Developers want to renovate a seafront care home to create six two-storey houses and three flats.
Hove-based HR Investments have applied for planning permission to convert Newick House Nursing Home, in Marine Drive, Rottingdean.
The latest proposals come seven years after Barratt Homes had plans to demolish the building and construct a block of 14 flats turned down.
Brighton and Hove City Council is expected to accept of reject the latest application in the next few weeks.