Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City's homes are unusually distinctive: the neo-Georgian houses, cottages and maisonettes that Louis de Soissons designed for the original garden city around Handside and Guessens, the larger detached houses on the leafier roads, and the post-war homes of Panshanger, Haldens and Woodhall. As mobility changes, the staircase in any of these homes can become a daily difficulty. A home lift from OnLevel keeps you in your Welwyn Garden City home rather than facing a move. The neo-Georgian houses of the garden city were never built around a lift shaft, but the OnLevel residential lift needs only a 150mm pit and no machine room. It fits beside the staircase or into a corner, so a 1920s garden-city house or a post-war family home gains a lift between floors with limited structural work.

Shops, offices and public buildings across Welwyn Garden City — from the Howard Centre and the Welwyn department store to the business parks and the offices of Shire Park — have duties under the Equality Act 2010 to provide reasonable access for disabled visitors and staff. A commercial OnLevel platform lift is often the most practical route to compliance, without the heavy groundworks of a conventional passenger lift. We work with retailers in the Howard Centre and the John Lewis department store, the offices of Shire Park and the Campus, civic buildings around Parkway and Howardsgate, care homes and GP surgeries across Handside and Panshanger, and businesses on the town's industrial estates. Tell us about your premises and we will provide a no-obligation quotation matched to your building. Our lifts comply with Part M of the Building Regulations, BS 6440:2023 and BS 8300:2018.

A through-floor lift rises between storeys through a compact opening in the ceiling — no external shaft, no deep excavation, no machine room. That makes it a sympathetic choice for Welwyn Garden City's protected housing, where the neo-Georgian cottages and maisonettes of the garden city leave little room for a more intrusive lift. Installation takes 3 to 5 days, even in the compact layouts of Welwyn Garden City's garden-city homes. The factory-built lift is fixed into a prepared opening and the surround finished to match the room. Its small footprint keeps the rest of the house in use while the work is carried out.

Wheelchair users across Welwyn Garden City and the surrounding area — from Handside and the Campus to Peartree, Panshanger and Haldens — can regain independent movement between floors at home, or step-free entry to commercial premises, with a wheelchair platform lift from OnLevel. We supply vertical platform lifts for full storey-height travel and step lifts for raised entrances. Every wheelchair lift meets DDA requirements and is certified for indoor and outdoor use.