Clapham Junction Insider | 18 December 2025 | by Cyril Richert "A Lords amendment aimed at clearing the way for Wimbledon’s expansion has fallen, leaving the project exposed to renewed legal challenges — including further cases in 2026 — over public land, statutory trusts and historic community promises." "Following the loss of the first round of legal battles over the summer — and with further challenges looming, including an appeal and a separate trust-related case expecte

From the Wimbledon Park Residents' Association Newsletter, Winter 2025 "Save Wimbledon Park - Eternal Vigilance" This is a tribute to the leadership of our Residents’ Associations and Civic Societies. There are also many, many more, past and present, who have campaigned, attended Council, GLA and Court Hearings, leafletted and contributed to fund raising (from “Here’s £5, I’m sorry it can’t be more” to those able to contribute more). Five years in, the developer has chosen to

Wimbledon Times | 27 November 2025 | Paul Kohler "Much like the protagonists in Charles Dickens’ fictional satire on the English legal system, I fear something similar is happening here in SW19 - due, not to the manifest failings of our civil justice system, but the dogged intransigence of the All England Club. The AELTC is currently facing triple legal jeopardy. The planning permission they were eventually granted by the Mayor of London, after Labour’s Merton’s Council gave

Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) has been granted permission to take its judicial review case to the Court of Appeal . The Appeal Court has decided that the High Court’s decision in July 2025 to uphold the GLA’s decision to grant the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) planning permission requires legal scrutiny. Here is some of the recent press coverage: BBC, 20 Nov 2025 : Wimbledon's expansion plans to be challenged in appeal court: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2l2kl5rl4