Balsham, East of England • England
Balsham is a Cambridgeshire village in the CB postcode area, perched on the chalk hills about ten miles south-east of Cambridge, with the A11 and A1307 close by and Newmarket a short run over the Suffolk border. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and flats for crews working around Cambridge, Newmarket or the market towns — bills in, Wi-Fi tested, parking checked, one monthly invoice.
The village itself is old England — thatched cottages, a brick-and-flint church, winding lanes — but the housing that works for crews sits on the edges and in the neighbouring villages: 1960s semis, 1990s estates, a scattering of new-builds with driveways and utility rooms. We shortlist that newer stock and leave the chocolate-box cottages to the weekenders. Every house on your list has real parking, working heating, and a second bathroom if the crew runs to five or more.
Crews base around here for jobs across south Cambridgeshire and west Suffolk: growth and development around Cambridge, housing schemes in the market towns, agri-food and equine-industry work towards Newmarket, utility maintenance on the rural networks, and logistics off the A11. It's a spread of sites rather than one big one, which suits us — we shortlist by drive time, and if the job moves from Cambridge to Newmarket the list moves with it.
The A1307 runs from Cambridge through towards Haverhill, and the A11 is a few minutes west for jobs towards Newmarket, Thetford or down towards London. Cambridge is about twenty minutes, Newmarket about fifteen, and the M11 is reached from the west side of the city. There's no station in the village, so crews drive — which is exactly why we measure every shortlist in minutes to site rather than miles on a map.
One let, the whole house, in your company's name. Bills, council tax and speed-tested Wi-Fi are ours to hold and pay. The weekly clean and linen change are included, maintenance calls come to us, and parking is verified against your actual vehicles. Crews of five or more get two bathrooms as standard. Accounts sees one monthly invoice, paid by card — no booking fees, no minimum stay, no per-head pricing.
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.
Two hours is our standard from enquiry — site postcode, headcount and start date in, vetted shortlist out. If the village itself is thin on stock we look to Linton, Haverhill, the Shelfords or the Cambridge edge, always measured by drive time to your site.
Balsham, West Wickham, Linton, the Abingtons, Haverhill towards Suffolk, and the south and east edges of Cambridge. The boundary is the commute, not the county line — we pick houses the crew can reach in minutes, not a map pin that looks close.
Only houses with genuine drive space make our list. Send the vehicle count and sizes and we'll check parking and turning room before the shortlist reaches you — that's the difference between a crew house and a nice cottage that becomes a problem on day one.
Yes — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband sit in our name and in the rate. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so the crew lands to a warm house and working internet, and your accounts team reconciles one monthly invoice instead of five supplier bills.
That's the standard arrangement: one monthly invoice to your accounts team paid by card, covering rent, bills, Wi-Fi, the weekly clean and any maintenance. No booking fees and no per-person charges, so the cost stays predictable even when headcount shifts week to week on site.
We do. The crew reports to us, we book the trade, it's fixed. There's a weekly clean and fresh linen in the rate anyway, and anything between cleans is our problem — no landlord phone tag, no agent middleman, no chasing from site.
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Working in Balsham? You are about 10 miles from Cambridge, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation Cambridge page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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Need beds in Balsham? 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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