The public will finally be given a say on the closures of six Aberdeen libraries and a swimming pool - months after they shut.
There are now calls for libraries in Cornhill, Cults, Ferryhill, Garthdee, Northfield and Woodside to reopen immediately.
They, along with Bucksburn pool, closed in the spring after £47million was slashed from Aberdeen City Council budgets.
The Press & Journal says today there was public outroar at the sudden closures, brought about without public consultation or assessment of how it would impact residents.
Now, four months on, council chiefs have conceded that taxpayers should have a voice.
It is the outcome of last-minute negotiations with campaigners and their solicitors ahead of scheduled court hearings on the closures.
Challenges
Legal challenges, prepared by the Govan Law Centre and Grampian Community Law Centre, were expected to be aired at the Court of Session in Edinburgh later this year.
But council bosses have offered to run a full formal consultation, as well as conducting new equality impact assessments, on the closures.
Campaigners revealed the news, announcing they expected the consultation to run from early September through until the end of October.
Conservative leader on the council Ryan Houghton thinks the six libraries should reopen immediately.
"It would be a show of good faith that this consultation is meaningful," he told the P&J.
Apology demanded
Aberdeen's most senior city officials have been told by Aberdeen Trades Union Council to apologise for the "mess" of the library and swimming pool closures - or quit.
Aberdeen TUC president Graeme Farquhar has called for councillors to demand an apology from chief executive Angela Scott and her senior officers.
If none is forthcoming, he thinks the CEO should quit her £170,000-a-year role - as well as her directors.
Mr Farquhar told the P&J: "The Aberdeen councillors voted through cuts and closures based on advice and guidance from the council's chief executive and senior officers.
"They must now hold them to account for this failure to properly and meaningfully consult with the citizens of Aberdeen.
"The chief executive and the senior officers must now apologise for this failure and couple it with an assurance that this shameful contempt for the citizens of Aberdeen never happens again. If those responsible for this mess refuse to do this, then councillors should demand that they resign."