The North's Parades Commission is to hold a series of meetings next week in respect of forthcoming contentious marches.
These include the annual Whiterock parade, which resulted in serious violence across Belfast and south Antrim in 2005, and the Drumcree march in Portadown, Co Armagh, in early July.
The commission has already issued its determination on the Whiterock parade, ordering that only 50 bandsmen be allowed to use the contested nationalist section of the Springfield Road in west Belfast, with the body of the parade joining later.
This mirrors the determination issued last year.
However, The Irish Times understands that ongoing contacts between representatives of the residents and marchers are expected to continue and could produce a local agreement in time for the parade next Saturday.
There is hope that a local accommodation similar to that which helped ensure a peaceful Tour of the North march past Ardoyne last week could be finalised and put in place in time for the Whiterock parade.
The commission is also expected to address the Drumcree church parade and the application to return to the Portadown Orange hall via the Garvaghy Road.
This route has been banned for the past 10 years.
However, local Orangemen have said that they will hold face-to-face talks with the nationalist residents, including spokesman Breandán Mac Cionnaith, subject to agreement on an independent chairman.