The Mail on Sunday: “Wimbledon’s £200m troubled expansion could be sent back to the drawing board”

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 now been put back again 

• The Wimbledon Society are now calling for the whole plan to be resubmitted

Wimbledon's dream of building a major new stadium and an extra 38 tennis courts has hit more problems and delays, with the scheme falling further behind schedule.

Council planning meetings to consider the huge application have now been put back again, to February at the earliest, after a slew of new documents were submitted to Merton Council by the All England Club.

The Wimbledon Society, one of numerous local organisations objecting to the project, are now calling for the whole plan to be resubmitted, effectively to start all over again."...read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11498869/Wimbledons-200m-troubled-expansion-project-sent-drawing-board.html