SK0181 : Old Drill Hall, New Horwich RoadIn 2020 (as reported in the Derbyshire Times on 5th March) officers of Derbyshire Constabulary raided the Drill Hall on suspicion that it was being used as a cannabis factory. Hundreds of cannabis plants with an estimated annual yield of hundreds of thousands of pounds were seized and two men were arrested. The building then remained empty (with a large hole in its roof, created by police officers in order to extract the two male suspects), and was put up for sale on 23 December 2020 with lapsed planning permission for conversion into four 2-bedroom town houses. Although the planning permission had lapsed in 2012, the vendor was informed that renewal of this application would be favourable as some of the works had already been started (information from Rachael Rowan).