Standing outside Inverloch Surf Lifesaving Club, president Glenn Arnold watches with trepidation as a storm comes in.

The clubhouse sits on top of a bank of sandbags, installed to try to reduce the effects of ongoing erosion.

But the erosion is battering the bags, and the clubhouse is on the edge.

Mr Arnold said "significant" erosion meant local lifesavers had changed how they did things by shifting their beach access points for emergency responses.

Since 2012, more than 70 metres of foreshore at Inverloch surf beach has been lost to erosion.

"Our access points aren't where they used to be, so we've got to travel further, [which has] delayed [response] times," Mr Arnold said.

Sandbags have bought time for the clubhouse and the beach, but Mr Arnold said the town desperately needed a p

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