Water's Edge Hotel boundaries still being agreed before demolition and rebuild - Jersey Evening Post
by Julien Morel · Jersey Evening PostPosted inNews
Water’s Edge Hotel boundaries still being agreed before demolition and rebuild
by Julien Morel 28 July 202627 July 2026
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WORK to define the legal boundaries of the former Water’s Edge hotel in Bouley Bay is continuing, before the building is demolished to make way for a stepped three-storey ‘super-home’.
Planning permission to knock down the hotel, which closed its doors in 2008, and build a private home in its place was given in October 2022.
However, the old hotel remains mostly intact four years later, albeit fenced off and with heavy plant on site.
Speaking on behalf of the owner, who bought the property for £6.4m in April 2023, Michael Stein of MS Planning said that officials from the Law Officers’ Department, the government and the development team were still defining boundaries between the privately owned site and public land next door.
He said: “The project team remains committed to undertaking the demolition and construction as efficiently as possible to minimise impact on the bay and its users and work will commence as soon as possible.
“We appreciate that the public want to know about progress and as soon as we are able to speak definitively about timelines we will do so.”
The plans to redevelop the former hotel were controversial, particularly around the fate of the popular Mad Mary’s kiosk, which was based below the hotel. However, the café has now moved to a spot by the sea-facing car spaces.
The bay’s dive centre has also moved to the top of the mid-bay platform, although will move back its former site when the private home is built. The new building will also include a café / restaurant under the family residence.
In 2022, reacting to the news that their house has been approved, an unnamed family said in a statement: “This has been a long journey, one that has at times caused immense stress for our family who simply want to build our forever home in a corner of one of Jersey’s most tranquil bays.
“Throughout this process we have only had the interests of the bay and its community at heart and now, at long last, we can all look forward to better days at Bouley Bay.
“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.”
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