If you’ve got produce to sell in the Lismore area, it’s now ok to just set up your roadside stall on your property - unless you live on Bangalow Road or the Bruxner Highway. 

At last night’s Lismore City Council meeting, councillors voted to allow the sale of agricultural produce in small scale rural roadside stalls on “classified roads”, without sellers first having to apply for to council for approval.

Lismore councillor Vanessa Ekins said there’s community demand for roadside stalls and they are an important way for people to sell surplus produce.

"A draft council planning proposal to remove roadside stalls from the proposed Exempt Development (development consent not required subject to criteria), would have meant that the stalls could only be located on roads with low traffic volumes - and as such sale volumes would be low," she said.

“Last night council amended the proposal so you can have a stall on any road except Bangalow Road and the Bruxner Highway.

"On those roads, you still need to apply to council for consent.” 

Ms Ekins said the planning proposals were designed to ensure people’s safety if they pulled over to a stall on the side of a well trafficked road. 

“Dunoon Road is a classified road with lots of traffic, but one with lots of people who have produce to sell.

"It's a good example of a road that will benefit from this amendment.

“I like to stop and buy things at roadside stalls – like mandarins, avocados, honey, jam, nuts or flowers.

"Stalls are part of our country landscape – we’ve been doing it for a long time."

Roadside stall rules

If you are going to have a roadside stall, you need to make sure you are only selling agricultural produce.

Your stall must not have a footprint greater than four square metres.

You can only have one roadside stall on any landholding.

Any relevant approval issued under the Roads Act 1993 must be obtained.

Your stall must be located on land within Zone RU1 Primary Production.

Zone RU1 is the predominant rural zone in the Lismore LGA (85% of the LGA). 

Zone RU2 in the Lismore LGA is only applied to flood prone areas peripheral to North Lismore, South Lismore and East Lismore urban zones.