Holding in Company

Barratt Developments PLC
3 October 2000


Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1   Name of company:
BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC

2   Name of shareholder having a major interest:
FMR CORP AND ITS DIRECT AND INDIRECT SUBSIDIARIES AND FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL
LIMITED (FIL) AND ITS DIRECT AND INDIRECT SUBSIDIARIES.

3   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that
person's spouse or children under the age of 18:
NON-BENEFICIAL HOLDERS NAMED IN (2)

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
  575,000 shares - FMRCO - Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
3,894,103 shares - FISL  - Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited
   75,200 shares - FPM   - Gracechurch Nominees
  639,350 shares - FPM   - RBS Trust Bank
  287,990 shares - FPM   - Citibank
  819,850 shares - FPM   - Nortrust Nominees Ltd.
1,058,100 shares - FPM   - Chase Nominees Ltd.
2,034,900 shares - FPM   - Bankers Trust
  251,100 shares - FPM   - HSBC Client Holdings Nominees (UK) Limited
  169,440 shares - FPM   - MSS Nominees Ltd.
   61,300 shares - FPM   - BT Globenet Nominees Ltd.
  215,200 shares - FIL   - Bankers Trust
   69,700 shares - FIL   - MSS Nominees Ltd.
1,766,107 shares - FIL   - Nortrust Nominees Ltd.
2,115,529 shares - FIL   - RBS Trust Bank
  353,600 shares - FIL   - State Street Nominees Ltd.
   84,210 shares - FIL   - Citibank
  915,060 shares - FIL   - Bank of New York Europe
  404,740 shares - FIL   - Northern Trust
  994,200 shares - FIL   - Chase Nominees Ltd.

16,784,679 shares in total

5   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
870,910 SHARES

6   Percentage of issued class:
0.37%

7   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
NOT APPLICABLE

8   Percentage of issued class:
NOT APPLICABLE

9   Class of security:
ORDINARY SHARES OF 10p EACH FULLY PAID

10  Date of transaction:
PURCHASES SINCE LAST NOTIFICATION ON 29th SEPTEMBER, 2000

11  Date company informed:
3rd OCTOBER, 2000

12  Total holding following this notification:
16,784,679 SHARES

13  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
7.18%

14  Contact name for queries:
MR. C.A. DEARLOVE

15 Contact telephone number:
0191 2866811

16  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
MR. C.A. DEARLOVE

17  Date of notification:
3rd OCTOBER, 2000


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