Director/PDMR Shareholding

Bellway PLC
27 October 2006

                                  BELLWAY PLC

                            DIRECTOR'S SHAREHOLDINGS

                               27TH OCTOBER 2006

The company was yesterday informed that under the terms of the Bellway plc
(1995) and (1996) Employee Share Option Schemes, the following directors of the
company yesterday exercised options over 149,500 Bellway plc 12.5p ordinary
shares as follows:

Name                                                       No of shares                     Price per share
John Watson                                                      65,500                              621.50
Peter Stoker                                                     30,000                              621.50
Alistair Leitch                                                  54,000                              621.50

Immediately thereafter, 112,400 Bellway plc 12.5p ordinary shares were sold at a
price of £13.783318 per share as follows:

Name                                                                                            No of shares
John Watson                                                                                           45,500
Peter Stoker                                                                                          30,000
Alistair Leitch                                                                                       36,900

Following the above transactions, the number of Bellway plc 12.5p ordinary
shares which are beneficially held by each of the directors concerned is as
follows:

Name                                                            Current                            Previous
John Watson                                                     323,770                             303,770
Peter Stoker                                                    486,000                             486,000
Alistair Leitch                                                  86,000                              68,900

In addition, the total number of share options outstanding in respect of the
above following the above transactions are as follows:

Name                                                            Current                            Previous
John Watson                                                       1,762                              67,262
Peter Stoker                                                     31,762                              61,762
Alistair Leitch                                                   1,762                              55,762

The other interests of the directors remain unchanged.

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