Leicester Forest East The school will eventually provide 210 places with the potential to expand as demand increases over the next few years. The Discovery Schools Academy Trust has been selected to sponsor the school. The school has extensive parking for staff, parents, visitors and local residents. Most people know Leicester Forest East for the Leicester Forest East motorway service station on the M1 motorway, which opened on 14 February 1966 just over a year after the motorway reached Markfield. It was based on an Italian design used on the "autostrade" which is very unusual in Britain. At the time of opening it
M54 motorway (Map), which continues on to Shrewsbury as dual carriageway. Telford Motorway Service Station opened on 18 March 2003 at junction 4, and is operated by Welcome Break. It is the only service station on this motorway and, if travelling east, the last before Corley on the M6 or Frankley on the M5. The Department for Transport (DfT) is currently investigating the possibility of extending the M54 westward to Shrewsbury, thereby placing the county town on the UK motorway map for the first time. Currently traffic has to continue onto the dual carriageway A5 when the M54 ends at Wellington although