JEREMY CLARKSON
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The Sunday Times
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I don’t want to sound King Charles-ish about this, but I can’t help wondering if the nation’s town planners might be a bit thick. Because I’m not sure if they have even half an idea about what a town is for. When I moved to Chipping Norton 30 years ago, it was great and very King Charles-ish indeed. There really was a butcher and a baker and a candlestick-maker. And there was a factory that made Dralon armchairs. So the people had jobs and shops and they were surrounded on all sides by pretty Cotswold countryside. It was perfect.
But it isn’t any more. Someone at the lodge decided a few years ago that Chipping Norton needed 800 million new houses. So the Parker Knoll
