Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Barratt Developments PLC
27 March 2000


The Company was notified today by the trustees of the Barratt Developments
Employee Benefit Trust that they had purchased a total of 250,000 Ordinary 10p
shares representing 0.107 per cent of the Company's issued share capital.

The purchases were made as follows:-

Date                 No. of Shares      Price

27th March, 2000        250,000          227p

The Executive Directors of the Company are potential beneficiaries under the
Trust and therefore are deemed to have acquired a non-beneficial interest in
these shares.