NEW SKATE PARK IN LEICESTER (off Uppingham Road A47)
HUMBERSTONE SKATE PARK . All concrete facility, with 1.2m high half bowl, flat bank, rails, grid box, hips, half pyramids etc..
General particulars are:
Outdoor publicly accessible facility, floodlit until approx: 8.30pm Owned by. Leicester City Council Designed by . munro+whitten ltd (landscape architects / with local skater consultation) Opened: 20th November 2004 Cost . Free
General rules apply
Humberstone Park General Notes
This attractive 20 acre park is located on Uppingham Road, approximately three miles to the east of the city centre.
Directions to Park. LE5 4DA Come of Uppingham Road into Freeman Road North turn left onto Satersford Road and will lead to Humberstone Park
No membership scheme, public accessible facility . Free Area of Skate Park = 540 sq m
History
Humberstone Park was opened in 1925 and was one of six multi-purpose parks created in Leicester at that time. In the 1920’s Leicester’s built up areas increased rapidly and the City Council embarked on a programme to ensure there was a major park within easy reach of each emerging suburban district. Other parks created at this time were Braunstone, Knighton, Evington, Rushey Fields and Aylestone.
November 20th 2004 skatepark opens. Yipee.
The actual park builders who won the tender were Blakedown Sport & Play Ltd ( Your contact there should be Tony Farmer . anthony.farmer@sportandplay.co.uk
