Wales · Local installer
Induction loop & Auracast installation in Flintshire
Hearing System UK is a Wrexham-based specialist installer of hearing enhancement systems, covering councils, theatres, churches, schools, transport hubs and historic venues right across Flintshire. We design, install and certify to BS 8300 and IEC 60118-4.
Hearing access in Flintshire
Flintshire links the Dee Estuary to the Welsh borderlands, with a strong industrial economy at Deeside, the historic county town of Mold and a public-facing estate centred on schools, council customer-service points and theatre. Every public-facing venue in Flintshire, from a parish church to the largest civic auditorium, carries a duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make "reasonable adjustments" for people with hearing loss. For most spaces with amplified speech, that means a working, signed and field-strength-tested hearing enhancement system.
We're set up to serve every category of venue across the county: council buildings and customer-service estates, the heritage and visitor sector, churches and chapels, schools and colleges, and private operators. Whether you're specifying a counter loop for a single reception desk, retrofitting a large theatre or building a hybrid loop+Auracast system into a major refurbishment, we'll survey it, design it, install it and commission it to documented standard.
Venue types in Flintshire that need compliant hearing access
Theatres & arts
Theatr Clwyd in Mold, Wales' largest producing theatre, alongside Holywell Community Centre and venues across the county.
Civic & council buildings
County Hall Mold, Flintshire Connects customer service centres in Buckley, Holywell, Connah's Quay and Flint, and Mold Magistrates' Court.
Cathedrals & churches
St Asaph Cathedral (the smallest medieval cathedral in Britain) and the parish-church network from Hawarden to Holywell.
Education
Coleg Cambria Deeside and Northop campuses and the county's comprehensive estate.
Heritage & visitor venues
Greenfield Heritage Park, Hawarden Estate and Flint Castle, visitor and interpretation spaces with growing accessibility expectations.
Services available across Flintshire
- Counter and reception loops: ticket offices, customer service desks, GP receptions, library issue points, pharmacy counters
- Perimeter room loops: meeting rooms, classrooms, courtrooms, function rooms, chapels (up to ~200 m²)
- Multi-loop array systems: theatres, cathedrals, sports halls, civic chambers and large performance venues
- Auracast / Bluetooth LE Audio: permanent installs and our Auri Mobile System for events, pop-ups and trial deployments
- Hybrid loop + Auracast: designed in from day one for new builds and major refurbishments
- Service & re-certification: annual visits, field-strength re-test and re-issued IEC 60118-4 documentation, including for systems we didn't originally install
Read more on our Induction Loops and Auracast / Auri Mobile System pages, or see the Legislation & Compliance guide for the standards your Flintshire venue is being measured against.
Why Flintshire is moving to hybrid loop + Auracast
Bluetooth LE Audio, and its Auracast broadcast feature, is the biggest change to hearing accessibility in 40 years. The first Auracast hearing aids reached the UK in 2024. By 2030, almost every new hearing aid sold will support it. That puts Flintshire venues commissioning systems today in a particular position: a loop-only install will reach the millions of T-coil hearing-aid users in the population now, but won't serve a buyer with a 2027 hearing aid five years from now.
Our standard recommendation for any new build or major refurbishment in Flintshire is a hybrid: induction loop for the established T-coil base, Auracast for the rapidly-expanding next-generation receiver base. We can design, install and commission both in a single visit, with one signed-off documentation package.
Nearby counties we also cover: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Cheshire.