Holding(s) in Company

Persimmon PLC
6 February 2003



NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held:   Persimmon Plc

2. Notifiable Interest:   Ordinary Shares

     A     FMR Corp
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company 
           (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity 
           Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts
           as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust 
           accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders 
           and their holdings.)

     B     Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
           P.O. BOX HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), Fidelity Pension 
           Management (FPM), and investment managers for various non-US 
           investment companies and institutional clients. 
           (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their 
           holdings).

3.     The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of

           Mr Edward C Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity 
           International Limited.

4.     The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
       unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from 
       reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.     These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
       notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for 
       the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate 
       that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
       Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
       or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of 
       the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these 
       notifications on a joint basis.

6.     The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4) (b) of the Act,
       namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
       to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to 
       control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act
       respectively.

SCHEDULE A

SECURITY: Persimmon Plc                                  Amendment # 26

                                    MANAGEMENT       NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                      SHARES HELD     COMPANY         NAME

(Ordinary Shares)     1,500,000       FMRCO              HSBC
                        525           FMTC               MSCO
                      4,474,512       FISL       Chase Nominees Ltd
                        119,440        FPM       Bank of New York Europe
                        228,743        FPM           RBS Trust Bank
                         51,000        FPM           Bankers Trust
                         65,990        FPM         Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                         43,300        FPM         MSS Nominees Ltd
                         39,559        FPM       BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                        119,840        FPM             Citibank
                         85,100        FIL           Bankers Trust
                        437,650        FIL          RBS Trust Bank
                         44,280        FIL             Citibank
                      3,447,746        FIL         MSS Nominees Ltd
                         83,999        FIL         Chase Nominees Ltd
                        178,483        FIL         Morgan Stanley
                        903,738        FIL        Bank of New York London
                        316,015        FIL            Northern Trust
                        208,200        FIL        Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                        262,716        FIL            JP Morgan
                        120,300        FIL        State Street Nominees Ltd
                        139,200        FIL        Bank of New York Brussels
                         21,000        FIL          State Street Bank & Trust

                     
TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES:  12,891.336

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:  4.61%

SHARES IN ISSUE:         279,444,400

CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE
 LAST FILING:              (3,684,133) ordinary shares



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