Professor Tony Crook

CBE, BA, MPhil, PhD, Hon DLitt, FAcSS, FRTP,I FRSA.

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Professor Emeritus of Town and Regional Planning

a.crook@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

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 Town & Regional planning (the department's former name) and also as the Head of the Department of Landscape.

Over the last four 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, infrastructure and capture land value. My work has received research grants of over £3.5m and I have over 250 publications including books, research reports, journal articles and other output.

My latest book, co-authored with the late Professor John Henneberry and Professor Christine Whitehead (LSE), Planning Gain, was published in 2016 and won the RTPI Award for Research Excellence. A recent paper co-authored with Professor Christine Whitehead 'Capturing development value, principles and practice: why is it so difficult?' (in Town Planning Review, 90(4), 2019) won the Sir Peter Hall award for research with an impact on public policy.

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 a member of: the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) Trustee Board and Chair of its Education and Life Long Learning Committee; a member of the board of the Architects Registration Board; Chair of the Construction Industry Council’s Housing Panel and a council member of the Academy of Social Sciences.

In past years I have been Chair of The Conservation Volunteers (one of UK’s major green charities); Deputy Chair of the Orbit Housing Group (one of the UK's largest not for profit provider of affordable homes), a director of Orbit Homes Ltd, of the Board of Trustees of Shelter ( the national housing and homelessness charity), independent chair of the review of governance of Rotherham council (appointed by the Commissioners on behalf of the Secretary of State), Trustee of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (which is funded by the UK governments to secure economic and social regeneration of the former coalfields), 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 appointed CBE in the 2014 New Year's Honours List for services to housing and the governance of charities. 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 a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of my standing as a social scientist and my contribution to public policy. The RTPI honoured me with its Distinguished Service Award in 2021. The University of Sheffield conferred the honorary degree of DLitt on me in 2013 in recognition of my research and public service.

Research interests

My current research covers two areas:

monitoring and evaluating government initiatives to create more corporate landlords and attract more institutional funding to the private rented housing sector,
the use of planning obligations to secure infrastructure for new developments including land and private finance for new affordable housing.

Publications

Edited books

Crook A, Henneberry JM & Whitehead C (Eds.) (2016) Planning Gain: Providing Infrastructure and Affordable Housing. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

Journal articles

CROOK T (2022) Professor John Henneberry FAcSS FRTPI MRICS, 1952-2021. Town Planning Review: Volume 93, Issue 1, 93(1), 1-3.
Crook ADHT & Whitehead C (2019) Capturing development value, principles and practice: why is it so difficult?. Town Planning Review, 90(4), 359-381.
Crook ADHT & Kemp PA (2019) In search of profit: housing association investment in private rental housing. Housing Studies, 34(4), 666-687.
Crook T, Bibby P, Ferrari E, Monk S, Tang C & Whitehead C (2016) New housing association development and its potential to reduce concentrations of deprivation: An English case study. Urban Studies, 53(16), 3388-3404. View this article in WRRO
Crook T (2016) Housing and the financial crisis. Housing Studies, 31(3), 358-359.
Crook ADH, Ferrari E & Kemp PA (2012) Knowing the Area: The Management of Market and Business Risks by Private Landlords in Scotland. Urban Studies, 49(15), 3347-3363.
Crook TADH & Monk S (2011) Planning Gains, Providing Homes. Housing Studies, 26(7-8), 997-1018.
Crook ADH, Monk S, Rowley S & Whitehead CME (2006) Planning gain and the supply of new affordable housing in England: Understanding the numbers. Town Planning Review, 77(3).
Crook ADH & Kemp PA (2002) Housing investment trusts: A new structure of rental housing provision?. Housing Studies, 17(5), 741-753.
Crook ADH & Whitehead CME (2002) Social housing and planning gain: Is this an appropriate way of providing affordable housing?. Environment and Planning A, 34(7), 1259-1279.
Urry J, Beatley T, Shorp D, Hull A, Crook ADH, Martin L, Leavitt J, Taylor M, Tajbakhsh K & Mesch GS (2001) Book Reviews. Urban Studies, 38(9), 1605-1623.
Crook ADH & Hughes JET (2001) Market signals and disrepair in privately rented housing. Journal of Property Research, 18(1), 21-50.
Crook ADH, Hughes J & Kemp PA (1998) Housing investment trusts and the returns from residential lettings. Journal of Property Research, 15(3), 229-248.
Crook ADH & Kemp PA (1996) The revival of private rented housing in Britain. Housing Studies, 11(1), 51-68.
Crook ADH (1996) Affordable housing and planning gain, linkage fees and the rational nexus: Using the land use planning system in England and the USA to deliver housing subsidies. International Planning Studies, 1(1), 49-71.
Crook ADH & Moroney M (1995) Housing associations, private finance and risk avoidance: the impact on urban renewal and inner cities. Environment & Planning A, 27(11), 1695-1712.
Kuijpers-Linde M, Crook ADH, Green AE, Cosgrove D, Williams RH, Beard A, Birkin M & Peters MJ (1992) Review: Geographic Information Systems: Developments and Applications, Landlords and Property: Social Relations in the Private Rented Sector, Reducing Regional Inequalities, Imagined Country: Society, Culture, and Environment, Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries, towards a Green Architecture: Six Practical Case Studies, Handling Geographical Information: Methodology and Potential Applications, Urban Goods Movement: A Guide to Policy Planning. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 19(3), 359-370.
Crook ADH (1989) Multi-occupied housing standards: the application of discretionary powers by local authorities. Policy & Politics, 17(1), 41-58.
Crook ADH (1988) Deregulation of private rented housing in Britain: investors' responses to government housing policy in the 1980s. Built Environment, 14(3-4), 155-167.
Elson MJ, Williams P, Crook ADH, Gilbert A & English J (1987) Book Reviews. Housing Studies, 2(3), 213-219.
Crook T, Harris P, Morris J & Leather P (1986) The crisis in housing investment.. Planner, 72(6), 13-16.
Crook ADH (1986) Privatisation of housing and the impact of the Conservative Government's initiatives on low-cost homeownership and private renting between 1979 and 1984 in England and Wales: 2. Implementation of low-cost homeownership policy.. Environment & Planning A, 18(6), 827-835.
Crook ADH (1986) Privatisation of housing and the impact of the Conservative Government's initiatives on low-cost homeownership and private renting between 1979 and 1984 in England and Wales: 3. Impact and evaluation of low-cost homeownership policy.. Environment & Planning A, 18(7), 901-911.
Crook ADH (1986) Privatisation of housing and the impact of the Conservative Government's initiatives on low-cost homeownership and private renting between 1979 and 1984 in England and Wales: 1. The privatisation policies.. Environment & Planning A, 18(5), 639-659.
Crook ADH (1986) Privatisation of housing and the impact of the Conservative Government's initiatives on low-cost homeownership and private renting between 1979 and 1984 in England and Wales: 4. Private renting.. Environment & Planning A, 18(8), 1029-1037.
CROOK ADH (1985) PRIVATED RENTED HOUSING IN THE UNITED-STATES AND EUROPE - HARLOE,M. URBAN LAW AND POLICY, 7(4-5), 421-424.
Crook AD () Gain Worth The Pain. Housing Studies. View this article in WRRO

