Moyne Shire environmental services director Oliver Moles said council was still working with government departments to process feedback from extensive public meetings held last month. 

Questions were raised in Parliament by the Greens over what the state government planned to do with the report. 

But Moyne Shire has scotched any talk of overhauling its planning regulations anytime soon. 

“The council is yet to work out from discussions with the community what the priorities are,” Mr Moles said. 

“There’s 50 different solutions out there and we need to work out what people want.” 

He said copies of the report had been passed on to South West Coast MP Premier Denis Napthine and government advisers but said no specific request for planning changes had been made. 

Premier Napthine, who owns a home in Port Fairy, said the government still needed time to examine the report properly. 

“There’s certainly going to have to be planning changes,” Dr Napthine said.

“I think there will have to be long term investment from both state and local government in some of the infrastructure that’s recommended by those reports. 

“We’ve got the reports. We need further study on them and we’ll come up with a plan of action.

“The interesting thing is that it identifies South Beach as an area of particular concern ... people have only ever thought about East Beach.”

Last month Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber asked the planning minister Matthew Guy during question time what the government would do with the report. 

“Moyne Shire has done the work and identified hundreds of properties at risk, so I asked the minister what he was going to do about it and he just wouldn’t take it seriously,” Mr Barber said.

“He mocked Port Fairy, acted like all they face is a wet road.”