Director/PDMR Shareholding

Persimmon PLC
05 April 2007

Directors' shareholdings



Persimmon plc ('the Company') announces that on 5 April 2007 it was advised that
on the same day, John White, Mike Farley and Mike Killoran executive directors
sold the following number of ordinary shares in the Company at an average price
of £14.38 per share and therefore they are no longer beneficially or
non-beneficially interested in such shares. These directors have informed the
Company that they sold these shares in order to settle tax liabilities on the
recent vesting of share rights.




Name                                             Number of shares
Mr J White                                          109,886
Mr M P Farley                                        50,000
Mr M Killoran                                        30,000



The resultant beneficial shareholdings of the above are as follows:


                                                Number of shares % of issued share capital
Mr J White                                             1,949,644                      0.65
Mr M P Farley                                            902,955                      0.30
Mr M Killoran                                            434,673                      0.15



The issued share capital of the Company on 5 April 2007 was 299,374,861 ordinary
shares.




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