Anthony Derek Howell Crook, CBE, FAcSS, FRTPI, FRSA, known professionally as Tony Crook, is a British academic and emeritus professor of town and regional planning at the University of Sheffield.

Career

Anthony Derek Howell Crook[1] 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.[2][3][4] 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."[5] 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.[3][6][7]

Crook is a former chair of the homelessness charity Shelter (retiring in 2013),[8] deputy chair of Orbit Housing Group, and in 2017 was appointed deputy chair of the Construction Industry Council.[9]

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 is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[10] 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 appointed a CBE "for services to housing and charitable governance".[1][11]

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.

References

  1. 1 2 The London Gazette, 31 December 2013 (supplement, no. 60728), p. 8.
  2. ↑ Morag McDermot, Governing Independence and Expertise: The Business of Housing Associations (Hart Publishing, 2010), p. 169.
  3. 1 2 "Professor A D H Crook", University of Sheffield. Archived from the original at the Internet Archive on 25 June 2004.
  4. ↑ "Professor Tony Crook", Construction Industry Council. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Improving private rented sector : the impact of changes in ownership and of local authority policies.", EthOS (British Library). Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "TRP Emeritus Professor awarded a CBE for services to housing policy and research", University of Sheffield, 6 January 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Impact Case Study: University of Sheffield: Improving Policy on Planning Obligations and the Community Infrastructure" (Research Excellence Framework), p. 1. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  8. ↑ Helping More People: Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts for the Year ended 31 March 2014 (Shelter), p. 28. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Emeritus Professor Tony Crook appointed as new Deputy Chairman of the Construction Industry Council", University of Sheffield, 27 June 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "Professor ADH Tony Crook CBE BA MPhil PhD", University of Sheffield. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Honorary Graduates", University of Sheffield. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
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