Directorate Change

Barratt Developments PLC
23 November 2005


Further to the Chairman's Statement made at the Annual General Meeting of the
Company on 17th November, 2005, Barratt Developments PLC announces that Mr.
Peter Herbert Ashworth retired at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held
on 17th November, 2005 and did not seek re-election, and on 21st November, 2005
the Company received a letter of resignation from him in which he confirmed his
resignation as a non-executive director of the Company with effect from 17th
November, 2005.

Mr. Paul Robert Gieron will stand down from the Board and resign as a director
of the Company with effect from 1st January, 2006 to assume operational
responsibility as Regional Chairman of the Group's West Region as from that
date.

Mr. Harold Walker, Deputy Chief Executive, is to take early retirement, aged 60,
with effect from 30th June, 2006 after 28 years service and will retire as a
director.

These changes at Board level are to facilitate the senior management
restructuring which was detailed in the Chairman's Statement issued on 17th
November, 2005.


23rd November, 2005


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