Do you like to use your car to visit friends and family?
Do you use a car and as such care about being able to use it?
If you answered 'YES' to any of the above then Alexandra Tower Liverpool is not the building you should live in.....
Do you want to miss family holidays because you can't use you car and get to the airport on time, as your car is stuck in Alexandra Tower's carpark and the only means to get it out is broken and may be for a few days each month?
Do you want to miss important meetings and lose business because you need you car to travel for work/business but cant because your car is stuck in Alexandra Tower's carpark?
Do you want to have the worry of missing anything important in your life because your car will likely get stuck in Alexandra Tower's carparkwith no means of getting it out?
If you answered NO to any of the above then Alexandra Tower Liverpool is not the building you should live in.....
Granted before December there were a few outages but this month the car lifts have had problems every week and there have been several days of complete outage, and several other days of just one lift working.
It also has to be said that on some days (inc today 30th Dec and 14th ) that the lifts went off more than once in the same day, got fixed, then went off again...
At the time of writting, there is no access to cars parked at Alexandra Tower Liverpool. Cars are blocked inside the building and those arriving home from work have nowhere to park...
What is the Car Park lift/s?
For non residents (perhaps looking at this blog and thinking of moving in?) Alexandra Tower, Liverpool has an adjacent 5 storey car park for some 80 or so residents cars. Whilst a dozen or so spaces are accessed via the road into a ground level car park, the majority have to use the upper floors of which the only access to these floors is via a car lift system.
As with any normal lift in any other building, the principle is exactly the same but the notable exception is that if a lift is broken, people can use the stairs!
At Alexandra Tower Liverpool there are two lifts and since they were installed, they have been besieged with problems, faults and also damage which causes one, or as in most cases, both lifts to fail in quick succession.
Unlike any other lift were people can use the stairs, for obvious reasons no such luck for cars and the net result is that for several instances each month, there is a complete shutdown to the lifts and your car is then trapped inside the car park, or outside on the road. A road which is a private and owned by Peel Ports who have no sympathy for cars parked on said road (fine when lifts are working) and as such are never slow to get out the parking fines/tickets when the lifts are off.
“Surely the lifts are being looked into?” we residents hear people ask….
And the answer is that although the lifts are a well known, well documented fault with many a resident citing it to their letting agents as a direct reason for non renewal and leaving the building, no solution (beyond temp fixes) has ever been, or likely ever will be actioned.
The building has so much potential but there is no movement on any issues which have plagued the building over the last 3 years.
IF YOU HAVE A CAR AND NEED IT, DON’T MOVE IN
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