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The premises will replace Westlands Residential Home, in Duncombe Drive, which is due to close.
The development includes day care facilities and community space, with a lounge and a hair and beauty salon.
Outline plans were granted for a 68-place facility on the Hockliffe Road site in 2017. But Central Bedfordshire Council’s project has been revised since it was first submitted and went before CBC’s development management committee on Wednesday.
Westlands will close as part of a local authority programme to deliver improved accommodation for older people.
The buildings which occupied the 1.1-acre former police station site near the town centre have been demolished.