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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Local protest group launches legal action over Wimbledon expansion plans

People demonstrate outside London’s City Hall before a public hearing on the expansion plans in September last year
People demonstrate outside London’s City Hall before a public hearing on the expansion plans in September last year. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

A local campaign group is taking legal action to stop the expansion of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club (AELTC), as the row over the future of Wimbledon reignited on Monday.

Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) said it has made submissions to the Greater London Authority arguing for a judicial review of plans to convert a swathe of the former Wimbledon Golf Club into a vastly expanded grand slam venue. The protest group says it has taken this “momentous” decision to stop “inappropriate” development of the 29-hectare (73 acres) site.

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