"...All England Lawn tennis Club’s (AELTC) proposed development in Wimbledon onto Heri tage Parkland will have a hugely negative environmental impact. The 73 acre site was acquired in 1993 and is Metropolitan Open Land (MOL - the equivalent of Green Belt in
the countryside). It is Grade II* Heritage Landscape and Grade 1 Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) in Merton. It is in the North Wimbledon Conservation Area and, together with the legal Covenants placed upon it, which include that it can never be built on, it has the highest protection against development."...read more on "Courting Environmental Disaster"