A fight against the closure of libraries and a swimming pool in Aberdeen has been launched in court.
A petition has been lodged with the Court of Session in Edinburgh for a judicial review of the city council’s decision to close Bucksburn pool and Woodside library.
Similar action could follow to reverse the fates of other libraries at Cornhill, Cults, Ferryhill, Kaimhill and Northfield.
The Press & Journal says that, if the shut-down of all seven ends up in court, it could hit council coffers for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
There have been protests across Aberdeen at last month’s closures, following the first budget passed since the SNP and Liberal Democrats took charge at the Town House.
“The plan is that these libraries and the pool would open again, that’s what we want to happen,” Hannah Moneagle told the P&J .
The director and principal solicitor at the Grampian Community Law Centre, based at Robert Gordon University, is assisting the campaigners in making their case.
Together with solicitor advocate Mike Dailly, of the Govan Law Centre, she believes the case is winnable.
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