{"id":482545,"date":"2026-03-18T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:32:14","slug":"exeter-tennis-club-urges-council-to-fix-fence-broken-by-fallen-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482545\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter tennis club urges council to fix fence broken by fallen tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A free community tennis club in Exeter is urging the council to fix fencing around its courts after a tree fell down and broke it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The large tree came down at Heavitree Pleasure Grounds during windy weather on 23 January, a few days before Storm Chandra, taking a fence on one set of courts with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">J.J. Pickin, lead coach at Exeter City Tennis said: &#8220;Despite the council locking the gate, people are climbing over the fence. It&#8217;s a matter of urgency that these courts are repaired before someone gets injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter City Council, which own the courts, apologised for the delay to repairs and said it was working to secure a supplier by end of the week, adding it would do all it could to expedite the works within the limits of their control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A free community tennis club in Exeter is urging the council to fix fencing around its courts after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482545","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\/482545","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=482545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}