Overview

• Save Wimbledon Park launched a judicial review at London’s Royal Courts of Justice this week to challenge the Greater London Authority’s approval of the redevelopment
• The campaign group contends the GLA overlooked 1993 covenants and the land’s statutory Public Recreation Trust status on Metropolitan Open Land
• The AELTC’s £200 million proposal would treble Wimbledon’s footprint by adding 39 new courts, including an 8,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof, and relocate qualifying rounds on site
• Tournament officials and the London Wildlife Trust say the expansion will raise daily capacity to 50,000, modernize facilities, enhance biodiversity and provide new community parkland
• Local opponents warn the plan will involve significant tree felling, increased lorry traffic, prolonged disruption and irreversible loss of green space