Visit Addison Street, Shellharbour Village during the day and witness its quaint atmosphere, but head there in the early hours of Saturday and be greeted by a scene that's far from serene.

Residents along the main street have aired concerns about the anti-social and drunken behaviour occurring on any given Friday night and are calling for stronger police presence from midnight-2am.

Resident and business owner George Taousanis said despite having lived in the heart of King's Cross he had "never before seen anything like it".

"You really have to see to believe it, it's completely outrageous," he said, "From about 11.30pm onwards groups of boys and girls run up the main street fighting, kicking things over and yelling, swearing and screaming at the top of their lungs for hours on end.

"There is constant damage to businesses every weekend, to the point that they don't even report it because it's just the standard thing."

Another resident, Mark O'Sullivan, said what people were doing on a Friday night showed a "lack of respect" to the hard-working community members and was just plain "shocking".

"They're feral," he said, "It wakes me up. A little drunken behaviour is OK but when they start ripping off palings, kicking over bins, fighting and urinating on the street ... that sucks."

General store manager David Stewart said just a few weeks ago he had followed a trail of blood up the street after a Friday night.

Another business owner, who did not want to be named, said they regularly worked late at night and early morning and didn't feel safe.

"People are drunk, and when we ask them to move on they say things like 'go back to your country'," the store manager said.

"My husband was almost involved in a fight with two men."

Angela Cramp, a business owner on Addison Street for 10 years, said anti-social behaviour had "improved out of sight" in recent years.

"We most certainly had a problem five years ago, but people in the village pulled together quite well and now we have well managed crowd control, but I'm not here at one o'clock in the morning."

Lake Illawarra Local Area Command acting Sergeant Mark Schmidt said a lot of issues were created by the "migration" of patrons from the Ocean Beach Hotel to The Shellharbour Club.

"We do have a lot of problems in that migration stage with fighting, malicious damage, plants being ripped out of the ground and so on," he said.

Owner of the OBH Michael Dennis said the hotel introduced various measures to avoid conflict and problems spilling onto the street, including a taxi rank at the pub, increased security and a courtesy bus.

However, Mr Dennis said there were contributing factors outside of their control.

He said some of the offenders were young teenagers having street parties and that even the police couldn't do much about them.