Kent and Surrey BylinesJul 15, 2025

Wimbledon is divided over the All England Club's plans to expand onto heritage parkland - the four year dispute has now reached the High Court | Hannah Thomas

#Wimbledon #AELTC #SWP #SaveWimbledonPark #HighCourt #WimbledonPark #TheChampionships #Championships #Wimbledonexpansion #epsom
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Wimbledon residents challenge All England Club’s expansion plans

Wimbledon is divided over the All England Club's plans to expand onto heritage parkland - the four year dispute has now reached the High Court

Kent and Surrey Bylines - Powerful Citizen Journalism
Ian StrongeOct 27, 2023

#Wimbledon
#planningUK

Money (esp #BusinessRates) trumps #PublicAmenity (incl #CapabilityBrown) & diminishes the adjoining public #WimbledonPark

#AELTC already creams all the annual #TouristReceipts apart from a few #DrivewayEntrepreneurs selling snacks to entry queues

As for employment, tournament stewards are just #TempJobs for 2 weeks

#Merton site is at the border with #Wandsworth so their councillors didn't get a vote

No #housing, not even tied housing...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/27/controversial-plans-to-expand-home-of-wimbledon-tennis-agreed-by-council

Controversial plans to expand home of Wimbledon tennis agreed by council

All England Club wins backing of councillors to expand site in London SW19

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Friends of Wimbledon ParkMar 23, 2023
#WimbledonPark at threat from development, despite being #MetropolitanOpenLand and protected by covenants signed in 1993 by Merton and #AELTC, who’re are the ones that now plan to build on it, because “times have changed” !
https://www.savewimbledonpark.org
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Learn about Save Wimbledon Park - a campaign to save this Grade II Heritage, Capability Brown Designed, Metropolitan Open Land from over development by the AELTC Wimbledon Park Project.

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Save Wimbledon ParkFeb 2, 2023
See this map savewimbledonpark.org/post/map https://www.savewimbledonpark.org/post/map-illustrating-aeltc-plans illustrating the #AELTC (Wimbledon Tennis) plans to build all over #WimbledonPark Metropolitan Open Land that they bought from #Merton Council in 1993 and promised not to build on and even signed covenants saying that they would not build on it. Their excuse to apply for planning permission to bulldoze and build all over it now ? “Times have changed”.
Map illustrating the AELTC Plans to Build on Wimbledon Park

Neil Thomson, a Landscape Architect, has illustrated this map of the AELTC (Wimbledon Tennis) Wimbledon Park Project planning application to build extensively on Wimbledon Park (on what used to be the golf course), including new buildings, paths, roads, entrance plazas and drainage features. On Capability Brown’s Grade II* historic and highly protected Metropolitan Open Land they plan an 8,000-seat stadium, 38 courts, 10 other buildings and 9kms of roads and paths. They propose a new AELTC pr

Save Wimbledon Park
Save Wimbledon ParkJan 28, 2023
Little Egrets once hunted to extinction in Europe, now protected, are returning. The first one was seen at #WimbledonPark lake in 2019 and may breed. They can be seen perched up in old Crack Willow #trees that #AELTC plan to destroy. Help save the Little Egrets, Herons, #trees and all of the nature that lives in #WimbledonPark by signing the petition www.SaveWimbledonPark.org #rspb #BirdsOfTwitter
Show threadFriends of Wimbledon ParkJan 18, 2023
@SaveWimbledonPark Great to see that Merton Council acknowledge that #WimbledonPark including the golf course (all part of the same Metropolitan open land) is a “#conservation area”, “protected #heritage landscape” and that “the retention of existing #trees helps to protect against #climate change”!
Save Wimbledon ParkJan 4, 2023
The first 8cm of soil supports the majority of terrestrial life: https://twitter.com/savewimbldnpark/status/1609625650532319233?s=61&t=s5D6hOI0F7ZUs6HAlawdOw
Precisely why stripping between 1 metre to 9m of soil from almost the entire golf club lands of #WimbledonPark will do irreversible damage to #biodiversity and the #environment.
www.SaveWimbledonPark.org
SaveWimbledonPark on Twitter

“Precisely why stripping between 1 metre to 9m of soil from almost the entire golf club lands of Wimbledon Pk will do irreversible damage to biodiversity and the environment. Pls @SaveWimbldnPark @Merton_Council @wandbc @FoWimbledonPark @WimSoc @Mike_Dickson_DM @MikeHudema #fact”

Twitter
Friends of Wimbledon ParkDec 10, 2022
Please see this letter from @FoWimbledonPark to @Wimbledon #AELTC regarding the promise given between @MertonCouncil and #AELTC in 1993 for a dedicated public walkway AROUND #WimbledonPark lake.
https://www.friendsofwimbledonpark.org/aeltc-letter-2022-12-08
AELTC Letter 2022-12-08: to the Chief Executive Regarding the 1993 Promise of a Dedicated Public Walkway Around the Lake | Friends of Wimbledon Park

AELTC Letter 2022-12-08: Please click here: to see this letter from Friends of Wimbledon Park to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club's Chief

Friends of Wimbledon Park
Save Wimbledon ParkDec 1, 2022
@DarlingMagazine 1 December 2022: “All England Lawn Tennis Club’s (#AELTC) Expansion Plans Cause Concern With Locals. The discussion about the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s expansion plans into #WimbledonPark Golf Club across the road are heating up in SW19. Darling asked both sides of this campaign for their views on the effects they see the completion of the plans as they stand now, would have to the local Wimbledon Park residents and #nature within this #greenspace” https://www.savewimbledonpark.org/post/darling-magazine-all-england-lawn-tennis-club
Darling Magazine | All England Lawn Tennis Club’s Expansion Plans Cause Concern With Locals

Darling Magazine, 1 Dec 2022: "The discussion about the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s expansion plans into Wimbledon Park Golf Club across the road are heating up in SW19. Darling asked both sides of this campaign for their views on the effects they see the completion of the plans as they stand now, would have to the local Wimbledon Park residents and nature within this green space."...read more

Save Wimbledon Park
Save Wimbledon ParkNov 29, 2022
The #Wimbledon #community Forum meets 19.15 on 30 November at Wimbledon Library. The future of #WimbledonPark on is on the agenda. The Forum is convened on behalf of #Merton Council to engage local people in local issues. #AELTC were invited to discuss their planning application to build a massive industrial tennis comp’ex on this #MetropolitanOpenLand (ie #GreenBelt) but turned down the invitation. We’ll still be discussing it anyway #SaveWimbledonPark https://www.savewimbledonpark.org
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Learn about Save Wimbledon Park - a campaign to save this Grade II Heritage, Capability Brown Designed, Metropolitan Open Land from over development by the AELTC Wimbledon Park Project.

Save Wimbledon Park