BioCity Glasgow

Size

300–52,000 sq ft

Price

£1,000–£1,500/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Alderley Park is the UK's largest single-site life science campus — 400 acres of parkland with over 1 million sq ft of lab and office space, 30 minutes from Manchester, home to 250+ businesses and ~4,000 members. Operated by Bruntwood SciTech, it offers a genuine growth ladder: a managed coworking lab with published bench pricing, serviced labs, and standalone leased labs from 300 to 52,000 sq ft including new-build options. Its standout draw is the depth of on-site scientific infrastructure — 24/7 walk-up 500MHz NMR, a Waters-partnered open-access LC-MS lab with mass-directed prep chromatography, and Biacore/AKTA/Typhoon platforms all on pay-as-you-go — plus CL2 biology and chemistry suites created through a £20m lab redevelopment.

Size

600–13,797 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Babraham Research Campus is a 430-acre life science campus outside Cambridge, home to 60+ companies, ~2,000 employees and ~300 academic researchers from the co-located Babraham Institute. It offers a genuine growth ladder under one landlord: LiveLabs shared co-working bench space on 3-month rolling memberships for pre-seed teams, scaling to ScaleLabs fitted wet lab suites from 600 sq ft up to nearly 14,000 sq ft. Its biggest differentiator for founders is subsidised access to the Babraham Institute's core facilities (flow cytometry, genomics/NGS, advanced imaging, bioinformatics) plus the Accelerate@Babraham venture programme.

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.