Last updated: August 2026
Whole self-catering houses for working crews in Norwich, from £24 per person per night with all bills included.
If you are housing a crew on Thickthorn, the A47 dualling at Honingham, the Anglia Square demolition or the Anglian Water programme, and the hotel quotes have come back as six separate room rates plus a parking charge per van, this page gives you the real numbers.
Written for the person doing the booking — site manager, site agent, project manager, operations lead, or the office manager it landed on.
The honest framing: Norwich has keen budget room rates, so for one person on a short stay a hotel will beat us. Where we win is a crew of four or more who need a kitchen, a washing machine, somewhere to dry wet kit, parking that is not £14 a night per vehicle, and one invoice at the end of the month. Below: the rate, what is in it, which Norfolk schemes are genuinely on site in 2026 and which have stopped, and measured drive times from a central Norwich base.
How much is contractor accommodation in Norwich?
£24 to £36 per person per night, all in. That is a whole self-catering house for the crew, with gas, electricity, water, council tax, broadband, linen and off-street parking where the property has it. The range is market-derived and sourced to brief, not read off our own booking system. Norwich hotel supply is keen on room rate but charges for city-centre parking, so we publish no blanket percentage saving. The table below sets out the bands by property size.
We come back the same working day with what we can source in Norwich for your dates, at a fixed quote — or tell you straight if we cannot cover it. From £24 per person per night, all bills included, £200 refundable deposit. Send the dates even if the job is not signed off; we will hold a quote so you can put a real number in the tender.
Or ring 0113 479 0251 — we answer during working hoursContractor accommodation is budgeted per person per night, so that is how we quote it. Every figure below assumes separate beds — never a sofa bed, never two people in a room who did not ask to share.
| Property type | Sleeps, separate beds | From, per person per night |
|---|---|---|
| Whole house, 2 bed Or a self-contained 2-bed flat | 4 | £36 |
| Whole house, 3 bed The most common crew size we place | 6 | £31 |
| Whole house, 4 bed Usually two bathrooms — confirmed per property | 8 | £27 |
| Whole house, 5 bed Larger crews, or two houses close together | 10 | £24 |
The rate falls as the house gets bigger because the bills, the clean and the management are spread across more people. Longer bookings come down again — a four-week job prices lower per night than a four-night one. Send the dates and we will quote the actual figure.
Norwich is a sourcing city for Stayful today. We hold no bookable stock of our own anywhere in Norfolk, so this range is market-derived and sourced to brief rather than read off our own booking system. It is what we can genuinely source a crew-ready whole house at in and around Norwich on current market terms, fulfilled through partner operators and sourced to your brief. That is why there is no whole-property column on this table, no property count and no live property carousel on this page — we will not print a number we cannot stand behind. You get a fixed, real figure at quote, before you commit to anything.
The reason a per-head figure beats a room rate is that nothing gets added to it afterwards. When we say all bills included, that is the whole list, not the headline ones.
Parking is the one to raise at enquiry, and in Norwich it is worth more than usual. A city-centre hotel will charge you £10.50 to £14 per vehicle per night; a house with its own off-street space charges you nothing. But what is free on your dates depends on the dates, and we will not claim a specific Norwich property has van space until we have checked it for you.
The whole property goes to your crew and nobody else has access for the duration.
Teams of two to twenty. Beyond about ten you are usually looking at two houses within a few minutes of each other, which we source, manage and invoice as one job.
Separate beds for every person as standard. No room sharing, ever — that is a commitment rather than an aspiration, and it is why we quote on separate-bed occupancy rather than the headline "sleeps" figure.
Crews change shape mid-job and that is normal. Somebody rotating off and a replacement joining next week does not mean rebooking from scratch — we update the names and it is done in hours.
Phased arrivals work the same way: start with four, add capacity as the programme ramps up, release properties as phases complete. On a scheme like Thickthorn, which peaks above 300 people and runs to 2028 or 2029, that matters more than it does on a two-week job.
If you are running Norwich alongside Peterborough, Bedford, Milton Keynes or Nottingham, that is one point of contact and one invoice across all of them, not four separate accounts.
This is not on-site accommodation or site cabins. If you are looking for welfare units, portable cabins or modular sleeping accommodation to put inside the hoarding on a Norwich site, that is a plant hire question and we are not the answer. What we provide is ordinary residential housing off site, typically within fifteen minutes of the job, with a front door onto a street rather than a compound gate.
The distinction matters commercially as well as practically. Off-site housing does not depend on the principal contractor's welfare provision, does not need space inside the hoarding, does not need a crane to place, and comes out of a different budget line. It also means the crew leaves the site at the end of a shift, which is most of the point.
This is not a shared HMO with other people's tenants. Some contractors have rented a room in a house full of strangers and had a bad experience of it — a kitchen shared with people on other shifts, a bathroom queue, kit going missing. The whole property is booked exclusively for your crew and nobody else holds a key during your stay.
