Kenwyn, South West • England
Kenwyn is the old parish wrapped around the west side of Truro, Cornwall, in the South West of England and the TR postcode area, with the A39 and A390 meeting at the city a few minutes away. Crews working across mid and west Cornwall often base here because it's close to everything without paying city-centre prices. KrewBase takes whole houses and flats around Kenwyn and Truro, puts every bill in our name, tests the Wi-Fi before check-in and invoices your company once a month.
Kenwyn itself is a mix of older Cornish stone terraces, Victorian villas up the hill, and post-war semis running out towards the A390. Truro adds modern estates and purpose-built flats a short drive away. Terraces near the old town are fine for small crews on foot, but most trades want the semis and estate houses — driveways, gardens, space to dry kit. We filter hard on parking, because parts of Kenwyn's older streets are tight, and we check bathroom ratios before anything goes on a shortlist.
Truro is the service centre for mid Cornwall, so crews here are spread across a bit of everything: hospital and healthcare support in the city, housing development on the growing edges, schools and public buildings, and utilities work along the A39 and A390 corridors. Sites further west — Falmouth, the Lizard, Perranporth — are all reachable from a Kenwyn base, which is why contractors often ask for this side of Truro specifically.
Kenwyn sits just off the routes that matter: the A39 towards Falmouth and west Cornwall, the A390 towards St Austell and Liskeard, and Truro's own network around them. Falmouth is roughly half an hour, Newquay and St Austell around 40 minutes, and Redruth a quick run west on the A30. Truro station, within easy reach, keeps rail jobs in play without anyone depending on lifts. When we shortlist, we price the commute at shift-start time — school-run traffic around Truro can double a journey that looks short on the map.
One property, one crew, one monthly invoice. Bills — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband — stay in KrewBase's name, and Wi-Fi is tested before anyone moves in. Parking is checked against the vans that actually arrive. Houses sleeping five or more carry two bathrooms, a weekly clean keeps the place decent, and maintenance is our phone that rings, not yours. Payment is by card, no booking fees, and no minimum crew or stay — two for a fortnight or twenty for six months, priced the same way.
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.
Within two working hours of getting your site location, dates and headcount, we'll send a shortlist of whole properties matched by drive time. If the job is urgent, say so — we'll prioritise houses that are already serviced and ready for same-week, sometimes same-day, check-in.
Both, plus the villages out along the A390 and A39 towards Truro's outskirts. We choose purely by drive time to your site — some crews end up in Threemilestone or Gloweth if that shaves ten minutes off the morning run, and we'll explain the trade-off with each option.
It can be on the older streets, which is exactly why we check it before offering anything. If your crew runs multiple vans, we steer the shortlist towards the semis and estate houses with driveways, and skip the tight terraced streets entirely rather than leave the crew fighting for bays at six in the morning.
One itemised invoice a month to your accounts team, covering rent, all bills, broadband and the weekly clean, paid by card. There are no deposits for individuals, no booking fees, and no expense claims coming back from the crew — the whole arrangement is between us and your company.
Yes — we tell the housekeeper, and the weekly clean is scheduled around the crew's sleep pattern rather than the other way round. We also consider neighbours and house layouts, so night-shift crews get properties where coming and going at odd hours won't cause friction with anyone next door.
Three things: the site location, the number of people, and the start and end dates. It also helps to know the vehicle count. From that we shortlist whole properties, confirm parking and Wi-Fi, and send one monthly price — everything in, with nothing extra bolted on later.
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Kenwyn sits about 41 miles from Plymouth. 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 Plymouth page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Kenwyn? 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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