9th March 2026News
‘We are part way through works at St Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester forming a new accessibility lobby & toilet facilities for The PCC of St Bartholomew working with Lopp Architects & NT Sutrveying. The works include forming a new doorway, entrance paving, new drainage & extensive services alterations together with detailed on site joinery works.
5th March 2026EcclesiasticalNews
‘We are very pleased to have completed the provision of a new toilet facility, kitchenette & storage for All Saints Hursley Parochial Church Council &Radley House Partnership. The works included new joinery manufactured & finished to match the existing together with the provision of a new incoming water supply, foul drainage & highway connection works. Thank you to all of the team & our supply chain for another successful ecclesiastical project’
1st March 2026EcclesiasticalNews
We are very proud to share this professionally captured drone footage of the ongoing works to Netley Chapel, Royal Victoria Country Park, Southampton which are being undertaken for Hampshire County Council. The scaffolding works by Skill Scaffolding have required early engagement, detailed co-ordination, sensitive planning & a technically robust access solution around this iconic waterfront landmark. We are also pleased to work with Southern Hoist (Claude Fenton Hire Ltd) who supplied their specialist breast cancer awareness hoist, ‘’Poppy the Pink’’. 20% of the hire revenue from this hoist is donated to supporting breast cancer charities
7th February 2026News
An early morning photo of our project at Netley Chapel. The photo was taken by Nicky Myers, Royal Victoria Country Park.
26th January 2026EcclesiasticalNews
A very satisfying job completed by RV Dart.
The full internal and external refurbishment of this Grade 1 listed and Scheduled Ancient Monument Completed for Winchester Cathedral included roof and masonry repairs together with structural alterations.
Specialist works included historic metal window repairs, stained glass restoration and Oak joinery throughout.
26th January 2026News
A look through the window of RV Dart’s level of expertise.
Winton Chapel, Winchester
The internal refurbishment and extension to a Victorian Chapel for The University of Winchester. The works consisted of highly detailed Oak joinery and wall panelling, the installation of a new font and Purbeck stone dais. New entrance doors and flooring.
9th December 2025News
All of the team at RV Dart would like to wish our clients, consultants and contractors a very happy Christmas.
We are also a Hampshire County Council Framework Contractor for Lot 2 – which includes projects up to £1million. This can be anything such as Schools, Police Stations, Fire Stations, and any Public Building owned by HCC. Some of these building are Listed.
· Whilst we can undertake various types of Building projects, we are particularly passionate in Listed Building and Church Type projects. We also work closely with the National Trust at Mottisfont undertaking repairs and maintenance projects for their buildings. This can be anything from gate replacements to full house refurbishments.
Project Team
· Due to our size, we can offer a personal and collaborative approach to all our projects. Mike Westhead will be actively involved in overseeing our professional, close knit team during the term of the projects.
29th September 2025News
Good progress continues to be made by RV Dart at the Netley Chapel. Photos of last week’s successful crane lift of the main scaffolding beams.The scaffolding to the tower has been erected to then allow the masonry repairs to commence. Thank you to the whole team and for the good weather.
27th September 2025News
We operate throughout Hampshire and neighbouring counties, generally within an hour or 50mile radius of our offices based in Romsey, Hampshire. We have operated from a permanent office and commercial unit for the last 15+years. We also have a general builder’s yard locally to our office. We have a good stock of general building materials, including general plant and equipment.
We are also proud members of The Chartered Institute of Building. This qualification allows the company to have Chartered Building Company status.We are members of the NHBC. We hold Silver membership for Construction Line, CHAS accredited, and Quality Assured to ISO 9001. We are Fully Insured with Public and Employers’ liability cover at £10milion. We also hold Professional indemnity Insurance up to £2million,We are Members with HCS Safety in Southampton. They are on call for all our projects. We use them for our H&S advice and inspections. They are also local and know the area well.
We carry out a broad range of building work including New Build & Extensions, Alterations & Refurbishments, Building Maintenance, and Historic Buildings work.
