The term disabled lifts covers a broad range of lifts designed to help lift a wheelchair user or a person with mobility challenges. It includes a variety of both inclined and vertical lifts. Stannah Lifts supplies commercial and public access lifts, and our sister company Stannah, helps with home lifts.

They ensure users with mobility challenges can move safely and conveniently between different floor levels. Users don’t need to exit their wheelchairs, providing them with greater freedom and dignity.

Wheelchair lifts have two main categories: vertical and inclined. Vertical lifts act like passenger lifts to transport you to other floors, and inclined platform lifts follow a flight of stairs.

They are a popular public and commercial access choice where footprint, limited building work and disruption because of installation timeframes matter most.

Wheelchair lifts are a great solution for access, making a public or private space easier to manoeuvre. These lifts are vital in helping people with disabilities or impaired mobility get around existing and new buildings.

A DDA-compliant lift is a wheelchair lift that conforms to the new Equality Act. The act requires all public buildings to have wheelchair access and references Part M or Section 4.2 to give more specific guidance.

When designing a building, the main advantage of an access lift is that they require only a small pit or, in some cases, don’t need one at all. This is contrary to most passenger lifts where, by law, there is a requirement for a large pit.

If a lift is going to be used by wheelchair users for public or commercial access – the floor space of a lift needs to accommodate this. Usually, this means a size of at least 1100mm x 1400mm. For home lifts, the cabin and lift can be made smaller, if the size of a wheelchair is known.

We’ll work with your builder to advise on the necessary preparatory works. Once ready for your lift, our experienced lift installers will attend the site and complete the fitting and handover. As every lift is built to the unique site specification, please speak to us about your project as soon as possible.

If you’re an Architect, we have a range of technical data available to download to help ensure you can fit the right lift into your project.

We do not recommend these products for general fire or evacuation purposes as people may be trapped if the lift becomes immobilised. Only appropriately protected passenger lifts can be used to evacuate disabled people.

Disabled platform lift prices vary depending on the lift and specification. However, prices start from £11,000, which covers the supply and installation but excludes any required building work.