{"id":519792,"date":"2026-04-08T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:52:08","slug":"caernarfons-plas-glynllifon-mansion-in-police-drugs-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519792\/","title":{"rendered":"Caernarfon’s Plas Glynllifon mansion in police drugs raid"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2020 the building was placed into receivership as it was undergoing a multi-million renovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It had been bought by a couple who hoped to turn it into a luxury hotel when they took it over in 2016, after the collapse of a previous wedding venue venture in 2013.<\/p>\n

The mansion was sold in 2020 after a failed attempt to turn it into a luxury hotel.<\/p>\n

It was put back on the market in 2024 by its Manchester-based developer owner David Savage and his company for \u00a32m but it is believed to have recently been taken off the market.<\/p>\n

The surrounding park at Plas Glynllifon, boasting eight miles of paths, is also listed and its website on Wednesday, external<\/a> was still inviting visitors to “immerse yourself in history, culture and nature… [at] one of North Wales’s finest parks”. <\/p>\n

Hughes said the investigation was still ongoing and asked the public to avoid the home to avoid any risks.<\/p>\n

“We uncovered a grow, which was on the top floor of the building. We estimate around 12 rooms with grows in them and they were fairly mature plants.<\/p>\n

“There’s lots of information to process today and lots of forensic work to consider, and lots of other digital matter that we are looking at.<\/p>\n

“I’m quite confident we can get to a point where we can make some arrests.<\/p>\n

“Clearly, the electrics are being manipulated and lots of water supply being diverted inside and the property itself is in various states of disrepair.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2020 the building was placed into receivership as it was undergoing a multi-million renovation. It had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}