Around 12.40pm on Wednesday 18 June 2025, officers with a warrant searched a derelict building at Nairn Campus on High Street, Kirkcaldy, and uncovered a large cannabis cultivation.[1][2] About 5,000 plants were recovered, with the harvested product weighing over 1,000kg.[1] Police Scotland called it the largest cultivation found in Scotland to date, quoting Detective Inspector Samantha Davidson calling it “the most significant we’ve seen in Scotland”.[1] The force first put the street value at about £7 million and later revised it to almost £12 million once the crop was weighed.[2][1] The previous Scottish record was a £6.3 million grow found on the same street in May 2022.[2] Enquiries were continuing, with no arrests announced.[1]
5,000-plant cannabis farm found in Kirkcaldy college building
Police found about 5,000 cannabis plants in a derelict college building in Kirkcaldy on 18 June 2025, the largest known cannabis cultivation in Scotland. Police first valued it at £7 million, later revising the estimate to almost £12 million.
🇬🇧 Nairn Campus, High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife · United Kingdom
- of them seized
- 5,000
- Agency
- Police Scotland
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- of them seized
- 5,000
- Value (official estimate)
- GBP 12,000,000
- Agency
- Police Scotland
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (5,000 plants)
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Other building
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- Police Scotlandscotland.police.ukArchived copyLargest known cannabis cultivation in Scotland recovered, with estimated value of almost £12 million
- PA Media via LincsOnlinelincsonline.co.ukCannabis plants worth £7m seized by police in raid at former college campus
Open questions the AI reported
- No arrests or suspects were named in the opened sources.
- A news-agency photo of the raid exists but its direct image address could not be recovered, so it is not linked here.


