{"id":306715,"date":"2025-07-31T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306715\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:47:16","slug":"plymstock-cricket-club-devastated-after-vans-park-on-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306715\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymstock cricket club devastated after vans park on pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753966091_383_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.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":306716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948161503938936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}