Anthony Derek Howell Crook, CBE, FAcSS, FRTPI, FRSA (22 December 1944 - November 2024),Obituary: Professor Tony Crook CBE FRTPI, The Planner. Retrieved 7 April 2025. was a British academic and emeritus professor of town and regional planning at the University of Sheffield.

Career Anthony Derek Howell CrookThe London Gazette, 31 December 2013 (supplement, no. 60728), p. 8. 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.Morag McDermot, Governing Independence and Expertise: The Business of Housing Associations (Hart Publishing, 2010), p. 169."Professor A D H Crook", University of Sheffield. Archived from the original at the Internet Archive on 25 June 2004."Professor Tony Crook", Construction Industry Council. Retrieved 17 June 2018. 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.""Improving private rented sector : the impact of changes in ownership and of local authority policies.", EthOS (British Library). Retrieved 17 June 2018. 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."TRP Emeritus Professor awarded a CBE for services to housing policy and research", University of Sheffield, 6 January 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2018."Impact Case Study: University of Sheffield: Improving Policy on Planning Obligations and the Community Infrastructure" (Research Excellence Framework), p. 1. Retrieved 17 June 2018.

Crook is a former chair of the homelessness charity Shelter (retiring in 2013),Helping More People: Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts for the Year ended 31 March 2014 (Shelter), p. 28. Retrieved 17 June 2018. deputy chair of Orbit Group (retired 2018), and from June to December 2017 served as deputy chair of the Construction Industry Council."Emeritus Professor Tony Crook appointed as new Deputy Chairman of the Construction Industry Council", University of Sheffield, 27 June 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.

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."Professor ADH Tony Crook CBE BA MPhil PhD", University of Sheffield. Retrieved 17 June 2018. 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"."Honorary Graduates", University of Sheffield. Retrieved 17 June 2018.

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.

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