Holding in Company

Bovis Homes Group PLC
2 August 2000


Bovis Homes Group Plc ('the Company')

NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDING

The Company was informed today that Schroder
Investment Management Limited ('Schroders'), have
an interest in 11,083,784 shares which are held
in portfolios managed by Schroders on a
discretionary basis for clients under investment
management agreements.

Included in this figure are :-

i) 2,443,000 shares registered or to be
registered in the name of Schroders' wholly-owned
subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees
Limited ('Schroder Nominees'),

ii) 3,802,684 shares held in (a) unit trust(s)
operated and managed by another wholly-owned
subsidiary, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited
('SUTL'), and registered or to be registered in
the name of Chase Nominees Limited, and

iii) 4,838,100 shares held in portfolios where
the shares are not registered or to be registered
in the name of Schroder Nominees. The
registration details are shown on the enclosed
schedule.

An affiliated company, Schroder Investment
Management North America Inc ('SIMNA Inc'), is
managing a portfolio on a similar basis holding a
further 1,300,000 shares. These shares are
registered or to be registered in the name of
Chase Nominees Limited.

Another affiliated company, Schroder Hermes is
managing 159,841 shares in (a) portfolio(s) on a
passive (index tracker) basis for clients under
investment management agreements. These shares
are registered or to be registered in the name of
Chase Nominees Limited.

Therefore, Schroder Investment Management
Limited, its subsidiary and affiliated companies
have an interest in an overall aggregate of
12,543,625 shares, representing some 11.094% of
the total number of shares in issue, namely
113,070,143 shares.

This notification is made:-

a) in respect of Schroders interest as investment
managers and also by virtue of the fact that they
are the parent company of SUTL,

b) on behalf of SIMNA Inc, Schroder Hermes and
SUTL in relation to the interests they are
treated as having respectively under the
Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and

c) on behalf of Schroders plc, the holding
company, which is treated as having an interest
in all of the above shares under the Act by
virtue of its ownership of SIMNA Inc and Schroder
Investment Management Limited.


The shares are registered as follows:-

Registration                              Amount

Chase Nominees Limited                  2,935,000
Chase Manhattan Bank                      200,000
HSBC International a/c 10096301            43,000
Nutraco Nominees Limited                  115,000
MSS Nominees Limited a/c 759371            31,600
MSS Nominees Limited a/c 823666           210,000
MSS Nominees Limited a/c 823654           590,000
Nortrust Nominees Limited                 200,000
RBSTB Nominees Limited                     63,500
RBSTB Nominees Limited a/c ESPSBEB        250,000
State Street Nominees Ltd a/c 5H57        200,000

                                        4,838,100