Margate, South East • England
On the north Kent coast, Margate is Thanet's best-known town, in the CT postcode area and reachable from London by the M2 and A299 or by high-speed train from the seafront station. KrewBase puts working crews in whole serviced houses and flats around Margate with every bill in our name — rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband. There is one monthly invoice for your company and none of the usual faffing about with deposits and utilities.
Margate's housing is a proper mix: Victorian and Edwardian terraces climbing back from the seafront through Cliftonville, interwar semis out towards Westbrook and Garlinge, and pockets of newer flats around the station and the old town. Crews tend to do best in the semis and larger terraces — more bedrooms, a bathroom that isn't squeezed under the stairs, and streets where a van can actually park outside the house at the end of a shift.
Our Margate shortlists lean towards the parts of town where parking is realistic and the neighbours are used to early starts. Every property is vetted for drive time to your site, broadband speed, bathroom count against headcount, and a landlord who won't melt the first time six high-vis jackets hang on the banister. That usually means the streets behind Cliftonville and out towards Garlinge, where drives and bays are realistic for a loaded van.
Crews base themselves in Margate for work across east Kent: construction and housing development along the coast, utilities and grid maintenance inland, logistics using the A299 and M2 corridors, and the steady programme of coastal and public-realm improvement that seaside towns always seem to be mid-way through. Some contracts are a few weeks, others rotate crews for a year or more, and the accommodation is set up to flex with either pattern.
Margate sits where the A28 meets the A299, so crews can run west towards Canterbury and the M2, north into Birchington and Herne Bay, or inland towards Sandwich and the A256. Margate station has high-speed services to London St Pancras and classic routes to Victoria for crews coming in from the capital. For jobs that move around Thanet and east Kent we shortlist by drive time from the site gate — typically under twenty minutes to most of the district.
Your crew gets the whole house or flat, with rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband all in our name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against the real vehicles arriving, and five or more in the crew means two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean and fresh linen is part of the deal, and maintenance calls come to us day or night.
Billing is one monthly invoice per property paid by card — no booking fees, no hidden charges, and no deposit maze for your lads to navigate. Your accounts team gets one clean invoice a month, with a PO number on it if you want one. If the contract gets extended, the stay extends with a phone call; if it wraps early, a fortnight's notice sorts it.
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 address, headcount and dates. Each Margate option on the shortlist shows parking, bathrooms and drive time to site, so you can make the call the same morning and have the crew booked in before the end of the day.
Cliftonville, Westbrook, Garlinge, the Old Town and the streets around the station are all in scope, along with Birchington, Broadstairs and Ramsgate if the site sits that way. We match the area to the gate, not the other way around, and we'll say plainly when a postcode saves twenty minutes a day.
For anything past a fortnight, usually yes. A whole house costs less per head than B&Bs, gives the crew a kitchen and a washing machine, and means everyone is in one place rather than scattered across three floors of a seafront hotel. One monthly invoice also beats a stack of nightly receipts for your accounts team.
Yes — rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are all in our name and covered by the one monthly invoice. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, and parking is checked against the actual vans and pickups on the job sheet, with street-parking properties flagged honestly before you commit.
One invoice per property per month, paid by card, with no booking fees. Add a PO or cost centre reference once and it rides on every invoice after that. There are no per-head charges, so the invoice stays the same whether the crew is four or six.
In most cases, yes — extensions are the norm rather than the exception. Tell us as soon as you know and we'll hold the property past the original end date, re-issue the invoice schedule, and confirm it in writing the same day. If the specific house is already promised elsewhere, we line up a like-for-like alternative nearby.
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If Margate is short on the right house for your crew, London is the obvious back-up, roughly 66 miles away. See our contractor accommodation London page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Margate? 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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