Leicester, East Midlands • England
Leicester is the East Midlands' biggest city in England — LE postcode, where the M1, M69 and A47 meet, with fast rail south to London. KrewBase houses working crews here in whole serviced houses and flats: every bill in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking verified against the crew's vehicles, and one monthly invoice for your company paid by card. From hospital refurb teams to M1 logistics gangs, crews base here because everything in the Midlands sits within an hour's drive — and nothing domestic is their problem.
Leicester's housing map is a picker's paradise. Inner suburbs off Narborough Road, Belgrave and Evington hold mile after mile of solid Victorian terraces; the interwar years left deep runs of semis; and the post-war estates — Braunstone, Eyres Monsell, Thurnby Lodge among them — offer big houses with driveways and gardens. Crews working city sites often take the terraces for the short commute; crews heading out to the M1 or county sites do better on the estates, where a van parks without a thought. We shortlist by where your site actually is, then apply the usual checks: parking for the real vehicles, two bathrooms for five-plus, heating that means it.
A city this size generates every kind of contract work. Hospital and healthcare maintenance, the two universities' estates, endless city-centre construction and fit-outs, logistics along the M1, and manufacturing out by the airport and in the suburbs. Around it all, crews working across the East Midlands on rail, energy and road contracts treat Leicester as their base camp. The mix changes season to season; the need doesn't — trades on the road need a proper house, close to the next job, with none of the domestic admin falling on them.
We house everything from a pair of commissioning engineers on a two-week fit-out to gangs of twenty on rolling M1 contracts, and the service stays identical throughout: the right size of house, in the right quarter of the city, at a weekly rate the job can actually carry. Nobody on the crew becomes an unpaid letting agent, and nobody on your side spends an evening chasing utility bills or arguing with a landlord.
The M1 skirts the city's west side with junctions from 21 to 24, the M69 heads south-west to Coventry, and the A47 and A6 cut east towards Peterborough and south towards the M40 corridor. Nottingham is about twenty-five miles north, Birmingham thirty-five west, and the city's own station on the Midland Main Line runs direct trains to London St Pancras in around an hour and ten. For crews, that means Leicester works as a base for the whole region — and when the site moves, the base often doesn't have to.
Whole property, whole service. Rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband sit in KrewBase's name; Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in; parking is confirmed against your vehicle list; five or more crew means two bathrooms. A weekly clean with fresh linen, maintenance to us, and one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no deposits, no minimum crew or stay — the arrangement scales from a two-week job to a rolling six-month contract without changing shape.
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 enquiry to a checked shortlist. Leicester's stock is the deepest in the county — terraces, semis, estates and flats — so once you've chosen, keys are typically ready within days. Send the site postcode, headcount, dates and vehicles, and we'll show you what's genuinely available rather than a stale list.
All of them, and the choice matters. City-centre and hospital sites point at the inner terraces; M1 and county work points at the western and southern estates with driveways; airport-side and eastern jobs at the eastern suburbs. We shortlist by your site's drive time first and street character second, and explain the reasoning in plain terms.
Where you need it, yes — it's a hard filter. Estates usually give driveways for two vans or more; terraces can be tighter, so for van-heavy crews we weight the shortlist towards houses with off-street space and tell you plainly what each option has. You list the vehicles; we verify the parking against them.
That's the standard setup. One invoice a month covers rent, council tax, all utilities, broadband, the weekly clean and every repair, paid by card. No booking fees, no deposits, and no per-person pricing that wobbles when the crew size changes mid-contract.
Very. We shortlist with shift patterns in mind — away from late-night strips where it matters, with parking that lets a van come and go at 5am without a fuss. Tell us the shift rota at enquiry and sleeping arrangements become part of the property criteria, not an afterthought.
Site postcode or location, headcount, shift pattern, start and likely end dates, and the vehicle list. With that we return a shortlist inside two working hours, each option walked through for parking, bathrooms and drive time — so you're comparing like for like, not photographs.
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Need beds in Leicester? 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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