Newcastle councillors will continue meeting at City Hall until June after a delay in completing the council's new offices in Newcastle West.
The council had planned to be entirely established in Stewart Avenue by February 1, but councillors will not meet in their new chamber until work on a ground-floor digital library is completed in May.
Most staff moved into the building in October while work continued on the ground and top floors.
The council voted in 2018 to move out of the City Hall meeting chamber, but chief executive Jeremy Bath told the Newcastle Herald that the old chamber would be used for the ceremonial first meeting of newly elected councils at the start of each term.
The council resolved on Tuesday night to put the City Hall chamber, councillor room and lord mayor's office and reception room up for hire from July 1 rather than retaining them purely for civic purposes.
The council committed to retain the four civic spaces' "presentation" and "heritage value".
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