Lab Space for Rent in London

Size

80–5,000 sq ft

Price

Lab and office space is "price on application", all-inclusive of rent, service charge, business rates and utilities. Virtual client package from £150 + VAT per month (24-hour campus access, four hot-desking days per month, amenities access).

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

Lab pricing on request (not published). Office space is listed publicly from £1,400/month for 104 sq ft up to £110,000/month for a 12,357 sq ft dedicated floor.

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.