New Parks is residential suburb of the city of

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, in the

district, in the ceremonial county of

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, England. It was also an electoral ward of the City of Leicester whose population at the 2011 Census was 17,128. It is in the west of the city. South of New Parks is the Western Park ward, north is the

Beaumont Leys Beaumont Leys is a suburb and electoral ward in north-western Leicester, in the Leicester district, in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, England. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 16,480. Locally, Beaumont Leys is usual ...

ward and to the east is the Fosse ward. There are many shops neighbouring the homes and leisure centres. On 16 March 2010, the £1.5 million New Parks Centre Library, funded by the Big Lottery Fund and Leicester City Council, was opened by Councillor Andy Connelly and local residents Karen Berry and Sally Kibble. File:New Parks Houses 2007.jpg, Houses in New Parks, Leicester File:New Parks Shops 2007.jpg, Shops in New Parks, Leicester File:New Parks Leisure Centre 2007.jpg, New Parks Leisure Centre There are a few primary schools; Braunstone Frith Primary School, Forest Lodge Academy, Inglehurst Primary School, Fosse Primary School, Parks Primary School and Stokes Wood Primary School. There is one secondary school, New College Leicester. Former New Parks Councillors include George Billington, Ross Willmott, John Blackmore and Colin Hall. The current Labour Councillors for the ward are Dawn Alfonso, Stephen Corrall and Malcolm Unsworth.

Civil parish

New Parks was formerly an extra-parochial tract, from 1858 New Parks was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1935 and merged with Leicester, part also went to form Glenfields. In 1931 the parish had a population of 704.

References

{{Wards of Leicester Areas of Leicester