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Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop was ruled by West Oxfordshire District Council to be incompatible with its countryside location. The countryside location is a farm. Those are close to their own words. The nature, scale and siting of the operation was found to be unsustainable and incompatible with its countryside location within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The building at the centre of it was a lambing shed. Built for lambs. In a field. Next to other fields, which contain sheep, which is what the shed was for. The council's other findings, over three years of this: - A farm shop may not sell food grown more than sixteen miles away. - A lambing shed may not become a restaurant. - A car park for the people who come anyway was refused. - Six weeks was judged ample to put the barn back the way it was. Sixteen miles. Meanwhile the supermarket eleven miles down the road sells Peruvian asparagus, Kenyan beans and Brazilian beef, and no council has ever drawn a circle round it. And consider what the Cotswolds actually are. Stone walls, stone barns, cropped green hills. It looks the way it looks because for a thousand years men kept animals on that ground and built things out of the rock underneath it. The beauty under protection here was manufactured, slowly, by farming. Every wall in the view was put there by somebody doing precisely what the council has now determined is out of keeping. They are not protecting the countryside from industry. They are protecting a picture of the countryside from the countryside. The shed offended nobody while it held sheep. It became an eyesore the day somebody put a till in it.