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NAZZ
Barsoom
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05/08/2007 : 22:42:53
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that hte council are mooting putting wind turbines on Hove lawns to generate power for Kings house,just so the council can say "Look how green we are"?
Came up in a conversation and just thought if this is truethen where next would the turbines appear?St.Anneswell park,the Level ,Saunders Park until there are no urban green spaces all done away with to make the council lok green.
Any truth about it out there?
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 06/08/2007 : 00:18:59
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I dunno about your patch Nazz, but a few years ago North Wales was almost alight with debate and objection to having these windmills in the Vale of Llangollen. I`d never seen one, till a couple of months later when we spent a week on Anglesey, where they are all over the place.
I made a point of stopping the car as near as possible to those we passed, just to watch and listen.
Cows and sheep grazed under them unperturbed (Vale of Llan protesters said they`d upset wildlife and farm animals...)
The sound, a gentle, unobtrusive bit of whooshing in quite windy conditions, I though it was quite nice, actually.
The visual impact of the things -WOW. So graceful, elegant (I`d only seen the really huge Rhyl off-the-coast ones from a distance before this.)with cottages and farmhouses pretty close by and nobody seeming to mind...I almost fell in love with the windmills there and then, I`d welcome one right here by my house.
And when you consider the alternative, in the location where I observed these lovely things - Wylfa Power Station (Nuclear) - no, I wouldn`t want to live near a thing like that.
How Green Are We gestures, if it`s more wind turbines - don`t knock it, every little helps! (As the old lady said when she peed in the sea) |
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birdy
Alagaësía
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/08/2007 : 11:51:41
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It is true,the council building has a 4 million plus energy bill per annum,this gesture won't even touch that,it is mainly because of a grant that it is being put forward,,,,
BH2007/02048 - Kings House Roof, Grand Avenue Hove
This application seeks to put six propeller type wind turbines on the roof of Kings House. Each of them is 1.8 metres in diameter.
BH2007/02049 - Kings House Roof, Grand Avenue Hove
This is the listed building application for the above full planning application.
BH200/ 02050 - Grand Avenue Lawn beside Kings House at Kingsway
Erection of a 20 metres high (over sixty feet!) wind turbine on a pole which has vertical, twisted metal strips in a sort of lampshade arrangement at the top. One person thought it looked a good spot to hang out the washing. That sort of crass, vulgar and industrial look.
I reckon the sun will flash off it in a way that won't be good for motorists and their concentration on not having a crash. Not a good look either for the grandeur of Grand Avenue and a listed building setting and in a conservation area.
Minimal handful of letters of consultation to neighbours. Their deadline is 18.7.07.
Leader add on 6/7/07 gives deadline of 27/7/07
It is unforgiveable not to use invisible solar panels/photovoltaic cells on the flat roof of Kings House because of the uninterrupted south-facing vista that will never have the sun blocked by building in front of it of greater height.
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Is it right.......................