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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Croydon Town Centre & Beyond

Passenger Lift Inspections in Croydon

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Croydon. The town centre has one of the largest clusters of tall buildings outside central London, including many office blocks that have been converted into flats.

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The passenger-lift stock in Croydon

Central and East Croydon have office towers, new residential towers and offices converted to housing. In a converted block, a lift designed for office workers in office hours now carries residents, deliveries and furniture at all hours, often with a different pattern of wear. Purley, Coulsdon and Sanderstead have retirement housing and care homes. Thornton Heath, Norbury and New Addington have estates and housing association blocks.

What the six-monthly examination covers

All six-monthly. In converted office blocks the examination often finds the lift has been kept as it was while its use has changed completely, so doors, controls and car finishes deserve close attention. It is also worth confirming who controls the lift after conversion, because the duty moves with control of the building.

Areas covered around Croydon

Passenger lifts carry people, so the statutory interval is six months — not twelve.

  • Croydon town centre
  • East Croydon
  • Purley
  • Coulsdon
  • Sanderstead
  • Thornton Heath
  • Norbury
  • New Addington

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Croydon — common questions

Our block used to be offices. Does the lift need anything different now it serves flats?

The legal interval is the same: six-monthly, because it carries people. What changes is how it is used, often far more heavily and at all hours. The examination takes that into account, and the report sets out anything that needs attention given its new use.

Who is responsible for the lift in a converted office block?

Whoever now controls the building's common parts, usually the freeholder or their managing agent. If the building changed hands at conversion, check the lift's examination record came with it. If it did not, book an examination.

Further reading

How Often Does a Passenger Lift Need Inspecting?
Every six months. The confusion is almost never about the number — it is about whether the maintenance visits already cover it. They do not. A service contract and a thorough examination are different things done by different people for different reasons, and having one does not satisfy the duty for the other.
Will the Examiner Leave My Lift Out of Service?
It is the question duty-holders ask least often and worry about most, and it is the real reason many let their maintenance contractor examine its own work. A thorough examination takes the lift out of normal service deliberately — that is what testing the safety gear means. Getting it back is specific to the installation in front of you rather than to the name on the doors.
Can My Lift Company Carry Out the LOLER Inspection?
It is one of the most common questions duty-holders ask, and the honest answer is not a flat no. LOLER does not name a prohibited person. What it requires is a competent person, and HSE expects that person to be sufficiently independent and impartial to make objective decisions — which is where a maintenance provider examining its own work runs into difficulty. This is about the structure of the arrangement, not about anyone's honesty.

Book a passenger lift examination in Croydon

Tell us what needs inspecting and where — company name, contact details and a note on the equipment. We'll reply within one business hour.

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