MHRA and BP Laboratory relocation
Published 27 March 2025
Updated 9 June 2025
We are pleased to confirm that the BP Lab has successfully moved to our new site in Guildford and, from 2 June, we have resumed shipping orders. We are currently dispatching orders received during our closure first, with new orders placed from 2 June onwards being processed thereafter. We anticipate that we will be shipping more slowly that we would like for the next few weeks but we are working hard to ensure this is as short a time as possible. Please bear with us and thank you for your continued patience while we work through the backlog.
Please note:
- Orders are now being dispatched from our new site in Guildford
- For controlled drugs and precursor chemicals, these will be dispatched from the relevant site address on the import/export licences. Orders can be dispatched from Teddington up until the end of June. After this, we will no longer be able to ship from Teddington
- All future import licenses must use the Guildford address going forward
- We may split orders consignments into controlled drugs/precursors and other items and ship these separate consignments to help us reduce the backlog. Please be reassured that, if we do this, we will only apply a single handling and courier charge.
Updated 17 April 2025
We can now confirm that the last day we can accept orders before the lab move will be Thursday 15th May. We expect shipments to resume from the new Guildford site during the week commencing 2nd June 2025.
If you do not need the BPCRS urgently, please do not place you order(s) until after 2nd June 2025.
For ordering controlled drugs or precursor chemicals, you should ensure that any import permits you apply for from now on state the new address in Guildford, which is 10 Priestley Road, Surrey Research Park, Guildford GU2 7XY. Please contact the sales team for further details at bpcrs@mhra.gov.uk.
Original article
In late spring 2025, the MHRA and BP Laboratories will be relocating from the current facilities in Teddington, to a new state-of-the-art facility which is fit for the future, in Guildford. This relocation will provide a much better working environment, connections with local scientific companies and improved Environmental, Social and Governance credentials, as part of the wider government’s sustainability and social mobility strategies.
Whilst this relocation will bring significant benefits and reduce the risks and issues presented by the current, ageing, facility, there will be an unavoidable, short-term interruption to our BPCRS dispatch service during the move period.
Considerable work is ongoing to plan the move and to minimise the impact on service, and we would like to reassure you that any interruption will be as short as possible. At this time, our estimated shutdown will be from mid-to end-May 2025.
Customers should please plan accordingly and place any BPCRS orders they need for May in April or, if they can wait, delay orders until June.
When ordering controlled drugs or precursor chemicals, customers should ensure that any import permits which state the current, Teddington, address should reach us by early-April. This will allow enough time for us to apply for the export permit and ship before we shut down the Teddington dispatch and relocate to Guildford. Any import permits that do not arrive with us by this time will need to have the new address on them. Please contact the sales team for further details at bpcrs@mhra.gov.uk.
We will provide further updates as we approach the move and will be able to confirm exact dates closer as we finalise these.