“The erection of these dangerous and environmentally eyesore structures has raised the shackles of many concerned community groups over many years. And for very good reasons,” said a spokesman for the objectors, Colin Steele, who lives in the street.

“So much so that it has required elected members of parliaments to raise Bills to be presented to parliaments to create further controls on telecommunications organisations in relation to the siting of these towers.

“It has been shown that these towers do present serious concerns to many communities relating to the electromagnetic radiation that they create. Those communities are sick and tired of the vast cocktail of electromagnetic effects that these mobile network structures have on their families and particularly their children.

“Yet we are expected to accept that this structure is to be located within the immediate vicinity of residential houses and child care facilities where children of various ages will be exposed to this danger.

Mr. Steele said among the main concerns of these communities has been "the emerging evidence that chronic long term health effects of mobile phones and EMR present, and there is growing acknowledgement that prolonged exposure to EMR is likely to increase the incidence of tumors after a period of 10 or more years, even at very low levels.

The objectors claim that "even extremely low frequency EMR from these towers, can damage DNA.

"The consequences of prolonged exposure to children, whose nervous systems continue to develop until late adolescence, is unknown at this time. But the body of evidence suggest that biological effects and health effects can and do occur even at low exposure levels.

“We strongly object to this DA and the proposed location of this mobile phone transmission tower,” he said.