Noodopvang Voorschoten (Veurseweg)
Since 2022 the Van der Valk hotel De Gouden Leeuw on the Veurseweg in Voorschoten has been used as emergency reception for status holders and family-reunification arrivals, working with the COA. Capacity was raised to around 200 people, and in 2025 the municipality extended the arrangement to the end of 2026, agreeing from December 2025 also to house families with children at the hotel. The site has been used to relieve national reception pressure while residents await onward housing or family reunification.
Occupancy
166
people (Aug 2025)
Per night
€184
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€11m
estimated
Background
The site sits at Veurseweg, Voorschoten. It is run by the COA (Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers), the Dutch government’s asylum-reception agency. For what the azc / noodopvang categories mean and how Dutch reception spending breaks down, open the cost panel on the interactive map with the Netherlands selected in Settings.
In the news
Sep 2022
Voorschoten takes in eighty extra status holders and family reunifiers
The municipality added 80 places at the Van der Valk hotel on the Veurseweg, bringing the total of status holders and family-reunification arrivals housed there to around 200.
Sleutelstad · source
Mar 2025
Voorschoten considers existing reception site for Dispersal Law
The municipality looked to its existing Van der Valk reception location to meet obligations under the Dispersal Law and extended its use toward the end of 2026.
Centraal+ · source
Compiled from public Dutch news reports (each item links to its source). Where a municipality runs more than one reception location, attribution to this specific address reflects the cited report and may be approximate — always check the linked source.
Timeline
Sep 2022
Hotel used for status holders and family reunification
Voorschoten and COA house status holders and family-reunification arrivals at Van der Valk De Gouden Leeuw; capacity later expanded to around 200.
Mar 2025
Arrangement extended to end of 2026
Municipality extends the Veurseweg reception, later also agreeing to house families with children from December 2025.
Cost
Dutch asylum reception is funded by central government through the COA. At an illustrative benchmark of about €184 per person per night for emergency reception (noodopvang), the 166 people recorded here on 13 August 2025 imply roughly €11m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — emergency reception typically runs around three times the cost of a regular centre.
Sources
COA / Rijksoverheid (Kamerstuk, 5 Sep 2025) · 2025-08-13. View source
Occupancy is the COA register snapshot of 13 August 2025 and may have changed since. Coordinates were geocoded from the published street address via the official PDOK Locatieserver.