Developers KLN Properties, which is operated by Edinburgh duo Karen and Robert Tait, have already secured planning permission in principle to redevelop the former Drybrough Brewery site on Duddingston Road West.

The development will see the site converted into 131 homes and 15 commercial units, including a cafe/restaurant.

Drybrough & Co. was founded in 1750, and moved to Craigmillar in 1892, where it remained until the brewery closed in 1987, and is the only brewery building complex left in an area that once contained seven different breweries, Edinburgh Live reports.

Since brewing stopped in 1987, some of the site and buildings have operated as a business park for small start-up businesses. However, large parts, particularly the Maltings and the Brewhouse have lain empty since 1989 and are now deteriorating.

A planning statement, submitted by capital-based architects Format Design, reads: “There are serious concerns over the current state of some of the vacant buildings which form the vast majority of the site and proposed conversion.

“It is therefore requested that this application be determined within the statutory time scale of two months to allow the earliest possible start on site.”

“Some of the conditions may not be fully satisfied at this point, however, it is hoped that the conditions of the detailed planning consent can still include such things as materials specification and ongoing plant compliance with NR25.”

It adds: “These are subject to change during the tendering processes for the new developments.

“This is a development that is desperately required in order to secure the future of this group of listed buildings, possibly one of the last remaining complete brewery sites in the Lothians.

“We have all the operational buildings present, and adjacent, but outwith the site boundary we have the workers’ tenement and the main brewer’s house.