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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Mayfair to Maida Vale

Passenger Lift Inspections in Westminster

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Westminster. Few places in the country hold such a wide spread of lift ages in such a small area: lifts more than a century old in mansion blocks, sitting a few streets from brand-new installations in West End offices and hotels.

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The passenger-lift stock in Westminster

Westminster's passenger lifts fall into three broad groups. The mansion blocks of Marylebone, Maida Vale, Pimlico and St John's Wood hold some of the oldest lifts still in daily use in London, often modernised in stages so that the car, the controller and the machine come from different decades. West End and Victoria offices carry modern traction and machine-room-less lifts. Hotels run lifts around the clock with guests in the building at every hour, so there is no quiet time and the visit has to be planned car by car.

What the six-monthly examination covers

All of them are six-monthly. On older mansion-block lifts the findings tend to cluster at the doors and interlocks, at the ropes and their terminations, and at controllers for which no drawings survive. A lift that has been modernised piecemeal needs the examiner to establish what is original and what has been changed since the last report, because a modification is exactly what the examination is meant to catch.

Areas covered around Westminster

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

  • Mayfair
  • Marylebone
  • Soho
  • Pimlico
  • Victoria
  • Paddington
  • Maida Vale
  • St John's Wood

Passenger lift inspections in other London boroughs

Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Westminster — common questions

Our mansion block lift is very old. Can it still pass its examination?

Yes. Age on its own is not a defect. The examination asks whether the lift is safe to keep using until the next one, and an old lift that is well maintained often is. What it will pick up is wear and anything that has been changed without the safety devices being proved again afterwards.

Who arranges the inspection in a Westminster mansion block?

Usually the managing agent, acting for the freeholder or the residents' management company. The legal duty sits with whoever controls the lift, and that stays the same whoever books the visit. We send the report, with photographs, to whoever you nominate on the day of the inspection.

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 Westminster

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

Already have an asset list or examination schedule? Email it to info@integrityliftcompliance.co.uk and we'll come back with a survey plan rather than ask you to retype it.

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