Plans to virtually triple the dimensions of the Wimbledon tennis web site are set to proceed after a marketing campaign group’s authorized problem towards the choice to grant planning permission was dismissed by a Excessive Court docket decide.

Marketing campaign group Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) had taken authorized motion towards the Higher London Authority (GLA) over its resolution final yr to approve the plans.

SWP had argued in court docket the proposal for 38 courts and an 8,000-seat stadium on the previous Wimbledon Park Golf Membership in west London was illegal because the proposed land was protected.

The GLA and All England Membership disputed that the restrictions exist, and in a ruling on Monday, Mr Justice Saini dismissed the problem.

Barristers for SWP instructed the Excessive Court docket earlier this month that the choice to approve the plans was “irrational” and needs to be quashed, as Wimbledon Park – a Grade II*-listed heritage web site partly designed by Lancelot “Functionality” Brown – was lined by restrictions on the way it could possibly be used.

The GLA and the All England Membership defended the problem, with the court docket instructed that the choice was a “planning judgment correctly exercised” and that the restrictions weren’t “materials”.

Mr Justice Saini mentioned: “In brief, the defendant’s resolution on the relevance of deliverability, making use of to each the statutory belief and the restrictive covenants, was a planning judgment rationally exercised and having regard to applicable and related elements.”

The proposals would see seven upkeep buildings, entry factors, and an space of parkland with permissive public entry constructed, along with the courts and related infrastructure.

It will additionally permit the membership to host Wimbledon qualifiers on web site.