{"id":11091,"date":"2025-07-21T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11091\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:51:13","slug":"plans-to-expand-wimbledon-can-go-ahead-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11091\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to expand Wimbledon can go ahead, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"@Allies&Morrison\/AELTC@Allies&Morrison\/AELTC<\/p>\n

The All England Club (AELTC) wants to build 39 tennis courts on the former site of Wimbledon Park Golf Club<\/p>\n

Plans to almost triple the size of the Wimbledon tennis site are set to proceed after a campaign group’s legal challenge against the decision to grant planning permission was dismissed by a High Court judge.<\/p>\n

The proposal which had been approved by the Greater London Authority (GLA) includes thirty-eight new tennis courts and an 8-thousand seat stadium.<\/p>\n

Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) had argued in court the development on the former Wimbledon Park Golf Club in west London was unlawful as the proposed land was protected.<\/p>\n

Deborah Jevans, chairwoman of the All England Club, said she was “delighted” with the decision while the SWP indicated it may challenge the ruling.<\/p>\n

Barristers for SWP told the High Court earlier this month that the decision to approve the plans was “irrational” and should be quashed, as Wimbledon Park – a Grade II*-listed heritage site partly designed by Lancelot “Capability” Brown – was covered by restrictions on how it could be used.<\/p>\n

The GLA and the All England Club defended the challenge, with the court told that the decision was a “planning judgment properly exercised” and that the restrictions were not “material”.<\/p>\n

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SWP campaigners gathered outside the High Court earlier this month to oppose the plans<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Saini said: “In short, the defendant’s decision on the relevance of deliverability, applying to both the statutory trust and the restrictive covenants, was a planning judgment rationally exercised and having regard to appropriate and relevant factors.”<\/p>\n

The proposals would see seven maintenance buildings, access points, and an area of parkland with permissive public access constructed, in addition to the courts and associated infrastructure.<\/p>\n

It would also allow the club to host Wimbledon qualifiers on site.<\/p>\n

Following the ruling on Monday, SWP said it has been “advised that it should” seek to challenge the decision, and that it believed the GLA “did make a significant legal error in the way it dealt with the special legal status of the park”.<\/p>\n

The proposals would see seven maintenance buildings, access points, and an area of parkland with permissive public access constructed, in addition to the courts and associated infrastructure.<\/p>\n

They would also include work on Wimbledon Lake, which would involve building a boardwalk around and across it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"@Allies&Morrison\/AELTC The All England Club (AELTC) wants to build 39 tennis courts on the former site of Wimbledon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-11091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}