Some Coromandel residents are facing the prospect of having to move to the other side of a massive slip so they can continue their jobs and schooling.

State Highway 25A between Kopu and Hikuai is the key route to the peninsula's east coast towns.

It has been holed out and is closed indefinitely. It means people living in towns on the eastern side of Coromandel have to travel the long way through Waihi to get in and out.

Our reporter Tom Taylor joins us now from where the road's closed on the Coromandel side.