Hmm.. A C177 doesn't need very much of an 1800m runway to land into 16kt wind. Could have stopped by the 07/25 intersection. Probably should have been more assertive with ATC. Although I appreciate that if there were vehicles / people etc at the 35 end it's probably technically occupied. Even so it would have been safer to have used 17 than run the gamut of the turbulence coming off the hangars to the south of 07.