Ely, East of England • England
You can see Ely's cathedral from miles across the Fens. The city sits in Cambridgeshire in the East of England, in the CB postcode area, with the A10 linking it to Cambridge around fifteen miles south. KrewBase houses contractor crews in whole serviced houses and flats in and around Ely — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking matched to your vehicles, and one monthly invoice straight to the company.
Ely's older streets near the cathedral are handsome Georgian and Victorian terraces, and the modern estates on the city's edges are where crews tend to land: driveways, three and four bedrooms, space to park a pair of vans. The villages around — Sutton, Witchford, Littleport, Soham — add more choice within a short drive. We filter for the practical stuff: heating that works, enough bathrooms for bigger crews, and parking that's verified, not promised.
Ely sits in one of the busiest parts of the Fens for crew work: new housing and construction across the district, energy and grid projects in the surrounding countryside, logistics up and down the A10, and healthcare contracts at the city's hospital sites. Cambridge is close enough that some crews commute south for work there while basing themselves where parking and space make sense. Long jobs, shifting sites — that's exactly what we house.
The A10 runs south to Cambridge, around fifteen miles, and north toward King's Lynn; the A142 heads east to Newmarket in about thirteen. Ely's station is a proper junction — direct trains to Cambridge, Norwich, Peterborough and London — which makes rotating crews easy. Most sites in the Fens are twenty minutes from anywhere around the city, but we still shortlist by real drive time from the site, because 'close' on a flat map can hide a slow stretch.
You get the whole house — no shared lets, no split utilities. Council tax, energy, water and broadband sit in our name, the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, and parking is checked against your actual vehicles. Houses sleeping five or more get a second bathroom, the cleaner comes weekly with fresh linen, and maintenance calls come to us, sorted at our cost.
One monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees, no minimum numbers or stay length. Send the site, crew size and dates and a shortlist comes back within two hours — every house on it already checked for parking, bathrooms and heating, so the only decision left is which one suits the crew best — the paperwork and the utilities are already done.
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.
Ely itself plus Sutton, Witchford, Littleport, Soham and Haddenham, and we can base crews toward Cambridge or King's Lynn when the job sits that way. Everything is driven by drive time from the site postcode — the Fens look flat and quick on a map, and mostly they are, but we check the actual roads before shortlisting.
Two hours from enquiry to shortlist, given the site postcode, crew size and dates. Once you've chosen, check-in typically follows within a couple of days because bills and broadband are already in our name — there are no utility appointments or landlord delays between booking and the crew moving in.
Yes — the modern estate houses we favour usually have drives for two vehicles, and village properties often more. Send the vehicle list — number, size, trailers — and we verify the parking fits before the shortlist reaches you. Crews with bigger plant or multiple vans are exactly why we check rather than assume.
Yes. A whole house means the night crew sleeps undisturbed through the day — no housekeeping, no shared corridors, no fixed meal times. The weekly clean and linen change are scheduled around the rota, and a full kitchen means proper meals at three in the morning without a vending machine in sight. It's how long Fenland jobs should be run.
Tell us the new end date. If the property's free, the booking simply extends on the same terms and the same single monthly invoice continues. If it's committed elsewhere, we find an equivalent property locally and manage the move ourselves. Jobs slipping by a few weeks is normal; your accommodation shouldn't make it a crisis.
One invoice a month covering rent, bills and the weekly clean, paid by card. No booking fees, no deposits from the crew, and all utility companies are dealt with by us directly. If your finance team needs PO references or cost codes, we add them once at booking and they appear correctly on every subsequent invoice.
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Ely sits about 15 miles from Cambridge. 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 Cambridge page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Ely? 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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