as outlined in Planning applications 21/P2900 (LB Merton) and 2021.3906 (LB Wandsworth) July 2021 Parkside Residents' Association (More...

Planning legislation requires the planning decision-maker to have regard to relevant “material considerations” when considering an...

Private Eye, 3-16 March 2023 (Tweeted by Fleur Anderson MP) "The All England Lawn Tennis Club's publicity machine is lobbying hard for...

Sports Pro Media. 24 February 2023. Josh Sim "Local council hearings on AELTC’s proposals now scheduled for late April. Wimbledon Park...

The Telegraph, 24 February 2023 (Twitter Link) Even if plans are approved to build on the neighbouring golf club the case is highly...

The Mail Online, 24 February 2023. By Mike Dickinson Wimbledon’s problematic expansion project will finally be heard by local councils in April... but the scheme - which is already a year behind schedule- could yet be hit with MORE delays Wimbledon’s application for its historic expansion will finally be heard in April Planning meetings to consider the application have been continually delayed All England Club want to expand onto neighbouring golf course Wimbledon Park Wimble

The Times, 23 February 2023 . Stuart Fraser, Tennis Correspondent. " The largest expansion in Wimbledon history faces further delays into the 2030s after it emerged that the planning application will not be heard until April at the earliest. Four years after purchasing the adjacent Wimbledon Park Golf Club for £65 million, the All England Club are still navigating the process of receiving permission from both Merton and Wandsworth councils. More than 1,000 objections have be

Evening Standard, 8 February 2023, By Matt Majendie @mattmajendie "In-depth look at the ‘David vs Goliath’ battle over tennis...

Time & Leisure Wimbledon Magazine, Issue 268, February 2023: "It's Not Easy Being Green", page 19 refers to an article on the website:...

Neil Thomson, a Landscape Architect, has illustrated this map of the AELTC (Wimbledon Tennis) Wimbledon Park Project planning...

© Dr D Dawson and Save Wimbledon Park 2023 Dr Dave Dawson, our local expert environmentalist and ornithologist, visits the lake at least...

AELTC applied late last year (2022) to remove 19 trees and "scrub" - apparently jumping the gun in advance of the Merton and Wandsworth...

The Wimbledon Guardian/Times, 6 Dec 2022. Tara O'Connor, Local Democracy Reporter. https://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/23174397.wimbledon-tennis-club-hits-back-calls-stop-plans-new-court/ "The club wants to expand into Wimbledon Park Golf Club under plans that would span 67 hectares between Wimbledon and Wandsworth. The club said the plans, which include an 8,000-seat show court, would bring “substantial public benefit” to the area. But now The Wimbledon Society has call

Watch BBC Politics Live on BBC One, or shortly after on iPlayer, on Sunday 4th December, 10:00, where Stephen Hammond MP and Fleur Anderson MP will discuss the AELTC planning application.

The Mail on Sunday / Mail Online, 4 Dec 2022, Mike Dickinson: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11498869/Wimbledons-200m-troubled-expansion-project-sent-drawing-board.html "Wimbledon’s £200m troubled expansion project could be sent back to the drawing board... as updated plans and complex legal challenges delays major new tennis stadium again Proposed expansion of Wimbledon has already been delayed by over a year Planning meetings to consider the application have n

The Telegraph, 3 Dec 2022: By Simon Briggs. "The All England Club has come under fire from local MPs for its high-handed approach to  the new development site at neighbouring Wimbledon Park Golf Club . Fleur Anderson and Stephen Hammond – who are respectively the Labour MP for Putney and the Conservative MP for Wimbledon – were united in their criticism when they were interviewed by the BBC for Sunday morning’s  Politics London show."... read more (pay wall applies). Also on

Darling Magazine, 1 Dec 2022: " The discussion about the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s expansion plans into Wimbledon Park Golf Club across the road are heating up in SW19. Darling asked both sides of this campaign for their views on the effects they see the completion of the plans as they stand now, would have to the local Wimbledon Park residents and nature within this green space."... read more

Please come to this meeting of the Wimbledon Community Forum (organised by Merton Council), which will be held on 30 November 2022, 19:15...

South London Press / London News Online, 29 Nov 2022. Tara O'Connor, Local Democracy Reporter. https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/wimbledon-tennis-club-hits-back-at-calls-to-withdraw-plans-for-huge-expansion/ "The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) has hit back at calls to withdraw plans for a huge expansion of its famous Wimbledon home. The club wants to expand into Wimbledon Park Golf Club under plans that would span 67 hectares between Wimbledon and Wandsworth. The club said

Tennis Threads: A bumper ballot, a healthy surplus and a relaxed clothing rule for Wimbledon, but Park plans under continued fire Barbara Wancke | Nov 20, 2022 | AELTC "...Elsewhere, the campaign to block the Club’s plans for a major tennis facility on the green space adjacent to Church Road, which was part designed by Capability Brown and is Metropolitan Open Land, continues to grow. The proposal to build an 8000-seater stadium and 37 grass courts for the Qualifying Competi