{"id":405832,"date":"2025-09-07T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405832\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:01:13","slug":"restrictions-ended-at-under-threat-bradford-cricket-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405832\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrictions ended at under-threat Bradford cricket club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mo Hussain, from Yorkshire County Cricket Club, supported the plans and said the additional use would help the club survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen the demise of many, many clubs due to restrictive models that are unsustainable. Since Covid, playing membership has been in significant decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When the cricket season finishes in a few weeks until April, the clubhouse has no use but costs continue. It is a real existential threat to club finances and viability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, the application stated: &#8220;The proposed extension of use will allow for modest, community-focused activities specifically for members of the community who need person-centred care and support, at times outside of match days to ensure the site remains vibrant and financially sustainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The current membership has changed in terms of diversity and communities where alcohol provision is not the main social activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club no longer relies on this model of income generation. As a result of this, the club&#8217;s realistic way of generating income, is by the hiring of the cricket facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grounds are owned by Willowfield CIO and operated by The Yorkshire County Cricket Club, which took over from the previous committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mo Hussain, from Yorkshire County Cricket Club, supported the plans and said the additional use would help the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405832","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\/115164327865014487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405832","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=405832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}