Putney News: Wimbledon Park: what the High Court ruling actually means – and what happens next

Putney News | 20 March 2026 | Kieren McCarthy

Planning challenge, Lords amendment and Merton covenant all unresolved after Thursday’s ruling.

"The All England Lawn Tennis Club won yesterday’s High Court ruling by a wider margin than almost anyone expected. But Save Wimbledon Park’s response, issued within hours, reveals a fight that now has more fronts than a single court case, and one of those fronts moves to the House of Lords within weeks.

Yesterday’s judgment resolved one question. At least three significant obstacles to the development remain. And the legal picture is more complicated than either side’s public statement suggested." ...read more about Putney News: Wimbledon Park: what the High Court ruling actually means – and what happens next