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Speaking of Burnside Village...

BURNSIDE Council has rejected an application for the homeless and disadvantaged to sell The Big Issue on council land because it considers it "business".

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.

While councils including Adelaide City, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters and Mitcham support the sale of the magazine on their land, Burnside rejected the application because it "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".

The SA Council of Social Services described the decision as "nonsense" from a council area "associated with a group of people with high-level income", while Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Mayor Robert Bria said "I don't think it's a good look".

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Stay classy Burnside

Surely the homeless wouldn't get through the gates around the suburb of Burnside anyway?

Can't believe they had the temerity to ask.

Lol, until recently I delivered to BV on a weekly basis. One particular day the loading bay was full so I parked by the entrance on Sydney St. A shop owner actually had a go at me as i left, saying it was a "bad look" parking my van so close to the entrance and I should show "more common sense".

Think the new Burnside Village slogan "where fashion lives" should now be updated to "where fashion lives....but the tree didn't"

Gozu wrote:Speaking of Burnside Village...
[i]BURNSIDE Council has rejected an application for the homeless and disadvantaged to sell The Big Issue on council land because it considers it "business"...

I'd always assumed "The Big Issue" was a propaganda sheet being given out by a propagandist group, perhaps on charity funds.
I'd assumed that I was saving the funders money by not taking the copy the guys tried to hand me.
They actually wanted me to take it and pay for it?!

(Mind you I'm always civil and nod "G'day" to the guys I see with it at Stirling Shopping Centre.)

27/10/2013
5:00 pm
All stall holders must vacate the Brickwork's premises
As Roy Orbison used to sing : " Its over."