AN appeal has been launched after plans to build a total of 18 new houses on land next to a care home in Flint were thrown out. Flintshire Council’s planning committee rejected an application to develop an area near Bod Hyfryd Nursing Home on Northop Road at a meeting in January. It followed the scheme being labelled as “premature” by the local authority’s chief planning officer as the site forms part of a wider plot earmarked for 170 houses in the council’s Local Development Plan (LDP). Andrew Farrow said the land should not be developed in a “piecemeal ” fashion and criticised the fact that the proposals were put forward before the LDP was formally adopted.