A 20 meter high statue of a naked pregnant women wielding a sword is being erected on the coast.
The woman also carries a sword in her up stretched arm, and has scales hidden behind her back.
According to Hirst, Verity is a modern-day allegory for truth and justice.
Hundreds of residents wrote to the council to object, with one saying it would encourage teenage pregnancies.
Another said it was demeaning to women while a third claimed it was eccentricity posturing as art.
‘Verity’ was made in over forty individual castings at Pangolin Editions foundry in Gloucestershire.
The frame was fabricated in a single piece of stainless steel.
