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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Tristan Kirk

Wimbledon expansion: School leaders say tennis club plan will bring 'crazy' pollution nightmare

Wimbledon’s controversial plan to expand the All England Club will condemn local children to a decade of “crazy” construction traffic and pollution, school leaders and concerned parents have claimed, in a call for Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan to intervene.

The world-famous tennis club in southwest London won planning permission last September for 39 extra courts and an 8,000 seater stadium on Wimbledon Park.

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