{"id":121197,"date":"2025-09-07T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121197\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:24:07","slug":"restrictions-ended-at-under-threat-bradford-cricket-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121197\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrictions ended at under-threat Bradford cricket club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mo Hussain, from Yorkshire County Cricket Club, supported the plans and said the additional use would help the club survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen the demise of many, many clubs due to restrictive models that are unsustainable. Since Covid, playing membership has been in significant decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When the cricket season finishes in a few weeks until April, the clubhouse has no use but costs continue. It is a real existential threat to club finances and viability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, the application stated: &#8220;The proposed extension of use will allow for modest, community-focused activities specifically for members of the community who need person-centred care and support, at times outside of match days to ensure the site remains vibrant and financially sustainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The current membership has changed in terms of diversity and communities where alcohol provision is not the main social activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club no longer relies on this model of income generation. As a result of this, the club&#8217;s realistic way of generating income, is by the hiring of the cricket facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grounds are owned by Willowfield CIO and operated by The Yorkshire County Cricket Club, which took over from the previous committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mo Hussain, from Yorkshire County Cricket Club, supported the plans and said the additional use would help the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}