Swaffham, East of England • England
On the A47 midway between King's Lynn and Norwich, Swaffham is a Norfolk market town in the East of England, postcode area PE, with the Brecks on its doorstep. Crews working across west Norfolk use it as a practical base — affordable houses, easy parking, straight roads. KrewBase finds whole serviced houses and flats in Swaffham, keeps every bill in our name and puts it all on one monthly invoice.
Swaffham has proper market-town bones: Georgian fronts around the market place, brick terraces behind, and a ring of post-war estates and newer developments on the outskirts. The estates suit crews best — drives and garages are standard, and four- and five-bed semis give a gang room to breathe. Central terraces can work well for smaller crews close to site. We check every house against the vehicles, insist on real beds rather than makeshift ones, and look for two bathrooms when five or more are in.
West Norfolk runs on energy, food and the A47. Crews based in Swaffham cover wind and solar work across the county and the fens, grid and utility contracts, food production and agriculture, and logistics between King's Lynn and Norwich. There's steady housing development around the town and maintenance work across the Brecks. Because none of it sits in one place, our houses are let on flexible terms that survive the job moving twenty miles down the road.
The A47 is the spine. King's Lynn is about 20 minutes west, Dereham around fifteen east, and Norwich forty-five or so with good traffic. The A1065 drops south into the Brecks for sites around Thetford. Swaffham lost its railway long ago, so rail means King's Lynn or Norwich depending on where the job is. For the scattered sites typical of Norfolk, we shortlist on measured drive time from the gate — the only figure that matters when the site sits down a fen road.
You get the whole property, bills and all: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband in our name, with the Wi-Fi tested before check-in. Parking is sized to the vans you actually run, five-plus crews get two bathrooms, and weekly cleaning with fresh linen keeps the place straight. Maintenance is ours, accounts get one monthly invoice, paid by card, and there are no booking fees. Two people for a fortnight is as welcome as twenty for six months.
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 vehicle list. We come back with whole houses that fit — parking, beds and bathrooms already verified — so you can put it in front of the gaffer the same day and have keys sorted within days, not weeks.
The town itself plus Narborough, Necton, Castle Acre, Great Dunham and towards Dereham and King's Lynn depending on the site. With Norfolk's scattered jobs we weight everything by drive time from the gate, and we'll always explain why a particular house made the cut.
Yes — off-road parking matched to the vehicles you list is a hard filter. Estates on the town's edges typically give a drive and garage that swallow a transit and a couple of cars without thought. Anything that means street shuffling or permits gets ruled out before it reaches you.
Everything domestic is in the rate and in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband, with the Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in. Crews buy food and personal items only. There are no meter readings, no top-ups and no surprise utility bills at the end.
Four things: site address, headcount, vehicles and rough duration. That's enough for a shortlist in about two hours. If the end date is a guess, say so — most bookings extend, and it changes nothing about how the monthly invoice works.
We do. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, and any maintenance — boiler, locks, appliances — comes to our contractors, not to the crew. Someone accountable answers the phone, which is rather the point of a serviced crew house over a private let.
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Swaffham sits about 25 miles from Norwich. Plenty of crews working here base themselves in the city and drive out, especially on longer jobs or when the local supply is thin. Our contractor accommodation Norwich page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Swaffham? 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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