Brownhills, West Midlands • England
Between Walsall and Cannock Chase, Brownhills is a West Midlands town in the WS postcode area, sitting right on the old A5 Watling Street. KrewBase sources whole serviced houses and flats here for working crews - bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against the actual vans, and one monthly invoice to your company. Whether it is a short contract or a programme running for months, your crew gets a proper house near site rather than hotel rooms scattered around town.
Brownhills is mostly interwar and post-war housing: brick semis with gardens, terraces near the High Street, and estate streets that were built with families in mind - which means decent-sized rooms and, often, drives or garages. Parking is far easier here than in central Birmingham, and that matters when the crew rolls up in three vans and a pickup. We shortlist properties with the vehicles in mind, and we check heating, hot water and the state of the kitchen before anything is offered.
Every property gets a real walkthrough, physical or on video, before your shortlist goes out. That sounds basic, but it is what separates a crew house from a holiday let with a nice camera angle. If we would not sleep there ourselves after a twelve-hour shift, it is not on the list. We also confirm the broadband speed and the state of the washing machine, because those are the two things crews complain about most.
Brownhills sits between the Black Country and Cannock Chase, so crews based here work across both: construction and housing development, road and utility jobs along the A5 and A452 corridors, warehousing and logistics, and the steady maintenance work that keeps the West Midlands moving. Being on the A5 also suits crews whose site moves around - the town is a practical base for work anywhere between Lichfield, Walsall and Cannock.
The A5 runs straight through town and the A452 links south to Walsall and the M6, so most of the conurbation is within easy reach - Cannock and Walsall are both about five miles, Lichfield around six, and central Birmingham within roughly half an hour depending on traffic. Brownhills has no station of its own, so for rail commuters we look at houses near Walsall or Lichfield instead. When the site is rural, we shortlist purely on drive time from its postcode.
The whole property for your crew only, with council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband in our name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against the actual vehicles, and five or more people means two bathrooms. A weekly clean and linen change keeps the house straight through the job, whoever is on the rota. The crew arrives to a working house, not a list of meter readings and router passwords.
Repairs and maintenance come to us, not your site manager. Your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay - you book the house for the size of the job, nothing more, nothing less. If the headcount changes mid-contract, tell us and we adjust the arrangement rather than charging for empty beds.
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.
Usually within two hours of your quote request. Give us the site postcode, crew size and dates and we shortlist whole houses in Brownhills or nearby with parking, Wi-Fi details and drive times. You pick, we book, and the crew walks in with everything on.
Brownhills itself plus Aldridge, Pelsall, Cannock, Walsall and the surrounding Staffordshire fringe. If the site sits elsewhere in the West Midlands, send the postcode - we will shortlist by realistic drive time rather than sticking to town boundaries. The same two-hour shortlist applies wherever the site turns out to be.
Yes - tell us the number and size of the vehicles and we only shortlist houses with driveways, garages or off-street space that fits them all. If a property cannot park your fleet, it does not make the list, however good the house is otherwise.
Always. Your company gets one monthly invoice covering rent and bills paid by card, paid by BACS. Crew members never pay anything or hand over cards - the arrangement is entirely between us and your accounts team, which keeps expenses clean.
In most cases we can extend the booking on the same terms. Give us as much notice as you can and we will confirm with the property - the monthly invoicing simply carries on, so accounts sees no disruption and the crew does not have to pack up mid-job.
We think so, because we test it. Every house is speed-tested before check-in, and if a property cannot deliver a working connection for bookings, rotas and video calls, it does not get shortlisted at all. Bad broadband is our problem to filter out, not yours to live with.
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If Brownhills is short on the right house for your crew, Birmingham is the obvious back-up, roughly 12 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Birmingham page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Brownhills? 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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