Lydney, South West • England
Lydney faces the Severn estuary from the southern edge of the Forest of Dean — a GL-postcode Gloucestershire town in South West England on the A48, with the Severn crossings minutes away. Its position between Gloucester, Chepstow and the M4/M48 corridor makes it a natural crew base for jobs on both sides of the water. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses around Lydney: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before arrival, parking checked against real vehicles, and one monthly invoice to your office.
Lydney spreads from the harbour up the hill: older terraces and semis near the town centre, post-war estates around the middle, and newer developments toward the A48 and the villages of the Dean. For crews we shortlist the estates and larger semis — off-street parking for two or three vans, gardens, and neighbours used to early starts. We also draw on houses toward Bream, Yorkley and the A48 corridor when the job sits east of town. Every property is checked in person before check-in: parking measured, broadband speed-tested, heating serviced.
The Severn-side position brings a genuinely mixed bag: construction and housing development across the Forest of Dean and into Gloucester, logistics crews using the M48/M4 crossings, utilities and grid work along the estuary and the motorway corridors, and healthcare placements covering the local towns and the Gloucester side. Some crews work one side of the water one month and the other the next — which is exactly why a serviced house beats fixed digs, and why we price per property rather than per head, whatever the rota looks like.
The A48 runs the length of the town: east toward Gloucester in around twenty-five minutes, west to Chepstow in under ten, where the A466 meets the M4. The M48 Severn Bridge sits just south, putting Bristol within half an hour and South Wales directly across the water. Lydney has a station on the Gloucester–Newport line for crews who would rather not drive every day. We shortlist houses by real drive time from your site — and if the job splits between a Gloucestershire site and one over the bridge, we'll show you options that cut the daily crossings.
The crew gets the whole property — no shared corridors, no hotel schedules. We hold gas, electric, water, council tax and Wi-Fi in our name, tested and working before check-in. Houses sleeping five or more come with two bathrooms minimum, and parking is confirmed against the vehicles on your crew sheet. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, and maintenance is our problem, not the site's. One monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees, no minimum crew or stay — extend or shorten with a phone call, and the paperwork never changes.
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 hours of your enquiry you'll receive a written shortlist of whole houses — drive times from site, parking layouts, bedroom counts — matched to your crew size and start date. Choosing to check-in usually takes a few working days, and we can go faster when the job starts at short notice.
Yes. Every shortlisted property is checked against your actual vehicle list before it's offered — drive space for two or three vans, room for a trailer where the job needs one. A house that can't genuinely fit your fleet doesn't make the shortlist, whatever the photos suggest.
Your office receives one invoice per month covering rent, bills, Wi-Fi, cleaning and linen, paid by card. No booking fees, no per-night room bills, no separate utilities to reconcile. If the job extends or shortens, the same single invoice simply continues — the paperwork never changes shape.
We shortlist across Lydney itself plus the Forest villages — Bream, Yorkley, Whitecroft — and toward Chepstow and the A48 corridor when the job sits that way. Every option carries a real drive time, so you can weigh a cheaper house further out against the extra commute with the numbers in hand.
Usually, yes — extensions are a phone call rather than a renegotiation, as long as the house is free beyond your original dates. If it isn't, we shortlist alternatives nearby and manage the move so the crew relocates once, cleanly. Early warning makes extensions almost painless.
We do, directly. Heating, plumbing, appliances, locks, Wi-Fi — the crew reports an issue once and our maintenance team sorts it, with urgent treatment for anything affecting habitability. Your site manager stays out of it, and maintenance never shows up as an extra line on the invoice.
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If Lydney is short on the right house for your crew, Bristol is the obvious back-up, roughly 20 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Bristol page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Lydney? 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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