PROPOSALS for a luxury mansion on the site of Bouley Bay’s former Water’s Edge Hotel have returned to planners with no fewer than 25 design changes – including moving its tennis court by three metres.
In a cover letter, planners for the proposed hotel said most of the changes – including raising the height of the café’s ceiling, removing skylights, building access ramps, and adding automatic venetian blinds – to the already-approved plans were “relatively minor”.
The change described as “major” was the tennis court’s slight relocation.
The hotel has been closed since the end of 2008, and, since then, plans have been advanced to knock the premises down and build a family home in its place.
Those plans were first approved in 2022 and the site was subsequently bought by an unnamed family for £6.4 million.
Work to demolish the former hotel started this winter. While that work takes place, the building has been fenced off, with a wooden structure built to house Mad Mary’s Beach Café and Bouley Bay Dive Centre.
The new house will include staff accommodation, a 160-square-metre gym, a spa and massage room, a hammam, a sauna, a billard room, extensive gardens, as well as indoor and outdoor swimming pools.
The plans include sufficient room for the bay’s dive centre and café to continue operating.
