Villagers are demanding action from councillors to stop any further development at the area's biggest transmitting station.

They want the whole development at Beckley, near Oxford, put on hold.

They say the former BBC site, now owned and run by Crown Castle, should not be allowed to get any bigger.

It caters for television, digital televison, radio and mobile phones.

Speaking for residents, surgeon Robert Handley told South Oxfordshire District Council northern area planning committee: "Continued unchecked development at the Beckley site is wrong. I have opposed the developments over the last six years, and no councillor has actively supported them."

He told councillors: "You have a policy of protecting children at school from having a mast too close. "What about my children?

"The European Union and recent reports stress a precautionary approach to these masts but you do not exercise this locally in areas directly in your control. No protection is extended to my family and neighbours who have exactly the same threat."

He was backed by local councillor Anne Purse.

She said: "We cannot stop this latest application because it is for only two antennas.

"But residents are angry because developments there are piecemeal, and that is how they get through."

Cllr Purse is asking the council to get the Health and Safety Executive involved and look again at the site which, she said, was an unsightly intrusion.

The company denies any radiation danger.