Phone tower for Reid would be a 'cane toad in a bowerbird's nest'

Reid Residents' Association members, from left, Robyn Bergin, Derk Swieringa, Marianne Albury-Colless, Amanda Reynolds, Roy Jordan, Anne Buttsworth and Esther and John Tucker, who are concerned by plans for a temporary mobile phone tower. Picture by Karleen Minney

A temporary mobile phone tower at the edge of an inner-north heritage precinct would be an unsightly blight like "putting a cane toad in a bowerbird's nest", the leader of a residents' group has said.

Marianne Albury-Colless, the president of the the Reid Residents' Association, said the 20-metre Optus tower should not be built in a heritage area.