Plans to build a new house next door to a bird sanctuary in Cambridge have been rejected by councillors. City council members had raised concerns that Professor Cathy Speed’s proposed two-storey, flat-roofed house in part of a garden could harm protected species living at the Adams Road Bird Sanctuary. A previous plan had been rejected by the council and an appeal was dismissed by the Planning Inspectorate. The new plan was “substantially reduced in scale”, with the prefabricated house being built off-site and assembled on-site in around six weeks. John Mason, representing the applicant, told …