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Finding a park is the thing people in Hahndorf mention most, especially on weekends and in the school holidays. This new guide shows where the car parks are and which one to head for when Main Street fills up: the big free car park by the oval at the Verdun end, the central car park behind the shops by the Academy, and the Auricht Road car park that doubles as the tour-bus park. Parking here is free — no meters, no app — though the on-street spaces are time-limited, so check the signs. It also points to the accessible bays and the public toilets, and says who to ask about a fine.

A new page shows live service alerts — a closure, a diversion, a stop moved — on the buses between Hahndorf, Mount Barker and the city, straight from Adelaide Metro's own live feed. It shows disruptions, not departure times, and links the timetable and journey planner for the next bus. An empty board means no alerts. (The main service is now numbered 801; some older signs still say 864.)

The town page now carries a colored-pencil sketch of The Cedars, the stone studio outside Hahndorf where Hans Heysen worked from 1912, drawn small beneath the tall gum trees he painted.

Hahndorf's old town is a State Heritage Area, where a repaint, a street-facing fence, a shed or a demolition can need development approval that a house outside the area wouldn't — and every application is referred to Heritage SA. Pick the job you have in mind to see whether it generally needs approval, then check your own property on SAPPA and confirm with the council. It's a plain-English starting point, not a decision.

Three tools to start. 'How Busy Is It?' answers the local rule about Main Street — skip it on a busy weekend, you'll never park — by showing the likely crowd for any day ahead and pointing you to the free car park or the 864 bus. 'Bin Day' lays out the weekly and fortnightly bins and links the council's exact-day lookup. 'Who to Call' leads with the bushfire information line and the numbers worth keeping.