A DATE has been set for senior councillors to look again at whether to allow a disused library to become a mosque.

A decision to grant a 30-year lease on the former Abergavenny library was approved in May before being put on hold pending review by a council scrutiny committee, which met last week, and said the decision had to go back to the cabinet within 10 working days.

Just days before the scrutiny committee took place the words ‘No Masjid’ and crosses were spray painted on to the grade II listed building with police investigating the criminal damage as a hate crime. Masjid is Arabic for place of worship or mosque.

Monmouthshire council’s Labour-led cabinet will now consider the arguments made at the place scrutiny committee........

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