{"id":396172,"date":"2026-01-29T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396172\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:47:07","slug":"dumfries-indoor-tennis-centre-opening-held-up-by-legal-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396172\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumfries indoor tennis centre opening held up by legal review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dumfries development is part of ongoing efforts to improve access to the sport across Scotland, with indoor centres recently built in Edinburgh and Elgin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it has not been able to meet original hopes of opening before the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The tennis centre is at the final stage before opening and we would expect it to be open within the next few weeks,&#8221; a council statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The operational agreement between DGC and Queen of the South FC is under review by the respective legal teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once this is fully agreed, the tennis centre will open as soon as is practical to allow community groups, tennis clubs and schools in to use the facility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;All parties want people to be playing tennis in there as soon as possible and enjoying the fantastic facility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dumfries development is part of ongoing efforts to improve access to the sport across Scotland, with indoor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396172","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=396172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}