A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build houses on a watermeadow that floods in heavy rain has been thrown out. Campaigners have fought a long battle to stop a 67-home estate going up at Granny Lane in Mirfield. The proposals by Wakefield-based Miller Homes have pinballed back and forth between various committees at Kirklees Council. Now they have been refused. It was a tight victory for locals opposed to the plan, with the seven-member Strategic Planning Committee voting 4-3. Planning officers said none of the houses being planned would be built in the area of land worst affected by flooding. But councillors said they were not confident that measures being suggested to tackle flooding would work.