Overview

• A judicial review began on July 8 as Save Wimbledon Park seeks to overturn the GLA’s planning permission for the expansion.
• The AELTC plans to add 38 grass courts and an 8,000-seat show court on land once occupied by Wimbledon Park Golf Club.
• The Greater London Authority granted permission last September after Sadiq Khan recused himself and the deputy mayor for planning signed off.
• Save Wimbledon Park contends the GLA failed to consider statutory public-recreation trusts and restrictive covenants on the Metropolitan Open Land.
• Cross-party MPs and groups like the CPRE warn the ruling could redefine protections for London’s heritage-listed green spaces.