Plans have been submitted for a new four-storey hotel in the car park of the Canny Man's pub in Edinburgh.
The proposals would see a 12-bedroom hotel built on Canaan Lane, behind the property on Morningside Road, as well as two ground floor short-term let apartments.
The applicant, Kerr Pubs and Hotels, which own the pub and the nearby Lane Hotel, wish to make use of its car park, stating that many of the customers do not travel to either establishment using a car.
If granted, the plans would see four rooms on the first, second and third floor with en-suite bathrooms. The ground floor flats would be apartments with their own front door, a small lounge, dining and kitchen space - as well as a small rear garden.
In a design statement submitted via to the City of Edinburgh Council, the applicant stated: "The proposal is to construct a new building to provide an additional 14 rooms - it was not considered possible, practical or viable to extend any of the existing properties.
"The location for a proposed new building is the pub car park that sits between the pub, its beer garden and the Lane Hotel.
"It is an under used facility as most of the pub customers avoid travelling to the Canny Man’s by car.
"Similarly many of the hotel guests who might share the facility, travel to the city without a car - this space is therefore sacrificial in relation to current use and deemed the best location to consider a new building."
It adds that the Kerr family are struggling to keep up with the growing demand in hotel accommodation, therefore "the rationale for this project is to increase the number of hotel rooms available for rent on land owned by the family".
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