{"id":790594,"date":"2026-10-03T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790594\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:00:09","slug":"boxing-and-wrestling-planned-for-yorks-lner-community-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790594\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing and wrestling planned for York&#8217;s LNER Community Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">York&#8217;s LNER Community Stadium has applied to be able to host boxing and wrestling matches, outside the normal sporting seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are among a number of events proposed in a licensing application for the site, which is home to York City FC, York Knights and York Valkyrie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If approved it would allow the operator, York Stadium Management Company, to also host music events and dance performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The application to City of York Council states that the events would be held up to three days a year, during May and June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They would take place within the bowl of the 8,500-capacity stadium at Huntington&#8217;s Monks Cross Shopping Park, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Land next to its west and north stands and north car park would be used when outdoor events within the stadium bowl took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stadium would be licensed for events from 09:00 to 22:30 daily, with alcohol sales permitted from 12:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People can comment on the application until Wednesday 28 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"York&#8217;s LNER Community Stadium has applied to be able to host boxing and wrestling matches, outside the normal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790594","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=790594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}