Professor ADH Tony Crook BA MPhil PhD AcSS FRTPI FRSA

Professor Emeritus of Town and Regional Planning

Profile and Current Research

I am Emeritus Professor of Town & Regional Planning and the former Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University when, for a nine year term, I was responsible for academic planning, HR and capital projects, a position to which I was appointed after serving as Head of TRP.

Over the last three decades I have had a large research programme on the supply side of the private rented housing sector and the use of the planning obligations to secure affordable housing. My work has received research grants of over £3m and I have over 150 publications including books, research reports, journal articles and other output. My latest book, co authored with Professor Peter Kemp, ‘Transforming Private Landlords’, was published in 2011.

Research interests

My current research covers two areas: first, monitoring and evaluating government initiatives to create more corporate landlords and attract more institutional funding to the private rented housing sector and second, the use of planning obligations to secure land and private finance for new affordable housing

Key publications

• Tony Crook & Peter A Kemp (2011) Transforming private landlords: housing, markets and public policy Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell
• Crook ADH and Monk, S (2011) Planning gains, providing homes Housing Studies 26(7-8): 997-1018
• Crook ADH & Kemp PA (2002) Housing investment trusts: a new structure of rental housing provision Housing Studies 17: 741-753
• Crook ADH & Whitehead CME (2002) Social housing and planning gain: is this an appropriate way of providing affordable housing Environment & Planning A 34: 1259-1279
• Crook ADH (1989) Multi-occupied housing: the application of discretionary powers by local authorities Policy and Politics 17 (1): 41-58.

Other information

I am also very active in the world of policy and practice which brings me into close contact with policy makers in the public, private and not for profit sectors in housing and planning. I am currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of Shelter (the national housing and homelessness charity), Deputy Chair of the Orbit Housing Group (one of the UK largest not for profit provider of affordable homes), a director of Orbit Homes Ltd, a Trustee of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (which is funded by the UK governments to secure economic and social regeneration of the former coalfields), and a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) General Assembly. In past years I have been Chair of Sheffield Homes Ltd, an independent member of the board of the National Tenant Voice, Chair of the RTPI Accreditation Board, a member of the National Housing Federation’s National Council, Chair of South Yorkshire Housing Association, Chair of the RTPI Housing Panel, a member of the RTPI Research Committee, and Chair of ConneXions South Yorkshire. My overseas experience includes research, teaching, and expert advice in China, South East Asia, and North America. I also helped establish the South East Europe Research Centre (a joint initiative of the University of Sheffield and CITY College Thessaloniki) and chaired its Steering Group.

I was elected a Fellow of the RTPI in 2001 in recognition of my distinguished contribution to planning research. In 2004 I was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of my standing as a social scientist and contribution to public policy. I currently serve on the Academy’s national council and chair the Academy’s ‘Campaign for Social Science’ Board.