Lab Space for Rent in London

Size

80–5,000 sq ft

Price

From £150

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Founded in 2000 as London's first dedicated bio-incubator and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal Veterinary College, LBIC offers ~52,000 sq ft of fully fitted CL2 lab and office space across four buildings in Camden's Knowledge Quarter and at RVC's Hawkshead campus. Its tiered ladder — Amoroso (80–900 sq ft entry level), McFadyean (250–1,100 sq ft startup), Apex (840–3,701 sq ft scale-up suites with 60:40 lab/office split), and CVRM (specialist vaccine and cell therapy labs) — lets a company grow from a single bench to a 3,700 sq ft suite without leaving the network. All-inclusive pricing with a 30-day notice period and 228 alumni companies that have collectively raised £2.47bn make it one of the most founder-friendly footholds in central London.

Size

138–460 sq ft

Price

£2,990–£8,970/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Ask provider

OpenCell's BioHotel offers fully-serviced BSL2+ wet lab suites built from modular, customisable workbench units across three London sites — White City Innovation District (therapeutics & diagnostics), Hammersmith, and East London (imaging & tissue culture). Pricing is published openly in four tiers from £2,990/month for a 1-4 person Startup Lab up to £11,960+/month for a 15+ person Unicorn Lab, with a genuinely short 3-month minimum term and one month's notice to exit. What sets it apart is the hotel-style service layer — cryogenic storage, glasswashing/autoclaving, lab coat laundry, dry ice, gas bottles and all waste streams are bundled in — plus "Alfred," an IoT lab operating system for equipment booking, environmental monitoring, discounted consumable ordering and automatic compliance records.

Size

818–968 sq ft

Price

£1,400–£110,000/sqft/mo

Biosafety

BSL-2

Availability

Limited

Scale Space is a 200,000 sq ft flexible workspace on Imperial College London's White City Campus, run as a joint venture between Imperial and venture builder Blenheim Chalcot, offering fully serviced CAT 2 (BSL-2) wet labs alongside offices in the White City Innovation District. Its differentiator is deal structure and speed: ready-to-occupy lab modules of roughly 800–1,100 sq ft on 1–2 year leases rather than the traditional 5+ year London life science lease, with base build already provisioned for 3-phase power, O₂/CO₂/N₂ gas ring mains, compressed air and LEV, so founders skip costly fit-out. Residents sit in a mixed healthtech/AI/SaaS community with direct routes into Imperial researchers and graduate talent — past lab tenants include Avacta Therapeutics, Impli, PhycoWorks and Eden Bio.

Size

Up to 33,300 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Victoria House is a Grade II-listed Art Deco building on Bloomsbury Square converted by Oxford Properties into ~300,000 sq ft of life-science office and lab space, with The Pioneer Group operating a ~23,000 sq ft incubator on the seventh floor. Startups can begin with a single 1m bench in the shared Co-Lab — with access to shared instrumentation, a cell culture suite, cold storage and a dedicated on-site lab manager — then graduate into private Flexi Lab, Flexi Lab Plus and Premium Lab suites, or take part floors from 5,000 sq ft up to a full 33,300 sq ft floor. Its Knowledge Quarter location puts it minutes from UCL, GSK, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the BioIndustry Association, which is an anchor tenant.