Lift Plans in Edinburgh
LOLER compliant lift plans, lift plan checking and Appointed Person services for construction projects across Edinburgh and Scotland.
Lift planning across Edinburgh
Edinburgh's St James Quarter, Granton Waterfront, Haymarket, and the surrounding listed-building refurbishment pipeline create a particularly demanding lift planning environment — tight city-centre tower crane envelopes, listed building constraints, and the city's UNESCO World Heritage status all driving careful planning detail. We provide lift planning and Appointed Person services across Edinburgh and Lothian.
Edinburgh sites often involve oversail of historic structures, tight access through Old Town and New Town streets, and significant rail and tram interface zones. We deliver LOLER and BS 7121 compliance on Edinburgh projects with a remote-plus-site-visit model, with site attendance scheduled around critical lifts and 8-weekly audits.
From our Warrington base. Site visits, surveys and pre-lift briefings are scheduled around your critical lifts rather than offered same-day at this distance. Plans themselves are produced remotely and turned around within 24-48 hours of receiving project information, wherever the site is.
Recent Edinburgh project experience
- Lift plan checking for a tower crane operating near a Category A listed building
- Mobile crane lift plans for façade installation on a New Town commercial refurbishment
- Steel erection planning for a logistics scheme at Edinburgh Park
Services available in Edinburgh
Every service we offer is available across Scotland.
Lift planning in Edinburgh — common questions
Do you actually attend sites in Edinburgh, or is it all remote?
Yes, but it is planned rather than same-day. Edinburgh is 4 hours from our Warrington base, so visits are scheduled around your critical lifts, complex pre-lift briefings and audits. Standard lift plans are produced remotely from drawings, photographs and equipment details, and turned around in 24-48 hours wherever the site is.
How quickly can you turn a lift plan around for a Edinburgh site?
Standard excavator, telehandler and lorry loader plans are issued within 24-48 hours of receiving the information. You will have a quote within 4 working hours of enquiring. Mobile crane plans that need a site visit take longer — typically 3-5 working days. If the lift is imminent, call 07803 808093 rather than emailing.
Do you charge more for work in Edinburgh?
The plan itself costs the same wherever the site is — excavator and telehandler plans from £200 + VAT, lorry loader from £250 + VAT. Where a site visit is genuinely required we agree the travel cost with you in advance, in writing, before anything is booked. We do not apply a regional uplift to fees.
Will a plan from you be accepted by principal contractors in Edinburgh?
Every plan is signed off by a CPCS A61 Appointed Person (registration 40389279) and written to LOLER 1998 and BS 7121, which is the standard Tier 1 contractors review against anywhere in the UK. Our plans are used by contractors including Wates, Caddick and GMI. If a reviewer comes back with comments, dealing with them is part of the fixed fee rather than an extra.
Can you review a lift plan someone else has written for a Edinburgh project?
Yes — independent lift plan checking is a service in its own right and does not require us to have written the original. A CPCS A61 Appointed Person reviews the plan against LOLER 1998 and BS 7121, confirms the lift category, and returns written findings you can pass straight back to the submitting subcontractor. Turnaround is typically 24-48 hours.
Do I need my own Appointed Person if I am hiring a crane in Edinburgh on CPA terms?
Yes. Under a CPA crane hire agreement the crane company supplies the crane and operator only — planning the lifting operation and appointing a competent Appointed Person stays with you as the hirer. Under a contract lift the crane company takes that duty on instead. If you are on CPA terms and have no A61 holder available, that is exactly the gap an external Appointed Person fills.
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