St Mewan, South West • England
St Mewan is a parish on the western edge of St Austell in mid-Cornwall, in the South West of England and the PL postcode area — effectively part of the town while keeping its own name, with the A390 and the A30 close at hand. Crews booked onto work across Cornwall frequently stay here without ever realising it. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses and flats in the St Mewan area — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested, parking checked for vans, one monthly invoice.
St Mewan merges into St Austell's western side, and the housing reflects it: interwar semis and post-war estates along the main roads, some older granite terraces towards the parish core, and pockets of newer development. For crews, the estates are the obvious fit — driveways for vans, gardens, garages that swallow tools, and quick access to the main road out towards wherever the site happens to be.
We inspect every shortlist property against your booking: parking sized to your vehicles, two bathrooms for five or more people, heating that works and broadband that passes a speed test. In a built-up area like this there's plenty of stock — our job is filtering out the unsuitable majority before it costs you an evening of viewings you'll never get back.
Being inside St Austell's orbit, St Mewan sees the county's full mix of work: construction and housing development, the trades that keep the clay towns running, logistics tied to the mainline at Par, and crews on multi-site contracts across the wider South West region who want one fixed base rather than a new bed in a new town every week.
Much of the accommodation here serves jobs that never carry the parish's name — which is fine by us. We place crews by drive time from site, not by which village appears on the booking, so a crew staying in St Mewan might be working anywhere from the Eden Project side to Truro, and the house simply follows the job when it moves.
The A390 runs along the southern edge towards Truro, about 25 minutes away, while the A391 and A30 junction north of St Austell opens up Bodmin in around 20 minutes and the Clay Country villages in ten. Par station on the Penzance to London mainline is a short run east for crew arriving by train from up country without the long drive down.
Because St Mewan sits inside the town's road network, we shortlist strictly by measured drive time — rush hour around St Austell can add ten minutes that a map won't show you. Tell us the site and we'll place the crew on the side of town that keeps the commute shortest, and re-base them properly if the work moves elsewhere.
Every let is the whole property — house or flat, no room-by-room arrangements with strangers. KrewBase holds council tax, energy, water and broadband in its own name, so the crew walks into a home that's already connected and stays that way until the job ends. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in; parking is verified against the actual vehicles on the booking.
Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, maintenance is our responsibility around the clock, and the company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. There are no booking fees, no minimum crew size and no minimum stay length — the same simple set-up whether the job lasts a fortnight or the best part of a year, and the paperwork never changes shape either.
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.
Usually within two working hours of receiving headcount, site location and dates. St Mewan shares St Austell's housing stock, so availability is among the best in mid-Cornwall and we can typically offer a real choice of whole houses, each with parking already verified and measured drive times from your site attached.
It's the parish covering St Austell's western side, so practically yes — same shops, same roads, same bus routes. For crews it makes no odds: the houses, drive times and facilities are identical, and we treat the whole town-plus-parishes area as one patch when shortlisting, so you'll see the best options regardless of where the parish line falls.
That's the standard arrangement. Rent plus every bill arrives as one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees. The crew never handles money at the property — no meters, no top-ups — and your accounts team gets a single clean document to process, however many people rotate through the house over the course of the job.
The post-war estates mostly do, and we verify it against your vehicle list before offering anything — the number of vehicles and their length and width. Older terraces nearer the parish core often don't, so this check does real work: you'll only see properties where the vehicles genuinely fit off the road.
No problem. We brief crews on keeping the noise neighbourly, choose properties where odd-hour comings and goings won't cause friction, and make sure the layout works when half the house is asleep. Night shifts are normal for us — many of the crews we house in St Mewan start or finish well outside the usual nine-to-five.
KrewBase does, around the clock. The crew calls us with any issue — heating, water, locks — and we arrange the fix and access around their shifts. Your site manager and your accounts team stay out of it entirely, and nothing about the house ever lands on your desk unless you actually want it to.
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