Photos

Taken on a recent visit (note the two figures on the shore to the right for scale).

From Wikipedia.

'The West Pier is a pier in Brighton, England.
It was built in 1866 by Eugenius Birch and has been closed and deteriorating since 1975, awaiting renovation.
It was Brighton's second pier, joining The Royal Suspension Chain Pier of 1823, and it is one of only two Grade 1 listed piers in the UK, the other being Clevedon Pier.

Plans by the charity the West Pier Trust, which now owns the pier, to renovate it with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund, were opposed by some local residents.
The local media reported that a major concern was the impact of commercial operations on the shore that were apparently required to help fund the project.
The Noble brothers, owners of the Palace Pier, joined the objectors, having originally been supporters of the restoration scheme (the 1996 Year of the Pier was launched from the Palace Pier).
Their reported point of view was that subsidised rebuilding, were it to happen, would represent unfair competition.

The West Pier had been cut off from the shore (partly deliberately, for safety reasons) since 1975, but the West Pier trust offered regular tours of it until the structure suffered a serious partial collapse during a storm on December 29, 2002, when a walkway connecting the concert hall and pavilion fell into the sea.
On January 20, 2003 a further collapse saw the destruction of the concert hall in the middle of the pier.
On 28 March 2003 the pavilion at the end of the pier caught fire. Firefighters were unable to save the building from destruction because the collapsed walkway prevented them from reaching it.
The cause of the fire remains unknown. On May 12, 2003, another fire broke out, consuming most of what was left of the concert hall.
Arson was suspected: the West Pier Trust refers to the fires as the work of "professional arsonists". On June 23, 2004 high winds caused the middle of the pier to collapse completely'.