Residents in Rosehearty in Aberdeenshire were asked to keep windows closed and stay away from the blaze.
Aberdeenshire Council had expressed "regret" last year over how it announced the planned closures.
Options for the way forward are being explored, and a series of community meetings are to be held.
Live Life Aberdeenshire said the locations were seeing lower numbers of users in recent years.
The 52-year-old man who died on an Aberdeenshire road last week was from Inverness.
