Another development application linked to one of four large-scale solar projects in the Greater Hume Shire will come up for council's consideration next week.
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All four solar farms - at Walla (300MW), Culcairn (400MW), Jindera (130MW) and Glenellen (200MW) - are yet to go out to public comment.
But as site plans are collated, infrastructure that would be built on council land is coming to planners for approval.
The NSW Planning Department is the consent authority for the project overall, and the council was given legal advice that "arbitrarily" refusing applications related to council assets would likely be considered "improper" by the Land and Environment Court.
Due to this advice, it will be recommended to councillors on Wednesday they approve a similar request from FRV Services Australia, which took over the Walla project from Bison Energy recently.
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FRV Services Australia is proposing to develop a solar farm four kilometres north-east of Walla, on land currently used for agriculture adjacent to Benambra Road and intersected by Schneiders Road, where cables would be built.
The total leased area is 605 hectares.
According to council documents, it would involve approximately 900,000 PV mounted solar arrays, battery storage, a new on-site substation, and multiple access points.
Neighbouring business owners have expressed their objection to the proposal, and Sharon Feuerherdt, who has led forums with NSW Farmers, said it was not clear which of the region's proposals was most advanced.
"We've gone to Neoen to clarify a couple points (about the Culcairn project) and they haven't come back to us," Mrs Feuerherdt said.
"The whole approval process is wrong.
"It's a condition of consent that the company does a fire management plan, so what happens when that plan is not done until after consent is given?
"If there is an issue, it's too late because it's approved."
If either the Walla or Culcairn solar farms were built tomorrow, they would become Australia's largest solar plants.
According to the Clean Energy Council, the biggest plants are Bungala in South Australia (220MW), Daydream in Queensland (180MW), and the Coleambally project (150MW).
