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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Shoreditch to Stoke Newington

Passenger Lift Inspections in Hackney

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Hackney. Over the last twenty years the borough has gained a large stock of new lifts, in offices around Shoreditch and in residential blocks from Dalston to Hackney Wick, alongside the older lifts in its council estates.

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The passenger-lift stock in Hackney

Shoreditch and Hoxton hold converted warehouses and new office buildings, many with machine-room-less lifts. Dalston, Hackney Central and Hackney Wick have mixed-use blocks with shops below and flats above, where the flats may share a lift with the shops or have their own. Estate regeneration areas such as Woodberry Down combine brand-new towers with older blocks that are still occupied, so one landlord can hold lifts of very different ages.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Six months for every one of them. On newer machine-room-less lifts much of the equipment sits in the shaft or headroom, so the examiner needs safe access there and the visit takes slightly longer than on a lift with a motor room. On mixed-use buildings it matters to be clear who controls which lift, because the shop operator and the residential landlord can have separate duties in the same building.

Areas covered around Hackney

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

  • Shoreditch
  • Hoxton
  • Dalston
  • Hackney Central
  • Hackney Wick
  • Stoke Newington
  • Homerton
  • Woodberry Down

Passenger lift inspections in other London boroughs

Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Hackney — common questions

Our building has a lift for the shops and one for the flats. Who is responsible for each?

Whoever controls each lift. Often that is the residential landlord or managing agent for the flats' lift and the commercial tenant or landlord for the other, but it depends on the leases. Each lift needs its own six-monthly examination and its own report, whoever ends up arranging it.

What is different about examining a machine-room-less lift?

Nothing in the law: it is six-monthly like any passenger lift. In practice the motor, brake and controller sit in the shaft or at the landing rather than in a motor room, so getting safe access to them takes longer and needs planning with the building.

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 Hackney

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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