{"id":484249,"date":"2026-03-19T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484249\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:05:09","slug":"wimbledon-tennis-expansion-land-not-subject-to-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484249\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon tennis expansion land not subject to restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans to almost triple the size of the Wimbledon tennis site have moved a step closer after the High Court ruled the development was not restricted by land-use rules. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) wants to build 38 new tennis courts and an 8,000-seat stadium by developing a former golf course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaign group Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) argued a statutory trust existed under the Public Health Act, meaning the land had to be kept as a public space &#8211; but club lawyers said when AELTC purchased the freehold in 1993, any trust no longer applied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SWP has said it intended to apply to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to almost triple the size of the Wimbledon tennis site have moved a step closer after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-484249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}