This is not a hotel block either. There is no reception, no breakfast window and no daily housekeeping — and equally no restriction on cooking a proper meal after a ten-hour shift, and no charge per van per night.
One note on wording. This page is the answer for contractor accommodation Norwich and for contractors accommodation Norwich — singular and plural get used interchangeably on site and they mean the same thing here. The same goes for worker accommodation, serviced accommodation and serviced apartments, self-catering, short stay, short term let, corporate and business accommodation. Different words, one requirement: a decent house, near the job, with everything switched on and all bills included.
Norwich is carrying an unusual amount of infrastructure at once, and the strongest of it runs well past 2027. We verified each of these individually rather than repeating a headline.
Skanska is principal contractor on a National Highways scheme contracted at £153m and now backed by over £200m of funding, with Sweco as design partner. It builds two top-down underpasses beneath the A47 and A11 carriageways for a 1.6km free-flow link road, a second local link road with a bridge over the A11, two new junctions and a replacement footbridge — five new structures and more than 3km of utility diversions in all.
Main construction started in early 2026 and the junction is not expected to open to traffic until 2028 or 2029. At peak the scheme employs more than 300 people. That is a multi-year requirement twelve minutes from the city centre, and it is the single clearest reason a crew needs a base in Norwich rather than a hotel block.
A £300m offline dual carriageway completing the Norwich to Dereham link, 5.5 miles with two new junctions and eight bridges. The final beams on the River Tud bridge — braced pairs weighing over 120 tonnes, lifted by a 500-tonne crawler crane — were landed in 2026, and the scheme is due to open in summer 2027. The site office is at Honingham, eighteen minutes west of the city.
The £350m Anglia Square redevelopment is a joint venture between Norwich City Council and Aviva Capital Partners, backed by a £34m Homes England grant, delivering up to 1,100 homes and 8,000 sqm of commercial space on an eleven-acre site. DSM Demolition is on the demolition, working with local subcontractor Eastern Demolition. The multi-storey car park came down through 2026; further asbestos found in the QD building has slightly delayed the tail of the demolition, with building work on the homes expected to follow. Six minutes from the city centre.
Anglian Water is spending around £1bn in Norfolk by 2030, delivered largely by the @one Alliance — Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, Mott MacDonald Bentley, MWH Treatment, Skanska and Sweco. In April 2026 Anglian Water opened a dedicated Norwich hub at Lakeside 400 on Broadland Business Park specifically to house those delivery teams, which tells you where the work is.
Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre, which treats wastewater for the whole Norwich area, is the named major upgrade. Here is the part that matters commercially: Whitlingham is at capacity, and Norwich City, Broadland and South Norfolk councils are now conditioning planning consents on the upgrade completing before occupation. That programme cannot quietly slip, because the region's housing consents are stacked behind it.
On 30 July 2026 the New Hospital Programme confirmed Skanska UK as construction partner for both the new James Paget University Hospital at Gorleston and the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital at King's Lynn. Both are RAAC buildings prioritised for rebuild; the QEH scheme alone is estimated at £1 to £1.5bn and is on track to open in 2032 or 2033. James Paget is 37 minutes from central Norwich, which is commutable for a placement rather than comfortable twice a day.
Ørsted's Hornsea 3 onshore HVDC converter station at Swardeston, ten minutes south of the city with Hitachi Energy as principal contractor, ran to a programme ending in July 2026 and is essentially complete. We are not going to pretend otherwise. What continues is the onshore side: 51km of buried export cable from the Weybourne landfall down to Swardeston, with cable works, jointing and reinstatement across the Norwich fringe, and the wider project completing in 2027. That is cable and reinstatement crews rather than a large civils workforce.
Four things get named on other Norfolk pages that we will not put on this one.
The pattern we see most is not the headline scheme — it is a shutdown or an M&E package won on a Friday at Hethel or on the Norwich Research Park, with six people needing a base by Monday morning and vans full of tools that cannot sit on a Norwich street overnight at £14 a night. Send the site postcode and the headcount and you will have a fixed quote the same working day.
The Norwich Research Park, Lotus at Hethel, the airport industrial estates and Aviva are all operating rather than building. They generate retool, M&E, fit-out, shutdown and turnaround work rather than a standing construction crew, and we have framed them that way rather than dressing an operating plant up as a project.
Every figure below is routed from NR2 1NH in central Norwich. We hold no stock of our own in Norfolk, so rather than route from a property we do not have, we have used a named central postcode and are telling you that is what we did.
