UKSHA Puts £455 Million Flagship COVID Testing Lab up for Sale

The publicly-owned Rosalind Franklin Laboratory, which began processing PCR tests in June 2021, has been mothballed since January 2023.

Undated screenshot of Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa. (Screenshot Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)/ YouTube)

A government facility that became the UK’s first giant centrepiece COVID-19 testing facility has been put up for sale.

Located in Royal Leamington Spa, central England, the 220,000-square-foot Rosalind Franklin Laboratory site was the largest of its kind in the country and one of the largest in Europe.