Offer Update

Taylor Woodrow PLC
25 September 2003



   Not for release, publication or distribution in or into any US Restricted
                   Jurisdiction, Canada, Australia or Japan.

           Recommended Offer by UBS Investment Bank and HSBC Bank plc
                        on behalf of Taylor Woodrow plc
                (and in the United States by Taylor Woodrow plc)
                        for Wilson Connolly Holdings Plc

             Level of acceptances and extension of the offer period


                                                               25 September 2003

Taylor Woodrow announces that as at 3.00 p.m. on 24 September 2003, the first
closing date of the Offer, valid acceptances of the Offer had been received in
respect of 152,411,569 Wilson Connolly Ordinary Shares, representing
approximately 73.04 per cent. of the existing issued ordinary share capital of
Wilson Connolly.

Taylor Woodrow received irrevocable undertakings to accept the Offer from the
Directors of Wilson Connolly, certain members of their immediate families and
from or on behalf of certain members of the Wilson family in respect of
53,788,880 Wilson Connolly Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 25.8 per
cent. of Wilson Connolly's existing issued ordinary share capital.  Valid
acceptances in respect of 50,537,392 of these shares were received by Taylor
Woodrow prior to the first closing date and are included in the acceptances
referred to above.

Prior to the commencement of the Offer Period, neither Taylor Woodrow nor any
person acting in concert with Taylor Woodrow owned any Wilson Connolly Ordinary
Shares.

Neither Taylor Woodrow, nor any of the Taylor Woodrow Directors, nor, so far as
Taylor Woodrow is aware, any person acting in concert with Taylor Woodrow has
acquired or agreed to acquire any Wilson Connolly Ordinary Shares since the
commencement of the Offer Period.

The Offer, including the Loan Note Alternative, the Dividend Election Facility
and the Mix and Match Facility, has been extended and will remain open until
3.00 p.m. on 1 October 2003.

As announced yesterday, at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Taylor Woodrow
held yesterday the resolution to approve the Offer and all the other resolutions
proposed were passed.

Terms defined in the Offer Document dated 1 September 2003 shall have the same
meaning in this announcement.

For further information or enquiries, please contact:

Taylor Woodrow
Ian Morris, Corporate Communications
Phone: [phone]

Jonathan Murrin, Investor Relations
Phone [phone]

UBS Investment Bank
Michael Lacey-Solymar
Duncan Williams
Bill Hutchings
Phone: [phone]

HSBC
Charles Packshaw
Nick McCarthy
Clive Rates
Phone: [phone]

Financial Dynamics
Scott Fulton
Peter Otero
Phone: [phone] 7269 7121

The Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by the use
of mails or any means or instrumentality (including, without limitation,
telephonically or electronically) of interstate or foreign commerce of, or any
facility of a national securities exchange of, any Restricted Jurisdiction.
Accordingly, copies of this announcement are not being, and must not be,
directly or indirectly, mailed or otherwise forwarded, distributed or sent in or
into or from any Restricted Jurisdiction and persons receiving this announcement
(including custodians, nominees and trustees) must not mail or otherwise
forward, distribute or send it in or into or from any Restricted Jurisdiction.
Doing so may render invalid any purported acceptance of the Offer.  The
availability of the Offer to persons who are not resident in the United Kingdom
may be affected by the laws of the relevant jurisdictions.  Persons who are not
resident in the United Kingdom should inform themselves about and observe any
applicable legal or regulatory requirements of their jurisdiction.  Further
details in relation to overseas shareholders are contained in the Offer
Document.

UBS and HSBC (which is regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services
Authority) are acting for Taylor Woodrow and no one else in connection with the
Offer and will not be responsible to anyone other than Taylor Woodrow for
providing the protections afforded to customers of UBS and HSBC nor for giving
advice in relation to the Offer.

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