Plans to convert a former canalside pub into houses and build another house nearby have been given the thumbs up.
Lancaster City Council approved the part retrospective planning application at the former Packet Boat in Bolton-le-Sands.
Part of the former pub is already being used as a house while the rest of the building is vacant and in a "poorer overall condition", said a council report.
Planning permission had previously been granted for the Grade II listed former pub at 93-95 Main Road, which closed in 2015, to be used as a house.
However, due to the recent formalisation of a public right of way through the centre of the site, the approved layout could no longer go ahead, leading to this new planning application.
The application was for a "change of use of former public house to two dwellings and erection of one dwelling on former car park, construction of boundary walls and creation of associated car parking".
Lancaster City Council planning officers recommended that the scheme be given approval, saying "the proposal would deliver some notable benefits in terms of contributing towards the council's requirement to deliver housing, meeting an identified housing need, continued restoration and provision of a viable use for the Grade II listed building and the regeneration of a poor-quality former car park site within the Conservation Area".
"The design of the scheme is also considered to be acceptable as are the other matters with respect to amenity, highways, ecology and drainage," said a council report.
Lancaster City Council planning regulatory committee, a cross-party group of elected councillors, agreed unanimously to grant planning permission at a meeting at Morecambe Town Hall on Monday.
Councillor Keith Budden, a Conservative, said there was "local support" for the scheme.
And Councillor Martin Gawith, from Labour, said: "People are fed up of the condition it's currently in and want to see something happen to it."
At the same meeting, the committee also approved a listed building application to demolish existing side and rear extensions and slated roof, erect a single storey rear extension and two storey side extension, alter openings, instal new windows/doors, remove toilets/bar/fixed seating, instal partition walls, and build new and raising of existing boundary walls on the site; and also agreed to permanently divert a public footpath running through the car park to enable the development to go ahead.
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