Elevator outages in London
London's lifts keep flats, offices, and Tube stations moving across a city where roughly a third of Underground stations offer step-free access. Elevator Uptime tracks every indexed residential, commercial, and transit lift in a public record. Report a broken lift in 15 seconds. No account, no email.
Outage history — last 12 months
30 recorded outages across tracked London buildings. Record begins April 2026.
Each bar counts outages by the month they began, drawn from regulatory records and live-feed archives. A month with no bar had no recorded outages in our data — not necessarily zero real outages.
Affected buildings
All tracked buildings (59)
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- 1105 JALNA BLVD, LONDON ON N6E 2S9, Canada
- 1705 FIDDLEHEAD PLACE, LONDON ON N6G 5M6, Canada
- 199 COMMISSIONERS RD W, LONDON ON N6J 4W8, Canada
- 25 GRAND AVE, LONDON ON N6C 1L3, Canada
- 301 BASE LINE RD W, LONDON ON N6J 3T9, Canada
- 517 FANSHAWE PARK RD W, LONDON ON N6G 0C1, Canada
- 555 BERKSHIRE DR, LONDON ON N6J 3V6, Canada
- 555 BERKSHIRE DR, LONDON ON N6J 3V6, Canada
- 600 LONGWORTH RD, LONDON ON N6K 4X9, Canada
- 609 WHARNCLIFFE RD S, LONDON ON N6J 0A4, Canada
- 680 WONDERLAND RD N, LONDON ON N6H 4T6, Canada
- 690 WONDERLAND RD N, LONDON ON N6H 4T7, Canada
- 790 WONDERLAND RD S, LONDON ON N6K 1M5, Canada
- Abbey Wood
- Acton Town
- BANK
- Barking
- Bond Street
- Borough
- Canada Water
- Canary Wharf
- Canning Town
- Canonbury
- Crystal Palace
- Custom House
- Edgware
- Farringdon
- Finsbury Park
- Gidea Park
- Gospel Oak
- Hainault
- Hendon Central
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow East
- Ickenham
- Ilford
- Kensal Rise
- Kilburn
- Knightsbridge
- Langdon Park
- LIVERPOOL STREET
- Manor Park
- Mill Hill East
- Moorgate
- North Greenwich
- Oakwood
- Osterley
- Prince Regent
- Royal Victoria
- Victoria
- Waterloo
- Wembley Central
- WEMBLEY PARK
- West Brompton
- West Drayton
- West Ham
- West Silvertown
- White Hart Lane
- Woolwich Arsenal
Lift outages in London
Under the Equality Act 2010, landlords, housing associations, and public service providers must make reasonable adjustments for disabled residents and visitors when a lift is out of service. Social landlords are subject to Housing Ombudsman jurisdiction; private landlords answer to the local authority's environmental health team. Lift safety itself is governed by the Lifts Regulations 2016, with continuing maintenance requirements under LOLER 2016.
Transit coverage is anchored by Transport for London (TfL). TfL publishes step-free access status in real time, including every Tube, Elizabeth line, and Overground station with accessible routes. As of late 2025, 94 of the Underground's 272 stations (roughly a third) have step-free access, per TfL's step-free access project page. The London Underground, which opened in January 1863, is the oldest underground rapid-transit system in the world. Lift outages at TfL stations are added to the public record here the moment they appear on the agency feed.
How to report a broken lift in London
- Council housing tenants: contact your local housing officer
- Housing association tenants: local officer first, then the Housing Ombudsman
- Private tenants: local authority environmental health team
- TfL stations: report through TfL Customer Services or the Access & Equality team
- Any building, public record: file an outage on Elevator Uptime in 15 seconds
For the full reporting guide, see how to report a broken elevator.