Hardwick, East of England • England
Hardwick is a commuter village in the CB postcode area, four miles west of Cambridge where the old A428 meets the lanes towards Coton and the M11. KrewBase bases working crews in whole serviced houses here — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking sorted for the vans, and one monthly invoice for your business. It suits crews who want village quiet with Cambridge, the A14 and the M11 all within a few minutes' drive.
Hardwick is mostly post-war and later development — neat estates of semis and detached houses strung along the main road, with a few older farmhouses holding out between them. The estates work well for crews: drives that take a van and a car, decent kitchens, and quick access west towards the A14 or east into Cambridge. We shortlist whole properties only, checking that bedrooms are genuine doubles, bathrooms match the crew size, and the broadband delivers what it promises rather than what the advert claims.
Being this close to Cambridge means the usual spread: construction and fit-out across the city's housing developments, maintenance and project work around the hospitals and campuses, and the offices, labs and logistics sites on the city's west side. The A14 and A428 corridors add their own flow — utilities, highways and warehouse work towards Huntingdon, St Neots and Newmarket. Hardwick itself stays quiet, which is exactly the point after a long shift, and exactly why crews based here tend to stay for the whole job.
The village sits between the A428 and the A1303, both feeding the M11 and the A14 within minutes — so Huntingdon, Newmarket, Ely and the science parks are all straightforward. Cambridge city centre is a ten-minute drive or a short bus ride along the Madingley Road. The nearest stations are Cambridge and Cambridge North, a few miles away. Wherever the site sits, we shortlist by real drive time at shift-change hours, not a measurement on a map, because a commute that's fine at midday can be hopeless at eight in the morning.
The whole property — no shared hallways — with bills in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is checked against the actual vehicles, five or more in the crew means two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen comes as standard. Maintenance is ours to handle from day one to checkout, whatever breaks and whenever it chooses to break.
One monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees, no minimums. Send the site postcode, headcount and dates and we'll have a shortlist back within two working hours — normally two or three houses with parking and bathrooms confirmed, so you can book on facts rather than photos and get the crew straight to work without a week of faffing about.
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 is our standard, once we have the site postcode, crew size and dates. We hold whole properties rather than rooms, so once you've chosen, keys can usually be ready within a few days, and there's no queue of other people's furniture to work around before your crew can settle in.
Hardwick itself plus the west Cambridge villages — Barton, Coton, Comberton, Toft and out towards Cambourne — and of course Cambridge city if the site is that side. We shortlist wherever the drive time makes sense, so a crew working on the city's west side isn't housed across town for the sake of a postcode.
Yes — we check parking against your actual vehicles before offering anything, and most estate houses here have off-road space for two or more. If a property can't take your vans, it doesn't make the shortlist. Trailers and bigger kit are worth mentioning at enquiry so we measure properly rather than guess.
All of them — council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband, held in our name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in. The crew pays nothing at the property, and your business gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no meter readings to collect and no surprise bills arriving after the job's finished.
That's the whole model: one invoice per month covering rent and all bills, payment by card, no booking fees. We can add PO references, cost codes or project names, and deal with whoever books — site manager, PA or accounts. Your crew never sees a bill and nothing needs to be claimed back through expenses at the end of the month.
No minimum crew size or length of stay — a couple of people for a short job get the same service as a full crew for months. Rates flex with duration, and extensions are usually possible because the let is in our name. It's worth telling us if the end date is soft, as it changes which properties we'll offer.
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Need beds in Hardwick? 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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