Controversial new homes are set to be created on the site of a derelict property in North Ayrshire.
Four blocks of flats will be built at the site in Largs after planners gave the project the green-light.
They will replace derelict Walkerstone House, at a site on Irvine Road.
But the plan drew protest from 17 objectors, including from Largs Community Council, councillors on North Ayrshire's planning committee heard last week.
Some residents voiced concerns that the 30 new flatted homes would "visually dominate" the location.
But chief planning officer James Miller said the buildings had been reduced to two-and-a-half storeys from plans for initial three-storey blocks.
They will also be set back from the road, the meeting heard.
Fears that the blocks would overlook nearby homes were dismissed by planners, who said that they did not find there would be "significant overlooking".
Transport Scotland also registered no objections over the impact on traffic — the closest blocks to the A78 would be six metres away.
A "significant number" of trees will be retained on the west side of the site.
Site owners GHG Holdings also want to create access and landscaping on the site, which has been vacant since 2015.
Mr Miller said buildings there lie boarded over and had been "subject to fairly extensive vandalism" and branded Walkerstone House "dilapidated".
He said it had also been hit by water ingress.
Officers recommended the development was given the go-ahead subject to conditions and said it would not be "overly prominent" or "otherwise imposing on the A78" and would present "appropriate use" of the site.
Planning committee chair, councillor Tom Marshall, told the meeting: "I just want to express my appreciation to the planning officers for dealing with this application and for refining it to the stage we are at just now, which has become a better application."
Councillor Timothy Billings proposed that the application be accepted, subject to conditions and was unanimously supported by councillors.
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