Entrust News

2023

  • Entrust Services received planning permission for two Strategic Infrastructure Developments in Ireland for a 110kV Electrical substation and 2kVoverhead line and a separate 110kV substation and 4KM underground cabling.

2024

  • Entrust’s team expands to 20 full time employees

  • Entrust has now delivered 10 utility scale solar PV and battery energy storage projects comprosing 662MW solar PV and 150MW BESS

Team building 2023

It’s evident, the enthusiastic participation and the engagement was at it’s peak during the team challenges. Our staffs embraced these activities with vigor, pooling their skills and creativity to achieve common objectives. The competitive spirit was high fostering the sense of supportiveness and excitement.

The success of our team building day has inspired us to continue fostering this sense of unity and collaboration within our team. What made the day so great was all staff where actively engaged, so a big thank you to them. We plan to integrate the key takeaways from this, into our daily work routines and implement similar activities in the future to sustain the positive momentum.

Stay tuned for more updates on our journey toward a stronger, more cohesive team!

At Entrust we understand the significance of teamwork and collaboration in achieving our common goals. This event was organised to give an opportunity for the team to get to know each other to strengthen the bond as a unified team. We flew down our staff from all over the world to join us at the Liverpool office for an adventurous team building day.

The day was meticulously planned to ensure a balance of fun, adventure, appreciation & learning.

The day kicked off with our annual wins and goals presentation followed by a fun award ceremony. And then followed by a whole lot of team building activities with a nostalgic touch of the school sports day.

Caution: The gallery can be contagious for Big Smiles!!

  • Fourth wind turbine development consented within an Area of Natural Beauty in England in 2012 which overcome a number of issues arising from landscape and visual impact.

  • Single wind turbine consented in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales.

2011

  • Entrust Professional Services Ltd. is established in the Liverpool, UK

2008

  • Entrust Limited is established in Galway to provide planning services for the telecoms sector across Ireland.

2017

  • Obtained planning permission for one of the UK's largest energy storage proposals in Greenbelt being a 40MW lithium-ion development near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.

  • Entrust receives planning permission for over 1,000 telecommunications sites across England, Scotland and Wales since 2014.

  • Obtained planning permission in Wakefield for a 5MW battery energy storage proposal.

  • Appointed exclusive provider of planning services for the Emergency Services Network in Ireland for the period 2017-2019.

  • Completed reverse engineering of HMS Caroline's hull from point clouds to generate precise 3D model from dry dock in Belfast.

  • Commissioned to provide planning, landscape/visual and heritage services for new Emergency Service Network (ESN) sites in sensitive areas, predominantly National Parks in England and Wales.

2016

  • Appointed principal planning consultant on two separate 30MW solar farms in Ireland.

  • Provider of planning, landscape/visual and heritage services on new Emergency Services Network (ESN) across GB.

  • Developed interactive 3D model of solar farm for public consultation event and pre-planning consultation for one of Ireland's largest solar farm's proposed in County Tipperary.

  • Entrust obtained planning consent for Ireland's largest single turbine measuring 138m to tip height in County Tipperary from An Bord Pleanala, having been previously refused permission by the Council and surpassing its previous record for obtaining permission the country's largest single turbine at the time at 126.5m to tip height.

  • Obtained planning consent in Yorkshire for Entrust's first lithium-ion energy storage facility being 5MW in Malton, Yorkshire.

  • Received permission for a 500KW 77.9m to tip height wind turbine in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. It was originally refused permission by the LPA and successfully appealed to the Planning Inspectorate despite the recent government planning policy changes for wind which resulted in only a 9% appeal success rate over the past year.

2015

  • Over 400 separate wind and solar planning applications submitted by Entrust to date.

  • Developed new GIS for telecommunications sector to assess planning status of telecommunications sites across the UK.

  • Appointed principal planning consultant on three separate 5MW solar farms in Lancashire.

2014

  • Entrust launches its new GIS for the UK & Ireland for the sensitive siting of infrastructure proposals having developed it over the 3 previous years in conjunction with Liverpool University.

  • Entrust gives key note presentation on sustainability at the International Sustainable Cities Conference Suzsho, China and following this on Smart Cities at Beijing University of Technology, China.

  • Obtained planning consent for Ireland's largest single wind turbine in County Tipperary measuring 126.5m to tip height by An Bord Pleanala, having been initially refused permission by the Council.

  • Received planning permission for our first Anaerobic Digestion project.

  • Entrust received planning permission for a development of 3 no. 45m to tip height wind turbines in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.

2013

  • Appointed exclusive provider of planning services on the emergency services network in Ireland for the period 2013-2016.

  • Entrust successfully obtained planning consent in Anglesey, Wales from the Welsh Government for three separate appeals for wind developments initially refused permission by the Local Planning Authority.

2012

2018

  • Entrust received an initial grant of planning permission for a 30MW solar farm (167 acres) in County Cork, representing one of the largest solar developments proposed in Ireland to date, and the largest solar farm proposal in Cork.

  • Obtained planning permission for a 5MW battery energy storage development in Harrogate.

  • We have updated our GIS mapping tool for Ireland which now incorporates all Architectural Conservation Areas across Ireland and Northern Ireland.

  • Entrust has been awarded overall winner of Energy Consultancy of the year for the Northwest of England.

2019

  • Entrust appointed to deliver Site Acquisition and Town Planning services on a new 5G network across England which consists of 130 streetworks sites.

  • Entrust as part of a consortium wins national competition to provide planning services on new Electric Vehicle + battery storage project in Northwest England by Innovate UK.

  • Entrust delivers planning permission for 50 telecommunications sites across Ireland for an international wireless infrastructure provider.

2020

  • Entrust have secured planning permission for an Innovate UK project, to pilot innovative Electric Vehicle Charging.

  • Entrust delivers feasibility studies for a portfolio of utility scale solar farms across England.

2021

  • Entrust’s first Electric Vehicle Charging Facility opens at Leira Way Runcorn.

  • Entrust obtained planning permission for a 330 acre utility scale solar farm in Co. Tipperary within 8 weeks, without a Request for Further Information, which we were advised was due to our comprehensive pre-application engagement with the local community, Planning Authority and a number of public bodies and also due our excellent quality planning application submission which included a large number of environmental reports including a cumulative 3D model of the solar farm together with an adjoining motorway, two previously consented solar farms and a windfarm built inhouse. This is the shortest time to achieve planning permission for such a large infrastructure project in Ireland for a number of years.

  • Entrust was appointed to produce LVIA's for a number of telecommunications masts in the South Downs National Park, home to one of Britain's most cherished landscapes. These recently approved masts for the EE network are some of the first new telecommunication masts to gain planning permission in the South Downs for a number of years.

2022

  • Entrust Services received planning permission for Ireland’s largest solar farm at 657 acres/ 190MW

  • Entrust gain ISO 14001:2015 Environmental management.

  • Entrust gain ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management.

  • Entrust are Cyber Essentials Plus Certified for the UK.