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Scotland | Full Member
UKSPA Directory 2017
A beautiful location
to inspire ideas and a
supported environment
to help businesses grow
Pentlands
Science
Park
L ocati on
Bush Loan
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0PZ
C ontact detai l s
George Walker
T: 0131 445 5111
F: 0131 445 6235
E: george.walker@pentlands.co.uk
www.moredun.org.uk/psp
Pentlands Science Park (PSP) was established in 1994 by The Moredun Foundation
for Animal Health & Welfare as the new home for the Moredun Research Institute.
The development was supported by the European Regional Development Fund,
Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian, and Midlothian Council. The Park became
Europe’s first based around the Institute’s centre of excellence in veterinary science
and animal health. Moredun celebrated its 90th anniversary year in 2010, having
originally been established as the Animal Diseases Research Association in 1920.
Pentlands Science Park celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014 and has matured into
a beautiful working environment.
Progress to Date
The Park extends to some 164,000 sq ft of
high-class offices and laboratories, which
house both Moredun and the commercial
research companies based on the site.
Adjoining the main science park are
Moredun’s unique animal facilities, an
extensive range of buildings including
traditional stockholding sheds, high
containment facility, post mortem
building, and on-site incinerator, the
latter having had a £1m upgrade in 2009.
In January 2008, Moredun purchased
the Glencorse Building from Scottish
Enterprise and now has ownership of
the whole site. The Doherty Innovation
Centre is the Park’s main multi-occupancy
building providing flexible space for SMEs.
The Park provides a full range of
support services including IT, security,
catering, cleaning, engineering, waste
disposal, café, and central stores facility.
PSP also provides a lecture theatre and
fully-equipped meeting rooms for the use
of site tenants and external clients. The
site has a back-up generator which can
fully support the whole park.
An outline planning application
was approved by Midlothian Council
in December 2009 in respect of a 20-
acre site adjoining the existing Park.
Investment in Park infrastructure
and services has continued including
improved WiFi connectivity, ICT services,
and waste services, A link road, joining
PSP with Edinburgh Technopole, was
constructed in 2004 and this brings social
and commercial benefits to both parks.
PSP acts as a security hub and assists both
Technopole and the adjoining Scottish
Enterprise manufacturing BioCampus
with security services.
In 2007, the library was refurbished to
provide accommodation for the Moredun
Communications Centre to develop new
knowledge transfer initiatives led by the
Moredun Communications Director.
This will seek to form stronger links and
provide additional benefits to farmers and
other stakeholders and also to develop
educational links and programmes to
interact with schools, particularly in
association with Midlothian Council,
the education authority.
The next planned development is
the creation of an International KTE
Hub for Animal Health & Welfare. The
new Roslin Institute building and the
new Edinburgh University Vet School
building are both now occupied, making
the Easter Bush Campus one of the
leading global locations for animal
bioscience research. Moredun and PSP
contributed to the drafting of Midlothian
Council’s Animal Bioscience Sector
Action Plan, recognising this sector as