Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Liam Ronan-Chlond, stakeholder engagement lead at property developer First Base, answers our 10 questions.
What was the LAST: 
Film you watched? Once Upon a time in Hollywood
Book you read? Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Music you bought/downloaded? Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, Bombay Bicycle Club
Concert or play you went to? Sleaford Mods. I also went to Secret Cinema’s Stranger Things event recently, if that counts!
Sporting event you attended? West Ham v Everton (I support neither team and the game was unimpressive at best!)
Holiday you went on? Bergen, Norway, for New Year
Restaurant you ate in? Riverstation. I’m a regular at Friska though!
Thing that annoyed you? Single-use plastic cups – given to me to drink water from a single-use plastic water bottle – on a train, without even having requested it. It annoys me that there are so few sustainable food and drink options on the train. I now solely use my own water bottle.
Thing that made you laugh? Bob Mortimer’s ‘train guy’ videos on Instagram
Piece of good advice you were given? A Bristol taxi driver said to me the other day ‘always listen to your wife!’ which made me laugh. It’s always worked for me so he must have been onto something!
Liam Ronan-Chlond is the stakeholder and external relations lead at property developer First Base, which is developing the former Gardiner Haskins site in Old Market. First Base is looking to sensitively restore the historic Soapworks building with a mix of modern, flexible and creative commercial and co-working spaces, as well as building new homes and a vibrant, local independent food offer which will enhance Bristol’s status as the world’s best culinary destination. The development is expected to generate hundreds of millions of pounds in social and economic value for the city over the next 20 years.
