Kilby, East Midlands • England
Kilby is a small Leicestershire village a few miles south of Leicester, England, in the East Midlands LE postcode area, sitting between Wigston and open farmland along the A5199. KrewBase houses work crews in whole serviced properties in and around the village — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking arranged for the actual vehicles. It suits crews working south of Leicester who'd rather base in a quiet village with quick access to the M1 and M69 than fight for parking in the city itself.
Kilby itself is small: a mix of older cottages near the village core, semis along the main roads, and a modest amount of newer housing on the edge with driveways and garages. Villages this size rarely hold a spare crew house at any given moment, so in practice we shortlist across Kilby, Wigston, South Wigston and the southern Leicester suburbs, and occasionally towards Countesthorpe — wherever a whole house with real parking is actually available. The filters never slip: parking matched to your vehicles, two bathrooms for five-plus crews, and nothing tired or damp passed off as cheap.
The land south of Leicester is a patchwork of distribution and light industry around the motorway junctions, housing development spreading through the suburbs and villages, and the usual long tail of maintenance and refit work that keeps small crews circulating. Teams working across Leicestershire on road, rail and utility jobs often find a southern base the most convenient, and crews commuting to sites around Lutterworth and the M1 corridor do too. The accommodation need is constant: a whole house, close to the day's drive, at a rate the job can carry.
The A5199 runs straight up into Leicester, roughly six miles to the centre, and Wigston is only a couple of miles up the road with its own shops and amenities. The M1 and M69 are both a short drive away, opening up the M1 corridor towards Lutterworth and north towards the city, and the A426 runs down towards Lutterworth and the M6 beyond. With no station in the village, crews here travel by road — which is fine, because the whole point of a Kilby base is that most East Midlands sites sit within an easy drive. We still measure it, house by house, before proposing anything.
Each crew gets a whole property — no shared lets, no room-by-room deals — with rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband all held in KrewBase's name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before arrival, parking is checked against the vehicle list, and crews of five or more get two bathrooms. A weekly clean and linen change keeps the place straight, maintenance is our problem, and your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, and no minimum crew or stay.
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.
Sometimes, but a village this small can't guarantee stock on any given date — so we shortlist Kilby first and then the immediate surrounds: Wigston, South Wigston, Countesthorpe and the southern Leicester fringe. You get a whole serviced house within a short drive of site either way, and we're upfront about which side of the village line it sits.
Two working hours from a clear enquiry — site postcode, headcount, dates and vehicles. If the Kilby area is tight on stock for your dates we'll say so in the same breath and show the nearest workable alternatives, rather than leaving you waiting and guessing.
The newer edge-of-village stock usually does — driveways sized for a van or two. Older cottages can be tighter, so parking is a hard filter on every shortlist: you tell us the vehicles, and we only propose houses where those vehicles genuinely fit, off-street where possible.
Yes. Rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband sit in KrewBase's name, with the connection speed-tested before check-in. Your company receives one monthly invoice covering the lot paid by card; the crew never fronts money or files utility receipts.
That's how it normally runs. Your company is the bill-to account on one monthly invoice, payable card payment, with no booking fees or deposits. If the crew size changes mid-job, the invoice reflects the property booked — not a per-person rate that shifts underneath you.
Yes — there's no minimum crew size or stay length. A two-person team for a fortnight gets the same serviced whole-house setup as a larger gang on a long contract; we simply match the property size to the crew. Extensions are handled in writing if the job overruns.
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Kilby sits about 6 miles from Leicester. 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 Leicester page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Kilby? 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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