AdvertisementThe All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), which hosts Wimbledon, bought the Wimbledon Park golf course land from Merton council for £5.2million ($6.6million) in 1993. The AELTC then purchased the Wimbledon Park golf club, whose lease was to expire in 2041, for £65m in 2018. In December 2024, three months after the GLA’s granting of planning permission at a hearing at City Hall, campaign group Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) instructed lawyers to challenge the decision. The AELTC simultaneously announced its intention to take its own plans to the court system, in a bid to head off any challenge. “We now turn our attention to separate legal proceedings to give everyone reassurance that there is not, nor has there ever been, a statutory trust over the former golf course land.
