Percy Vivian Burnett was born on 12 December 1896. He was articled to Banister Fletcher & Sons. He also attended the Architectural Association Day School in London
He qualified as an architect in the early 1920s and subsequently practised in London During the 1920s and 1930s he was in partnership with Cecil Jacob Eprile (1897-1982) as Eprile & Burnett in London.
Burnett was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1921 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1930.
His address was given as 94 Jermyn Street, London in 1923 and 1926; 66 Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, London in 1927; 16 Springfield Road, St John's Wood, Middlesex [now London] in 1936; Wynchwood, Pembroke Road, Woking, Surrey and 107 Jermyn Street, London in 1939; 15 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, Middlesex [now London] in 1958. He died in Golders Green, London on 29 December 1958
Beechcroft Court, Golders Green, London (early 1930s); and the Times Furbishing Company Building, Birmingham (1938).
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1923
Who's Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1926