Residential property has been sealed after police cleaned out the 300 plants growing in multiple rooms over three storeys.

U.K. police have received court approval to seal a former weed factory in a residential part of Smethwick, the second such closure for the area in recent months, to “stop the antisocial behaviour often associated with cannabis farms.”

“The drugs were destroyed, the growing equipment was seized and will be recycled, and the house was sealed,” the WMP reports.

As per the U.K.’s Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, ASB is anything that “causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to any person or conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance affecting residential accommodation.”

ABS may cover nuisance behaviour, under which some U.K. police services include “drinking alcohol in the street, taking drugs in public places or trespassing on private property.” Some ABS may or may not amount to a criminal act.

One man has been arrested and charged in connection with the cannabis factory, the police report.

Another closure order was secured in October, this time after police discovered 153 plants in the residential property.

Statistics for West Midlands show that where Police Now has a participant, there has been a 21 per cent reduction in ASB compared to a 10 per cent decrease in communities without a participant.

“As lockdown measures have eased, we have seen a growing trend in fire and malicious damage claims across a number of insured property schemes which have arisen from the illegal cultivation of cannabis,” Marie Quin, head of counter-fraud for the company, told the publication in October.