A huge update has been issued on Jeremy Clarkson’s pub (Image: Instgaram)
‘s pub has had plans approved for a new extension.
The presenter, 64, opened his Oxfordshire country pub in August, but has suffered a number of setbacks since, including complaints from punters about and .
But the former host has finally received some positive news as West Oxfordshire District Council has approved an application for a single storey extension at the watering hole.
The planning officers’ report said: “The proposal is considered to be compliant with the policies identified above in terms of principle, design and in officers’ view conserves the special characteristics of the Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL).
“Accordingly the application is recommended for conditional approval.”
In the application’s covering letter, it said: “This application seeks to provide a modest extension to the south of the building, the new internal floor area is less than 25 square metres.
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The Farmer’s Dog has had plans approved for a new extension (Image: PA)
“It allows internal reconfiguration to improve toilet facilities for all and more efficient cellar facilities. The extension ensures suitable rear access to the kitchens is retained and an external store is also shown to replace existing temporary facilities.
“It is to be constructed with a horizontal external timber cladding and provides a new pitched roof in reconstituted Cotswold slates to replace the existing bitumen flat roof.”
Several planning applications have been submitted since The Farmer’s Pub opened, but no comments were made in objection to these plans.
It comes after Jeremy opened up about the difficulties he faced at The Farmer’s Dog in the run up to the festive period, admitting: “Behind the scenes, then, everything is a total disaster.”
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Jeremy has faced a number of issues since opening his pub in August (Image: PA)
The presenter listed the problems he encountered in his column for , explaining that he’d been “naive” when he purchased the pub.
Jeremy shared an incident which detailed the “horror” scenes in the pub toilets, after one of his employees called him and “made retching noises down the phone” for several minutes.
He said: “No amount of festival visits would prepare you for the horror of what had been produced at the Farmer’s Dog,’ Clarkson said.
“It was everywhere and in such vast quantities that no ordinary plumbing or cleaning equipment would even scratch the surface. So a whole team of chemically trained hazmat engineers had to be employed. That’s a cost I’d never factored into any of my business plans.”