Arniston, Scotland • Scotland
Arniston is a small Midlothian village in Scotland's EH postcode area, set among farmland just south of Edinburgh, a few minutes from Gorebridge and the A7 towards Carlisle. Crews working this corridor are usually housed in the surrounding towns and villages rather than the village itself — and KrewBase sorts that: whole serviced houses and flats with every bill in our name and one monthly invoice going to your firm.
Arniston village is tiny and estate-dominated, so crew housing for jobs here draws on the nearby Midlothian towns — Gorebridge, Newtongrange and Dalkeith — where the stock is a practical mix of stone terraces, post-war semis and modern estates. These are commuter-belt houses, which means the things crews need are usually there: driveways or garages, decent kitchens, central heating that works. We view every property before it reaches your shortlist and reject anything that is really a landlord's reluctant rental rather than a proper crew house.
The draw here is straightforward: Midlothian is growing. Housing development across the county brings builders, groundworkers and trades in steady numbers, alongside rail work on the Borders line that runs through Gorebridge, utilities and grid maintenance around the former mining villages, and healthcare teams covering the area's hospitals and care sites. Edinburgh's edge is close enough that some crews are working city jobs and would rather live out here in a house with parking than in a city flat without.
The A7 is the spine of this area, running north into Edinburgh's southern suburbs in around 25 minutes and south towards Carlisle. Dalkeith is roughly 15 minutes north for supermarkets and services, Gorebridge and Newtongrange sit minutes away, and the A68 and A701 fan out towards the Borders and Dumfries for jobs further south. Newtongrange station on the Borders Railway gives a direct train into Edinburgh. As ever, we shortlist by drive time from the actual site — for jobs dotted around Midlothian that matters more than which town the house is in.
The whole house or flat is yours for the job's duration. Gas, electricity, water, council tax and broadband all stand in our name and are included in the rent, with Wi-Fi speed-tested before your crew arrives and parking checked against the real vehicles. Crews of five or more get two bathrooms as standard wherever we can manage it, and the quoted figure covers everything from day one — nobody on site will be asked for a top-up for anything.
The weekly clean and linen are part of the deal, and maintenance is our phone that rings, not yours. Your firm gets one monthly invoice, paid by card with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. If the programme shifts, extending is a phone call — the crew just keeps working and the housing follows the job, which is the entire point of a serviced let.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
Arniston is very small, so the shortlist almost always comes from the surrounding towns — Gorebridge, Newtongrange and Dalkeith are minutes away and hold the terraces, semis and estates that suit crews. We rank options by drive time to your site, so you get the nearest genuine crew house, not a compromise for the sake of a village name.
Two working hours is typical once we have the site location, crew size and start date. Midlothian stock turns over quickly because of Edinburgh's pull, so a same-day brief gives you the strongest shortlist — but we handle urgent starts regularly and can often have a crew in within days.
Yes. Your firm receives one monthly invoice covering rent, all bills, Wi-Fi, the weekly clean and linen, payable paid by card. No booking fees, no per-night extras, nothing for crew members to claim back — your accounts team deals with one predictable line item per property per month.
Generally yes — the Midlothian estates and semis we favour usually come with driveways or garages, and we record your vehicle sizes at enquiry stage and verify the space on the viewing. Where a property only has on-street room we say so up front, with a photo, rather than leaving the crew to find out.
All of them: gas, electricity, water, council tax and broadband are in KrewBase's name and inside the quoted monthly figure. The broadband is speed-tested before check-in, and nobody on site will see a utility bill or a supplier letter, because there is nothing in the crew's name to begin with.
Both are handled with a phone call. Early finish — you give us notice, the invoice simply stops, and there is no penalty clause for work ending when the client says so. Overrun — we agree the new dates and carry on at the same rate. Flexibility in both directions is rather the point of monthly serviced housing.
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Arniston sits about 9 miles from Edinburgh. Plenty of crews working here base themselves in the city and drive out, especially on longer jobs or when the local supply is thin. Our contractor accommodation Edinburgh page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Arniston? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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