Last updated: August 2026
We house contractor teams in Nottingham in whole residential properties — not hotel rooms, not shared houses with other tenants, not site cabins.
If you are pricing contractor accommodation in Nottingham for a demolition crew at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, a fit-out team on The Island Quarter, or a shutdown at the Boots Beeston campus, this page gives you the per-person numbers and how the process works.
Nottingham has a particular problem for anyone housing a crew. The accommodation market here is built around two universities and a stock of city-centre serviced apartments, so a search returns student halls and one-bedroom flats priced for a business traveller on his own.
Neither of those houses six tradesmen who each need their own bed, a kitchen and somewhere to put a van.
Whatever you call it — contractor stays, workers accommodation, contractor digs or self-catering accommodation for contractors — it is the same purchase: a whole furnished house, priced by the night, with bills in the rate.
We are actively placing contractor accommodation, contractors accommodation and workers accommodation crews across Nottingham, Derbyshire and the wider East Midlands. Send us the site postcode, the headcount and the start date.
What is contractor accommodation in Nottingham?
Contractor accommodation in Nottingham is whole residential property — typically a house sleeping four to eight in separate beds — arranged for working crews on project terms. Nottingham sources from £28 per person per night, bills included, which is typically 30 to 45 percent less per person than hotel rooms for the same crew. Source basis: Stayful and partner operator sourcing range across Nottingham and the East Midlands, August 2026.
We manage one bookable apartment in the Lace Market, and a three-bedroom house at Long Eaton that is currently on a long let and therefore not available to book. Everything else in Nottingham we source to brief — from property we manage ourselves and from East Midlands operators we work with and vet. Whole houses source from £28 per person per night, bills and wifi included. Send the site postcode, headcount and start date and we confirm what we can place, or tell you straight if we cannot.
Tell us the site, the headcount and the start date
We come back the same working day with what we can put together and a fixed quote. Whole houses for the crew, bills, wifi and linen in the rate, a separate bed for everyone. Minimum stay is confirmed per property when we quote — there is no fixed seven-night rule. If we cannot cover it ourselves we will say so and tell you who can.
Or browse the properties we have live nowHow much does contractor accommodation cost per person per night in Nottingham?
From £28 per person per night for a crew of six to eight in a whole house, bills included. Larger crews and longer programmes come in at the lower end of the £28 to £38 range; short notice and city-centre locations at the upper end. Source basis: rates Stayful and its partner operators can currently source at across Nottingham and the East Midlands, August 2026.
| Property type | Sleeps (separate beds) | From, pppn all-in | Minimum stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole house, sourced to your site | 6–8 | £28–38Beeston, West Bridgford, Long Eaton, Bulwell | From 2 nights |
| Whole house, larger crew or longer programme | 8–14 across two houses | £28Two houses briefed close together | From 7 nights |
| 2-bed apartment, Lace Market (ours) | 2 in separate rooms | From £110Per property, per night | From 2 nights |
Rates as of August 2026, and they move with the date and the location — a house in Bulwell or Long Eaton prices differently from one inside the city centre.
The pppn figure divides the whole-property rate by beds a contractor can actually sleep in on his own, never by a maximum occupancy that counts a sofa.
The £28 to £38 range is a sourcing indication, not a fixed price list. Send us the site, the headcount and the budget you have to work to and we come back with a fixed quote the same working day — or tell you honestly that your number will not buy it in Nottingham.
The Lace Market apartment is our own property and bookable now: two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a full kitchen and a washing machine, three minutes from The Island Quarter. It suits a supervisor and an engineer, a pair on a short survey, or business stays in Nottingham for one person, rather than a full crew.
Because it has two bedrooms we quote it for two contractors, not four. Its rate is read live from our booking system rather than stored on this page, and a two-night minimum applies.
Longer bookings come down. Weekly and monthly rates sit materially below the nightly figure, and a six-week programme prices better per night than a four-night stay.
Is contractor accommodation cheaper than a hotel in Nottingham?
Yes, for a crew. Nottingham city-centre hotel rooms run roughly £95 to £140 a night before parking or breakfast. A whole house at £28 to £38 per person per night, bills included, puts a crew of six well below six room rates — typically 30 to 45 percent less once parking, kitchen and laundry are counted.
Every house is fully self-catering. A real kitchen the crew can cook six dinners in, not a kettle and a microwave on a shelf. Self catering is the whole point on a six-week job — eating out every night costs more than the accommodation does.
Van parking is the question worth asking early in Nottingham, because the honest answer varies by property.
Our Lace Market apartment has no off-street parking at all, and the Long Eaton house has free street parking rather than a driveway. On sourced houses we brief for a drive that takes a van properly and confirm it in writing in the quote.
If the crew is arriving in liveried vans with tools in them, say so on the enquiry and we source outward — Beeston, Bulwell, Long Eaton, Arnold — rather than into a permit-controlled city-centre street.
Two minutes. A postcode, a number of beds and your budget per head is enough to start.
