Lifton, South West • England
Lifton is a small west Devon village on the A30, in the South West of England and the PL postcode area, a few miles north of Launceston and right on the main road into Cornwall. Crews heading to sites across the far South West pass it constantly — and increasingly, they stay. KrewBase houses working crews in whole properties around Lifton and Launceston: every bill in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking proven for your vans and one monthly invoice to your company.
Lifton itself is a village of stone cottages, a few handsome Georgian houses and modern family homes on the outskirts, with Launceston minutes south offering terraces, semis and newer estates. For crews, the practical pick is the newer stock — driveways, gardens, no parking battles. Cottages look lovely on a website and are hopeless for three vans and six toolboxes, so we filter them out. Every property is walked before it's offered: parking measured against your vehicles, bathrooms matched to the headcount, heating that can handle a wet west-country winter.
This corner sits where the A30 meets the road network fanning out across Cornwall, so crews here work in both counties: construction and housing development around Launceston, Callington and the Tamar valley, utilities and grid maintenance along the rural routes, farm and agricultural work across west Devon, and healthcare rotas into Plymouth and the Cornish towns. Crews on jobs moving between Devon and Cornwall often base right here because it's the one spot that keeps both sides of the border a reasonable drive.
The A30 is the whole story here: west to Bodmin and into Cornwall's central corridor, east towards Okehampton, Exeter and the M5, and the A388 down through Launceston towards Callington and the Tamar crossings. Plymouth is roughly 45 minutes in good traffic. Lifton's position just off the dual carriageway means crews can be rolling within minutes of leaving the house. We shortlist by drive time to the site gate at shift start — and we're honest about summer Saturdays, when the A30 towards Cornwall can slow badly and it's worth factoring into shift planning.
Your crew takes the whole house or flat — nobody else in it. Gas, electricity, water, council tax and broadband all sit in KrewBase's name and inside your single monthly rate. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against the actual vehicles, and houses sleeping five or more have two bathrooms. The weekly clean and fresh linen are included, maintenance is ours to fix at our cost, and your accounts team gets one monthly invoice, paid by card — no booking fees, 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.
Two working hours for a shortlist once we have the site location, headcount and dates, with drive time to the site attached to each option. Properties around Lifton and Launceston are often available for same-week or same-day check-in, which suits emergency call-outs.
Honestly, both — that's the point of an A30 base. Give us the site postcode and we'll place the crew on whichever side of the border saves the most driving, and say plainly if a Launceston or Okehampton house beats a Lifton one. The shortlist shows our working for each option.
Yes. We check parking against your real vehicles before offering anything — out-of-town houses here typically have driveways or yards that take two or three vans comfortably. Pretty village cottages with no parking are ruled out for crew use, however characterful they look in photos.
Rent, all utility bills, council tax, broadband, the weekly clean and linen change, and all maintenance — everything in KrewBase's name. Your company receives one itemised invoice a month paid by card, and the crew pays nothing personally or claims anything back.
Yes, extensions are routine — give us the new end date and the booking rolls on with cleaning and maintenance continuing as normal. If the property's already committed after your new end date, we'll offer an alternative nearby rather than leave the crew stranded mid-job.
Site postcode, number of people, start and end dates, and ideally the vehicle count. From that we shortlist whole properties, verify parking and Wi-Fi, and send one monthly price — everything included, with no extras bolted on later in the job.
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If Lifton is short on the right house for your crew, Plymouth is the obvious back-up, roughly 20 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Plymouth page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Lifton? 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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