Southwick, South East • England
Set on the northern slope of Portsdown Hill, Southwick looks out over Portsmouth and the M27 — a Hampshire village that works as a quiet base for crews on city and harbour jobs. Fareham and Cosham are minutes away, and the A32, A27 and M27 junction 12 put most of the area within a short drive. KrewBase houses crews in whole serviced properties here — bills in, Wi-Fi tested, parking matched to your vehicles, and one monthly invoice for the company.
Southwick and its neighbours — Denmead, North Boarhunt, Wickham further north — are a mix of village cottages, post-war semis and newer estates strung along the old Portsmouth road. Cottages photograph well, but crews live better in the semis and newer detached houses: driveways for vans, straight-stair layouts, and gardens that take kit. Portsmouth's and Cosham's terraces are close when the job needs the city. We filter for off-street parking, decent insulation against hill weather, and landlords who understand shift work.
Work around here clusters along the harbour and the hill: maintenance and trade contracts around Portsmouth's docks and naval estate, energy and utilities work on the hill and out towards Havant, construction across the PO postcode and the steady stream of housing development along the A27 corridor. Crews also commute to Fareham, Gosport and the retail and logistics sites around the M27. It's varied work, and it keeps crew houses turning over through the year.
M27 junction 12 is the workhorse — east into Portsmouth, west towards Fareham, Southampton and the M3 beyond. The A32 drops through Cosham to the harbour, and the A27 runs along the coast for jobs from Havant to Chichester. Portsmouth & Southsea and Cosham stations are both close for rail crews, with direct trains to London Waterloo from the city's stations. Commutes here are short by southern standards; tell us the site and shift start and we'll shortlist by real drive time, not optimistic maps.
Every KrewBase let is the whole property, booked for your crew alone. Bills sit in our name, the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone moves in, and parking is checked against the vehicles on the booking. Houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms, with weekly cleans and fresh linen as standard. Anything that breaks is our phone call, not the crew's. The company office gets one monthly invoice, paid by card — no booking fees, no service charges, and no minimum crew size or stay.
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 about two hours on working days, once we have headcount, dates, site postcode and vehicle list. The Portsmouth fringe has steady stock turnover, and we work from live availability rather than stale listings, so what you see is actually bookable.
Southwick itself, Cosham, Denmead, North Boarhunt, Wickham, over to Fareham and down into north Portsmouth. Crews working harbour-side often want the shortest practical drive; crews on wider PO-postcode jobs can sit further out for a better house — we balance both.
Yes — off-street parking is a hard filter for us. We match driveways and garages against your actual vehicle list before check-in, and flag anything tight in advance rather than letting the crew find out at 10pm after a late finish.
Yes. One monthly invoice, paid by card covers rent, bills, Wi-Fi and the weekly clean, with no booking fees. Your crew never touches a utility account, and your accounts team deals with a single tidy invoice per month per property.
All of them — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband sit in our name, and we speed-test the Wi-Fi before check-in so the crew can stream, call home and file timesheets without drama. Nobody reads a meter or argues with a provider; if something breaks, the crew calls us, not the energy company.
Headcount, start and end dates, the site postcode, number and size of vehicles, and any essentials such as two bathrooms or ground-floor bedrooms. With those details we quote properly and shortlist live, confirmed stock within a couple of hours on working days.
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Need beds in Southwick? 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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