Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields is an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, England.
South of the ward is the district of Blaby and the town of Braunstone in Leicestershire, which has a shared history with the Leicester suburbs.
[2] It was substantially extended in the early twentieth century, and included the first of Leicester's large estates of council housing.
The Braunstone Estate is dominated by the park, one of the largest in the city[citation needed], while the striking feature of Braunstone Town is the wide Kingsway, a road which features a large village green at its heart running for the entirety of the street.
It is in the Braunstone area, and is approximately triangle shaped, with the base being at the south, and a small frontage north onto the A47 (Hinckley Road).
Key current issues for Braunstone Town include the continued development of the Thorpe Astley estate and Meridian Leisure, traffic management along Narborough Road South and into the neighbouring Fosse Shopping Park shopping complex, and the expansion of the shopping complex, alongside pollution issues from the neighbouring junction 21 of the M1 motorway and the expansion of some neighbouring greenfield sites into business premises such as seen at Grove Farm Triangle and Grove Park.
The former Jones and Shipman Engineering works (once the biggest employer of Braunstone residents) has been redeveloped into a modern housing estate.