Longden, West Midlands • England
Longden is a working Shropshire village in the SY postcode area, a few miles south-west of Shrewsbury in England's West Midlands. Crews based here are usually covering Shrewsbury itself and the A488 corridor down toward Bishop's Castle and the Welsh border. KrewBase finds whole serviced houses and flats within an easy drive — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking for the vans, and one monthly invoice.
Longden itself is cottages and small rural homes, so we widen the net: the village, Pontesbury and Dorrington first, then the Radbrook and Belle Vue side of Shrewsbury when the job sits toward town. What we are looking for is always the same — off-street parking for the actual vehicles, two bathrooms for five or more, and a kitchen that can feed a crew. Rural Shropshire lets and barn conversions get a proper check before we offer them: heating, damp, phone signal, all of it.
Crews working across Shropshire base around Longden for the quick run into Shrewsbury while staying out of the town traffic. Construction and housing development, agriculture and land work, rural energy and grid jobs, roads and local infrastructure — the usual spread of long-stay jobs across the county. Most bookings here are small to mid-size crews, and they are handled exactly the same as the big city jobs.
There is no motorway out here. The A488 links Shrewsbury and Bishop's Castle, the B-roads thread the villages, and the A5 and M54 near Telford cover longer runs east. That is precisely why we shortlist by drive time from the site postcode rather than distance — twenty miles of Shropshire lane is a different thing from twenty miles of dual carriageway. Shrewsbury station handles rail for crew arriving without a van.
Whole property, bills in our name, Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in, parking confirmed for your real vehicles, two bathrooms for five or more. The weekly clean and linen change is included, and maintenance goes to us, not to the crew. Your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. If the dates move, we adjust around the job.
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.
Three things get it moving: the site postcode, the number of people, and the rough start and finish dates. Shift patterns help too. From that we work out honest drive times and send a shortlist of whole houses or flats, each with photos, parking layout and one all-in monthly figure.
Longden itself plus Pontesbury, Dorrington and the other close villages, then the western side of Shrewsbury such as Radbrook when the commute favours it. The site postcode sets the radius — we shortlist by drive time, not by drawing a circle on a map.
Rural properties usually deliver this better than town ones — drives, yards and space along a lane. We still check before offering: tell us what you run, including any trailer, and only properties that genuinely fit the vehicles make the shortlist.
Yes. Rent, gas, electric, water, council tax, broadband, the weekly clean and linen are all in one monthly figure, and the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before the crew arrives. Nobody is chasing a landlord for the heating, and nobody is buying Wi-Fi on a phone contract.
Usually, yes. Tell us as soon as the programme slips and we hold the property where notice allows, or re-shortlist nearby so the crew stays put. The extra time simply continues on the same monthly invoice — no new contract, no new paperwork for the office.
We do, including the rural specifics — oil tanks, septic tanks, LPG, long lanes in winter. The crew calls one number and we sort the fix, day or night where it is urgent. It is all part of the monthly service rather than extra charges landing on the lads.
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If Longden is short on the right house for your crew, Stoke-on-Trent is the obvious back-up, roughly 38 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Stoke-on-Trent page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Longden? 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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