THE Water’s Edge Hotel is due to be demolished this winter to make way for a luxury stepped family home, if all legal prerequisites are completed in time.
It is understood that boundaries and other matters are being currently being finalised, with the project team hoping that demolition of the building will start in the final three months of this year.
This is designed to minimise disruption in the bay during the summer months.
Plans to demolish the hotel and its associated buildings and construct a single home with guest accommodation, pool, pool house, tennis court, parking, landscaping and separate staff accommodation were submitted in June 2021 and passed by the Planning Committee in October 2022.
With plans approved, the hotel – which closed its doors to guests in 2008 – was bought for £6.4m in April 2023 by an unnamed family.
The hotel has remained closed and fenced off, although its new owner has paid for the building of a wooden-clad temporary dive centre on the German bunker in the middle of the bay.
Separately, Mad Mary’s Beach Café has moved from the end of the promenade beneath the hotel to next to the temporary dive centre.
The approved plans include a new home for the dive centre and a café / restaurant on the lower ground floor.
When the plans were passed three years ago, the family said in a statement: “Approval of this development not only removes a significant and embarrassing blot on Jersey’s beautiful and precious landscape, it will improve and expand the ecology of the Bay, it will open up the view of the Bay as you come down La Charrière du Boulay and create public access to the North Coast footpath, which is currently private land across the site.”
The family added: “Bouley Bay has waited a long time for this moment and finally it has arrived, heralding an exciting new era for the Bay and everyone who enjoys its splendour.”
