Work on public space

In Voorne aan Zee , Stedin owns the electricity grid. We are using more and more electricity and generating more electricity as well. As a result, the electricity grid is becoming full. To ensure that the electricity grid can cope with this increasing demand, the electricity grid must be strengthened. Network operator Stedin is going to invest heavily in the coming years to strengthen the grid. Also in our municipality.

Due to increasing demand, the power grid in every neighborhood needs to be upgraded. Chances are that Stedin will also have to work in your street. In order to minimize the inconvenience, the municipality is looking together with Stedin at the best way to do this. 

In the coming period, Stedin will be performing work in the following neighborhoods:

• Brielle: De Kapel and Surroundings, Ommeloop and Zuurland 
• Hellevoetsluis: Vogelbuurt and Dorp, Hoonaart, Ravense Hoek (Mother Teresalaan)
• Oostvoorne

In addition, Stedin continuously monitors the electricity grid. To prevent outages, work is also carried out that is not neighborhood-oriented.

Before Stedin starts work, you will be informed by Stedin through a letter. Once Stedin starts work in your neighborhood, they will be happy to keep you informed of the current schedule and developments via the StedinBouwt app. You can also contact Stedin via the StedinBouwt app. Download the StedinBouwt app via the Google play store or App store.

Sample trenches

To make the final plans, it is necessary to know exactly where the existing power lines are located. Stedin does this by digging open a small section of the road. We call this "trial trenches." The test trenches are always closed again immediately.
It is possible that test trenches are already being dug in your street, but that you have not yet received a letter. This is due to preparations for the later work.

Learn more on the Stedin website.

Recently, fiber optics have been installed in the built-up area of Hellevoetsluis. The municipality is not a client for the installation of fiber optics. Since the privatization of telecom companies in the 1990s, each telecom company may decide for itself to lay a network in public land. The municipality must allow this.

Odido (T-mobile)

Over the past year, Open Dutch Fiber BV (in cooperation with Odido, formerly T-mobile) has constructed a fiber optic network in the built-up area of Hellevoetsluis. This work is now almost complete. ODF only needs to make some house connections from the sidewalk to the homes.

KPN

Meanwhile, a permit has also been granted to KPN Telecom / Glaspoort. They will do the same: in every street in the Hellevoetsluis residential area, KPN will also install a fiber optic network. KPN started digging on both sides of the canal at the end of August. In most streets: open in the morning, closed again in the evening. The expectation is that it will take a year before KPN has installed fiber optics throughout Hellevoetsluis.

Two providers

Two different providers means more inconvenience from excavation work, but competition also means lower rates for our residents. Unfortunately, it was not possible to have work done by both providers at the same time.

Will your home be connected?

If you want to know if your home also qualifies for connection to either provider, you can see it on the website of the respective provider.

• https://opendutchfiber.nl
• https://www.kpn.com/internet/glasvezel/glasvezelcheck.htm

For residents of Oudenhoorn:

• https://www.delta.nl/internet/glasvezel/glasvezelcheck/

If fiber optic cable is indeed being laid in your street, you will receive a letter from the provider in your mailbox a few weeks before the digging work begins.

The pieces of fiber optic cable sticking out at each home are the future house connections for each home. At the property boundary of each home, the fiber optic cable lies on a roll in the ground and one blade sticks out. Several more home connections will be realized in the coming period; an exact completion date is not yet known. Before the end of the project, the protruding fiber optic cables will be cut off above ground level.

Complaints?

The municipality has deployed additional supervision on this project to ensure that the provider performs the construction in the public space properly, and leaves the pavement neat.

In case of complaints, please contact the respective provider.

For persistent complaints about public space restoration, contact the municipality.

From February through June 2025, we are performing maintenance on the two bridges in Ravens Park in Hellevoetsluis. The bridges will be provided with a new galvanizing layer including new layers of paint. After completion of the work, the bridges will be able to last another 20 to 25 years. To carry out this work, the bridges will be removed one by one for several weeks. The southern bridge in the park will be addressed first, followed by the northern bridge. By not removing the bridges at the same time, the park will remain easily accessible.

The work will be performed by contracting company GKB. More information can be found on the GKB Group website.

The greenery in one of the longer streets in Hellevoetsluis is in need of renewal. Most of the plant boxes between the bike path/footpath and the road on Dag Hammarskjöldlaan are in poor condition and need to be addressed. Recently, it appeared that the various planting beds (except for the trees) were not growing well. This gives a messy appearance to this important road through Den Bonsen Hoek. A survey of the soil was done and discovered that there are several disturbing layers and debris in the soil.

A more beautiful streetscape

Therefore, the municipality will remove the various plant areas, improve the soil and sow grass. In some places there will also be flowering bushes. We are improving the appearance of Dag Hammarskjöld Avenue and making the street more attractive again with these measures.

The ground work and seeding of the lawns will take place from May 6 to mid-June. The installation of the shrub plantings will take place in October/November this year. The road will not be closed for these improvements. .