Derby, East Midlands • England
Derby is one of the East Midlands' busiest working cities, sitting between Nottingham and the Peak District in the DE postcode area, with the A38 running straight through and the M1 close by at Junction 25. Crews come here for the manufacturing, engineering, rail and healthcare work the city has always attracted, and increasingly for the housing being built on its edges. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and flats across Derby — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, and one monthly invoice whatever the crew size.
Derby gives crews plenty of choice. The Victorian terraces around Normanton and Pear Tree suit small teams who want to be near the city centre, while the interwar semis in Chaddesden, Spondon and Alvaston are the workhorses for bigger crews — decent gardens, garages and street parking that takes vans. Further out, Mickleover, Littleover and Sinfin offer newer estates with proper driveways.
We filter hard on the boring stuff that makes or breaks a job: two bathrooms for crews of five or more, parking checked against the actual vehicles before we offer anything, and no properties where the crew will be competing with students or permit zones for a space. A house that looks fine online can be misery on a wet Tuesday night — so we check the details first.
Derby's industrial heritage is still earning its keep — engineering, manufacturing and rail work keep crews in the city for months at a time, alongside the hospitals and healthcare contracts that need cover round the clock. Add the housing developments spreading across the city's edges and the logistics work along the A50 and A38 corridors, and there's a steady pipeline of jobs for trades teams.
The A38 splits the city north to south and links to the M1 at Junction 25, while the A52 runs east to Nottingham and the A50 heads west toward Stoke. Derby station sits on the main line between Birmingham and Sheffield, so crews can be on site without cars if the job allows. Traffic through the city centre can crawl at rush hour, which is exactly why we shortlist by real drive time to your site rather than promising the closest pin on the map.
Every property is a whole-house let — the crew gets every bedroom, the kitchen and the living room, with no strangers sharing the place. Bills, council tax and broadband go in our name, the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, and crews of five or more get two bathrooms. A weekly clean and fresh linen keep longer jobs civilised. Maintenance is ours to fix: one number to ring and we deal with the landlord and the tradesperson. Two people for a fortnight is as welcome as twenty for six months — there's no minimum crew or stay, no booking fees, and everything lands on one monthly invoice, paid by card.
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.
Two hours from getting the site postcode and headcount. We'll come back with whole houses or flats that genuinely fit — drive time, parking and bathroom count already checked — and we'll say plainly if nothing suitable is available rather than wasting your time.
All of them, within reason — the city centre terraces, Chaddesden, Spondon, Alvaston, Mickleover, Littleover, Sinfin and the outer estates. Where the crew sleeps depends on where the site is; a crew on the north side doesn't want a house in Sinfin, and we won't offer them one.
We treat parking as a deal-breaker, not an extra. Every property is checked against the crew's actual vehicles — vans, pickups, trailers — before we put it on the shortlist. Suburban semis and newer estates usually give you drives and garages; centre terraces only make the list if the parking genuinely works.
Yes — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all run in our name and sit inside the one monthly invoice. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in so the crew can stream, call home and do the paperwork in the evenings without the connection falling over.
Standard practice. One monthly invoice covering the rent, bills and weekly clean, paid by card, with no booking fees. Whether it's a one-man band or a national contractor, the paperwork is identical — it goes to your accounts team and you never think about it again.
Usually, yes. Most of our Derby landlords are used to rolling contracts, so if the programme slips we'll negotiate the extension with them and just keep the same house and the same invoice running. Tell us as early as you can and we'll sort it before anyone has to pack a bag.
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Need beds in Derby? 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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