Uriarra Village residents on the western outskirts of Canberra are angry their rural community is about to have a solar farm as its new neighbour.

There are plans to build a 10 megawatt solar farm on a nearby property.

One of the residents Judy Middlebrook says people are angry about the lack of consultation and the proximity of the solar panels to the houses.

"It is directly across the road," she said.

"There are houses built right along the edge of the village, on one side of Brindabella Road and 20 metres inside the other side of Brindabella Road is going to be 40 hectares with 26,000 photovoltaic panels to harness 10 megawatts of power.

"Gobsmacked comes to mind as an expression of how we feel, and anger, dismay."

Ms Middlebrook says many residents feel the rural lifestyle of the village will be damaged.

"The lack of consultation and the contempt with which we think we've been treated is really quite breathtaking," she said.

"We had about 70 residents at a community meeting last night and the question was put, 'would you have bought out here if you had known that?' [about the solar farm], and every single person said 'no we would not'.

"All the documentation about this village emphasised the rural ambience, the rural lifestyle."

Another resident David Fintan fears the solar farm will affect land values.

"Clearly, for something this big, the planning takes many years so no doubt the Government has been aware of this for a long time, the private sector developer has been aware of it for a long time," he said.

"It's clearly going to have a huge impact on us but we've been told after the decision has been made."

But the Environment Minister Simon Corbell says he arranged to meet residents on the day the project was announced and there will be an extensive public consultation when the company lodges a development application.

"Just because a feed-in tariff has been awarded is no guarantee that a development approval will be granted," he said.

Mr Corbell says the process has only just begun.

Project spokesman Ashleigh Antflick says the farm will not increase the bushfire risk and that the company plans to screen the solar farm from nearby houses.

He says the company has also offered to meet Uriarra residents so it can respond to their concerns.

"We encourage them to send a delegation to meet with us," he said.

Uriarra Village was rebuilt after the 2003 Canberra Bushfires destroyed three-quarters of the houses.