Residents living in two adjoining retirement villages in Brisbane are furious over plans to build a crematorium just metres from their homes.

The application for the facility at Bethania in Logan, is currently in the hands of council, but the elderly residents at the Palm Lake Resort aged care facility say it should be rejected for a number of reasons.

"We all know we are going to go at some time or other but we don't want to be reminded on a daily basis every time we go shopping and go past the furnace," retirement village resident Ron Wells told A Current Affair .

Retirement village residents are protesting plans to build a crematorium just metres from their homes. (A Current Affair)

Ron is among many of the residents who say the proposed location for the crematorium is insensitive.

"Disgusting, absolutely disgusting," said Chris Dillon.

"I don't want to think if my neighbour dies that I'm watching her being burnt across the road," said Diane Cordaro.

The council is set to vote on the application. (A Current Affair)

"I know we have to have it, I realise that, but not in a built up area, take it away."

They're also fearful of emissions from the facility, which they say could be detrimental to their health.

If approved it will be opened just 30 metres from where the second stage of a nursing home will be built.

Residents say the plan is "disgusting". (A Current Affair)

"If there is a malfunction in the cremator and toxic emissions come out they will blow straight over the nursing home," Berwin Smith told A Current Affair reporter Chris Allen.

Diana Howes heads a local residents' action group and found the application for the crematorium on the Logan City Council's website.

"Rather than doing what is right to protect our elderly citizens, they seem to be cowering under the laws of a town plan and telling the community there is absolutely nothing they can do, which is completely outrageous," Diana said.

There are also fears of unhealthy emissions. (A Current Affair)

On the application, it says the crematorium will operate five days a week, from 8am to 5pm.

It will be a two-storey building with the crematorium downstairs and a flat for a caretaker above.

A town planner working on the project says if it meets all the local government regulations then the council has no option but to approve it.

The council should "listen to the people that pay them", one resident said. (A Current Affair)

"Message to council is look after the people that pay their wages, built this community up, paid their taxes and worked, and stop worrying about one businessman," retirement village resident Robyn Tripp said.

Further to their concerns, the funeral director behind the company applying for the crematorium, Anthony William James, pleaded guilty six years ago to deceiving his customers by falsifying documents about where bodies were cremated.

James admitted driving 59 bodies, four at a time, on a seven-hour road trip from Brisbane to Rockhampton because it was cheaper to cremate bodies there.

Funeral director Anthony James has previously pleaded guilty to deceiving his customers. (A Current Affair)

The judge hearing the case against him said he had deceived grieving families, all to make an extra $30,000.

"I mean just think, taking bodies to Rockhampton, would you like your grandmother to be bunged in the back of a car and taken up to Rockhampton?" said Mr Wells.

A Current Affair is not suggesting Mr James is doing anything wrong in building the crematorium and in a statement to A Current Affair, a spokesperson for Logan City Council said "the proposed crematorium is identified as consistent land use at this location".

A Current Affair did contact Anthony James to get his opinion on the furore triggered by the crematorium application however he refused to provide a comment or statement.