Locks Heath, South East • England
Tucked between Southampton and Portsmouth in Hampshire's SO postcode area, Locks Heath is a quiet corner of the Fareham borough — marinas, modern estates and the head of Southampton Water. Crews based here reach both cities and the M27 corridor in minutes. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses: bills in our name, tested Wi-Fi, parking for real vehicles, one monthly invoice, no booking fees.
Locks Heath and its neighbours — Warsash, Swanwick and Titchfield — are mostly post-war and later: tidy semis, detached houses and small estates built for the area's boating and defence workforce, plus marina-side developments around the Hamble. Crews do well in the semis and detached houses, where drives take vans and gardens take kit. We check every property's parking against the vehicles your crew actually runs.
Stock is thinner here than in the cities, so we widen the shortlist across the Fareham borough rather than forcing a bad fit. We want two bathrooms for crews of five or more, real bedrooms, and a kitchen that seats the crew for a briefing. Houses a few minutes out with a bigger drive usually beat a cramped option nearer the marina.
Crews come to this corner of Hampshire for a mix of work: marine and boatyard jobs around the Hamble and the Solent yards, construction and housing development across the Fareham and Gosport area, utilities and grid work, healthcare shifts in Southampton and Portsmouth, and logistics running between the two cities on the M27. None of it needs a hotel row; it needs a proper house base, and that is exactly what we supply.
We don't ask your crew to commute from one fixed address either. If the job moves from a site near the M27 to one around Gosport or up towards Winchester, we re-shortlist around the new postcode. The crew keeps the same standard of house and the same single monthly invoice; only the drive changes, and it gets shorter rather than longer.
The M27 is a few minutes north, putting Southampton about eight miles away and Portsmouth around ten, with Fareham roughly four. The A27 links east towards Portsmouth and the A32 drops south towards Gosport. For rail, Swanwick station on the West Coastway line covers Brighton, Southampton and Portsmouth without a car. Locks Heath itself has no station, so we factor station runs into shortlists for crews without vehicles.
We build shortlists from your site postcode and shift pattern, not from a radius on a map. For night-shift crews we lean towards quieter estate roads with off-road parking, so the crew can sleep through the day. If the site sits on an awkward rural lane, we say so and plan around it rather than pretending every house is ten minutes away.
The let is the whole house or flat. Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are in our name, Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone checks in, and the heating gets checked too. A weekly clean with fresh linen keeps the place workable, and maintenance during the stay is our job — your crew reports it, we deal with it, and your office never hears about it.
One monthly invoice covers rent, bills and cleaning together, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. A couple of fitters for a month book just as readily as a full gang for half a year. To price a house we need the site postcode, crew size, start date and expected duration, and we'll come back with a shortlist within two working hours — usually faster.
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 the site postcode, crew size, start date and duration. We shortlist across Locks Heath, Warsash, Swanwick and Titchfield by real drive time, so if a house in a neighbouring village cuts the commute, it'll be on the list.
Locks Heath itself plus Warsash, Swanwick, Titchfield and the wider Fareham borough, with Southampton and Portsmouth within easy reach for crews on city sites. If stock is thin in one spot, we widen the search rather than force a bad fit — the standard stays the same wherever we place you.
Yes. Every property is checked for off-road parking against the vehicles your crew actually runs — drives, not assumed kerb space. The semis and detached houses around the estates typically have the best van parking, and those are the ones we favour for trades crews.
That's how it works by default. One monthly invoice covers rent, bills and cleaning, paid by card, with no booking fees. Add us as a supplier once and your accounts team processes a single invoice each month — no receipts, no expense claims, no chasing utility bills.
No. Two people for a couple of weeks book as readily as a large crew for six months, at the same standard and with the same bills-in setup. Most crews sit somewhere in between. Long or short, the arrangement is one monthly invoice and no booking fees.
Extensions are usually straightforward if you give us notice. If the site itself moves — from the M27 corridor to Gosport, say — we'll re-shortlist around the new postcode so the commute stays short. The crew keeps the same house standard and your office keeps the same single monthly invoice.
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If Locks Heath is short on the right house for your crew, Southampton is the obvious back-up, roughly 7 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Southampton page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Locks Heath? 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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