Roads Minister Austin Gatt said this afternoon that the ministry would be submitting three proposals to MEPA on the building of a new road at Ghadira.
Speaking at a press conference this afternoon, he said the first option would see the new road start from behind the Danish Village on an area of land which was already disturbed.
The second option would widen an existing road further inland while the third would be a tunnel, which was originally suggested in 2004.
During the press conference, environmental consultant Adrian Mallia insisted that the existing road needed to be removed because it was acting as a barrier which was preventing the replenishment of Ghadira beach.
Dr Gatt said the whole process would be subject to an environment impact assessment and the governemnt would be prepared to withdraw the project if it was seen as harming the environment. The ultimate aim, he stressed, was to save the beach.