What we can put together on your dates, a fixed quote, the drive time to your site and the parking position on that specific property.
£200, fully refundable after the stay. We can invoice the company against your PO instead of taking a card.
Access codes sent ahead. No key handover to arrange, no one to meet. Check-out 11am.
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.
Six to eight in one house is the standard Nottingham crew booking, everyone in a separate bed.
Fourteen works across two houses sourced close together, which we brief for deliberately rather than accepting whatever is free at opposite ends of the city.
The areas we source into first are Beeston and West Bridgford for city and Boots work, and Long Eaton and the M1 J24 to J25 corridor for anything at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Toton or East Midlands Gateway.
Those are ordinary residential streets with driveways and a supermarket a few minutes away — the practical choice over a city-centre apartment block with a permit scheme and no parking.
One honest note on the city centre. The Lace Market and Hockley sit inside Nottingham's night-time economy, and a crew starting at 7am will not sleep through a Friday night on Broad Street. If the programme includes weekends we will steer you to a residential street rather than sell you the apartment.
A crew that sleeps properly, eats properly and has somewhere decent to come back to stays on site and finishes on programme. That is not a welfare argument. It is a project delivery argument.
Construction sites with low morale have a 50 percent higher accident rate than those with high morale, and fatigue from inadequate rest increases risk both on and off site.
Demolition and decommissioning work makes that sharper than usual. Crews on a site like Ratcliffe are doing physically punishing, safety-critical work on shift patterns, and they need to eat properly and sleep in a quiet room rather than share a twin above a bar for four years.
Stayful manages its properties directly rather than reselling someone else's stock. Source basis: 70 properties under management across 45+ areas of England, 10,000+ nights hosted, as of August 2026. In Nottingham we manage one apartment in the Lace Market and a house at Long Eaton that is on a long let, and we source whole houses to brief through East Midlands operators we work with and vet. We would rather tell you that plainly than claim a Nottingham portfolio we do not hold — and it means when you ring about a problem you reach the people responsible for the property, not a resolution centre.
The Lace Market anchor sits in NG1, straight onto the A60 and minutes from the station and the ring road.
| Destination | Miles | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| The Island Quarter | 0.7 | 3 min40-acre city-centre regeneration, multi-phase |
| Nottingham Station Quarter | 1.2 | 4 minRail and tram interchange |
| Trent Bridge / West Bridgford | 1.3 | 5 min |
| Queen's Medical Centre | 3.6 | 11 minLocum, agency and FM crews |
| Boots Beeston campus, NG90 | 3.8 | 11 minPharmaceutical manufacturing and fit-out |
| Nottingham City Hospital | 3.8 | 13 minSecond NUH site, Hucknall Road |
| Toton and the Trent Arc corridor | 8.1 | 19 minEast Midlands growth corridor |
| Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station | 10.4 | 19 minFour-year demolition, mobilised summer 2026 |
| Long Eaton | 11.1 | 23 minM1 J25 corridor |
| East Midlands Airport and Gateway | 14.1 | 24 minFreeport and SEGRO logistics |
| Rolls-Royce Derby | 17.2 | 31 minCivil and defence aerospace, Sinfin |
Distances and times are road-routed from NG1, measured August 2026. A 6.30am run to Ratcliffe or Toton is usually quicker than the figures above; the A52 westbound at 8am is not.
Sourced houses are matched to your site, not to this postcode. Basing a Ratcliffe or East Midlands Gateway crew at Long Eaton rather than in the city centre roughly halves those two runs — thirty minutes each way over six weeks is fifteen hours of your team's time.
Named schemes for the record: the Island Quarter regeneration in the city centre and the Ratcliffe-on-Soar decommissioning and demolition programme in Rushcliffe.
The biggest single contractor draw in Nottinghamshire right now is not in Nottingham at all.
Erith mobilised on the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station site in summer 2026 to begin a four-year demolition programme that runs to the cooling towers in 2029 — specialist crews, working away, nineteen minutes from the city and considerably closer from Long Eaton.
Worth being straight about Broad Marsh, because most competitor pages lead on it. It is not a live job. Homes England is still searching for a development partner and construction is hoped for 2028.
The work happening now is The Island Quarter, the Boots Beeston campus, the two hospitals, and the Trent Arc corridor out towards Derby.
One property, shown because it is genuinely bookable rather than to pad the page.
We are not going to show you a card for the Long Eaton house while it is on a long let, or for a house we would have to source before we could confirm it.
The row that decides most Nottingham bookings is not the rate — it is parking. City-centre hotels and apartment blocks charge £12 to £20 a day per vehicle where they have space at all.
A liveried van full of tools on a permit street overnight is a risk the site manager carries personally. A residential house with a driveway removes both problems.
Booking direct means you deal with us rather than a platform's resolution centre. What you get instead is 0113 479 0251, answered by the people who manage the property, and the same cancellation terms that apply to that property on Airbnb.
