There are four parkruns in York – two on the Knavesmire (one for adults, and one for children), one at Heslington, and one at New Earswick.

The city's running community can also enjoy a parkrun further afield at Castle Howard.

Despite Make It York granting parkrun permission, more than 250 events across England do not have landowner permission to return - halting plans for a June 5 return.

The free 5k Saturday morning events are loved by more than three million registered parkrunners across England with around 300,000 people taking part on a typical weekend. 

Opening a small subset of parkruns is not viable, the organisation said.

In ongoing discussions, where landowners were withholding permission, parkrun organisers sought clarification on whether permission would be granted for a later date.

With a number of landowners responding positively, parkrun UK is hoping to resume all 5k events across England on Saturday, June 26.

A decision will be made regarding this new date on Friday, June 11.

Parkrun said many permission requests had been caught up in "unnecessary red tape and lengthy internal bureaucracy at a local level".

It called for a significant increase in permissions between now and the new targeted restart. Parkrun has had legal permission to return from March, as part of Step 1 of the Government’s Roadmap out of lockdown.

Nick Pearson, parkrun's Global CEO, said: “We will continue to work hard with landowners over the coming weeks to secure the permissions needed to return at the end of June. We are incredibly grateful to all of the landowners who have granted events permission to return so far, and for the groundswell of support for parkrun over recent days.

"Although it is disappointing not to be able to return on 5 June, we are still optimistic that we can return parkrun events to nearly 600 communities across England very soon. We will do everything we can to ensure events restart on 26 June.”