J.K. Rowling is building two treehouses fit for a wizard.
Despite some complaints from neighbours, the City of Edinburgh Council said it has approved the Harry Potter author's application to create the large treehouses in her garden for her children.
The structures, each about 12 metres high, feature tall conical roofs and turreted windows in the style of Hogwarts Castle in the Harry Potter movies.
Artist impressions submitted to the council show that they will be built on wooden stilts and connected by a rope bridge. Other features included are lanterns above the doors, a spiral staircase, balconies, a trap door and a steel slide.
Several neighbours had written to object, saying the treehouses may be visible from the road through a gap in the conifers that shield the development and could affect the area's landscape.
But the council granted Rowling's request, saying the development will not have a negative impact on the conservation area.
Rowling, 47, lives in a 17th-century mansion in an Edinburgh suburb with her husband and three children.
