BoardMeeting Notification etc

HAMMERSON PLC
17 August 1999

A  meeting of the Directors of this Company will be held on Tuesday 31  August
1999  at  which  the Directors will, inter alia, consider the announcement  of
results  for  the six months ended 30 June 1999, the issue of the half  yearly
report  and  payment  of an interim dividend for the year ending  31  December
1999.

It  is  anticipated that an announcement concerning the half year results  and
payment of the interim dividend will be made on Tuesday 31 August 1999.


S J Haydon
Company Secretary