New Parks

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|country = England

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|population = 17,128

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|region= East Midlands

|constituency_westminster= Leicester West

|post_town= LEICESTER

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|dial_code=0116

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New Parks is 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13690282&c=New+Parks&d=14&e=62&g=6384428&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1465123291234&enc=1|title=City of Leicester ward population 2011|accessdate=5 June 2016|publisher=Office fore National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|archive-date=11 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011080421/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13690282&c=New+Parks&d=14&e=62&g=6384428&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1465123291234&enc=1|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/council-and-democracy/city-statistics/wardprofiles/wardmaps/#Current-wards-map |title=Ward Maps |author=Leicester City Council |accessdate=2011-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613231611/http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/council-and-democracy/city-statistics/wardprofiles/wardmaps/#Current-wards-map |archive-date=13 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}

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.{{needs update|date=July 2020}}