Foreign owned absentee solarlords PCRE (Omnes Capital) continues to tell this parish on its live project website that there will be no negative impact on local property prices. That is a bold claim, and it now looks even harder to defend in light of both the wider evidence and what local people are hearing first-hand. At Sunday’s community meeting, a parishioner described a private valuation report on his home, and the broad findings are serious: heavy construction disruption, inverter hum, a fundamental change to the rural character of the area, and a family home at the heart of the proposed Bellville footprint being directly and materially affected. This is not about scare tactics or slogans about “community benefit”. It is about whether people are being asked to accept a project that may alter the character of an area, damage amenity, and put real pressure on nearby property values. In a mortgage market, these things absolutely matter and have very real consequences. If a lender believes a development could reduce a home’s market value, it affects collateral, risk and loan-to-value. There is a direct financial issue for ordinary homeowners. And yet this project is still being sold by @power_capital and @OmnesCapital as though those consequences can be brushed aside. They cannot. Rural families do not live on a spreadsheet in an office in Paris or Dublin, and they should not be expected to accept secrecy, spin and a one-sided narrative dressed up as consultation. If a project is going to occupy land, change views, introduce industrial infrastructure, and depress property and land values, the public deserves honesty about the consequences - not comforting lines that collapse under scrutiny.