The building would be called the The DH Lawrence Health, Learning and Active Recreation Centre and would be built on the site of the exisiting Eastwood Library.
It would not only include health and wellbeing facilities but also medical and GP facilities, a new library and educational facilties to address several major needs in Eastwood.
Broxtowe Council is now applying to the Government and the new East Midlands Combined Authority for funding for the project, which is estimated will cost between £27m and £30m.
Coun Milan Radulovic (Lab), Broxtowe Council leader, said: "The reason for doing this is very simple.
"Eastwood suffers with dispropotionate health issues, particularly heart diesease, diabetes and respiratory disease and this is based on the fact that we are a former industrial town.
"We’ve been looking for an outreach facility to put in health and medical facilities and replace the doctors’ surgeries on Church Street, Church Walk and Newthorpe, creating an Eastwood primary care unit.
"I’ve also amended the programme to include a women’s health and wellbeing centre because we’re extremely concerned about the lack of opportunities for things like ultrasound.
"We also want to include facilities for physiotherapy and early stages cancer screening and that’s the bid we’re making on the health front.
"On learning, no college programme around here has a premisis in Eastwood so we’ve got nowhere fixed for that in the town.
"So part of the programme will be about providing education, adult education, skills training and entry to employment, which is a key essential.
"And the active recreation centre is a leisure facility that will include an upgrade for Eastwood Boxing Club but also a swimming pool as well because since Kimberley School closed the pool at Kimberley Leisure Centre, we’ve got no swimming facilties in the north of the borough.
"All of this will be a major draw for footfall in the town and stimulate the local economy considerably in the town centre, the pubs, bars, restaurants and shops.
"That’s all part of our regeneration strategy.
"If you look at Government statistics for an area like Eastwood St Mary’s, basically, 35 per cent of people there live in poverty which is a startling figure in a place like this.
“And it’s the same percentage of people who leave education facilties in the area with no qualifications and no access to employment through training and skills.
"So the need and necessity is there and people talk about access to jobs and careers, well you can’t have them if you haven’t got an education faciltity, so we need to put this plan in place and put as much pressure as we can on the new Government for levelling up funding.
"We think this will cost between £27m and £30m and we don’t think that’s excessive for what we want to provide.
“It’s all about trying to improve the health and wellbeing of the whole area and to get on with the project and deliver it in as short a timescale as possible."