{"id":35997,"date":"2025-07-31T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35997\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:52:09","slug":"plymstock-cricket-club-devastated-after-vans-park-on-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35997\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymstock cricket club devastated after vans park on pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753964407_493_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/79cb5c60-6dee-11f0-a892-515a56809149.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Lee Garlick A picture of the vans parked on the large grass field. A number of vans can Be seen parked on the grass in the distance. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Lee Garlick<\/p>\n<p>Plymouth City Council had issued a 24-hour notice to quit on site<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A cricket club on the outskirts of Plymouth said the news of vans parking on their pitch is &#8220;heart-breaking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police said they had been made aware of an unauthorised encampment at Dean Cross in Plymstock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Plymouth City Council had issued a 24-hour notice to quit on site, which was due to expire at 16:30 BST on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Plymstock Cricket Club said it had to cancel everything going on at the club \u201cfor the foreseeable future&#8221;, with the tennis and football teams also affected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In a statement, Devon and Cornwall Police added: &#8220;We are aware of an unauthorised encampment at Dean Cross, Plymstock and are liaising with the council in relation to this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Officers have attended the site and engaged with the group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Massive step backwards&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The club added: &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely heart-breaking as we have recently put a lot of effort into improving our pitch and facilities and this is going to be a massive step backwards.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We have been in touch with the council and MP regarding this and hope that they can be moved on soon as this is a very active sports facility used by many in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A council spokesperson said they know this is an area valued by residents, and staff visited alongside police on Tuesday morning to begin the legal process of eviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The BBC has contacted the council for an update on the situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Garlick Plymouth City Council had issued a 24-hour notice to quit on site A cricket club on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35997","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\/35997","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=35997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}