A 60-BED care home could be built besides Harrow Leisure Centre on what used to be an open air swimming pool.
The TLC Group, of Railway Approach, Harrow - which is owned by Lord Popat of Stanmore - has applied to construct the part two- and part three-storey home on a triangular plot to the west of the public leisure facility in Christchurch Avenue, Wealdstone.
The brownfield site already benefits from outline planning permission for a care home, granted in January 2009, so the firm is seeking approval for the actual design and look of the proposed reverse L-shaped building, which would contain 60 single en-suite bedrooms and four staff flats.
Nick Watson, development manager for TLC Group, said: "We hope to have the application heard by the planning committee before the end of this year.
"We would then look to build the facility out, starting working by summer 2012. This would then hopefully allow us to open the new facility in summer 2013.
"It would be our intention to provide a wide range of care for the elderly at the new home, including nursing, residential and dementia care.
"The care home would also create a number of new jobs for people in the local area."
The home would employ 20 staff during the day, 10 in the evening and four at night.
