The following email was sent from Save Wimbledon Park to GLA planning officers and copied to Jules Pipe on 27 September 2024, 9:30am (the day of the GLA / AELTC hearing:
"I refer to the Stage 3 report prepared for the GLA Hearing taking place today at City Hall and your recommendation that the application be approved.
On behalf of the Save Wimbledon Park group, we formally request that the AELTC planning application is rejected. We consider that the applicant has roundly failed to demonstrate the need for the development and there are numerous reasons for refusing the application which we have set-out in the many submissions made to the Borough Councils and yourselves.
The key reasons to reject the application are the failure to prove the Very Special Circumstances required for the proposals and the failure to take account of the Public Trust status of the Metropolitan Open Land which is incompatible with the delivery of the proposals."
