The joint owners of Scheveningen’s 60-year-old pier have published plans to build a hotel, spa and conference centre on the structure, in an effort to secure its future.
The big wheel which dominates the seascape remains part of the plan.

The Hague city council had urged the owners to come up with a plan for the 300-metre pier, after a report in 2022 said parts of it are in such a bad state that without action it will no longer be safe by 2025.

Now the plans have been finalised, work on the structure should start as soon as possible, said Saman Mohammadi, chief executive of developers Reborn at Tuesday night’s presentation. “The longer we wait, the higher the cost of renovating the structure,” he said.

The Hague city council still has to approve the project which involve a change in the zoning plan to allow construction of a hotel.

Scheveningen’s original pier, which was built in 1901, was destroyed by the Nazi occupiers in 1943.