Swarkestone, East Midlands • England
Best known for its medieval bridge over the Trent, Swarkestone is a small village in South Derbyshire, in the East Midlands and the DE postcode area, five miles south of Derby on the A514. KrewBase houses work crews in whole serviced properties across South Derbyshire — real houses with driveways, not hotel rooms. Bills, Wi-Fi and parking are all included, and your company gets one monthly invoice to cover it. Crews on jobs around Derby and the surrounding villages stay near site instead of commuting across the county every night.
Swarkestone itself is a small riverside village of cottages and farmhouses — a lovely place to live, but rarely the practical answer for a work crew. The right stock sits a few minutes away in Swadlincote, Melbourne, Ticknall and the southern edge of Derby, where there are modern semis and three-bed houses with driveways, real kitchens and space for drying gear. We shortlist on the crew's reality: van parking, two baths for five or more, and bedrooms spread so different shifts don't collide.
Crews based around Swarkestone are usually working across South Derbyshire and the southern fringe of Derby — construction and housing development, rail and infrastructure jobs, manufacturing on the local estates, logistics along the nearby A50, and grid and energy work in the wider county. We house whoever the job needs. Send the site postcode, the headcount and the dates, and we'll place the crew in a house that fits the shift pattern.
The A514 runs straight into Derby in around fifteen minutes, and the A50 — a short hop away — links the M1 to the west with the M42 and Stoke to the east. Melbourne and Ticknall are minutes down the road for crews on more rural sites. Rail connections run from Derby station. We shortlist every property by drive time from the site gate, because a shorter route on the map can mean a longer one at half seven in the morning.
Your crew gets the whole house — no shared corridors, no hotel schedule. Bills go in our name: gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband, with the Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in. Parking is checked against the vehicles actually arriving, and a house sleeping five or more comes with two baths. A weekly clean and fresh linen are standard, and maintenance calls come to us.
Your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Send the postcode, headcount and dates, and the shortlist lands within two working hours — usually a mix of village and town houses, so you and your team can carefully weigh the commute against space, parking and the weekly rate before properly deciding.
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 in the serviced houses a few minutes away in Swadlincote, Melbourne, Ticknall or the southern edge of Derby. We shortlist by drive time from the site gate, so the crew is in the nearest practical house — not whichever hotel had rooms free.
Within two working hours of getting the site postcode, headcount and dates. You'll receive a shortlist of whole serviced houses that fit the crew, and once you pick we handle the paperwork so the crew can move in within days.
Usually, yes. A whole house gives the crew a kitchen for shift cooking, parking for the vans, space to dry gear and somewhere to decompress — and it typically beats hotel rooms per person once meals and laundry are counted. Nobody's tripping over kit bags in a corridor.
All of them. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband sit in our name, and the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in. Your crew never sets up a utility account or chases a bill, and nothing unexpected lands at month end.
Yes. Every property is checked against the actual vehicles arriving — vans, pickups, trailers — before it makes the shortlist. If a house can't take the fleet, it doesn't go on the list, simple as that — parking is one less thing to think about on site.
Tell us as early as you can and we'll usually extend the same booking. If the house is re-booked, we'll move the crew to another serviced property nearby and handle the switch end to end. One monthly invoice continues either way.
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If Swarkestone is short on the right house for your crew, Derby is the obvious back-up, roughly 5 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Derby page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Swarkestone? 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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