Fowey, South West • England
Fowey is a working estuary town on Cornwall's south coast, in the PL postcode area, where the river narrows below the old china-clay ports. Lostwithiel is about eight miles inland and St Austell ten to the north, with the A3082 linking out to the A390. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses and flats for crews here: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your vehicles, and one monthly invoice for the company.
Fowey's old town is a stack of narrow, steep streets running down to the quay — beautiful, but vans don't belong there and we don't put crews there. The practical housing sits in the post-war semis and detached houses up at the top of the town, across the river in Polruan, and out along the valley towards Bodinnick and the A3082, where driveways, garages and level plots are the norm. We shortlist for parking that genuinely takes your vehicles, bathrooms in proportion to the crew, and kitchens big enough to cook for a shift, not a couple.
Fowey's estuary still works: marine trades, harbour maintenance and waterside construction keep local crews busy, and the china-clay heritage means ongoing industrial and infrastructure work around the ports and the old drying sheds. Crews also come for housing development and renovation across the surrounding villages, utility work following the valley roads, and the seasonal round of tourism-property refits. Add healthcare rotas at the community hospitals in St Austell and Liskeard, and the Fowey area keeps a steady demand for crew housing year-round.
The A3082 climbs out of the valley to the A390 near Lostwithiel, putting St Austell about twenty minutes away and Liskeard a little beyond. Par and its mainline station are reachable in around fifteen minutes for crews arriving by rail. West Cornwall is a longer run up the A30, so for jobs spread across the county we position the house where it saves the most miles. Cornish roads being what they are, we shortlist on measured drive time from the site — the map says eight miles, the lane says twenty minutes, and the crew only cares about the second number.
Your company takes the whole property, and the bills — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband — stay in our name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before your crew checks in, parking is confirmed against the vehicles you're bringing, and a crew of five or more gets two bathrooms. A weekly clean and fresh linen come as standard, maintenance is our job not your supervisor's, and everything rolls into one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no minimum crew or stay length.
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 us the site postcode, crew size, vehicle list and start date, and we'll return a shortlist of suitable properties — usually within two working hours. Every option includes photos, parking notes and a fixed weekly rate, so your office can approve it the same day.
In the right parts of town, yes. We shortlist the upper-town semis, Polruan and the valley properties with driveways and garages, and confirm parking against your actual vehicle list before offering anything. We won't put your crew on a steep old-town lane where the van lives a ten-minute walk away.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all stay in our name, so your crew never chases a utility bill or tops up a meter. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, and everything rolls into the one monthly invoice your company receives.
We cover Fowey itself plus Lostwithiel, St Austell, Looe, Liskeard and the villages along the A390 and the south Cornish coast. Most crews working anywhere in the PL23 area can be housed within a sensible drive of site, and we re-shortlist if the job moves.
A hotel charges per room per night, with meals on top and nowhere to store kit. A KrewBase house gives the whole crew one address — a kitchen, a washing machine, parking at the door and space to decompress after a shift — and over a few weeks it usually works out cheaper per head.
We do. Your crew reports a problem to us, we arrange the tradesperson and pay the bill — it never lands on your supervisor or your office. Because every property is a whole house we manage directly, faults get sorted quickly rather than passing through a landlord chain.
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Need beds in Fowey? 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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