A walkway around the lake and covenants never to develop were agreed, but this sale failed to overturn

To mitigate this, Merton Council entered into Covenants with AELTC not to develop the land for anything relying on a legal technicality that as the lease still subsists, they have no need to comply with the Covenants

planning policy requires the refusal of permission. 7) The Public Trust status of the land, and of the Covenants

Indeed, at the time, that undertaking was enshrined in a legal covenant. (For reasons that are hard to understand, Merton Council have so far declined to enforce that covenant Currently, the territory in question is a series of gentle, tree-covered hills.

It's also part of another legal action to determine wheth­er the AELTC's proposal violates a covenant The group has raised around £200,000 from a crowdfunding campaign to cover legal costs and around 22,000

centred around a proposed 8,000-seater “Parkland show court”, which opponents say would contradict a covenant

Wimbledon Park has taken legal action against City Hall's decision to approve the expansion citing covenants

The land has been sold to the club by Merton Council with a strict covenant restricting its use to leisure

On 26 October, there was a huge demonstration, covered by BBC1 & ITV before the Merton Planning Committee All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) on 27th October questioning how they would comply with the 1993 Covenants On 21 November, another huge demonstration was covered by ITV, BBC and other press outside Wandsworth

It “may only be used for recreational purposes or as open space,” a covenant states. when the AELTC came up with expansion plans in 2021, despite the almost thirty-year-old promise in the covenant And the covenant? “That was drawn up in good faith at the time,” he says. Bij eerdere plannen voor een schuifdak boven het Centre Court en baan 1, gebeurde dat wél. En het convenant? „Dat is destijds in goed vertrouwen opgesteld”, zegt hij.

the Golf Club land from Merton in 1993, the AELTC gave legal undertakings in the form of restrictive covenants land would not be developed and which limited its use - yet the application’s proposals ignore those covenants

to challenge the previous High Court decision that the former golf course in Wimbledon Park is not covered