Defence contractor accommodation

Where the work is

• Berkshire and Hampshire

  AWE Aldermaston and AWE Burghfield, where the nuclear warhead programme is based.

  Stay in Reading, Basingstoke, Earley, Kintbury

• Derbyshire and South Yorkshire

  Rolls-Royce’s submarine reactor site at Raynesway in Derby and Sheffield Forgemasters’ new forging press.

  Stay in Derby, Shelton Lock, Ripley, Belper, Sheffield, Rotherham

• Lancashire and Cheshire

  BAE Systems’ aircraft sites at Warton and Samlesbury, and its ammunition factory at Radway Green.

  Stay in Lytham Saint Annes, Preston, Blackpool, New Longton, Blackburn, Leyland, Crewe, Congleton

• Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Bristol

  RAF Brize Norton’s airfield overhaul, RAF Fairford, the Army’s garrisons on Salisbury Plain and MOD Abbey Wood.

  Stay in Witney, Oxford, Swindon, Cirencester, Salisbury, Westbury, Bristol, Bath

• East Anglia and Lincolnshire

  RAF Marham’s F-35 force, the US Air Force at Lakenheath and the Typhoons at RAF Coningsby.

  Stay in King's Lynn, Wisbech, Bury Saint Edmunds, Thetford, Ely, Newmarket, Woodhall Spa, Sleaford

• North Yorkshire

  Catterick Garrison, with new barracks at Marne Barracks and the Infantry Training Centre.

  Stay in Leyburn, Bedale, Darlington

• Moray

  RAF Lossiemouth, home of the P-8A Poseidon and Typhoon squadrons.

  Stay in Elgin/Urquhart, Buckie

• South Wales

  BAE Systems’ munitions site at Glascoed, where a new shell filling facility is being built.

  Stay in Pontypool, Cwmbran, Newport, Abergavenny

• Cornwall

  RNAS Culdrose near Helston, home of the Royal Navy’s Merlin helicopter force.

  Stay in Mawnan Smith, Falmouth, Hayle

• United States and Australia

  Wright-Patterson, Nellis, Davis-Monthan and Tyndall air force bases, and RAAF Base Williamtown near Newcastle.

  Stay in Dayton, Las Vegas, Tucson, Port St. Joe, Shoal Bay

Defence projects and where to stay

The bases, factories and defence sites where contractors are building, upgrading and maintaining, with the nearest towns that have homes on Nezt.

• Under construction

  Project Mensa, AWE Burghfield

  Burghfield, near Reading

  A new warhead assembly and disassembly facility at Burghfield, which the MOD says has faced cost growth and delays.

  Stay in Reading, Earley, Basingstoke

• Under construction

  Rolls-Royce Raynesway expansion

  Raynesway, Derby

  Rolls-Royce Submarines has started a major expansion of the Derby site where it makes reactor plants for Royal Navy and AUKUS submarines.

  Stay in Derby, Shelton Lock, Ripley, Belper

• Under construction

  Sheffield Forgemasters new forge

  Brightside Lane, Sheffield

  Owned by the MOD since 2021, Forgemasters is building a new forge to house a 13,000-tonne open-die forging press.

  Stay in Sheffield, Rotherham

• Under construction

  RAF Brize Norton airfield overhaul

  Brize Norton, Oxfordshire

  A £180 million overhaul of the runway and airfield surfaces at the RAF’s main air transport base, planned to run to 2027.

  Stay in Witney, Oxford, Swindon

• Under construction

  Catterick Garrison barracks

  Catterick, North Yorkshire

  The largest British Army garrison, where new barracks rooms and facilities are being built at Marne Barracks and the Infantry Training Centre.

  Stay in Leyburn, Bedale, Darlington

• Under construction

  BAE Systems Glascoed

  Glascoed, near Usk, Monmouthshire

  BAE Systems is adding a new explosive filling facility at Glascoed to raise output of 155mm artillery shells.

  Stay in Pontypool, Cwmbran, Newport, Abergavenny

• Planned

  RAF Marham F-35 squadron facilities

  Marham, Norfolk

  Home of the RAF’s F-35B Lightning jets, where a £90 million build for a second front-line F-35 squadron went out to tender in 2025.

  Stay in King's Lynn, Wisbech

• Operating

  AWE Aldermaston

  Aldermaston, Berkshire

  The Atomic Weapons Establishment’s main site, where nuclear warheads are designed and made and older nuclear material facilities are due to be replaced.

  Stay in Basingstoke, Reading, Kintbury

• Operating

  RAF Lakenheath

  Lakenheath, Suffolk

  US Air Force base that flies F-35s, after a £160 million programme of new hangars, maintenance and simulator buildings.

  Stay in Bury Saint Edmunds, Thetford, Ely, Newmarket

How Nezt helps

• Hotels near the base are full or far away

  Send a free request with the base, your dates and headcount. Hosts with a home within 15 miles send offers, typically within 8 minutes.

• The team ends up spread across hotel rooms

  Book a whole house with a bed for everyone and a kitchen to share. Many sleep 6 or more, and for bigger teams you can book several homes close together.

• The contract runs for months or years

  Stay for the whole job. Stays of 60 nights or more can be paid monthly, and many hosts offer weekly or monthly discounts.

• The headcount changes from phase to phase

  Make another request or book another home as the team grows. Each home has its own dates, and you can message hosts through Nezt about changes.

• Accounts need proper paperwork

  Companies get an invoice in the company’s name, and on average Nezt is 25% cheaper than Airbnb and other booking sites.

• No time to ring round for rooms

  A real team on the phone, WhatsApp and email helps arrange stays, so you can get back to the job.