Holding in Company

Barratt Developments PLC
20 September 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
(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 BENEFIFICAL 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:
  450,000 shares - Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
3,838,161 shares - Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) Nominees Limited
   75,200 shares - Gracechurch Nominees
  639,350 shares - RBS Trust Bank
  132,990 shares - Citibank
  197,950 shares - Nortrust Nominees Ltd.
  727,400 shares - Chase Nominees Ltd.
1,714,100 shares - Bankers Trust
   29,100 shares - HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited
  168,940 shares - MSS Nominees Ltd.
   61,300 shares - BT Globenet Nominees Ltd.
  188,400 shares - Bankers Trust
    8,100 shares - MSS Nominees Ltd.
1,221,807 shares - Nortrust Nominees Ltd.
  792,542 shares - RBS Trust Bank
   40,900 shares - State Street Nominees Ltd.
   84,210 shares - Citibank
  443,960 shares - Bank of New York Europe
  419,700 shares - Northern Trust
  994,200 shares - Chase Nominees Ltd.

12,228,310 shares in total

5   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
653,937 SHARES

6   Percentage of issued class:
0.28%

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

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 18th AUGUST, 2000

11  Date company informed:
20th SEPTEMBER, 2000

12  Total holding following this notification:
12,228,310 SHARES

13  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
5.24%

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:
20th SEPTEMBER, 2000

Additional Information: