City A.M.. Dr Samuel Hughes is a senior fellow at Policy Exchange and a research fellow at the University of Oxford, and his focus at Policy Exchange is on understanding why the quantity and quality of new homes and neighbourhoods is so inadequate, and on developing policy instruments to improve them. The report proposes that residents of a street should be able to agree by majority on new “strict” rules for designs to make better use of their plots. A street plan, the report suggests, would greatly increase the value of residents’ homes which would be strong grounds to agree to such proposals.