Statement dated 3 January 2025 Save Wimbledon Park Ltd (‘SWP’) has started legal action to challenge the validity of the Mayor of...

In our continuing campaign to protect Wimbledon Park, and as promised in our message of 30 September, SWP (Save Wimbledon Park Ltd) has...

When in September 2024 the GLA decided to approve the plans of the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) to develop Wimbledon Park, the...

Following the decision by the GLA on September 27 to allow planning to proceed on the heritage parkland, the campaign group, first...

Clapham Junction Insider | 28 October 2024 | Cyril Richert " On Friday 27 September, Jules Pipe, London’s Deputy Mayor for Planning,...

Architect's Journal | 25 October 2024 | Astragal "A former TV soap star has kicked up a racquet over Allies and Morrison’s Wimbledon expansion plans" "Thelma Ruby, who appeared as Lily Dempsey in ITV’s Coronation Street in the 90s, is now the star of the Save Wimbledon Park campaign. She says she is ready to rally over the ‘evil plan’, insisting she will chain herself to a tree and face arrest before she sees work commence on the Grand Slam site. The All England Lawn Tennis

Mail Online | 16 October 2024 | Lettice Bromovsky "An actress has declared that she will chain herself to a tree to prevent the All England Club from carrying out a £200million expansion on the tennis courts at Wimbledon. Thelma Ruby, who has appeared in Coronation Street and on stage alongside Orson Welles and Judi Dench, has lived in a penthouse flat on Wimbledon Hill Road for over three decades. But now the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) has had plans ap

The i  | 3rd October   2024 | James Gray “The All England Club’s £200m plans to expand Wimbledon with an additional 39 grass courts and...

The Standard | 30th September 2024 | Noah Vickers " The plan, which won permission from City Hall last week, will see 39 new tennis...

We are naturally disappointed by the decision taken on Friday by GLA Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe to accept his officer’s report and approve...

There has been extensive press and other coverage of the Deputy Mayor's decision to approve the AELTC's planning application to build...

The GLA's (Greater London Authority's) Stage 3 report into the AELTC Planning Application to build on Grade II* Heritage Wimbledon Park,...

The Standard | 10th September 2024 | Noah Vickers "The fate of a plan to almost triple the footprint of the Wimbledon Tennis...

MyLondon | 17 August 2024 | Harrison Galliven Local Democracy Reporter “We’re not anti-tennis.” To anyone who has interacted with the...

(translated from original Dutch article in NRC) NRC | 4 July 2024 | Danielle Pinedo "Wimbledon announced in 2021 that the tennis...

Zeit Online | 13 July 2024 | Florian Goosmann (Translated) (This article has been translated from the original German publication)...

Time & Leisure | 22 July 2024 | Ellie Holmes "Susan Cusack, SW19 resident and one of the spokespersons for Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) on...

Read the article from Swiss publication Le Matin Dimanche, originally published July 7th 2024.

The Telegraph | 1 July 2024 "Campaigners against Wimbledon's expansion...protests as bumper crowd's arrived for the opening day's...

The Independent | 1 July 2024 | Joe Middleton "...AELTC bought the lease for the neighbouring Wimbledon Park Golf Club for a reported £65m in 2018, and has ambitious plans for the site, which also incorporates Wimbledon Park Lake. It wants to build 38 new courts, including a third show court with a seating capacity of 8,000 and a retractable roof, as well as designated north and south player hubs..." read more about The Independent: Inside the years-long contentious planning