Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Land Co PLC
23 August 2006


Notification of 'Dividend' Share Purchase in the British Land Share Incentive
Plan ('SIP')

Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustees'), Trustees of the British Land
SIP, notified the Company on 22nd August 2006 that they purchased on 18th August
2006 a total of 4,179 ordinary 25p shares at a price of £13.62 per share under
the 'Dividend' element of the Company's SIP. Under the terms of the SIP net
dividends paid on the 'Free', 'Partnership', 'Matching' and 'Dividend' shares
held by the Trustees on behalf of eligible participating employees, are used to
purchase further 'Dividend' shares for each eligible participating employee. The
SIP has been approved by the Inland Revenue as a share incentive plan under
Schedule 8 of the Finance Act 2000.

As participants in the SIP the executive directors and the persons discharging
managerial responsibilities named below are deemed to have an interest in the
shares held by the Trustees.

The Company also received notification from the Trustees, that of the above
shares acquired by the Trustees, the shares purchased on behalf of the Company's
executive directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities were as
follows:

                     Number of Dividend Shares acquired under the SIP
Directors

Sir John Ritblat                         29
R E Bowden                               29
G C Roberts                              29
T A Roberts                              29
A M Jones                                 3

Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities

A Braine                                 29
P C Clarke                               29


23rd August 2006.


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