Locations

The Niab crest

For all Cambridge business use the Niab Park Farm site in Histon. There are no staff based at the previous Lawrence Weaver Road and Huntingdon Road sites.

(See also: site addresses and contact information)

 

Niab is based at the heart of an active science and technology-based community in Cambridge, with regional centres across the UK.

Cambridge

Niab is based at Park Farm, near Histon outside Cambridge.

The research station is home to The MacLeod Complex - our glasshouses and outdoor growing facilities - alongside The Sophi Taylor Building, a BREEAM award-winning conference centre. Barn 1 - The Powell Building and Barn 2 - The Barsby Building, both opened in 2019, include research laboratories, offices, crop and seed cold storage facilities, and analytical services laboratories. Barn 4 houses Niab's corporate services teams. Park Farm is also home to our main trials ground in Cambridge.

Directions/map

The Niab Seed Handling Unit (SHU) is located on Whitehouse Lane, off Huntingdon Road.

The Lawrence Weaver Road site in Cambridge, opened in early 2020, is home to the Crop Science Centre, our partnership with the University of Cambridge. No Niab staff are based at Lawrence Weaver Road.   

East Malling

Based on the 200+ ha original site of the East Malling and Wye Fruit Experimental Station, near Maidstone in Kent, Niab's East Malling site includes offices, laboratories, field and glasshouse facilities, alongside research, trials and commercial horticultural and arable land. 

Directions

Regional Centres

There are 10 regional trials centres across the UK alongside numerous satellite trials sites.