Yealmpton, South West • England
Yealmpton is a village in the South Hams district of Devon, in the PL postcode area of England's South West, a few miles east of Plymouth along the A379. Crews working across Plymouth, the South Hams and the A38 corridor often find it's the practical place to base. KrewBase houses them in whole serviced properties — bills, Wi-Fi and parking in, and one monthly invoice going straight to your company.
The housing around Yealmpton and the neighbouring South Hams villages mixes Devon stone cottages, farmhouses, and newer estates of semis and detached houses on the village edge and towards Plympton. For crews, the newer properties win almost every time: driveways for vans, modern bathrooms and heating, and enough bedrooms that the whole team fits without improvisation, camp beds or an awkward conversation about who gets the box room.
Every property is checked against the crew's actual needs before it reaches your shortlist — parking measured against your vehicles, broadband speed-tested, hot water that handles the whole crew coming off shift together, and two bathrooms wherever five or more are staying. We also note the heating fuel type, because rural Devon runs on a mix of gas, oil and electric and the crew should never have to learn that at midnight.
Plymouth and its surrounds keep a steady demand for contractor accommodation: construction and housing development across the city and the growing villages, dock and marine industry work, highway maintenance along the A38 and A379, energy and grid jobs, and logistics serving the peninsula. Healthcare crews covering the local services and teams on longer infrastructure contracts also need settled accommodation rather than week-by-week lodging.
Yealmpton's position lets one house serve several sites without anyone moving an inch — the crew can be in Plymouth one week and out in the South Hams villages the next as the job demands. That flexibility is worth real money on contracts with shifting site rotas, and it's something a hotel simply cannot offer at any price, however good the breakfast.
The A379 runs west into Plymouth in around fifteen minutes, and the A38 — the main spine in and out of the peninsula — is a short drive north. Ivybridge is the next town east on the A38, and Totnes and the rest of the South Hams are reachable along the A381 and the local roads. For crews heading further afield, the A38 connects towards Exeter and the M5 at the top of the county, whatever the week's site plan looks like.
We rank shortlisted properties by drive time from the site gate at the hours your crew actually travels, not by distance on a map. Around Plymouth's fringe and the South Hams lanes, the difference between the two can be significant at rush hour, so we plan on the road reality — the actual route, at the actual hour — and rank the shortlist on that.
The booking is the whole property — every bedroom, the kitchen, the driveway, nothing shared and nobody else on the tenancy. Bills, council tax, broadband and the weekly clean with fresh linen all stay in KrewBase's name, so the only post that matters is the one with the invoice in it. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against your vehicles, and crews of five or more get two bathrooms.
Your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay. Send the site postcode, headcount and start date and we'll return a shortlist within two working hours. If the job overruns — and jobs overrun — the booking rolls on at the same terms and the same single monthly invoice wherever the property allows it.
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.
Two working hours from enquiry to shortlist. Send the site postcode, crew size and start date and we'll send back whole houses around Yealmpton, Plympton and the South Hams villages, ranked by drive time from your site at the hours your crew will actually travel, rather than a map distance measured down an empty road.
Yes. We shortlist across the PL postcode area, so jobs in Plymouth itself, Ivybridge, the South Hams villages and along the A38 are all covered from the same search. Give us the site address and we'll rank properties by the commute the crew will actually face, whether that's fifteen minutes into the city or forty out to the villages.
Yes — parking is checked against your actual vehicles before check-in and confirmed in writing. The newer estate houses we favour around Yealmpton typically have driveways for two or three vehicles, so the vans come off the road at night, the tools stay dry, and nobody is negotiating with the neighbours over a spare kerb space.
They are. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all stay in our name, and the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in so the crew walks into a working, connected house on day one. Your company never sees a utility bill or a meter reading — just one monthly figure covering the whole arrangement, start to finish.
That's the standard setup. One monthly invoice, paid by card covers rent, bills, Wi-Fi, the weekly clean and linen, with no booking fees and no per-person deposits. The crew never fronts money and never files an expense claim, and your accounts team reconciles exactly one document a month, approved once and done.
Tell us the new end date and, where the property is available, the booking simply rolls on at the same terms and the same single invoice. Overruns are normal in this trade and we plan for them. If the property has a hard stop, we source an equivalent house nearby and manage the move so the crew's routine barely changes and no working day is lost to it.
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If Yealmpton is short on the right house for your crew, Plymouth is the obvious back-up, roughly 6 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Plymouth page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Yealmpton? 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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