The 808 acres of the Chesterford Park Estate was put up for sale in June 1950,[1] owned by Werner Göthe since around 1930.

On Monday 18 July 1983, Boots and Fisons sold FBC Ltd to Schering AG of West Germany for £120m[5] with the sale completed on Wednesday 14 September 1983.

[6] In July 1999, AgrEvo UK looked at closing the site due to Hoechst merging, to become Aventis.

In 2000, Aviva Investors acquired the park, planning to develop it further alongside its joint-venture partners, adding new buildings and infrastructure to accommodate tenants as their operations expand.

[8][9] In 2017, Uttlesford District Council purchased a 50% share in the park, making them joint owners alongside Aviva Investors.

[15] The new centre was opened on Tuesday 24 April 1979 by Scottish biochemist Alexander R. Todd, who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

[16] A 400kv transmission line runs north-south through the east of the site, on the 4ZM Walpole, Norfolk - Burwell, Cambridgeshire - Stocking Pelham route.

From 1954, it conducted research on TCA, which it sold under the tradename Tecane[17] Insecticides had radioactive tracers to test uptake by insects.

[24] Environmental toxicity was tested on rodents such as mice, rats, and hamsters, and on rabbits, ducks and chickens, by radioactive tracers.