UK: Innis & Gunn submits planning application for new Edinburgh brewery

A top Scottish brewing company has submitted an application for planning permission for the first large-scale new brewery in Edinburgh for over 150 years, the Scottish Daily Record reported on May 20.

Set to be built at Heriot-Watt University’s Research Park in the west side of the city, Innis & Gunn's planned full-scale brewery will create up to 30 new jobs and see the brand’s 45 office-based staff relocate from its current head office in Edinburgh’s Randolph Crescent.

The partnership is the UK’s first major collaboration of this type between a brewery and a university and will create a world-centre for brewing studies and applied learning.

As well as brewing Innis & Gunn’s flagship Lager Beer and The Original, the brewery will include a high-speed canning and bottling line and will enable the company to consolidate all currently outsourced production under one roof.

By installing modern equipment and technology Innis & Gunn’s Founder Dougal Gunn Sharp stated the project will reduce Innis & Gunn’s carbon footprint by up to 30 per cent.

The master brewer said: "I am excited that today we submit our planning application. This means that the project now enters a statutory phase during which our application will be considered by the local authorities in Edinburgh. In normal times we would expect this process to take three or four months. However, because of the COVID-19 situation we are not able to say how long this stage might take.

21 May, 2020