Great Shelford, East of England • England
Great Shelford stretches along the old Cambridge road in the CB postcode area, three miles south of the city and a short hop from the M11. KrewBase bases working crews in whole serviced houses and flats here — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking sorted for the vans, and one monthly invoice for your business. With its own station on the Cambridge–London line and the A1301 running through, it's one of the better-connected villages in the East of England.
The village is a long ribbon of housing — Victorian terraces near the centre, 1930s semis, and larger family homes towards Stapleford and the station. Crews usually do best in the semis and post-war streets: driveways for two vehicles, decent-sized kitchens, and a quick walk to the shops on Woollards Lane. We only shortlist whole properties with genuine double bedrooms and, for crews of five or more, two bathrooms, because a crew house has to work on a Monday morning, not just look good in photos.
Each house is vetted before it makes your list: broadband speed-tested, heating and hot water checked properly, and parking measured against the real vehicles rather than guessed from a photo. Cramped, tired or over-furnished properties simply don't get offered — a crew needs a house that works seven days a week, not a show home that can't take a work boot inside the door.
Most crews in Great Shelford are tied to Cambridge's southern corridor — construction and fit-out on the housing and commercial development spread through the city and its fringe villages, plus maintenance and support work around the hospitals and research sites south of the city. Others use it as a base for jobs along the M11, the A10 to Ely, or out towards Haverhill and Newmarket. It's a commuter village, so the housing stock suits people who work somewhere else — exactly what a crew house is for, and exactly why crews settle in quickly here.
The A1301 runs straight into Cambridge's southern fringe, and the M11 at junction 10 is a couple of minutes away — handy for Stansted, Harlow and the M25. Great Shelford station has regular trains to Cambridge and London Liverpool Street for crew changes without a car. Sawston and the A505 link west towards the M1 corridor for jobs that side. For sites in the villages we shortlist by real drive time rather than crow-flying distance, so nobody's driving past their own site twice a day.
Whole property — no shared hallways, no other tenants — with bills in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is checked against your vehicles, five or more in the crew means two bathrooms, a weekly clean and fresh linen come as standard, and any maintenance is dealt with by us rather than left on the kitchen table for your gaffer to sort out.
Your business gets one monthly invoice, paid by card — no booking fees, no minimum crew or stay, and stays can usually be extended if the job runs long. Send the site postcode, headcount and dates and we'll come back with a shortlist within two working hours, normally a small list of houses we'd happily put our own crews in, with the parking and bathroom situation stated plainly for each.
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 working hours from your enquiry — site postcode, crew size and dates are all we need. We hold whole properties, so once you choose, keys are usually ready within days rather than weeks, and there's no chain of landlords and lodgers to navigate before the crew can move in.
The Shelfords, Stapleford, Sawston, Little Shelford and Trumpington, plus Cambridge city itself if the site warrants it. South of the city is our strongest patch, but we'll base a crew wherever the drive time makes sense — the map serves the job, not the other way round.
Tell us the pattern at enquiry and we'll shortlist accordingly — quiet bedrooms, blackout options, and keys arranged so one crew isn't waking the other. Villages like Great Shelford are well suited to split shifts because the housing is set back from the main road, and neighbours are used to people keeping working hours.
Yes — council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are all held in our name and included. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so the house is ready to live in, not just ready to sleep in. Your business receives one monthly invoice and there's nothing to pay at the property, by anyone, at any point in the stay.
One invoice per month covering everything, paid by card, with no booking fees. We can reference PO numbers or cost codes, and we're happy to deal with site agents, office managers or accounts departments directly. Your crew never sees a bill and never has to claim anything back through expenses.
We do — a weekly clean and linen change as standard, plus a maintenance line for anything that breaks. The crew reports it once and we handle the rest, from boiler faults to blocked drains, chasing it until it's done. It stays off your gaffer's desk and off your crew's to-do list entirely.
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Need beds in Great Shelford? 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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