A proposal to transform public toilets into a holiday home has been scrapped.
Developers wanted to radically redevelop the bogs at the beach in Ardrossan but blueprints have been flushed before North Ayrshire Council planners could rule on the idea.
The site was based just off the picturesque A78 coastal route near The Waterside restaurant and wedding venue and right next to a caravan park.
The applicants, Mr and Mrs Jenkins, also wanted to extend the former toilet block at Boydston Shore.
The couple have purchased the toilets with a view to developing the site into a "modest but high quality tourist holiday letting property".
The design statement reads: "The current building is in very poor state of repair and is a blight on the landscape and a magnet to vandals.
"The proposal intends to enhance the area. The design takes the influence and form from beach huts often associated with this type of location behind the seashore.
"With simple pitched gable roofs set astride each other, reflecting this building typology.
"Each volume has been finished in a different colour, one in corrugated corten steel and the other in blackened larch and blackened corrugated steel.
"Openings have been kept minimum towards the road area and concentrated towards the sea providing dramatic views towards Arran and providing solar gains with the orientation from dawn until dusk.
"The intention is to create a contemporary building that is in sympathy with its surroundings."
But West Kilbride Community Council lodged a formal objection to the plans.
The group submitted a varied 13-point dossier complaint against the blueprints.
One gripe was that the plan was out of keeping within the area with regards to structure and design. The objectors also said the site was subject to rising tide levels and storm surges.
And this week, plans were formally withdrawn.
It's not been disclosed why the plans were removed but the applicants are entitled to resubmit fresh plans for the site.
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