KALM’s AIM

KALM's aim is to see Abergavenny livestock market become an integral part of the town's commercial activity for both farmers and townsfolk through refurbishment, working several days a week and including other diverse profitable uses of benefit to all.

Recent information on the livestock market campaign can be found at
Abergavenny Market Futures
(which is independent of the KALM campaign)

The Keep Abergavenny Livestock Market campaign (KALM) is the most recent manifestation of years of local opposition to Monmouthshire County Council's (MCC) plan to sell Abergavenny's historic edge-of-town centre livestock market for development as a superstore and car park. The opposition to MCC has united all sections of the community, including shoppers, visitors, farmers who use the livestock market, town centre shopkeepers, market traders, town voluntary groups, and encompasses people from all shades of the political spectrum.

If the superstore plan goes ahead, the farming community will lose its centuries-old connection with the town, and the local retail economy will be irreparably damaged. Abergavenny will end up as a dreary  "clone town" looking much the same as other towns. There is an opportunity here to build on the town's unique heritage by retaining, modernising and developing the livestock market to benefit both local farmers and the whole community in the 21st century.

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1.  Earlier HISTORY of opposition from 2004 leading up to the KALM campaign in Feb 2009.

2.  SUMMARY of the KALM campaign, Feb 2009 to present

3.  Plan of livestock market and its siting in the town (pdf)

4.  Economic impact on the town centre - the KALM survey and its significance

5.  Proof of Farmer support for retaining Abergavenny livestock market (pdf)

6.  Concept plan showing a few redevelopment possibilities (pdf)

7.  Recent farmer survey - the effect on the town centre of losing the livestock market through loss of farmers' business (pdf)

8.  Political and other support for KALM

9.  Current KALM public poster setting out the hurdles outside the Council's control (pdf) 

10.  How to KEEP UP TO DATE with the KALM campaign

11.  Summing up by Paul Brown QC at the Compulsory Purchase Order Inquiry, January 2012 (doc)

12.  MCC's 'Memorandum of Understanding' with the NFU and FUW (pdf)

13.  KALM Journal Revision 2, published July 2012 (pdf)

14.  Corrective statement and apology (pdf)

15.  Correspondence with Councillor Greenland (pdf's)

16.  Cartoon by Mumph depicting the Council's plan for Abergavenny (pdf)

17.  KALM's two separate Judicial Review Grounds of challenge