Denise Knight, as her fellow councillors decided on the council's response to Neoen's submissions report for the project, outlined the reasons for her opinion.

"(Neoen) ignore them (the neighbours), they won't respond, they say they'll do something after," she said.

"I'm starting, personally, to see why people are so anti [towards the project].

"I am in favour of solar farms, I always have been in the right locations, and when people ... take into account the suggestions of others."

Cr Tony Quinn said Neoen had been very open, and that council submitting such feedback "would test our credibility".

"They're big business people, they've listened, and when you put out 'this' they counteract 'that', that's how they operate," he said.

Cr Parker said just because the developers were big business owners, "it doesn't mean we can't ask questions on behalf of our ratepayers".

"If we have got concerns, they should be answering our concerns, and they haven't done that in my opinion," she said.

Cr Terry Weston said he "didn't like the idea" of the company telling council where its funding contribution would be going, with the council agreeing earlier in the meeting to a draft voluntary planning agreement "without prejudice".

IN OTHER NEWS:

The community was not privy to the debate about the VPA, as the audio in the council's live-stream was not working.

An audio recording of the second part of the meeting was uploaded on Friday.

In its response to the Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Environment, the council will acknowledge changes made by Neoen, including the reduction of vegetation removal and further setbacks, but that other issues have not been amended.

These included that Neoen is not willing to include the community benefits payments as part of the voluntary planning agreement, is not willing to utilise advanced trees and will not be providing an onsite fire-fighting unit unless specifically requested by the state fire agency.