In July, SWP’s High Court legal action against the GLA over its decision to grant planning permission for the expansion was dismissed.
During that hearing, barristers for SWP told the court that the decision to approve the plans was “irrational” and should be quashed.
They claimed Wimbledon Park – a Grade II*-listed heritage site partly designed by Lancelot “Capability” Brown – was covered by trusts and covenants governing how it could be used.
SWP said following the ruling that it believed the judge “took insufficient account of the statutory trust and the restrictive covenants”.
Separate High Court proceedings are now ongoing over whether a statutory trust existed, with a hearing in that case due to take place in January 2026.
SWP said that having an appeal granted showed “The Community and SWP can’t be ‘steam-rollered'”.
Christopher Coombe of SWP said: “SWP has never been anti-tennis. We believe that it is high time for the AELTC to recognise the raft of legal and principled problems with its proposals and sit down and talk constructively with SWP and the local community.”
