Duston, East Midlands • England
Duston has grown from an old Northamptonshire village into the western edge of Northampton, in the NN postcode area, just off the A45 and a short drive from the M1 at Junctions 15 and 15A. Crews base here for work across the town — warehousing, construction, logistics and the rest of the list that comes with a growing place. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses and flats: bills in our name, Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in, parking matched to your vehicles, and one monthly invoice for the lot.
Old Duston around the village core keeps its brick cottages and period houses, but the real crew stock is the swathes of post-war estate housing — semis and terraces with gardens, garages and straightforward parking — and the newer estates pushing out toward Harpole and Upton. It's honest, solid housing: warm, easy to keep clean, and close to the A45 without sitting on top of it.
We filter for the shift realities — two bathrooms when five or more are staying, parking verified against the vans, and none of the permit-zone streets that creep in closer to the town centre. Where a bigger crew needs space, we look at the larger semis and detached plots on the village outskirts rather than squeezing everyone into a small terrace.
Northampton's growth is the engine. Distribution and warehousing run day and night along the M1 and A45 corridors, construction crews cover the new housing and commercial builds across the town, and the industrial estates keep manufacturing and workshop teams busy. Add healthcare cover at the town's hospital sites and the steady maintenance work on roads, schools and utilities, and Duston's position on the town's western edge puts a crew within easy reach of most of it.
The A45 crosses straight through toward Wellingborough and the eastern suburbs, and the M1 at Junctions 15 and 15A is a few minutes for crews working up and down the motorway corridor. The M45 spurs off toward the A5 for longer runs west, and Northampton station on the town's edge handles rail for crews coming in from elsewhere. Rush hour across the town centre can be slow, so we shortlist by measured drive time to the site — a crew heading east doesn't need a house west of the M1, and vice versa.
The whole property goes to the crew — every bedroom, kitchen and sitting room, no strangers sharing the place. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in our name, the Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, and parking is confirmed against the actual vehicles. Crews of five or more get two bathrooms, and longer stays include a weekly clean and fresh linen. One monthly invoice covers everything paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Maintenance is ours to sort — the crew rings one number and we handle the rest. Site postcode and headcount in, shortlist back within two hours.
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 send whole houses in Duston or toward Harpole and Upton with drive time, parking and bathrooms already checked, and we'll refresh the list if the first options get taken before you decide.
Old Duston, the estates along the main roads, and the newer streets toward Harpole, Upton and Sixfields — with Northampton's western suburbs in scope if that's where the drive time points. We follow your site's postcode rather than drawing a ring on a map.
Yes — checked against the real vehicles before check-in, not assumed from a listing photo. Most of the estate stock here has drives and garages, which is a big part of why we like the area for crews. Anything where the vans would end up on the street doesn't make our list.
All of them — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband in our name, all inside the one monthly invoice. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone moves in, so evenings hold up for streaming, calls and paperwork. Nobody on site deals with a supplier or sees a bill.
No. A two-person team for a fortnight gets the same service as a dozen for six months — whole house, bills in, one monthly invoice. We're set up for the ebb and flow of site work, so if the headcount changes mid-job we'll adjust the setup without anyone moving unnecessarily.
Usually, yes — tell us as early as you can and we'll agree the extension with the landlord and keep the same house and invoice running. Overruns are the rule in this trade, not the exception, and a rolling crew house absorbs them far better than hotel bookings ever do.
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