Bickenhill, West Midlands • England
Bickenhill sits on the doorstep of Birmingham Airport and the NEC, in the West Midlands — B-postcode country with the M42 and A45 running close by. Crews flying in, driving in or working across the Solihull and south Birmingham job belt can base themselves here without the airport-hotel bill. KrewBase places crews in whole serviced houses and flats around Bickenhill: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your vehicles, and one monthly invoice to the office.
Bickenhill itself is a small airport-side village, so crew houses usually come from the surrounding Solihull fringe — Marston Green, Elmdon and the streets off the A45. Expect 1930s semis with driveways, tidy post-war terraces and the odd corner-plot house with room for two or three vans. We filter for what a crew actually needs: off-street parking, a second bathroom for five-plus bodies, and a kitchen that can take batch cooking after a long shift.
Because the area mixes airport staff, exhibitors and trades on rotating contracts, decent stock gets taken quickly and quietly. We keep a working shortlist of houses we already know suit crews — landlords we've dealt with, parking we've measured — and we re-check each property in person before offering it, never relying on last year's photos or an agent's description.
The NEC calendar alone keeps build and breakdown crews busy year-round, and the airport brings its own rolling programme of maintenance, construction and logistics work. Beyond that, crews based here cover housing development and infrastructure jobs across Solihull and south Birmingham, with energy and facilities work dotted along the M42 corridor. Whatever the contract, the pattern is the same: a crew that needs a proper house, not a hotel corridor, within an easy drive of site.
The M42 junction 6 is effectively on the doorstep, which puts the M6, M40 and M5 interchanges within a short hop. The A45 runs straight past toward Birmingham city centre, roughly ten miles away. For rail crews, Birmingham International station serves the airport and NEC, and Marston Green has local services into Birmingham New Street. If your site is somewhere we don't know, give us the postcode and we shortlist houses by real drive time, not map guesswork.
You get the whole property — no shared corridors, no other guests. Bills go in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water, broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is checked against the actual vehicles turning up, and houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms. A weekly clean and fresh linen come as standard, and any maintenance is our problem, sorted through one point of contact. You receive one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay.
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.
Send the site postcode and headcount and we'll come back with a shortlist of suitable crew houses within two working hours. Most crews are unpacked the same week. If the job starts tomorrow, say so and we'll flag what can be ready fastest.
Yes — parking is a deal-breaker check, not an afterthought. We measure the drive or kerb space against your actual vehicle list before you book. Airport-side streets can be permit-controlled, so we prioritise off-street spaces at the properties we shortlist.
Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband all sit in our name, not yours, and they're bundled into the one monthly invoice. The Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so the first evening isn't spent tethering phones in the driveway. If anything drops mid-stay, it's our call to the provider, not your crew's problem to chase.
That's the standard arrangement. One invoice per property per month covering rent and every included bill, paid by card, with no booking fees and no damage deposits buried in the small print. Set KrewBase up as a supplier once, and your accounts team gets the same clean paperwork every month without chasing meter readings or council tax references.
Usually, yes. Extensions are handled by message — tell us the new end date and we confirm within the day. If the house genuinely can't run longer, we find the crew a like-for-like alternative nearby so nobody sleeps in a van between contracts.
For anything past a week, almost always. A crew house costs less per head than hotel rooms, comes with a kitchen, laundry, parking and space to decompress, and doesn't scatter the crew across floors. Hotels suit one-night stopovers; jobs suit houses.
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Bickenhill sits about 8 miles from Birmingham. 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 Birmingham page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Bickenhill? 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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