Paragraph 13.265 - Pirton has long been designated as a selected village in the rural area (beyond the Green Belt), wherein development has been permitted within the "main area" of the village defined by the "village policy area" on the current Local Plan Proposals Maps. On the current 1996 Plan, the line is drawn fairly tightly and, in order to allow development, two "character Areas" (V3 and V4), have now been developed as residential cul-de-sacs. V1 is undeveloped, being a Scheduled (Ancient) Monument and V2 is landlocked, so other than redevelopment, which is unlikely to yield much, if indeed any, net increase in housing, there is little room left to meet either the needs of the village or the wider needs of the district. Indeed, the most recent development is 11 affordable homes, built adjacent to, but outside the current village limits, in order to cater for existing housing needs in the parish.

Its Category A designation in the new Local Plan recognises the status of the village in the district settlement hierarchy and its defined boundary as shown on the Proposals Map is drawn to extend around the two proposed allocations, which featured in the previous iteration of the Local Plan (Preferred Options - Winter 2014-15). Neither of these feature in the current version, which allocates no sites, but refers to an outline planning approval for 82 homes at Holwell Turn and 12 other dwellings built or approved since 2011.