Editing Stalybridge (section)

===21st century===
[[File:Stalybridge6052.JPG|thumb|Huddersfield Narrow Canal]]
The [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]], which had been culverted in the early 1970s, was reinstated to the town centre between 1999 and May 2001 as part of a two-year multimillion-pound refurbishment. The canal now runs under the legs of an [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal Pylon|electricity pylon]]. [[File:Stalybridge - Market Hall - Trinity Street frontage.jpg|thumb|top|right|alt=|Stalybridge – Market Hall]]The market hall closed on New Year's Eve 1999 and became the Civic Hall in 2001. Four years later, the area designated for retail space became exhibition space. There were plans to reopen the market and let the retail hall out to private contractors, though this came to naught.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} The town's cinema, the Palace, closed on 31 August 2003, with the last film being ''American Pie 3: The Wedding''. The cinema has since been converted to become Rififi Nightclub and Amber Lounge Bar & Restaurant, which itself was closed down late in 2012 after two violent incidents on the same night.<ref>[http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/troubled-rififi-and-amber-lounge-nightclub-1213147 Troubled nightclub closed down after ‘horrific' night of violence] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911122610/http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/troubled-rififi-and-amber-lounge-nightclub-1213147 |date=11 September 2016 }} [[Manchester Evening News]], 16 January 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.</ref>

In 2004, the [[Tameside|Metropolitan Borough Council]] announced that they had granted permission for a developer to build 16 homes next to Staley Hall. A condition of the planning consent was that the hall be restored.<ref name="Tameside2004">{{cite web|title=New start for Staley Hall |author=Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council |url=http://public.tameside.gov.uk/pressreleases/f1030pressreleasestory107.asp?story=2703 |publisher=Tameside.gov.uk |date=28 April 2004 |access-date=27 January 2008 }}</ref> As of 2008, the hall is still deteriorating. It is now listed as being in "very bad" condition on the [[English Heritage]] [[Heritage at Risk|buildings at risk]] register.<ref name="Ref_j">[https://archive.today/20080123204312/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConBar.6039 Staley Hall and adjoining west wing: English Heritage: English Heritage<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> As of 2015 Staley Hall has been renovated and redeveloped into apartments.

Stalybridge suffered from [[2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season|Storm Angus]] on 21 November 2016 when {{convert|3|in|cm}} of rain fell on Tameside in five hours. Mottram Road and Huddersfield Road, [[Millbrook, Greater Manchester|Millbrook]] were flooded by water from a stream leading from the [[Walkerwood Reservoir]].<ref name="TM 22 November 2016">{{cite news|last1=Higgins|first1=Adam|title=Tameside feels devastating impact of Storm Angus|url=https://tamesidereporter.com/2016/11/tameside-feels-devastating-impact-of-severe-flooding/|access-date=3 December 2016|work=Tameside Reporter|publisher=Quest Media Network Ltd|date=22 November 2016}}</ref>

In late June 2018, many properties in Stalybridge were threatened by a [[2018 United Kingdom wildfires|large wildfire]] advancing from [[Saddleworth Moor]]. 50 properties in the [[Carrbrook]] area of Stalybridge were evacuated on 26 June as the wildfire advanced towards them.

In December 2023, during [[Storm Gerrit]], a [[tornado]] caused damage in the [[Millbrook, Greater Manchester|Millbrook]] and [[Carrbrook]] areas of Stalybridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Storm Gerrit: Roofs blown off as tornado strikes Stalybridge |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-67831843 |website=BBC News |access-date=28 December 2023 |date=28 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Updates after 'tornado' rips roofs off houses in Stalybridge |url=https://www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/24014435.updates-tornado-rips-roofs-off-houses-stalybridge/ |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=The Oldham Times |date=28 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bardsley |first1=Andrew |last2=Wootton-Cane |first2=Nicole |title=Greater Manchester town battered by localised tornado as major incident declared |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/live-greater-manchester-town-battered-28356480 |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=28 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>