Holding in Company

Taylor Woodrow PLC
29 January 2001

                                 SCHEDULE 10

                  NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1) Name of company TAYLOR WOODOROW plc



2) Name of shareholder having a major interest
STANDARD LIFE GROUP


3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

Shareholders named above


4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them

Stanlife Nominees Limited



5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

500,000


6) Percentage of issued class

0.130%


7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

n/a


8) Percentage of issued class

n/a



9) Class of security

25p ordinary shares


10) Date of transaction

26 January, 2001


11) Date company informed

29 January, 2001


12) Total holding following this notification

15,391,201


13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

4.016%


14) Any additional information



15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

R.I. Morbey

01784 428745


16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

R.I. Morbey


Date of notification 29 January, 2001