Wimbledon tennis expansion wins major battle after huge ruling on £200m plans Sport Business The proposed £200m expansion of Wimbledon into an adjacent London golf course overcame a major hurdle today, with a judge ruling in favour of the All England Club. An appeal by campaign group Save Wimbledon Park resulted in a six-day hearing earlier this year, but Mr Justice Thompsell has landed on the side of the [...]
Wimbledon’s £200m expansion green-lit by High Court Sport Business A legal challenge to stop a £200m plan to almost triple the size of Wimbledon tennis club has been dismissed by a High Court judge
Wimbledon expansion case heard in London High Court Sport Business Campaigners against the proposed expansion of the Wimbledon Championships site argued that it is illegal in the High Court on Tuesday ahead of a key decision on the future of SW19. Campaign group Save Wimbledon Park is taking legal action against a decision by the Greater London Authority (GLA) to grant the All England Club [...]
Wimbledon expansion: What it means as plans reach High Court July 8, 2025 With the proposed £200m expansion to Wimbledon in front of the High Court today, it is a nervy time for the All England Club. A campaign group says the approving Greater London Authority has questions to answer despite the organisation green-lighting plans last year. Here’s everything you need to know. Why is the proposed Wimbledon [...]
Wimbledon expansion faces High Court hearing on Tuesday July 7, 2025 The All England Club will today face a High Court challenge over its proposed expansion of Wimbledon, which campaigners have branded “unlawful”. The Save Wimbledon Park group argues that £200m plans for the All England Club to expand across the road and into a neighbouring golf course, involved “errors of law and planning policy” by [...]
Wimbledon expansion: Key judicial review set for during grand slam June 12, 2025 Wimbledon will face a crunch judicial review on their plans to expand their Championships tennis site during this year’s grand slam. Speaking ahead of this year’s SW19 tournament, which gets underway on 30 June, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club chair Deborah Jevans said the Greater London Authority decision to grant planning permission to [...]
Wimbledon: No1 Court debentures to earn All England Club £75m May 27, 2025 The owners of the site that hosts the Wimbledon Championships is set for a £75m windfall from the sale of their latest batch of debentures. The All England Lawn Tennis Ground plc confirmed on Tuesday that their issuing of 1,250 debentures for Wimbledon’s No1 Court was oversubscribed, meaning the organisation is set to benefit from [...]
Wimbledon tennis debentures rocket 60 per cent to £73,000 April 9, 2025 The cost of a debenture to watch the world’s best tennis players at the Wimbledon Championships has rocketed by nearly 60 per cent. The All England Lawn Tennis Ground plc, which owns the courts and grounds which host Wimbledon every year, this week launched applications for No1 Court debentures for the second show court for [...]
Next Wimbledon development to begin in 2026 April 3, 2025 The next development at Wimbledon will begin next year, the All England Club confirmed on Thursday. The SW19 site will soon look to expand its footprint into the adjacent golf course in a development that will include a third show court to accompany Centre Court and No1. Court. But the next series of works to [...]
Sport in 2025: A rallying cry to London, Mayor Khan and Londoners January 2, 2025 For at least the past five years it has felt as if London was disappearing off the global sporting stage. The capital may boast the Home of Cricket, 17 professional football clubs and five stadiums with a capacity of over 50,000 but huge sporting events have sought refuge in the likes of Saudi Arabia, the [...]