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
Extra (service areas) government deregulated motorway services to encourage more competition and its first site opened in December 2000, at Cambridge. Peterborough opened in January 2001 and Baldock in July 2001. Extra developed its first three service stations at a cost of £60m. The parent company was set up in 1992 by Stephen Spouge, who is now Chairman. Its service stations are designed by Nash and Partners of West Sussex. The fuel reservoirs are built by WEFCO of Gainsborough. It originally planned 17 service stations and currently operates a total of 9 service stations, and 2 petrol stations at competitor owned sites: Extra