Burnside Council knocks back application to sell The Big Issue outside Burnside Village Gerry Hibbs sells The Big Issue in Norwood Source: News Limited AN APPLICATION to sell The Big Issue magazine on council land has been knocked back by Burnside Council. The not-for-profit organisation, which helps homeless, marginalised and disadvantaged people positively change their lives, approached the council in August for permission for vendors to sell the magazine on the footpath outside Burnside Village. Vendors buy copies of the magazine for $3 and sell them for $6, earning the difference. Burnside community and development services manager Louise Miller-Frost told the Eastern Courier Messenger the application was denied because the Local Government Act stipulated people "must not use a roadway for business purposes without a permit." "The sellers of Big Issue receive half their takings as a wage so it is classed as business," Ms Miller-Frost. (The) council does not authorise businesses to operate from our roads, which includes footpaths, for safety reasons and also to be fair to established businesses who pay rates. A Big Issue spokeswoman said the organisation received support from a number of councils, including Adelaide City, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters and Mitcham, and the wider community in SA. "We also have arrangements with community groups and businesses including churches, street traders associations and shopping centres," she said. Big Issue was no longer pursuing Burnside as a potential selling site. THE Big Issue Magazine concept came to Australia in 1993 when a group of prominent Australians came together to explore solutions to help address Australia's increasing homeless population THE magazine was based on the UK's successful Big Issue street magazine THE first magazine was launched in Australia on the steps of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station on June 16, 1996 Source: thebigissue.org.au