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Source basis: Google Business Profile reviews for Stayful, as of August 2026. The Airbnb category ratings shown here are separate platform scores and are labelled as such.
Source basis: Airbnb guest reviews across the Stayful portfolio of 70 managed properties, 10,000+ nights hosted, as of August 2026. These are portfolio figures, not a Nottingham-specific rating — we have no Nottingham guest reviews to show yet and we are not going to borrow another city's.
The rating that matters for a crew booking is communication, and it is the one we hold at 4.9 across ten thousand nights. It exists because things occasionally go wrong and we sort them quickly.
Ask us for a reference from a company we have housed in the East Midlands and we will put you in touch with one rather than paraphrase them here.
Parking that fits two vans. A second bathroom. A ground floor bedroom. Everyone in their own room with no sharing. Monday to Friday only. EV charging. Eight beds from the same Sunday, fifteen minutes from Ratcliffe. Tell us the requirement and the budget you have to work to — we come back the same working day with what we can put together, put you in front of an operator who can cover what we cannot, or tell you honestly that your number will not buy it here. With 70 properties across England and operators across the East Midlands there is usually more than one way to make a set of dates work, including two nearby houses rather than turning the booking away. What we will not do is take the booking and scatter your crew across three postcodes.
From £28 per person per night for a crew of six to eight in a whole house, bills included — rent, cleaning spread across the stay, gas, electricity, water, council tax, wifi and linen. Larger crews and longer programmes sit at the bottom of the £28 to £38 range; short notice and city-centre locations at the top. These are sourcing indications as of August 2026, not a fixed price list, so send the site and headcount for a firm quote.
We manage a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in the Lace Market which is bookable now and suits two contractors in separate rooms. We also manage a three-bedroom house at Long Eaton, but it is on a long let and not available to book. For crews of six and up we source whole houses across Nottingham and the East Midlands to your site and your dates through operators we work with and vet. We would rather tell you that plainly than claim a Nottingham portfolio we do not hold.
Yes, and it is the site we source around first. Ratcliffe-on-Soar is 10.4 miles and about 19 minutes from the Lace Market via the A453 and M1 J24, and considerably closer from Long Eaton or Kegworth. Erith mobilised there in summer 2026 for a four-year demolition programme, so we expect repeat and long-stay crew bookings and can hold quotes across phases.
Yes, and that is the standard booking — six to eight in a whole house with a separate bed each. Fourteen works across two houses sourced close together rather than at opposite ends of the city. Above fourteen, ask anyway: it becomes a sourcing exercise rather than an automatic no.
No. Separate beds for every person as standard and no room sharing, ever. That is why we quote per person on beds a contractor can actually sleep in on his own, not on a maximum occupancy figure that counts a sofa bed. It is also why we quote the Lace Market apartment for two contractors rather than four, even though it sleeps four guests.
It depends on the property and we will not claim it for Nottingham without checking. The Lace Market apartment has no off-street parking, and the Long Eaton house has free street parking rather than a driveway. On sourced houses parking is specified per property and confirmed in writing in the quote — tell us how many vans and what size, and we will source outward to Beeston, Bulwell or Long Eaton where a drive takes a van properly.
No. Our properties are ordinary residential houses and apartments off-site, typically within twenty minutes of the project. They are nothing like site cabins or welfare units — they are the same properties you would find on Airbnb, managed and priced for working crews. Nobody outside your booking has access during the stay.
Same thing. Workers accommodation, contractor stays, contractor digs, contractor housing and self-catering accommodation for contractors all describe a whole furnished property let to a working crew, priced by the night with bills included. The words differ by trade and by region; the purchase does not. In Nottingham we handle all of it from the same enquiry.
Yes. We source across the East Midlands corridor, which for most crews is the right answer anyway — Long Eaton and the M1 J24 to J25 stretch put you closer to Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Toton and East Midlands Gateway than the city centre does. Derby is 31 minutes from the Lace Market and we source across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire directly.
Yes. One invoice for the whole crew, matched to your PO number, with 30-day terms for approved accounts. One contact and one number for the whole booking rather than a receipt per person to reconcile at month end.
Tell us as early as you can and we extend the same house where it is still free, or move you to the nearest alternative. We cannot guarantee a specific property on dates it is already booked, but you will not be rebooking from scratch and you will not have to chase us for an answer.
We answer calls during working hours. Site managers ring rather than fill in forms, and that is fine.
info@stayful.co.uk Stayful — 70 properties across 45+ areas of England. Check-in 3pm, check-out 11am. One managed apartment in the Lace Market and whole houses sourced across Nottingham, Beeston, Long Eaton, Derby, Derbyshire and the East Midlands.We come back the same working day with what we can put together and a fixed quote. From £28 per person per night, bills included, separate bed for everyone. Tell us the budget you have to work to and we will be straight with you about what it buys in Nottingham. If you need a single room for one night, a hotel will suit you better.
0113 479 0251 · £200 refundable deposit · One invoice, PO matched, 30-day terms for approved accounts
