An abandoned Edinburgh cinema's renovation will include an additional new café and studio flat.
The City of Edinburgh Council recently validated a proposal from MS Properties to create the café and studio flat at the old cinema.
The former picture house opened on Great Junction Street in 1938 and was known as ‘State Cinema.’
It was described at the time as a ‘luxury super cinema’ which also included four shops, two billiard saloons and a skittle alley.
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The B-listed building is located within the Leith conservation area and the old cinema holds historical value as one of the few Streamline Moderne /Art Deco style buildings in Edinburgh.
Over the years it has been used as a bingo hall and a nightclub but more recently the building has been converted into a residential development.
Edinburgh Live reported this month that the work is currently ongoing to create the flats but they are now being advertised on the market, with the average luxury property costing £340,000.
Now, council bosses are considering the planning application to create a new café and studio flat at the lower ground floor of the premises, in a quarter previously used as office space.
The plans show a small café on the ground level, with no seating area listed on the application.
The developers MS Properties have not listed any possible tenant for the café at this stage of the application.
The studio flat would offer views overlooking the Water of Leith.
A supporting statement on the planning application, prepared by architects Taylor Drew, explains more about the application.
It says: “The proposals will create a café on the ground floor with an open plan kitchen and new accessible WC. Alterations to the existing shopfront with architectural detailing continued creates a new entrance and stair to a lower ground floor studio flat.
“The lower ground floor accommodation is extended by enclosing and fitting out the rear part of the external terrace overlooking the Water of Leith.
“There is no original detail or finishes remaining with various earlier works having altered the property. The new interior will use modern, high quality contemporary finishes.”
