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Camden News - by PAUL KIELTHY
Published: 3 July 2008

Green wind turbines could get go-ahead

PLANS to put turbines on the Town Hall roof – blown away because the civic centre experienced the “wrong kind of wind” – could be resurrected under wide-ranging green plans unveiled on Wednesday.
The Town Hall hit the front pages in 2005 when the then Labour administration launched proposals to mount six-metre-tall wind turbines on the roof as an attention-grabbing environmental scheme.
But the plans faded when experts said gusting in heavily built-up King’s Cross made conventional turbines a non-starter.
On Wednesday, the now Lib Dem and Conservative ruling administration heard that “double-helix” turbines could provide the solution, as they are able to cope with changes of wind speed and direction.
The report by the green think-tank Sustainability Task Force also proposed stronger measures on food in schools, green roofs, and making bio-diversity a key plank of new policies.

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