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Cate Atkinson; General Manager, City of Playford

Cate has worked with the City of Playford for 12 years and as General Manager for the last 7. She has a diverse portfolio encompassing the corporate performance of Finance, Risk and Procurement; People, Culture and Knowledge; Parks and Open Space; and City Development More recently her portfolio included Urban Regeneration; and Social Planning and Community Development

She has been involved in strategic planning for nearly 30 years, and has significant experience in both the private sector and local government in strategy and policy, development services, environmental assessment, and community consultation and advocacy.

Des Commerford

Des Commerford is currently the Acting State Manager for the SA Division of the Planning Institute of Australia. He recently retired from an extensive career in Local Government of more than 30 years.

Des is a former President and Vice President of the Division and is a Life Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia.

Mario Dreosti
Director, Brown Falconer

Mario Dreosti a Director of Brown Falconer and current Vice President of the Australian Institute of Architects Sa Chapter. Mario is involved in urban planning and place making commentary through roles with the Property Council and Aged Care Services Australia where there is a particular focus on the needs of the elderly.
In daily practice Mario is regularly involved in matters of urban and strategic planning through an expertise in retail design and the provision of sustainable housing options.

Mario “is most proud of the public awareness of design and environment which is currently evidenced in Adelaide – something we must further develop”.

Kylie Fergusen
MPIA CPP

Kylie is an experienced planner with over twenty years of experience in strategic and social planning, academia, community engagement, and training. Her focus is on social justice - encouraging collaborative approaches between the melting pot of allied built and social environment professions, and pushing for policy decisions that improve not just our lives, but those of our kids and the generations to come. She has worked in rural and regional areas as well as cities, across federal, state and local government, in local villages in Indonesia and the Philippines, in academia in the UK and Australia, and has project managed major strategic planning and consultation projects for government, mining industry and road, gas and telecommunications infrastructure projects.

Donna Ferretti

Donna has over 25 years experience in the planning field, having worked in local government, state government, the university sector and as a planning consultant. She is particularly interested in enhancing sustainable, socially inclusive and environmentally responsible development outcomes through the effective integration of strategic planning policy with development assessment and social planning processes.
Donna has managed and delivered many key planning and planning-related projects during her career which demonstrate the significance of employing a collaborative approach to the integration of relevant disciplines in planning processes. She was appointed to the Premier’s Women’s Directory in 2003, served on the SA Development Assessment Commission from 2003-06, currently serves as the Presiding Member of the City of West Torrens Development Assessment Panel, is a Certified Practising Planner and Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia.

Angela Hazebroek

Angela Hazebroek is currently the President of PIA South Australia Division.

She is a Director of URPS an Adelaide based planning consultant firm and has 25 years experience in Strategic and Social Planning. She is an experienced practitioner in a range of community consultation and engagement methods. Angela brings to her work a passionate commitment to sustainable outcomes in rural and regional communities having focussed on themes such as the protection of primary production land, positive ageing and ecologically responsible tourism development.

Gary Mavrinac

Gary Mavrinac has worked in various areas of environmental management and planning. His areas of specialisation are in urban and regional planning, strategic and policy planning and resource management. He has worked for State and Local Government as well as the private sector. Gary has been a member of the Planning Institute of Australia since the 1990s and a member of the Division Committee since 2000. He was State President from 2006-2008, as is currently the a Member of the Board and National Vice President.

Barry Parsons

Barry graduated from the undergraduate planning course at the South Australian Institute of Technology in 1975, and holds a BA in Planning and a Grad Dip in Environmental Planning. He is married, with two adult sons, one of whom has also entered the planning profession. Barry’s personal interests include camping, motorcycling and league ten pin bowling.

Barry has worked for four metropolitan Councils as a planner, and has been a member of the senior management team at three of those Councils. He has also worked with Masterplan SA as a planning consultant. For the last six years he has been employed by the Local Government Association of South Australia in a variety of policy and management roles. Recently he was appointed to the newly created position of General Manager of Corporate and Member Services at the LGA.

Sandy Rix

Is an urban designer and economist, is currently General Manager, Projects for the South Australian Government’s Land Management Corporation (LMC), responsible for strategic planning (including infill and TOD), and environmental services.

As part of Sandy’s role, he is project director for the Bowden Urban Village, overseeing the master planning and feasibility assessments for this critically important place-making development.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Planning from the University of South Australia and a Master of Science in Urban and Regional Economics from the London School of Economics.

Sandy Rix has broad experience as a planner and urban economist in both public and private sector projects in Adelaide including urban regeneration, place making, site and area strategic planning, preparation of design guidelines, and directing a range of economic development studies.

He has worked mainly in the consulting sector in Adelaide with a three year stint in London as Head of Research for the chartered surveyors Sweby Cowan, which led to Sandy authoring a book on property investment in Europe.

Following many years in planning and management consultancy, his passion and experience in urban design led to his appointment from 2000 to 2004 as Project Director for the planning, design and feasibility of the successful first stage of the North Terrace Redevelopment.

Marcus Rolfe
MPIA CPP

Skilled in policy development and strategic planning issues, Marcus is also widely recognised for his expertise in development assessment and facilitation. He regularly appears as an expert witness in the ERD Court, both in support of and opposing development proposals, giving him a strong understanding of the mechanics of the Development Plan. Having worked in both tiers of government and as a consultant in Adelaide and Sydney, Marcus also enjoys managing urban release strategies, master plans, DPAs and open space studies. This experience has consolidated his skills in consultation with public authorities, specialist groups and the general community, as well as the coordination of large, multi-disciplinary project teams.

Mark Separovic
Senior Urban Designer/Planner

An architect and a planner with over 20 years experience in a broad range of urban design, architectural, planning and landscape projects. He has specific skills in master planning, concept design, detailed design, documentation, project management and graphic presentation. He also has specialist skills in sustainable urban design guidelines, medium density and low cost housing, community neighbourhood centres, land divisions and transport orientated developments (TODs). As demonstrated on a number of recent award winning projects including the Victoria Square Ideas Competition, Glenelg Tramline Extension and Cheltenham Racecourse and Environs Precinct Masterplan, Mark has been keen to develop innovative and creative Sustainable Urban Design techniques that promote sustainable community outcomes.

Simon Tonkin

The Senior Principal of MasterPlan SA Pty Ltd, has a long and successful history providing independent professional advice to a range of clients in the private and public sector. These include local, State and federal governments, and State, national and international based business in the development, manufacturing, retail and service sectors.
Major clients of the firm include those providing essential services to our communities, and the longstanding, continuing relationship maintained by Simon is testament to his and the firm’s independence and capabilities. Well recognised clients include Westfield, Woolworths, BP, SA Water and Macquarie Goodman, as well as numerous private sector development clients based in Adelaide including Forme Projex, Impact Investments, Stratco and Burke Urban.
Development clients currently involved in the establishment of significant new developments include the Cape Jaffa Development Company, Southern Waste, Northcape Marion Bay, together with several major developments in the city and metropolitan area.
Simon has for many years assisted the real estate and property development sectors in providing valuable, reliable and independent planning and development advice.
Simon has had valuable experience as a mediator and arbiter, and has appeared before the Environment, Resources and Development Court and the Licensing Court on a number of occasions as an expert witness. Simon is well known to local authorities and key State agencies, including the Development Assessment Commission, the EPA and SA Water amongst others.
Simon has had considerable experience in strategic and master planning, and the preparation of major project documentation, Development Plan Amendments, other statutory documentation, and has a significant involvement with industrial land development, residential, multifunction marinas and waste management projects. Simon is also regularly involved with statutory and informal consultation processes as part of Section 30 Reviews, Development Plan Amendments and major developments.
Simon recently retired from the SA Tall Ships Board in order to focus attention on his role as a Trustee on the One & All Youth Development Foundation, a foundation specifically established to provide life changing experiences that for many young people would be beyond their reach