Melbourn, East of England • England
Halfway between Cambridge and Royston, Melbourn is a Cambridgeshire village in the SG postcode area that often ends up housing crews for jobs across both. KrewBase takes whole serviced houses and flats for your crew, with gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all in our name and one monthly invoice going to your company. Vans park off-road, Wi-Fi works on day one, and there's no minimum crew or stay for any of it.
Melbourn has a long high street of period cottages mixed with post-war semis and newer estates on the edges, giving a decent spread of three and four-bedroom houses that work well for crews. Neighbouring Meldreth, Shepreth and Fowlmere, and the Royston side of the A505, offer more of the same, often with bigger driveways and quieter lanes for van parking.
We shortlist for off-road parking that fits the vehicles on the booking, a second bathroom for crews of five or more, and a kitchen that can actually handle a full crew's breakfast before an early start. Every house is physically inspected before we offer it, because condition and layout matter as much as the postcode, and we'd rather walk ten houses than offer one that only looks right in the photos.
This area sits between two busy work zones. Northbound there's construction and infrastructure work around Cambridge's growth areas, while the A10 and A505 corridors carry rail, energy and grid jobs, manufacturing and logistics. Healthcare staff on contracts at the area's hospitals use crew houses here too, because the village is equidistant from both hospital catchments, and the A10 villages are generally kinder per bed than either city for the same size of house.
Rather than guess which direction your site lies, we take your postcode and shortlist from real drive times, whether the job is north towards Cambridge, south towards Royston or west along the A505. The shortlist you get is filtered before you see it, so everything on it makes sense for the commute. If you tell us about a second or third site, we balance the shortlist across all of them rather than just the first.
The A10 runs right past the village, linking Cambridge about ten miles north and Royston a few miles south, while the A505 cuts west towards the M11 and east into Hertfordshire. Meldreth station, on the King's Cross line, sits in the next village for anyone travelling in by rail, and Cambridge station is close enough for longer journeys, and the A505 gives a quick cut across to the M11 when the work heads that way.
For crews with sites scattered across the region, tell us each location and we'll balance the house position so no one faces an unreasonable run each morning. When a contract adds or moves a site, we re-shortlist from the new postcodes rather than letting the original placement go stale. Contracts in this corridor pick up extra sites often, and a quick postcode update keeps the house where it should be.
Your crew gets a whole house, not rooms in someone else's let. Bills stay in our name, Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in and parking is confirmed against the vehicles you list at enquiry. Five or more people means two bathrooms, and the kitchen, heating and hot water are checked to make sure a full crew doesn't stretch the house past what it can do.
Cleaning and fresh linen come weekly, maintenance is our problem rather than yours, and accounts get one monthly invoice, paid by card. There are no booking fees, no minimum crew and no minimum stay, so short jobs and long projects are priced on exactly the same simple basis. If the job overruns, the extension continues on the same invoice without any re-papering.
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, and in the villages around it: Meldreth, Shepreth, Fowlmere and towards Royston depending on where the site sits. Send us the site postcode and we'll shortlist by drive time, so the house lands in the right place for wherever the job actually is rather than just near the village name on the booking.
Normally around two hours from getting the postcode, headcount and dates. Once you've picked a property we handle the contract and check-in, and the crew can usually move in within a few working days. If dates are genuinely urgent, tell us and we'll flag suitable houses that can turn around faster.
We only shortlist properties with off-road parking that fits the vehicles you tell us about, whether that's two cars or three transit vans. Driveways and generous forecourts are the standard we apply across this area, because vans parked along village lanes overnight help nobody.
Yes, everything is: gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in our name and included in the rate. We test the connection before anyone arrives, so there's no day-one broadband drama and no meter readings for the crew to worry about during the stay.
Usually, yes. Extensions are common in this area and we arrange them against the same monthly invoice, so the paperwork barely changes. If the whole crew moves to a new site instead, we can re-house them closer to it rather than letting the commute stretch for the rest of the contract.
We do. Anything from a boiler breakdown to a broken lock goes to our maintenance team, and the crew just tells us, day or night. Your company is never billed separately for normal wear and tear, and the site manager doesn't get dragged into fixing somebody else's house.
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Working in Melbourn? You are about 10 miles from Cambridge, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation Cambridge page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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Need beds in Melbourn? 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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