The Sunday Times | 29 June 2024 This Sunday Times article "Battle for Wimbledon..." (behind a paywall) highlights some of the issues on...

MyLondon | 27 June 2024 | Harris Galliven "Voters challenged candidates vying for the Wimbledon parliamentary seat at a packed debate. Candidates from eight of the nine parties standing fielded questions from constituents about everything from the controversial Wimbledon Park expansion to Brexit. An orderly queue of residents gathered outside Wimbledon Library on the hottest evening of the year (so far) for a chance to see how their parliamentary candidates would hold up to

The London Society has featured this article on their website blog : Protecting Our Green Spaces - Save Wimbledon Park Campaign .

We were invited by CPRE London, who have actively supported our campaign from the outset, to produce this blog and it is now on their...

Private Eye | June 2024 With Wimbledon looming, the All England Lawn Tennis Club is in full lobbying-mode for its plan to build an ...

Even if you originally objected to AELTC's plans to build over Wimbledon Park Metropolitan Open Land, there is now a 30 day consultation...

The Guardian | 20 May 2024 | Rebecca Tamás "These spaces are crucial for our wellbeing, but cash-strapped councils are being forced to treat them as revenue earners" ... "As we confront a worsening climate crisis, it has never been more important for people to connect with nature, to learn to love it and recognise its benefits, so that they will want to protect it. Yet in the UK, one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, it is getting harder and harder to forge

The Standard | 10 May 2024 | Matt Majendie "Extra four acres of public parkland deemed “tiny” ahead of Greater London Authority decision...

The Guardian 25 April 2024 | Rupert Neate Rupert Neate (The Guardian) describes how AELTC's plans to expand the tennis grounds on to...

Double Fault...

Sports Gazette : Fleur Anderson MP | 25 March 2024 | William Thurtle "The Wimbledon expansion plan would triple the size of the current AELTC grounds - but it's completely divided local residents. Fleur Anderson MP and local resident campaigner Simon Wright put forward their cases in favour of Save Wimbledon Park in this report by William Thurtle." ... read more about Sports Gazette: Fleur Anderson MP

The Times recently published an article by Lord Coe in favour of the AELTC’s expansion. Stephen Hammond MP wrote a swift response to this...

The Times | 14 February 2024 | Letters to the Editor - Gary Forde "Wimbledon upset Sir, Lord Coe says Wimbledon’s proposed expansion can...

There has been extensive news coverage of the GLA (Greater London Authority) decision to "Call In" the AELTC planning application. Here...

Iain Simpson, Chair Save Wimbledon Park, said "Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) is glad to see the GLA’s decision to review this application:...

20 January 2024 | The Guardian | Rupert Neate London mayor’s office to decide on All England Lawn Tennis Club’s proposal to build on park in face of local opposition (Wimbledon awaits ruling on plans to expand tennis championship grounds) "An epic planning battle between the All England Lawn Tennis Club and its neighbours will reignite on Monday when the mayor of London’s office rules on whether to allow Wimbledon to expand on to a Grade II*-listed park. The AELTC, which ha

Merton FOE | 20 January 2024 This an ✨URGENT✨call for action to help Save Wimbledon Park. And YOU can help us! Wimbledon Park is under...

The Standard | 16 January 2024 | Matt Majendie "The Mayor of London’s office has until January 29 to make a ruling over Wimbledon’s ambitious expansion plans . Merton Council finally submitted its decision on Tuesday to approve the plans by the All England Tennis and Croquet Club for 39 new courts, including an 8,000-seater showcourt on the former site of Wimbledon Park Golf Club. The planned expansion spans the borders of both Merton and Wandsworth Council , whose decisio

The Telegraph | 5 January 2024 | Simon Briggs , Tennis Correspondent "Wimbledon Expansion: MPs urge Londoners to reject £200m Plans" "Stephen Hammond and Fleur Anderson, MPs for Wimbledon and Putney respectively, say plans ‘disrespect the protected status of the land’" "WImbledon fear not expanding will see them fall behind other grand slams. The two MPs involved in Wimbledon’s controversial expansion plans, Stephen Hammond and Fleur Anderson, have claimed that the proposed