Geoffrey Bone, Town Planner
Geof Bone graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts. He is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia.
During the period 1981 – 2007 Geof conducted a planning consultancy practice, Master Plan SA Pty Ltd, that provided professional planning services throughout South Australia, including advising Local Government clientele from the West Coast to the South East of the State and across the metropolitan area of Adelaide.
Geof has participated in a broad range of planning work, drafting development plan amendments, environmental impact statements and reports, undertaking development assessment for local Government and preparing planning assessments for private clients including partnering in multi disciplinary teams. He has an interest in urban design preparing concepts for green field and medium density residential development projects providing urban design services for infill residential development and broad hectare master planned land divisions. In his senior role as a director and partner at Master Plan he has provided specialist advisory and strategic advice representing many major South Australian and Australian development, commercial, retail and industrial enterprises. He has also appeared on many occasions before State and Local Government Development Assessment panels and appeared as an expert witness in development reviews before both the Environment Resources and Development Court and the Licensing Court.
In 2006 Geof retired from general consultancy with Master Plan SA to undertake major projects as a dedicated professional resource for Burke Urban.