Judge dismisses challenge to Wimbledon expansion

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The All England Club (AELTC) wants to physique 39 tennis courts connected the erstwhile tract of Wimbledon Park Golf Club

Plans to astir triple the size of the Wimbledon tennis tract are acceptable to proceed aft a run group's ineligible situation against the determination to assistance readying support was dismissed by a High Court judge.

Campaign radical Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) had taken ineligible enactment against the Greater London Authority (GLA) implicit its determination past twelvemonth to o.k. the plans.

SWP had argued successful tribunal the connection for 38 courts and an 8,000-seat stadium connected the erstwhile Wimbledon Park Golf Club successful westbound London was unlawful arsenic the projected onshore was protected.

The GLA and All England Club disputed that the restrictions exist.

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