West Oxfordshire District Council - Witney

David B.

A good case study in the decline in liberal democracy. As a Canadian, the Clarkson's Farm episode where they reject his restaurant application was a somber warning of how bad things can get. I still felt like puking afterwards.

I don't understand how you need to seek permission to put a restaurant on your land. You should have the right to do whatever you want on your land, and if someone opposes it, the burden of proof should rest *heavily* on them to prove there is a compelling public interest reason not to.

Szymon G.

Hillbillies from a shabby English backwater, clearly backward councillors weren’t ready for a revolution in the form of regional development. They seem to have forgotten about dental hygiene too—unsurprising, given the medieval times they appear to still live in. Thanks to Amazon, the whole world now knows exactly what you're like.

Benjamin Y.

Voted no to the creation of local jobs
Voted no to giving a lifeline to local farmers
Voted no to boosting the local economy
Voted yes to keeping the sky dark

The carpet in my dog kennel is more useful than this shower

Congratulations on making yourselves look like utter bullies to millions

Brett M.

Petty and small minded, the worst of small town bureaucracy. Their spiteful decision in relation to Mr Clarkson's restaurant has only hurt the farmers and the community. What an embarrassment this council is to our beautiful country displayed for the world to see. Spiteful local councilors like this, are a bane to many ordinary citizens and hard working brits.

Emma P.

Just adding an actually useful review here, as people who watch dramatised television programmes need to get a grip: we got married here recently and the staff and venue were absolutely fabulous.

Rachel H.

From what I've seen on Clarksons farm the council have thrown up barriers every step of the way, they even said no to a farm track on his land!
So much for supporting local farmers

They have issued a statement saying that this is how they would treat any farmer.. so you would rather see a farmer fail then help them diversify. No wonder Clarkson went behind your back and opened the restaurant. Personally I would have done the same.

Bunch of beige bureaucrats!!

Shane

Got told I wasn't local despite being born in Oxfordshire and living there most of my life... going to school, working ect. Did nothing at all to help when I was homeless.

Victor H.

I understand that Clarkson can "irk" people. Don't get me wrong.

But Christ on a Bicycle, the people here are absolutely Moronic.

They have Little if any consideration for the law and blindly enforce rules that suit them whenever they wish, while using every trick in the book to mess with other people that they have a dislike to.

From what I've read of other reviews, they seem to mess up a lot of normal day to day stuff as well as their apprehensible behaviour towards Clarkson.

They did a good thing by allowing for Emergency construction, but let's be honest, if they had not done that, it would have been too obvious that they just hate Clarkson, that would not have helped them either.

Shame on the WODC. Shame.