Holding(s) in Company

Persimmon PLC
21 February 2003


AMENDMENT #28

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 and Chairman 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 # 28


                      SHARES HELD   MANAGEMENT   NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                                     COMPANY     NAME

(Ordinary Shares)
                       1,500,000     FMRCO              HSBC
                         38,048       FMTC              MSCO
                       4,454,512      FISL       Chase Nominees Ltd
                         45,640       FPM        Bank of New York Europe
                        228,743       FPM          RBS Trust Bank
                         65,990       FPM        Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                         17,200       FPM        BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                         34,240       FPM               Citibank
                         33,900       FIL           Bankers Trust
                        235,700       FIL           RBS Trust Bank
                         24,780       FIL               Citibank
                      3,432,746       FIL          MSS Nominees Ltd
                         83,999       FIL          Chase Nominees Ltd
                        812,738       FIL         Bank of New York London
                         98,100       FIL              Northern Trust
                         97,164       FIL         Nortrust Nominees Ltd

                     
TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES: 11,203,500

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:  4.01%

SHARES IN ISSUE:       279,444,400

CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE
 LAST FILING:           +119,687 ordinary shares



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