Chapters

Bibby P, Craglia M, Crook ADH & Rowley S (2017) A GIS Analysis of Rent Formation in the Private Rented Housing Sector in England, The Private Rented Housing Market: Regulation or Deregulation? (pp. 15-36).
Crook A, Henneberry JM & Whitehead C (2016) Introduction In Crook A, Henneberry J & Whitehead C (Ed.), Planning Gain Providing Infrastructure and Affordable Housing (pp. 1-19). Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
Crook T, Henneberry J & Whitehead C (2016) Introduction, PLANNING GAIN: PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING (pp. 1-19).
Crook T, Henneberry J & Whitehead C (2016) Providing Infrastructure and Affordable Housing Preface, PLANNING GAIN: PROVIDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING (pp. XVII-XIX).
Crook T & Kemp PA (2014) Private Rental Housing Comparative Perspectives Introduction, PRIVATE RENTAL HOUSING: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (pp. 1-26).
Crook T & Kemp PA (2014) Private Rental Housing Comparative Perspectives Foreword, PRIVATE RENTAL HOUSING: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (pp. IX-X).
Crook T & Kemp PA (2014) England, PRIVATE RENTAL HOUSING: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (pp. 174-197).
Crook T & Kemp PA (2014) Comparing countries, PRIVATE RENTAL HOUSING: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (pp. 224-246).
Bibby P, Craglia M, Crook ADH & Rowley S (2012) A GIS analysis of rent formation in the private rented housing sector in England, The Private Rented Housing Market: Regulation or Deregulation? (pp. 15-36).
Crook T & Kemp PA (2011) Transforming Private Landlords Housing, Markets & Public Policy Preface, TRANSFORMING PRIVATE LANDLORDS: HOUSING, MARKETS & PUBLIC POLICY (pp. XII-+).
Crook T & Kemp PA (2011) Transforming Private Landlords Housing, Markets & Public Policy Introduction, TRANSFORMING PRIVATE LANDLORDS: HOUSING, MARKETS & PUBLIC POLICY (pp. XIII-XX).
Crook T & Kemp PA (2011) Transforming Private Landlords Housing, Markets & Public Policy Conclusions, TRANSFORMING PRIVATE LANDLORDS: HOUSING, MARKETS & PUBLIC POLICY (pp. 179-194).
Crook T, Henneberry J & Whitehead C () Summary and Conclusions, Planning Gain (pp. 269-290). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Ed Ferrari RD & Watkins C () Spatial Variation in the Incidence and Value of Planning Obligations, Planning Gain (pp. 175-200). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Henneberry J () Development Viability, Planning Gain (pp. 115-139). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Monk S & Crook T () International Experience, Planning Gain (pp. 227-268). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Crook T () Planning Obligations Policy in England:de factoTaxation of Development Value, Planning Gain (pp. 63-114). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Rowley S & Crook T () The Incidence and Value of Planning Obligations, Planning Gain (pp. 140-174). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Crook T, Henneberry J & Whitehead C () Introduction, Planning Gain (pp. 1-19). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Crook T () Capturing Development Value Throughde jureNational Taxation: The English Experience, Planning Gain (pp. 37-62). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
() The Buy-To-Let Boom, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 161-178). Wiley-Blackwell
() The Business Expansion Scheme, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 107-129). Wiley-Blackwell
() References, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 195-206). Wiley-Blackwell
() Private Renting Since 1979, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 53-70). Wiley-Blackwell
() Private Landlords in Historical Perspective, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 1-24). Wiley-Blackwell
() Private Landlords in Contemporary Britain, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 71-106). Wiley-Blackwell
() Index, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 207-215). Wiley-Blackwell
() Government Policy Since 1979, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 25-52). Wiley-Blackwell
() Financial Institutions and Rented Housing, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 130-160). Wiley-Blackwell
() Conclusions, Transforming Private Landlords (pp. 179-194). Wiley-Blackwell
Crook T & Whitehead C () Intermediate Housing and the Planning System, Making Housing More Affordable (pp. 101-119). Wiley-Blackwell

Conference proceedings papers

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