I360

The i360 (Not to be mistaken with the newly built Brighton Wheel) is a planned 183-metre (600 ft) observation tower to be constructed on the seafront of Brighton, near to the West Pier. Plans were submitted in June 2006 and were approved by Brighton and Hove City Council on 11 October 2006 with construction projected to start in 2007. Following delays of around fifteen months the off-site construction of the sections of the tower began in 2008 in the Netherlands. Work on reconstructing the arches beneath and East of the pier to allow the tower construction began in November 2012