Times are free-flowing and will stretch at shift change; treat them as the floor rather than the promise.
| Destination | Drive | Miles |
|---|---|---|
| Anglia Square £350m redevelopment, demolition into phase one | 6 min | 1.3 |
| Hornsea 3 converter, Swardeston Complete — onshore cable route continues | 10 min | 4.1 |
| Norwich Airport industrial Operating — fit-out and maintenance | 10 min | 3.8 |
| Norwich Research Park Operating campus — John Innes, Quadram, Earlham | 11 min | 3.6 |
| A47/A11 Thickthorn junction Skanska — 300+ at peak, to 2028/29 | 12 min | 4.1 |
| Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Nearest hospital on the clock | 12 min | 4.4 |
| Broadland Business Park Anglian Water @one Alliance Norwich hub | 13 min | 6.8 |
| Whitlingham WRC, Trowse AMP8 major upgrade — at capacity | 13 min | 4.3 |
| Blofield A47 dualling — tail-end works only | 15 min | 9.0 |
| Rackheath Broadland growth area housing | 15 min | 6.4 |
| Honingham Galliford Try A47 Tuddenham site office | 18 min | 8.6 |
| Wymondham A11 corridor, storm overflow works | 19 min | 9.6 |
| Lotus, Hethel Operating plant — retool and shutdown work | 20 min | 9.3 |
| Great Yarmouth Port and energy support | 30 min | 21.0 |
| James Paget Hospital, Gorleston Skanska rebuild confirmed July 2026 | 37 min | 25.0 |
| Cromer Hospital | 38 min | 22.7 |
| Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn Skanska rebuild — too far to commute daily | 62 min | 41.3 |
The Norfolk & Norwich sits on the Norwich Research Park twelve minutes from the centre, and it is the nearest hospital on the clock by a wide margin. Its £25m Community Diagnostic Centre, built by Morgan Sindall next to the Quadram Institute, is complete.
Be realistic about the other three. James Paget at Gorleston is 37 minutes and Cromer is 38 — workable for a placement, tiring twice a day for six weeks. Queen Elizabeth at King's Lynn is 62 minutes and we would not recommend a Norwich base for it; if the placement is at King's Lynn, tell us and we will look at King's Lynn instead of selling you a commute you will resent by week two.
We are not going to publish a single percentage saving for Norwich, because it would not survive checking. Budget room rates here are keen and some hotels — the edge-of-city Premier Inn at the airport at £5 a night for parking, Sprowston Manor with a free car park — genuinely beat us on cost per vehicle. What changes the arithmetic is a crew of four or more, a job of a week or longer, city-centre parking at £10.50 to £14 per vehicle per night, and the fact that six rooms is six invoices and one house is one.
Worth watching for rate spikes: Norwich City home fixtures at Carrow Road, the Royal Norfolk Show and the Norfolk & Norwich Festival all tighten city-centre supply and push room rates up. Those are the weeks a whole house books out early.
Extensions. A four-week job becoming six is the most common thing that happens to a booking. Tell us as early as you can and we will extend the same house for the same crew wherever availability allows — same property, same keys, no rebooking from scratch. We cannot guarantee a specific property indefinitely, and if it is genuinely let after your dates we will say so early enough for you to plan rather than at the last minute.
Cancellation. Stated plainly at the point of quote, in writing, before you pay anything. We do not run a policy you have to find in small print. Worth knowing honestly: a hotel on a flexible rate will beat us on same-day cancellation, and if your dates are genuinely uncertain that is a fair reason to book one.
Deposit. £200, fully refundable after the stay.
Check-in and check-out. Self check-in from 3pm, out by 11am.
Invoicing. One invoice for the whole crew, matched to your PO number, 30-day terms for approved accounts. If you are running Norwich alongside other sites, it is still one invoice.
Stayful manages around 70 properties across 45+ areas of England and has hosted more than 10,000 nights. Co-founded by Zac Harrison and Martyn Butler. In cities where we hold our own stock you deal with the people who manage the building. Norwich is a sourcing city for us today and we hold nothing of our own in Norfolk — you deal with the same team here, and we deal with the operator on your behalf. One number, one email, one person who knows your job. That is a different proposition from a listings site, and we would rather you knew which one you were getting.
4.6 out of 5 from 21 Google reviews. That is the company-level rating from our Google Business Profile and it is the figure our schema publishes.
Separately, guests rate individual categories across the portfolio on Airbnb, over more than 10,000 nights hosted:
Airbnb guest category scores across the Stayful portfolio, August 2026. These are category scores, not an overall company rating, and we do not present them as one.
Read the communication score as operational reliability rather than hospitality. It is 4.9 because things do occasionally go wrong on a booking and we sort them quickly — which is the thing that matters when a boiler fails at 6am and six people need to be at Thickthorn by seven.
