect the tranquility of the area = rich people don’t want any peasants driving around their houses.
I think they have dedicated teams, that come up with these false pretenses, because some of them might convince some people.
It looks like there’s a socio-political clash between generations going around the area. The Clarkson show is surely a nightmare for well-off retirees, as it threatens their peaceful vibes. These folks have more time and resources to get involved in local democracy, driven by their own interests. They argue about protecting nature and beauty, but sometimes they forget that the future depends on welcoming new generations.
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Local council drama is one of the most pathetic things to ever watch in real life.
By locals they mean weekend country people who buy a home in a country village and It sits empty 5 days a week.
Area of outstanding natural beauty is a load of bollocks. There’s nothing natural about ripping out all the trees, plowing the wild meadows, killing everything and destroying every habitat and turning it a giant farm where the grounds so dead you need cattle to shit on it to even be able to grow stuff on it. 70% of the country looks exactly like that. Sick of hearing this natural beauty bullshit every time someone wants to do something simple like build a car park on their own land.
I have a really hard time with greenbelt legislation. When I was born my father applied to have the roof raised 10 inches to put in a second floor of our bungalow which was denied because of greenbelt issues.
Fast forward 18 years, I’m working part time in a council down south where the guy in charge of greenbelt/brownbelt explains to me that you can’t build on the greenbelt, but you can re-designate greenbelt then build on it, no problem.
Fast forward another 2-3 years and theres a plan to build 800 homes on the farmers field/golf course practice ground entirely surrounding our house. 10 inches of roof was too much, but 2 housing developments and nearly a thousand homes is fine 🙂
‘Chadlington resident Hilary Moore said on Tuesday that tourists attracted to the farm were “motorheads” who drive slowly on surrounding roads to “show off their cars”.’
This is a first, a bunch of old people complaining about slow drivers …well, well, well, look how the tables have turned.
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The annoying thing about the whole conflict in season 2 is there’s an obvious solution that works for the farmers and the villagers:
Clarkson buys/goes into partnership with a restaurant in the nearest town/more built up urban area that can handle the traffic.
No one even considers this and it’s very frustrating. But I guess the show wouldn’t work without the conflict.
Didn’t Clarkson get in a tiz when people were using a public footpath near his old home like 15 years ago or am I imagining things?
So than people are going to park on the road to visit the farm. They are not going to give a fuck they are clarkson fans.
> The council claimed the car park expansion indicates a change in the use of Clarkson’s land from being for the shop to being for “leisure activities”
So does that mean my local farm shop with car park, cafe and outdoor seating is considered a leisure activity? What about the garden centre too?
Obviously the show gives a very one sided account, but everything I’ve ever experienced about local government suggests it’s an accurate one.
I looked up the councillors from the planning meeting in series 2.
The woman who supported the proposal on the back of it providing needed jobs and supporting struggling farmers- Labour. Lost her seat in the subsequent election.
The ignorant guy- Lib Dem. Local Lib Dems are worse than Tories when it comes to NIMBYism.
That’s Clarkson always looking for TV ideas
“Tonight on pitchforks and handbags we have, in the left corner, from Chipping Norton, the six-fingered Tory voting Penelope-Bonnet Smyth….in the right corner, weight 350 lbs, it’s Farmer and reality TV star Ben “Get orf my tractor Jeremy” Ainslee……gladiators, in 3, 2, 1….FIGHT!!!”
The villagers sound petty and bitter. Surely the farm has raised the value of their homes?
The local council sounds like a bunch of bureaucratic jobsworths too.
“Allowing more vehicles would further disturb the tranquility of the Cotswolds area of outstanding natural beauty, WODC added.”
What kind of selfish nonsense is this? Maybe they also want to implement annual passes for entering/visiting the Cotswolds and limit them to 10 people per year.
tourists attracted to the farm were “motorheads” who drive slowly on surrounding roads to “show off their cars”.
No that’s not how those people work
This area of outstanding natural beauty IS ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE OUTSIDERS ARE NOT WELCOME EVEN IF THEY COME TO SPEND MONEY.
I hope they knock the entire village down and replace the whole thing with one big car park for the only thing worth seeing in that otherwise miserable place.
This a local shop for local people, we’ll have no trouble here.
There does seem to be a lot of petty cunts living in that village. Admittedly he’s bought a lot of this on himself due to his personaility and bad behaviour over the years. Something he appears oblivious to on the TV show.
I live in local tiny villages, the amount time I have been shouted at for walking down my lane is ridiculous. Always 50+ saying I don’t live there
My neighbours used to own a bakery in town did reasonably well but then the council hiked the rates (beofre coivd)
Did lower them or help during coivd and that
Still haven’t lowered it now (same as the companies and landlords that own buildings in town)
So they had to shit it down in mid 2021 ans its still empty as is half the town 🤷.
And speaking to them and others basically the landlords ans councils would pretty rather see places empty then lower rents ect to help business out…
But don’t worry they’ve approved a load of new builds and flats a new aldi and that not near town and in a place that really really can’t handle that many new people.
Pretty much just to line there own pockets
Oh, I love the virtue signaling from all forms of government.
We want to protect the tranquility of the area = rich people don’t want any peasants driving around their houses.
I think they have dedicated teams, that come up with these false pretenses, because some of them might convince some people.
It looks like there’s a socio-political clash between generations going around the area. The Clarkson show is surely a nightmare for well-off retirees, as it threatens their peaceful vibes. These folks have more time and resources to get involved in local democracy, driven by their own interests. They argue about protecting nature and beauty, but sometimes they forget that the future depends on welcoming new generations.
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