Tony Crook (town planner)
Anthony Derek Howell Crook, CBE, FAcSS, Fellow of the Royal [Town Planning Institute|FRTPI], FRSA, was a British academic and emeritus professor of town and regional planning at the University of Sheffield.
Career
Anthony Derek Howell Crook 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. 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." 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. In 2010, he retired and remained at Sheffield as an emeritus professor.Crook is a former chair of the homelessness charity Shelter, deputy chair of Orbit Group, and from June to December 2017 served as deputy chair of the Construction Industry Council.