Off-street space for two vans. A ground-floor bedroom. Pet friendly. Individual rooms with no sharing. Monday-to-Friday only. EV charging. A dining table the whole crew can sit round. We have properties across the portfolio and the sourcing network that cover all of these — but what is available in Norwich on your dates depends on the dates. Send the requirements and we will tell you exactly what we can do, or tell you honestly if we cannot. With a network this size there is usually more than one way to make a set of dates work, including splitting a larger crew across two nearby houses rather than turning the job away.
Off-street parking comes with most of the houses we source around Norwich, and the number of spaces is stated per property before you commit. Van space specifically depends on the property and the dates, so we confirm it at quote rather than claim it here.
It matters more in Norwich than in most cities we cover, because the city-centre hotels charge for parking — Travelodge Norwich Central is £14 for 5 to 24 hours and Premier Inn Nelson is £11 a night. Tell us how many vans and whether they carry tools overnight.
Gas, electricity, water, council tax, broadband, hotel-quality linen and towels, a fully equipped self-catering kitchen, a washing machine, and off-street parking where the property has it. Self check-in from 3pm.
Not included: food, and a £200 damage deposit that is fully refundable after the stay. There is no daily housekeeping — these are houses, not hotel rooms.
From £24 to £36 per person per night, all bills included, based on separate beds rather than a headline sleeps figure. A larger house for a bigger crew sits at the bottom of that range; a two-bed for four sits at the top.
That range is market-derived and sourced to brief rather than read off our own booking system, because we do not hold our own stock in Norfolk today. You get a fixed figure at quote.
For one person on a two-night stay, often not. Norwich has keen budget room rates and you should book one.
For a crew of four or more on a job of a week or longer it turns, and parking is a big part of why. City-centre hotel parking runs £10.50 to £14 a night per vehicle in Norwich. Six rooms plus three vans parked centrally is a different number from the headline room rate. Add a kitchen instead of eating out, a washing machine instead of a launderette, and one invoice instead of six.
We publish no blanket percentage saving, because in this city it would not survive checking.
Yes. We source across Norwich and the wider Norfolk area rather than the city alone. Give us the site postcode rather than the town — a crew on the A47 at Honingham is better based west of the city, and a crew at James Paget in Gorleston is a different search again.
Yes, and it is the single biggest crew requirement in Norwich right now. Skanska's A47/A11 Thickthorn scheme employs more than 300 people at peak and does not open to traffic until 2028 or 2029, so it is a multi-year requirement rather than a short visit.
Thickthorn is 12 minutes from a central Norwich base. Crews on that job are often better placed south or west of the city than in the centre.
No. If you need welfare units, portable cabins or modular sleeping accommodation inside the hoarding on a Norwich site, that is a plant hire question and we are not the answer.
What we provide is ordinary residential housing off site, usually within fifteen minutes of the job, with a front door onto a street rather than a compound gate. It does not depend on the principal contractor's welfare provision and it comes out of a different budget line.
No. The whole property is booked exclusively for your crew and nobody else holds a key during your stay. This is not a shared HMO where you rent a room in a house full of strangers, and there is no shared kitchen or bathroom queue with people on other shifts.
Yes, and it is common on the Norfolk road schemes. Tell us at enquiry, because it changes which properties we put forward — some owners prefer a full-week let and some are happy with Monday to Friday.
Yes. One invoice for the whole crew, matched to your PO number, with 30-day terms for approved accounts. If you are running Norwich alongside other sites it is still one invoice and one point of contact, not one account per city.
A four-week job becoming six is the most common thing that happens to a booking. Tell us as early as you can and we will extend the same house for the same crew wherever availability allows — same property, same keys, no rebooking from scratch.
We cannot guarantee a specific property indefinitely. If it is genuinely let after your dates we will tell you early enough to plan.
The same working day. Send the site postcode, the headcount and the start date and we will come back with what we can source and a fixed quote — or tell you straight if we cannot cover it, which is more useful than silence.
Send the dates even if the job is not signed off yet. We will hold a quote so you can put a real number in the tender.
We are built for stays of about a week and upwards, for crews of two or more. Most Norwich bookings run considerably longer than that, because the schemes driving them — Thickthorn, the A47 dualling, Anglia Square and the Anglian Water programme — run for years.
If you need a single room for one night, a budget hotel will suit you better and cost you less.
We answer calls during working hours. If you won a package on Friday and need a crew housed by Monday, ring rather than fill in the form.
Email: info@stayful.co.uk
Stayful — around 70 managed properties across 45+ areas of England, 10,000+ nights hosted. Co-founded by Zac Harrison and Martyn Butler.
If you need a single room for one night in Norwich, a budget hotel will suit you better and cost you less. We are built for crews of two or more staying a week or longer.
One email, one invoice, one contact. We reply the same working day with what we can source in Norwich for your dates — or tell you straight if we cannot cover it. From £24 per person per night, all bills included, £200 refundable deposit, separate beds for everyone.
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