One of Oxfordshire’s largest cricket clubs has been told to vacate its current ground in time for next season by the site’s owner.<\/p>\n
Oxford Cricket Club has played at the Oxford University Press Sports Association Ground at Jordan Hill, in the north of the city, since 2016.<\/p>\n
But the club has now been told it must be out by the end of this season, alongside an adjacent bowls club and those using the site’s tennis courts.<\/p>\n
Landowners Oxford University Press (OUP) told the BBC that it was “no longer viable” for it to “continue to upgrade and maintain” the site “in the long-term”.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the publishing house said access to some areas the ground’s pavilion would be “limited with immediate effect”.<\/p>\n
“But core facilities such as changing rooms and toilets will remain open until the whole site closes at the end of September,” OUP said.<\/p>\n
“Those who regularly use and access the site, including external parties, have been informed.”<\/p>\n
The closure would impact other sport groups using the site, including the OUP Bowls Club, the publisher confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Oxfordshire’s largest cricket clubs has been told to vacate its current ground in time for next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636347","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\/636347","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=636347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}