Clarkson's Farm fans have been queuing up for two-and-a-half hours to get inside his Diddly Squat Farm Shop.

Visitors are flocking to the store in Chadlington, near Chipping Norton, from across the UK with two from Yorkshire saying: "We wouldn't have come if he hadn't put it on the map."

Two men visiting from Peterborough told ITV: "We saw it on TV obviously and love Jeremy Clarkson, so I thought we'd head over and have a look and took the dog with us."

Mr Clarkson has applied for planning permission to develop the site.

He wants to make external alterations to an existing building to provide new rear access door and replace existing fabric roller shutters and gates with new solid roller shutter doors and to make alterations to timber cladding to close gaps.

The council said it has no objections but, if approved, “this should not confirm a change of use status for this agricultural building”.

They pointed that in November 2020 an application had been made to convert a lambing shed adjacent to the shop into a café and in February 2021 for a licence to sell alcohol and provide entertainment.

They added: "The parish council remains concerned regarding the effect of the incremental development at this location, both upon the local community, its existing shops and an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB).

"The number of cars currently visiting this site is already substantial, often filling the existing available parking space and overflowing onto the Chipping Norton Road, which is hardly desirable in an AONB and creates a significant risk that accidents will occur."

Villagers are divided over the impact of the shop with the latest application drawing roughly equal amounts of supportive comments and objections.

Butcher Tom Dean told ITV: "A few people are welcoming to it, because it brings more new faces to the area and gets the Chadlington name out there.

"But there are also a few people that aren't as keen."

In June, police were called out after huge queues formed near the farm and furious local residents took to social media to complain about the traffic.

One villager wrote on a community Facebook page: "Avoid going anywhere near Diddly Squat Farm Shop, whole road is blocked again, but worse, there are people stopping on the 60mph bend with nowhere to go."

Another commented: "I've just seen pictures that someone else has posted.

"Utterly ridiculous.

"Clarkson needs to do something and quickly. It's going to cause an accident! Queues all up Burford Road."