Tony Crook (town planner)
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Anthony Derek Howell Crook, CBE, FAcSS, FRTPI, FRSA (22 December 1944 - November 2024),[1] was a British academic and emeritus professor of town and regional planning at the University of Sheffield.
Career
Anthony Derek Howell Crook[2] graduated from the University of Bristol in 1965 with a geography degree, before completing a master of philosophy degree in town planning at University College London in 1967; he then spent two years as a research officer in the Greater London Council's Planning Department. Crook was appointed a lecturer in town and country planning at the University of Sheffield in 1968 and became a Chartered Town Planner in 1977.[3][4][5] In 1989, the University of Sheffield awarded him with a doctor of philosophy degree for his thesis "Improving private rented sector: the impact of changes in ownership and of local authority policies."[6] Crook became a professor of town and country planning at the University of Sheffield, where he was also head of the Department of Town Planning until 1999, when he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (serving until 2008). In 2010, he retired and remained at Sheffield as an emeritus professor.[4][7][8]
Crook is a former chair of the homelessness charity Shelter (retiring in 2013),[9] deputy chair of Orbit Group (retired 2018), and from June to December 2017 served as deputy chair of the Construction Industry Council.[10]
Honours and awards
In 2001, Crook was elected a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (FRTPI) and in 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[11] The University of Sheffield awarded him with an honorary doctor of letters (LittD) degree in 2013 and, in the 2014 New Year Honours, Crook was awarded a CBE "for services to housing and charitable governance".[2][12]
Selected publications
- Planning Gain: Providing Infrastructure and Affordable Housing (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). (Co-authored with John Henneberry and Christine Whitehead)
- Private Rental Housing: Comparative Perspectives (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014). (Co-authored with Peter Kemp)
- Housing Finance in Sheffield: The Impact and Incidence of Housing Subsidies. 1990
- Property dealers, local authority policy and the repair and improvement of unfurnished private rented housing. 1989. (Co-authored with C. B. Sharp)
- Private Landlords in England. 1996. (Co-authored with Peter Kemp)
- Transforming Private Landlords: Housing, Markets and Public Policy. 2002. (Co-authored with Peter Kemp)
- Planning Gain and Affordable Housing: Making It Count. 2002.