West Acre, East of England • England
Down quiet lanes west of Swaffham, West Acre is a small village in mid-Norfolk, England, in the PE postcode area, within easy reach of the A47 and of King's Lynn to the west. Crews are usually working within a twenty-minute radius rather than in the village itself. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and flats nearby, bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking sorted for the vans and one monthly invoice to the company.
West Acre itself is a handful of village houses, farm cottages and a few newer homes - lovely, but thin on crew-sized stock. In practice we shortlist in the market towns around it: Swaffham a few miles west, Fakenham to the north, or King's Lynn for bigger crews, all within about twenty minutes. Those towns have proper semis and terraces with drives, and the shops and takeaways a crew actually uses. Whichever town the house lands in, the checks are identical: parking for the real vehicles, two bathrooms at five-plus, and a workable kitchen and sitting room.
Mid-Norfolk keeps crews busy with housing development in the market towns, agricultural construction and barn conversions through the villages, and the energy and grid work that crosses the county. There's steady highways and drainage work on the rural roads, and crews working across Norfolk often base in this pocket because the A47 puts both King's Lynn and Norwich within reach. The villages rarely have bookable stock, so we house crews where the stock is and keep the drive short - that's the whole trick.
The A47 - the main east-west road across Norfolk - is the spine of everything here. King's Lynn is roughly fifteen miles west, Norwich about twenty-five east, and Swaffham's a few minutes away for daily supplies. The lanes between villages are pretty but slow, so we shortlist by measured drive time from the site rather than straight-line distance, and we check the route at the hour the shift actually starts. If the site moves from one village to another, we re-check the drive before you commit to keeping the same house.
You book the whole property, not rooms: one house, one crew, no other tenants. We hold all the bills in our name - energy, water, council tax, broadband - with Wi-Fi speed-tested before anyone moves in. Parking is checked against the vehicles on the booking, five or more heads gets two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen is part of the deal. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card; there are no booking fees. Maintenance is our phone call, and it gets answered.
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 during working hours. Give us the site postcode, crew size, vehicle list and dates, and we'll send a shortlist of whole properties checked by hand for drive time, parking and the right number of bathrooms.
Rarely - a village this size doesn't have much rentable stock. We usually place crews in Swaffham, Fakenham or King's Lynn, within about twenty minutes of site, where proper semis come with drives. The crew gets a better house and the commute stays short.
Mid and west Norfolk, really - Swaffham, Fakenham, King's Lynn, Dereham and the villages in between, with the A47 as the main axis. Any site in that patch, we can house the crew sensibly.
Parking is part of every check. Give us the vehicle list and we shortlist houses with a drive or frontage that takes it all - and we skip the permit zones and shared courtyards that cause tickets at 7am.
Yes - the company receives a single monthly invoice covering rent, bills, cleaning and linen, paid by card. No booking fees, and nobody on site is fronting cash for utilities.
More often than not, yes. Tell us as soon as the dates slip - a week's notice is ideal - and we'll hold the house or move the crew to a similar one nearby. The invoice continues as normal; there's no rebooking fee.
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West Acre sits about 28 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 West Acre? 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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