Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Land Co PLC
20 February 2007

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 19th February 2007 that they purchased on 16th
February 2007 a total of 1,732 ordinary 25p shares at a price of £16.41 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
S A M Hester                           1
R E Bowden                            12
G C Roberts                           12
T A Roberts                           12
A M Jones                              3
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilites
A Braine                              12
P Clarke                              12


20th February 2007.







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