The BBC Club sports ground at Motspur Park has been closed, with the loss of all facilities to Club members.  It follows a series of disasters affecting the ground.  This from Ariel:

SPORTS CLUBS LOSE GROUNDS AS MOTSPUR PARK FORCED TO CLOSE

Company running BBC's long established leisure facility runs into
trouble leaving cricket and other teams homeless.

The BBC's sports ground at Motspur Park was closed last week after
Hawkesbrook Leisure Group, which operated the site, went into
liquidation. BBC Property owns the freehold to the site and historically
allowed the BBC club to use it to provide services to its members.

In July 2000, Hawkesbrook took a lease to run Motspur Park as a
commercial venture, which included providing services to the BBC Club,
but the  company has since run into financial difficulties.

Peter Barlow, head of estate management, BBC property, explained: 'We've
taken automatic surrender of the lease. The BBC is back in control of the
site but the club cannot afford to run it because of the operating costs
such as security, maintenance and safety and obviously the BBC can't
spend licence payers money on doing so. At some stage it is likely we
will seek to sell the ground.'

Motspur Park is metropolitan open land and is protected from
development.

Barlow said that the BBC, in conjunction with Hawkesbrook, had been
trying to find another partner to operate Motspur Park, but without
success.

Motspur Park was the home of the BBC's cricket, football, hockey,
railway and rifle sections while other club members used the facilities
from time to time. The club's general manager Sarah Griffin said the
immediate priority was to help the sections affected to find alternative
accommodation.

The BBC cricket section is in mid-season. It operates a Wednesday and
Sunday side and has two Saturday teams with fixture commitments in the
Surrey league. The section's Dave Ogden, a World Service studio manager,
said: 'We are trying to switch our home matches to the away team's ground
wherever possible, but it is not always that easy.'