Gillingham, South West • England
Gillingham is Dorset's most northerly town, a South West England market town in the SP postcode area on the A303, a few miles from Wincanton and within reach of Yeovil and Salisbury. KrewBase houses crews in whole serviced houses and flats here — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your vans. Everything lands on one monthly invoice, paid by card and no booking fees.
Gillingham's stock is mostly good, honest brick: Victorian and Edwardian terraces near the centre and station, long runs of interwar semis along the main roads, and post-war estates with the driveways and gardens crews actually need. The central terraces work well for smaller teams who want to walk to the shops; bigger crews are usually better on the estates where three or four vehicles can park without a debate.
We filter for the same things everywhere: two bathrooms for five or more, a kitchen built for batch cooking, decent heating, and drying space for wet gear — the sort of details that decide whether a house works on week nine, not just week one. It's the same checklist we run in every town, because the things that make a crew house work don't change with the postcode.
The A303 makes Gillingham a handy base for crews whose work moves along the south-west corridor: road and infrastructure jobs, housing development in the surrounding towns, and logistics operations around the junctions. There are also manufacturing employers within commuting range, NHS and healthcare contracts at the hospitals in Yeovil and Salisbury, and energy and grid work scattered across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Because three counties meet here, firms often base a regional crew in Gillingham and send it wherever the next job lands — Wiltshire one week, Somerset the next, Dorset the week after. One address, one invoice, and the crew comes home to the same house every night however far the site roams. That's exactly the setup our monthly invoicing was built for.
The A303 runs a few miles north of the town, putting Wincanton about four miles east, Yeovil around eight miles west and Salisbury roughly twenty-two miles east. The M3 connection sits further east past Andover for jobs heading towards London, and the A350 runs south to Blandford and the coast. Gillingham has its own station on the West of England line between Waterloo and Exeter.
Wherever the site is, we shortlist by drive time from your actual location and your actual shift hours — not by straight-line distance. A house that saves ten map-miles can lose twenty minutes at the wrong junction at eight in the morning, and we'd rather tell you that before check-in than after. It's a two-minute check that saves a lot of grumbling.
The whole property is yours — house or flat, no strangers in the spare room. Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are all in our name and tested before check-in, and parking is confirmed against the vehicles on the booking. Houses for five or more come with two bathrooms, with weekly cleaning and fresh linen as standard. Bedding is ready and the kitchen basics are there on arrival.
Everything rolls into one monthly invoice, paid by card. There are no booking fees, no minimum crew or stay, and maintenance is ours to deal with — a leaking tap or a failed boiler gets fixed without your site manager lifting a finger, and without a single expense claim from the crew. It's the arrangement most of our clients settle into for years.
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.
Yes, that's the standard arrangement. One monthly invoice covers rent, all bills, cleaning and linen, paid by card so your accounts team has breathing room. No booking fees and no deposits from individual crew members — your company deals with one supplier and one invoice, however long the job runs.
We do — Wincanton, Shaftesbury, Sturminster Newton, Mere and Yeovil are all within an easy drive, and we shortlist in whichever genuinely cuts your crew's commute. The A303, A350 and A30 link the whole patch, so send us the site address and we'll work out the best base rather than assuming it has to be Gillingham itself.
It happens constantly, so there's a process for it. Give us as much notice as you can and we'll extend the current booking where possible, or move the crew to another property locally if the house is re-let. Extensions continue on the same card payment invoicing, with no penalty for the job running long.
Genuinely. Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are in our name — your crew never sees a utility bill or gets chased by a supplier. Broadband is speed-tested before check-in, and if anything drops mid-stay, fixing it is our job, reported the same way as any other maintenance issue.
We do. Your crew reports a problem through one channel, and our maintenance team arranges the fix with the landlord or contractor directly. Boiler, leak, lock, appliance — it all comes to us, so your supervisors aren't acting as letting agents on top of their real job. Emergency issues are prioritised.
No. Small teams on short jobs are as welcome as big crews on long ones, and pricing reflects the property rather than a tier system. If you've got two people for two weeks, say so — we'll still shortlist properly and you won't be talked into a bigger house than you need.
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Need beds in Gillingham? 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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