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New Parks

Suburb of Leicester, England

Summary

Suburb of Leicester, England

Field	Value
official_name	New Parks
country	England
unitary_england	Leicester
lieutenancy_england	Leicestershire
population	17,128
population_ref	(2011)
static_image_name	New Parks Houses 2007.jpg
static_image_caption	Houses in New Parks
static_image_2_name	LeicesterNewParksWard.svg
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	Leicester West
post_town	LEICESTER
postcode_district	LE3
postcode_area	LE
dial_code	0116

New Parks is a residential suburb of the city of Leicester, in the Leicester district, in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, 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 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 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

"City of Leicester ward population 2011". Office fore National Statistics.
Leicester City Council. "Ward Maps".
"History of New Parks, in Leicester and Leicestershire". A Vision of Britain through Time.
"Relationships and changes New Parks ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
"Population statistics New Parks ExP/CP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].

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