Cockenzie and Port Seton, Scotland • Scotland
Cockenzie and Port Seton sit side by side on the East Lothian coast, EH postcode area, looking across the Firth of Forth towards Fife. They're old fishing villages grown into one community, a short drive east of Edinburgh along the A199. KrewBase places contractor crews in whole serviced houses and flats here - bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your actual vehicles, and one monthly invoice for the company. No booking fees, no fuss.
The housing here mixes old fishermen's cottages along the shorefront, stone terraced rows from the villages' herring days, and post-war estates on the higher ground inland. Crews do best in the terraces and semis around the village centres, where there's space to park a van or two without boxing a neighbour in. We filter every property for off-street or guaranteed parking, a workable kitchen and living space, and heating that stands up to the coastal weather.
Crews come to this corner of East Lothian for housing development along the coast, repairs and upgrades to schools and public buildings, utilities work on the gas and electricity networks, and maintenance on the rail line running through to North Berwick. There's also steady demand from crews working across the wider Lothians who want a quiet base within reach of the city. We don't need to know your project name - tell us where the site is and we shortlist around it.
The A199 runs through both villages towards Edinburgh, joining the A1 corridor for anything heading west or south. Edinburgh is roughly twelve miles away, Prestonpans and Musselburgh are minutes along the coast, and the A720 city bypass is an easy run for sites around the capital. Prestonpans station, between the two villages, has regular trains into Waverley. For longer runs, the A1 heads down the coast and the M8 is reachable for Glasgow-side jobs.
You book the whole property - no shared rooms with strangers. All bills are in our name: council tax, gas, electricity, water, broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, and parking is checked against the actual vehicles you'll bring. Houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms, and every property gets a weekly clean and fresh linen. Maintenance is our problem, not yours - one phone call and we sort it. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, and no minimum crew or stay: two people for a fortnight is as welcome as twenty for six months.
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 address, headcount and dates, and we aim to send a shortlist of whole houses and flats within about two hours during working hours. Every option is checked for parking against your vehicles and Wi-Fi before it reaches you, so the list is usable rather than a scrape of whatever happens to be advertised.
We cover both villages, Prestonpans, Longniddry and the coast towards Musselburgh, plus the settlements inland towards Tranent. If the best fit for your crew sits just outside the immediate area, we'll tell you the drive time to site and let you decide on the trade-off.
We treat parking as a filter, not an afterthought. Before check-in we confirm how many vehicles you'll bring and match the property to them, favouring driveways, garages and quiet streets with unrestricted parking. If a property can't take your vans, it doesn't make the shortlist.
Yes. Council tax, gas, electricity, water and broadband all run in our name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before your crew checks in, so nobody arrives to find the router still in its box. Your crew just lives there; the company gets one monthly invoice.
One monthly invoice covers rent and all bills for every property we hold for you, itemised by address so accounts can reconcile it easily. Standard terms are card payment. There are no booking fees and no damage-deposit surprises at the end of the job.
Usually, yes. Extensions are among the most common requests we handle, because site programmes slip. Tell us as early as you can and we'll confirm the property can hold your dates; if it can't, we'll line up a like-for-like alternative nearby so the crew isn't packing up mid-job.
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Cockenzie and Port Seton sits about 9 miles from Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Cockenzie and Port Seton? 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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