A "cheap and tacky" metal crown built on a roundabout in Larne to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's jubilee must not be retained, an SDLP councillor has said.
The 26ft crown was erected on the Circular Road Roundabout in 2012 without prior planning permission.
Larne Borough Council spent £13,000 on the structure, and planners later agreed it could stay until December 1 of this year.
But Mid and East Antrim Council has now submitted an application to make the crown permanent.
SDLP councillor Declan O'Loan claimed the crown looks like "something that came out of a giant Christmas cracker".
He said his opposition was not based on "any political grounds".
"Having seen the crown, I have no doubt that the application should be refused, and that view is formed entirely on aesthetic grounds," he said.
"The best term to describe the crown is as a piece of kitsch, usefully defined as 'something considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality'.
"Sometimes a piece of kitsch can be so awful that it takes on a certain weird charm, but I don't think that even that redeeming characteristic applies here.
"It is not a fitting object for a public place."
Ulster Unionist Councillor Andy Wilson said yesterday the crown was a "conversation starter in Larne".
"Some people like it, some people don't like it but it's certainly not a controversial issue," he told the BBC.
"It's not the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, it's not Sydney Opera House, but I mean, what do you want in a roundabout in the middle of an industrial port town?"
The council's planning committee will consider the application to retain the crown at a meeting tomorrow.
