Bristol QT: ‘Politics is still a barrier in the planning process’

After a frosty encounter at the same event last year, there was a thawing of relations between Bristol City Council’s cabinet member for spatial planning and city design Nicola Beech and Generator South West’s managing director Paul Isaacs at EG’s latest Question Time in Bristol. Nearly eight months on since the two hotly debated the influence of politics on planning decisions, which resulted in Beech telling Isaacs to embark on a different career if he didn’t like the way things were, Isaacs told the audience that although “it's never rosy from a developer's perspective” a better working relationship between the senior members of Bristol City council and developers in the area was being established. Listen to the podcast from the Question Time below [please note this was filmed on location so be aware of background noise]: