Bonnyrigg and Lasswade, Scotland • Scotland
Five miles south of Edinburgh city centre, Bonnyrigg and Lasswade straddle the Esk valley in Midlothian, close to the A7 and the city bypass. Housing development and infrastructure work keep a steady flow of crews in this corner of the Lothians, and KrewBase houses them in whole serviced properties with all bills in our name — energy, water, council tax and broadband — rolled into one monthly invoice. We shortlist by drive time to site, whether the job is in Bonnyrigg itself, Dalkeith or anywhere along the bypass corridor.
These are former mining towns, and it shows in the housing: stone-built terraces and old miners' rows around Lasswade's core, solid inter-war and post-war semis across Bonnyrigg, and busy new-build estates on the fringes where the cranes still move. For crews, the semis are the sweet spot — driveways, three bedrooms and gardens. We are cautious with the older terraces: some have permit-only or tight on-street parking, which does not work for a crew of van drivers, so we filter those out early.
The work here is the Edinburgh overspill economy. Housing development is constant along the A7 and through the new estates, road and infrastructure jobs use the city bypass and the Dalkeith corridors, and healthcare crews commute into Edinburgh's hospitals. Logistics firms like the bypass access, and there is steady commercial building work across Midlothian. A good number of crews are based here but working anywhere from the south of the city to the new developments east — which is why drive-time shortlisting matters more than the town name.
The A7 runs straight into Edinburgh in around six miles, the A720 city bypass is minutes away, and the A6106 and A68 open up Dalkeith and the borders roads. Eskbank station on the Borders railway puts crews at Edinburgh Waverley in about fifteen minutes, and the bypass links to the M8 for Glasgow and the M9 heading north. For sites south and east — Dalkeith, Gorebridge, the developments along the A7 — drive times are short, and we measure them from the site gate at rush hour, not at midnight.
One crew, one whole property. Bills — energy, water, council tax and broadband — go in our name and are included in the rent, with Wi-Fi tested before anyone moves in. Parking is checked against the actual vehicles, houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen keeps things civilised. Repairs go to us: your crew reports it, we fix it. Finance gets one monthly invoice paid by card. There are no booking fees, and no minimum crew size or stay to qualify.
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.
About two hours from receiving the site address, headcount, dates and vehicle count. Every property on the shortlist has been checked for parking, bathrooms and broadband, so your crew reviews real options rather than spending evenings on unsuitable listings and speculative viewings.
We shortlist across Dalkeith, Loanhead, Eskbank, Newtongrange and the surrounding Midlothian villages, and into south Edinburgh when the commute works. The boundary is honest drive time from your site, not an arbitrary line on a map, and we show the commute for each option.
Yes, on the semis and newer estates — driveways are matched against your vehicle list before anything is shortlisted. The older terraces around Lasswade can be tighter, so we only put forward ones with genuine off-street space that fits your vans.
Everything is in the rent: energy, water, council tax and broadband, all in our name, with Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in. Your company receives one monthly invoice covering the lot, and nobody at the property pays a thing or fronts money for utilities.
Yes, that is how most crews run. One monthly invoice, paid by card covers rent and every bill, with no booking fees and no deposits passed around the crew. Your finance team deals with us, and your workers just turn up and get on with the job.
Over weeks, almost always. A whole house gives the crew a kitchen, laundry, parking at the door and room to spread out plans — for less than a block of hotel rooms, and with nobody policing checkout times or breakfast hours.
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If Bonnyrigg and Lasswade is short on the right house for your crew, Edinburgh is the obvious back-up, roughly 5 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Edinburgh page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Bonnyrigg and Lasswade? 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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