Lab Space for Rent in Manchester

Size

300–60,000 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2, BSL-3

Availability

Available

Bruntwood SciTech is the UK's largest dedicated science and technology property platform, operating a £1.5bn portfolio of innovation campuses across Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cambridge and London. In Manchester alone it runs Manchester Science Park (shell space fittable to BSL-1/2/3), the new £60m Greenheys building (flexible CL2 suites from 2,500 sq ft up to 22,000 sq ft full floors, anchored by UK Biobank), and Citylabs, which sits directly on the NHS trust campus for precision medicine and diagnostics companies. Its Open Access Labs offer pay-as-you-go coworking lab benches and shared scientific equipment, so founders can start at a single bench and scale to an entire floor without changing landlord.

Size

301–20,000 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-2

Availability

Available

Hexagon Tower is a ten-storey, ~165,000 sq ft life science incubator in Blackley, North Manchester, operated by The Pioneer Group and recently upgraded through a £10m refurbishment that added new CL2 wet labs, recladding and triple glazing. It offers chemistry-fitted Containment Level 2 lab suites from roughly 300 sq ft to 20,000 sq ft with 6–24 fume cupboards per suite, alongside offices and coworking, on unusually flexible terms — space can be taken with one month's notice and scaled back with three. Tenants include Intertek's European Centre for Bioanalytical Services, Arxada, Lonza, Fresenius, SmartKem and Lubrizol, and occupiers plug into Pioneer Group's accelerator, investment funding and Expert Network across its European campus ecosystem.

Size

350–14,700 sq ft

Price

All-inclusive monthly pricing advertised, but no rates published — quotes on enquiry

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Available

Co-Labs by journey is a 14,700 sq ft early-stage life science incubator on the NIAB site off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, created by flexible workspace platform Journey in partnership with lab operator Co-Laboratories. It spans three buildings (Defra, Old Granary and Bingham) and scales from a single hot bench to private labs of 2–30 benches with attached write-up space, backed by shared tissue culture and equipment rooms. Founders get move-in-ready fitted labs on unusually short terms for Cambridge, plus on-site advisors, a Barclays Eagle Labs virtual membership and an events/networking programme — with a clear upgrade path into Journey's larger Cambridge labs (First-Step, The Fitzroy, Journey Campus).

Size

300–60,000 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Manchester Science Park is a 150+ business innovation campus in Manchester's Oxford Road Corridor knowledge quarter, operated by Bruntwood SciTech (the former Manchester Science Partnerships / mspl.co.uk brand has been folded into Bruntwood). It offers CL1 and CL2 wet and dry lab suites alongside offices and makerspace across multiple buildings — Greenheys, Base, Bright Building, Rutherford House, Synergy House and others — spanning roughly 300 to 60,000 sq ft. Its standout asset is Greenheys, a £60m, 131,000 sq ft specialist lab development opening in 2026 with vibration-resistant floors, piped gas distribution and 1:1000 sq ft LEV provision for fume cupboards, purpose-built for scaling diagnostics, genomics, biotech and precision medicine companies.