Directorate Change

Quintain Estates & Development PLC
23 July 2003

23 July 2003


       Quintain Estates and Development PLC ('Quintain' / the 'Company')

               QUINTAIN APPOINTS NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The board of Quintain is delighted to announce that it has appointed Pam
Alexander as a non-executive director with effect from 22 July 2003.

Pam Alexander (aged 49) has held a number of positions in the public and
voluntary sectors.  She is currently a board member of The Peabody Trust; a
non-executive director of The Housing Finance Corporation Ltd; and an Associate
of the New Economics Foundation.  She is also an advisor to the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation's Development Overview Committee (where she chairs a new Policy and
Practice Development Programme to produce best practice in creating Mixed Income
Communities) and a shadow board member of Investors in Communities.

Previously, Pam Alexander was the Chief Executive of English Heritage, Deputy
Chief Executive of The Housing Corporation and a senior civil servant at The
Department of the Environment.  Between September 2001 and February 2003, she
led the Agency Policy Review for Cabinet Office and Treasury Ministers, who
accepted her recommendations for improving service delivery through the
Government's 130 Executive Agencies.  More recently, she was appointed as the
Interim Director of The Churches Conservation Trust, in May 2003, a position she
will hold until September 2003.

No further details remain to be disclosed as required under chapter 16.4 of the
FSA Listing Rules.

Nigel Ellis, Chairman of Quintain, commented:

'Pam has extensive experience of leading social housing projects and policies
across England and creating partnerships for sustainable regeneration.  As a
result, she has forged a strong network of contacts across the government,
private and voluntary sectors and has in-depth knowledge about community,
housing and regeneration issues.

'We are confident that her expertise will prove an invaluable asset to Quintain
as we increase our activity on the Greenwich Peninsula, at Wembley and, indeed,
in other important business areas.'

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For further information, please contact:

Quintain                                        Financial Dynamics
Nigel Ellis/Rebecca Worthington                 Stephanie Highett/Dido Laurimore
Tel: [phone]                              Tel: [phone]


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