Some Maloneys Beach and Long Beach residents agree that the biggest issue surrounding sea-level rise in the Eurobodalla is council’s policy and not the benchmarks applied.

David Lambert, of Long Beach, believes all council did on Tuesday night was move the goal posts slightly in terms of benchmarks. 

“The policy stayed intact and it is the policy that has created the problem for this shire,” Mr Lambert said. 

“I think they should have just copied what the Shoalhaven did. Councillor Rob Pollock thinks the Eurobodalla’s policy is the same as the Shoalhaven’s but it is nowhere near being the same.”

Mr Lambert does not agree with council’s decision to set a 2100 benchmark. 

“A hundred years is absolute nonsense,” he said. 

“It is too far in the future.”

Maloneys Beach’s Peter Hickman said the policy was affecting pensioners who needed to sell their homes to move into retirement villages. 

“What was once worth a million dollars on the waterfront is now not,” he said. 

Bert Hardy believed a lot of the responsibility should be put back on to the state.

“They created a huge void by allowing individual councils to create their own individual policies on sea-level rise,” Mr Hardy said.