Huge win for Wimbledon tennis in battle with local residents
The Club hoped to earn planning permission three years later, but seriously underestimated the amount of ill-feeling that the project would create among local residents.Both the MPs whose constituencies surround the grounds of the AELTC – Stephen Hammond of Wimbledon and Fleur Anderson of Putney – have previously criticised the proposals and said that they disrespect the protected status of Wimbledon Park.