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 owns the pub and the nearby Lane Hotel, wishes to make use of its car park, stating that many of the customers do not travel to either establishment using a car.

Four rooms with en-suite bathrooms will be delivered on the first, second and third floors. 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 underused 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.”