Birmingham, West Midlands • England
Birmingham is the engine room of the West Midlands, and the B postcode covers more crew housing than anywhere else in the region. With the M6, M5, M42 and M40 all meeting here, plus New Street and Snow Hill stations, a crew can reach most sites in the Midlands within the hour. KrewBase houses crews in whole serviced houses and flats across Birmingham: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested, parking checked, and one monthly invoice to the office.
Birmingham's size is the point: whatever the site, there's a crew house nearby. We use 1930s semis with drives in areas like Erdington and Great Barr for van crews, terraced streets around Stirchley and Yardley for city-fringe sites, and converted flats near the centre and the Jewellery Quarter for small teams on short jobs. Ex-council semis across the south-west suburbs bring the best mix of space, parking and price.
Every property is checked in person before it reaches your shortlist: parking measured against your actual vehicle list, two bathrooms for five-plus crews, kitchens that can feed a whole gang, broadband speed-tested, and heating that carries a Midlands winter without drama. The photos you see are the ones we took on inspection day, and the drive times we quote are measured at shift hours on real roads.
Major rail works, hospital refurbishments, housing regeneration, university projects, logistics hubs and factory refits — Birmingham's job list reads like a trade directory, and it rarely pauses. Crews come for a month and stay for a year. Whatever the contract, the accommodation problem is the same, so we keep whole serviced properties available across the city and move crews between them as sites change.
The M6 runs up the eastern side, the M5 peels south-west, the M42 and M40 head east, and the A38(M) cuts into the centre — but anyone who's driven the Aston Expressway at eight knows Birmingham rewards a short hop over a fast road. That's why we base crews near the actual site and test drive times at shift hours. New Street, Snow Hill and Moor Street handle rail, and the airport sits east of the city with its own station.
The whole property — house or flat, no sharing with strangers. Bills in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water, broadband, all speed-tested before check-in. Parking checked against real vehicles, two bathrooms for five or more, weekly clean and linen, and maintenance to us, not your site manager. two people for a fortnight is as welcome as twenty for six months. One monthly invoice, card payment, no booking fees, no minimums.
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.
Within two working hours for the shortlist, and often same-week for check-in. Birmingham's depth of stock is the real advantage — send the site postcode and headcount and we'll show you genuine addresses with measured drive times, not a maybe list. If the job starts Monday, tell us and we'll say plainly what's ready and what isn't.
Effectively the whole B postcode — north, south, east and west, plus the Solihull and Black Country fringes when the site sits that way. We shortlist from the site postcode outward, so the list you see is weighted by honest drive time at shift hours.
Yes, if you pick the right streets. We prioritise driveways, corner plots and off-street bays, and we measure them against your vehicle list before you commit. Terrace areas near the centre can be tight, so van-heavy crews usually get semis or ex-council stock with real space.
That's the standard deal. One invoice per property per month covering rent and every included bill, paid by card, with no booking fees. Set KrewBase up as a supplier once and the same clean paperwork arrives every month — no chasing meter readings, no council tax references, no surprise line items for your accounts team to query.
No. Small crews on short jobs are as welcome as big gangs on long contracts — the house, the bills setup and the monthly invoice work the same either way. If it's two people for three weeks, we'll still find the right property near your site and quote it honestly, with no artificial minimum to squeeze past.
Cost per head drops sharply past a few nights, and the crew gets a kitchen, laundry, parking and room to decompress together. Hotels scatter people across floors and meal allowances; a house keeps the team together and the morning routine simple — which matters when half the crew's on a six o'clock start.
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Need beds in Birmingham? 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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