St Blaise, South West • England
St Blaise is a small settlement in the heart of Cornwall's clay country, in the South West of England and the PL postcode area, only minutes from Par and St Austell with the A390 close by. Crews booked onto jobs across mid-Cornwall often base in and around villages like this. KrewBase houses them in whole serviced properties nearby — bills in our name, Wi-Fi ready on arrival, parking checked against your vans, and one monthly invoice for the office.
Around St Blaise the housing is classic clay country: granite and rendered terraces built for the industry, semi-detached council-era stock on the lanes towards Par, and scattered newer houses on the edge of the settlements. Crews do well in the semis — gardens for drying kit, driveways for a pair of vans, and neighbours who understand shift work rather than holidaymakers expecting silence and seclusion.
We only shortlist properties that pass a working-crew test: real parking for your actual vehicles, enough bathrooms for the headcount, heating that's been serviced and a broadband line that passes a speed test. Charm matters less than whether four people can get to work on time, dry their kit overnight and park the van off the road, so that's exactly what we check before anything reaches you.
This corner of Cornwall has always been a working landscape. Today's mix is the usual spread — construction and housing development, maintenance and trades contracts, logistics work feeding the mainline at Par, and utility crews on connections and repairs across the wider Cornwall region, along with the site-support staff that longer jobs in the St Austell area tend to generate.
St Blaise itself is small, so crews here are usually part of bigger jobs centred on St Austell, Par and the surrounding parishes — which is exactly why serviced whole-property lets beat hotels or spare rooms. The crew gets a proper house, a proper kitchen and their own front door, generally ten minutes from most sites in the clay country and a straight run to the A30 when the work spreads further afield.
The A390 runs close by, linking St Austell and Lostwithiel, and the A391 meets the A30 just north of St Austell — from there Truro is around half an hour, Bodmin about 25 minutes and the Eden Project area barely ten. Par station, on the Penzance to London mainline, is a couple of miles away for crew arriving by train from further up the country.
When your site changes, we re-shortlist by drive time rather than assuming the first house still fits — it takes minutes on our side and keeps commutes honest. Most sites in the clay country sit within fifteen minutes of here, and the A30 junction means mainland Cornwall stays within easy reach for crews covering a wider patch from one base.
Every let is a whole house or flat, never rooms. Bills — council tax, energy, water, broadband — sit in KrewBase's name, and the crew walks into a place that's already connected: Wi-Fi tested and live before check-in, parking verified against the vehicles on the booking, linen provided and a weekly clean booked in from day one, so the first night feels like a home rather than a handover.
Maintenance is our problem, not your site manager's — the crew calls us and we coordinate the fix around shifts, whenever they fall. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, there are no booking fees, and stays can run from a fortnight to the best part of a year without renegotiation, price reviews or any of the usual churn at the end of a fixed term.
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.
St Blaise is a small settlement, so the strongest crew houses are often in the surrounding streets and neighbouring parishes towards Par and St Austell. We shortlist by drive time from your site — usually within two working hours of your enquiry — and show you what's genuinely closest, with measured routes rather than straight-line guesses pulled off a map.
That's checked before we offer anything. Clay-country terraces often have little or no parking, so we physically verify space against your vehicle list — the number of vehicles and their length and width. If the vans don't fit, the property doesn't make the shortlist, and we'll tell you plainly why a particular house was excluded from the options.
One monthly invoice covers rent, council tax, energy, water and broadband, paid by card. Your crew pays nothing at the property — no meters to read, no top-ups, no final bills to chase — and your accounts team processes a single document each month. There are no booking fees added anywhere in the process, whatever the size of the crew.
Yes, routinely. We choose properties where early-morning returns won't bother the neighbours, brief the crew on being decent, and make sure the house layout works when half the crew is asleep and half is leaving for shift. Different shift patterns running under one roof is normal for us, not an exception anyone has to argue for.
Extensions are normal. Tell us as early as you can and we'll hold the house if it's free, or line up an alternative nearby so the crew isn't decanted mid-shift. Pricing stays on the same terms, and the monthly invoice simply continues — there's no renegotiation stage or penalty clause waiting at the end of the original dates.
We do. Maintenance calls come to KrewBase around the clock, and we coordinate the tradesperson and access with the crew directly, working around shift patterns. Your company is never the middleman for a broken boiler on a Sunday night, and nothing lands on your site manager's desk that isn't theirs to deal with.
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Working in St Blaise? You are about 26 miles from Plymouth, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation Plymouth page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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Need beds in St Blaise? 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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