Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands • England
Chelmsley Wood is one of the West Midlands' big post-war housing estates, in the borough of Solihull, England, in the B postcode area, north-east of Birmingham and close to the M42, the NEC and the airport. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and flats here for working crews: bills, Wi-Fi and parking in, and one monthly invoice to your company. For contracts around east Birmingham, the airport or the M42 corridor, it is a practical base minutes from site.
Chelmsley Wood was built in the 1960s to one plan: brick semis and terraces along curving streets and cul-de-sacs, with greens and schools between them. Decades of regeneration have brought the stock up well, and the estate's layout is genuinely useful for crews - parking is plentiful, houses are a practical size, and most properties are a short drive from the motorway junctions. We filter hard on condition, heating and parking, then walk every house before it reaches your shortlist.
Because the housing is largely uniform, the differences between properties are in the details: the state of the kitchen, the boiler's age, whether the drive really fits three vans or one. That is exactly what our walkthrough checks, so the shortlist you get reflects what the houses are actually like rather than what the street as a whole is like.
The location puts crews within minutes of the airport, the NEC and the M6 and M42 interchange, so work here spans aviation and airport services, exhibition and event build, logistics along the motorways, and construction and infrastructure jobs across east Birmingham and Solihull. Healthcare crews working into Birmingham use it too. Whatever brings the crew, the estate works as a base: park outside, get on the motorway in minutes, and be at site before the hotel breakfast queue has moved.
The M6 junctions 4 and 5 and the M42 sit within a few minutes' drive, putting the NEC and airport at around ten minutes, Solihull at about four miles and Birmingham city centre at roughly eight. Local buses cross the estate, and Marston Green station is nearby for rail towards Birmingham. Rush hour around the junctions is what it is, so we shortlist by real drive time from your site postcode - and say so honestly on the shortlist.
Your crew takes the whole property with all bills in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is confirmed for the vehicles arriving, crews of five or more get two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen runs through the stay. Maintenance is our responsibility - one message from the crew and we deal with it. The weekly clean covers bathrooms, kitchen and communal areas, so a long stay does not turn into a chore rota.
Your company gets a single monthly invoice paid by card. There are no booking fees, no per-head charges, and no minimum stay - book the house for as long as the job runs and hand it back when the job is done. If the programme overruns, the same terms carry on and your crew stays put rather than relocating mid-contract.
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. Give us the site postcode, headcount, dates and vehicle count, and we shortlist suitable whole houses on the estate and in the surrounding area, with drive times and parking photos. You choose, we book, and the crew checks in with everything already working.
Generally, yes - this is one of the reasons we use the estate. Streets were built with parking in mind, and most houses have drives. We still check every property against your actual vehicles, because 'usually fine' is not the same as 'fits your three vans', and we never assume.
That is the standard setup. One monthly invoice covers rent and all bills paid by card, paid by BACS. There are no booking fees, no card payments from your workers, and one tidy line for your accounts team instead of a stack of hotel receipts to reconcile.
No. Book for the size of the job, whether that is two people for a fortnight or a bigger crew for months. The house, the bills setup, the weekly clean and the invoicing all work the same at any scale, so you never pay for capacity you do not need.
All of them - council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are in our name and included. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so the crew can handle rotas, bookings and calls from the house in the evening without a hitch, and no utility bill ever reaches your people on site.
In most cases, yes, 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. Overruns happen on every job - they do not need to become an accommodation problem.
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Chelmsley Wood sits about 7 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 Chelmsley Wood? 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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