Looe, South West • England
Looe splits into two towns linked by a seven-arched bridge, tumbling down the valley of the Looe River to a working harbour on the Cornish coast — South West England, PL postcode, reached down the A387 from Liskeard. Out of season it's a practical base for crews on jobs across south-east Cornwall. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses in and around the town: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before arrival, parking checked for real vans, and one monthly invoice your office can file without a second thought.
East Looe is narrow streets and fishermen's cottages around the quay — brilliant for a week, hopeless for a crew of six with vans. The practical stock sits up the hill in West Looe and along the valley toward Liskeard: 1970s and later houses with drives, some terraces and flats near the station, and newer developments where parking isn't a nightly negotiation. We shortlist for off-street parking, at least two bathrooms for bigger crews, and a kitchen table where paperwork and breakfast can happen at the same time.
Looe's economy runs on fishing and tourism, but the crews we house are usually on the working side of the county: construction and housing development around the market towns, maintenance and improvement jobs on the town's own older building stock between seasons, grid and utility work across south-east Cornwall, and healthcare placements covering the local towns. Winter is when the trades move in — and when a warm, dry, properly furnished house a mile from the harbour beats any seasonal let.
The A387 is the main road in and out, running eight miles up the valley to Liskeard and the A38, which then carries crews east toward Plymouth or west toward Bodmin and the rest of Cornwall. Looe has a branch-line station with trains to Liskeard for mainline connections. The town's streets are steep and tight, so we shortlist houses on drive time from your site, the parking layout, and how a van actually manoeuvres at 6am — details that matter more in a town built on a hillside than anywhere.
Your crew gets the whole house for the duration of the job. Gas, electric, water, council tax and Wi-Fi are all in our name, and the connection is speed-tested before check-in. Houses sleeping five or more have two bathrooms minimum. The weekly clean and fresh linen are included, and anything that breaks is fixed by our maintenance team, not negotiated with a landlord. One monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees, no minimum crew size or stay — a pair of engineers for a fortnight costs the same per house as a full gang.
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.
Yes — a whole house suits shift work far better than a hotel. There's no reception to come back to after a night shift, no breakfast deadline to miss, and the kitchen, washing machine and blackout bedrooms are there at whatever hour the crew surfaces. Tell us the shift pattern at booking and we'll time the weekly clean around it.
Yes, and it's checked properly. Looe's streets are steep and tight, so we only shortlist houses where your actual vehicles fit on the property — measured against your vehicle list, not guessed from photos. If the job needs a trailer or a small digger too, tell us and we'll filter for that as well.
Within two hours of your enquiry we send a written shortlist — whole houses with drive times from site, parking layouts and bedroom counts. Once you choose, the crew can usually be checked in within a few working days. For urgent starts, share the site postcode and headcount and we'll prioritise it.
Yes. Your office receives one monthly invoice covering rent, bills, Wi-Fi, cleaning and linen, paid by card. There are no booking fees and no separate utility bills to reconcile, and if the job extends or shortens, the paperwork stays identical — you just keep paying the one invoice.
We do. Heating, plumbing, appliances, locks, Wi-Fi — your crew reports it once and our maintenance team arranges the repair. Nothing lands on your site manager and nothing appears as a surprise line on the invoice. Habitability problems are treated as urgent, whatever the hour.
We shortlist across Looe itself — favouring the upper town and the valley road toward Liskeard — plus the surrounding villages and the Liskeard side when the job sits inland. Every option comes with a real drive time, so you can weigh a cheaper house against a longer commute with the numbers in front of you.
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If Looe is short on the right house for your crew, Plymouth is the obvious back-up, roughly 14 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 Looe? 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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