Plans for the centre to accommodate 94 children and 17 staff Monday to Friday were first lodged nearly 12 months ago and were approved this week by Albury Council.

Three residents - Janeell Conlan, Paul Lieschke and Geoff Lindsay - took the opportunity before the meeting to speak against the development application for the centre to be built at the corner of Fairway Gardens Road and Thurgoona Drive.

"It's going to destroy our amenity 100 per cent," Mr Lieschke said.

"We are going to be prisoners in our own home."

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Mr Lindsay said a fence to be 2.5 metres high and situated between his home and the childcare "would be like being in a prison".

A childcare centre is permitted in the general residential zoning of the area with the plans submitted by Habitat Planning on behalf of the applicant, Raffaele Pty Ltd.

But following an initial assessment of the plans and follow-up community consultation, the development application had amendments made including a reduction in the hours of operation by pushing the opening time from 6.30am to 7am, increasing the building setback from residential properties from 3.85 to 4.85 metres and restricting child access to a play area on the western corner of the site to a maximum of four hours.

The initial plans attracted 17 objectors including a petition with 25 signatures.

Due to significant concerns about noise, an acoustic report was completed and recommended sound barrier fences be erected on the southern and north-western boundaries to heights of 2.5 and 1.5 metres respectively.

Mayor Kevin Mack, who voted against the plan, said the noise mitigation efforts didn't go far enough.

"Colorbond is not that solution," he said.

Cr Mack said the developer's decision to go with the "cheapest option" concerned him.

"This is the purpose of why we build our homes," he said.

"They are our castles and certainly in this case the people who have been before this council are entitled to their views and if anything was to be built in close proximity we as council would take some ownership of that."

Cr John Stuchbery said most of the houses backing onto the childcare were built close to the fence line.

"There are no recognisable backyards for most of them and if you are going to build that close to your boundary, you are exposing yourself to the risk of listening to the happy babble of children playing," he said.

Cr Henk van de Ven said the council had no means to oppose the childcare centre if all planning controls were met.

"The thing that irks me a little bit is the suggestion there are enough childcare centres in the area already," he said.

"Who are we to tell somebody who wants to build a childcare centre there are too many childcare centres?

"The fact of the matter is the majority of the issues dealt within this report are state government requirements."