Lostwithiel, South West • England
Lostwithiel sits in the Fowey valley where the old copper road crossed the river, a small Cornwall town in the PL postcode area with a station on the main Plymouth–Penzance line — rare in these parts. England's South West keeps it busy with crews working between Bodmin and St Austell. KrewBase houses crews in whole serviced properties around town: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking measured against your actual vans, and a single monthly invoice.
Lostwithiel is a proper little town — granite and slate cottages along the river, a grid of older streets, and modern estates on the higher ground toward Bodmin Road. The riverside terraces are tight for vans, so we usually shortlist the estates and the larger semis: space for three or four vehicles, garages or sheds for kit, and gardens with room to dry wet gear. We also look across the surrounding villages when the right house in town isn't free. Every shortlist is checked in person: parking, heating, broadband, and how the house works at 5am for an early start.
Mid-Cornwall generates steady demand: construction and housing development between Bodmin and St Austell, grid and renewable-energy work across the county, rail maintenance along the main line, and healthcare placements covering the towns and villages in between. Lostwithiel's own station makes it workable for crews whose site moves — they can leave the van and still get home. Whatever the trade, the brief is the same: a whole house near site, ready fast, with nobody wasting evenings in a travel tavern.
The A390 runs west to St Austell in around fifteen minutes and east through Liskeard toward Plymouth, with the A30 and A38 each within about twenty minutes for crews crossing the county. The railway is the quiet advantage: Lostwithiel station sits on the main line with direct trains toward Plymouth, Truro and Penzance, useful for crews split across sites. For the van-based reality we shortlist by drive time from your site, checked against real morning traffic, and tell you the numbers before you commit.
You take the whole property, furnished and ready. We keep gas, electric, water, council tax and Wi-Fi in our name — the broadband is tested before anyone arrives. Five or more in the house means two bathrooms, minimum. A weekly clean and fresh linen come as standard, and maintenance is our call to make, not yours. Your accounts get one monthly invoice, paid by card: no booking fees, no deposit games, no minimum crew or stay. Start with a fortnight, extend to six months, shorten again — the paperwork stays the same.
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: the site postcode or location, your crew size and expected stay length, and your vehicle list if parking matters. With that we send a written shortlist of whole houses within two hours — each with real drive time, parking layout and bedroom count — plus one clear monthly price. No per-night rates, no bolt-ons.
We shortlist across Lostwithiel itself — favouring the estates and larger semis — plus the surrounding villages and the Bodmin and St Austell sides when the job sits that way. Every option comes with a genuine drive time from site, so a slightly cheaper house further out can be weighed properly against the extra commute.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are all in our name, and the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in so the crew is online first night. Your office receives one monthly invoice covering everything paid by card — no booking fees, no separate utility bills, nothing extra to reconcile at month end.
Inside two hours from your enquiry. You'll get a written shortlist of houses that match crew size, start date and site location, each with drive time, parking and bedroom counts. From choosing a property to the crew having keys is usually a few working days, faster when the job is urgent.
No. Two people for a fortnight get the same whole-house standard as a gang for six months, priced per property rather than per head. Extensions and shortenings are handled with a phone call, and there's no penalty for the job changing shape halfway through.
Yes. Crew houses handle shift patterns far better than hotels — no breakfast windows, no corridor rules, and a proper kitchen, laundry and blackout bedrooms available at any hour. Give us the shift pattern at booking and we'll schedule the weekly clean for the quietest time, and note key-safe entry for lads coming back at odd hours.
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Need beds in Lostwithiel? 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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