Plans lodged to turn Edinburgh city centre Pizza Hut into 24 hour adult gaming centre at Hanover Street
Long-term restaurant unit could soon see big changes
Plans have been lodged to turn a former Edinburgh city centre Pizza Hut into an adult gaming centre operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Luxury Leisure submitted a change of use application on April 7 to the council’s planning department to turn 34-46 Hanover Street from a restaurant into an adult gaming centre (AGC).
This application seeks permission for change of use only. No internal or external works are proposed. Applications for listed building consent, advertisement consent and external shop front alterations will be submitted in due course assuming the proposed change of use is granted permission.
The 400 sqm unit is situated on the western side of Hanover Street. The property has remained vacant since 2025, having most recently been occupied by Pizza Hut, who operated there for many years, with the unit used as a restaurant since 1997.
With a portfolio of over 285 high street and seaside gaming centres, Luxury Leisure offers “technologically advanced slot machines and traditional gaming formats”.
In the planning documents for this application, it said: “There are no residential properties either directly neighbouring or within close proximity of 34-36 Hanover Street. This is an entirely commercial area and the proposed development will not give rise to any material harm to neighbouring amenity.
“The proposed use would comprise an adult entertainment facility offering gaming on coin operated machines. The facility would provide gaming facilities for adults aged over 18 in accordance with relevant legislation.
“The premises will be professionally managed, with a minimum of two employees on duty at all times. Alcohol will not be served or consumed on the premises. It is intended that the proposed AGC will operate on a 24-hour basis, seven days a week.
“Given that the upper floors of the building are in office use and that there are no neighbouring residential properties, the proposed hours of operation would not give rise to any adverse impacts on residential amenity.
“Rather, the proposal will complement the diverse mix of daytime and evening uses already present and operating on Hanover Street and the surrounding area.
“In considering the economic benefits of the proposed development, the use will reintroduce active occupation of a prime city centre unit, bringing a vacant property back into productive use.”
If this application is approved, this will be Luxury Leisure’s second Edinburgh city centre venue, alongside the existing 24-hour Admiral Casino located at 18 Shandwick Place.
The planning documents for this change of use application at Hanover Street show the ground floor restaurant space would make way for a large gaming area the full length of the unit.
While the lower ground floor rooms would be repurposed from kitchen, cold rooms, and office to mostly store rooms, while the staff room would be moved. The existing toilet facilities would remain. The existing waste disposal area of the unit will continue to be used for the storage of waste.
The City of Edinburgh Council’s planning department will now decide upon this change of use application, which has so far received no public comments on the online planning portal.
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