Moving into an Epping or Macquarie Park tower: the goods-lift checklist

Northern Districts Removals · 26 June 2026 · 5 min read

If your last move was out of a house, your next one into a new tower will feel like a different sport. A house move runs on the street: the driveway, the kerb, the front door. A tower move runs on the building, and the building has rules. Around Epping, Macquarie Park and Meadowbank — where the Metro has turned whole precincts vertical — that shift catches a lot of people out, so here is what actually changes.

The move runs on the building clock

In the new towers there is no carrying a wardrobe up the passenger lift. The whole job goes through a booked goods or service lift, usually reserved for a set time window, and a loading dock or shared load bay you reverse the truck into. Building management wants notice, often a move-in bond, and almost always the removalist’s certificate of currency before the day. Miss the window and the move stalls; hit it and a tower move is remarkably smooth.

So the first call is not to the removalist — it is to your building manager. Ask three things: when can the goods lift be booked, where is the loading dock, and what paperwork do they need? Then tell us the answers and we work the move around them.

Book early — the dock fills fast

The single most common mistake is leaving the lift booking late. Popular move days, the end of the month and weekends fill the dock quickly in a busy building, and there is only one goods lift. Two to three weeks ahead is comfortable; the week before is a gamble. If you are moving between two apartments, you need two bookings, one at each end, and we coordinate both windows so the truck is not left waiting.

Protect the shared spaces

A scuffed lift car or a marked lobby wall can mean a damage levy from the building, so a careful tower move pads the lift car, protects the corridors and the lobby, and cleans up after. It is part of the job, not an extra, and it is the difference between a building that welcomes your removalist back and one that does not.

If you are arriving from a downsize

Many of these tower moves are the second half of a downsize — a sorted, lighter household arriving from a larger home elsewhere in the corridor. If that is you, the work to do up front is the same as any downsize: measure the apartment’s doorways and lift so the pieces you kept actually fit, and plan the in-between if the dates do not line up. Our downsizing planner covers both ends, and we are happy to quote the whole move honestly.

Common questions

How do I book the goods lift for my new apartment?

Through your building manager, and as early as you can. Most towers around Epping, Macquarie Park and Meadowbank require the goods or service lift booked for a set time window, with notice and often a certificate of currency. Once you have a date, we confirm the lift and loading-dock window with management and run the move to it.

What is a certificate of currency and do I need one?

It is proof that your removalist holds current insurance, and most strata buildings ask for it before they will let a move proceed. We provide ours to building management on request, so it is one less thing for you to chase.

Why are so many of the new towers around here?

The Sydney Metro reshaped the corridor. Around the stations at Epping, Macquarie Park and Macquarie University, apartment precincts grew up fast — Macquarie Park is now about 94% units and Meadowbank about 93%, where a generation ago they were business parks and riverside flats. The move into them is genuinely different from a house move.