Directorate Change

British Land Co PLC
10 May 2007

                                                                    10 May 2007

                       Board Changes at British Land


- Clive Cowdery and John Travers join the Board.

- Michael Cassidy retires as a non-executive director

The Board of The British Land Company PLC is pleased to announce the appointment
of two new Non-Executive Directors with effect from today. They are Clive
Cowdery, Chairman of Resolution plc and John Travers, until recently Chief
Executive of Cushman & Wakefield EMEA.

British Land also announces that Michael Cassidy will, as planned, be standing
down as a non-executive director at this year's Annual General Meeting.

Chris Gibson-Smith, Chairman, said: "We are very pleased to welcome two such
exceptional people in Clive Cowdery and John Travers. They bring valuable wide
ranging business experience, strengthening still further our non-executive Board
membership. We are sorry to say goodbye to Michael Cassidy, who we thank for his
admirable service to the Company as a non-executive director for over eleven
years"


Contact:

The British Land Company PLC:
Laura de Vere 020 7467 2920 / Mobile [phone]

Finsbury:
Gordon Simpson 020 7251 3801 / Mobile [phone]


Notes to Editors

The current Non-Executive Directors are:

Dr. Chris Gibson-Smith, Chairman, who is Chairman of the London Stock Exchange.

Sir David Michels, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, until recently
Chief Executive of Hilton Group Plc.

Michael Cassidy, a practising solicitor who is President of the London Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.

Robert Swannell, Vice-Chairman of Citigroup Europe.

Lord Turnbull, formerly Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil
Service.

Kate Swann, Chief Executive Officer of W H Smith Plc.



Further details on the New Non-Executive Directors:

Mr Clive Cowdery

Clive Cowdery is Chairman of Resolution plc, a company that he founded in 2003.
He was previously Chairman and Chief Executive of GE's primary insurance
operations in Europe (GE Insurance Holdings), with over $3 billion of premium
income. The businesses he led included Europe's largest credit insurer with
operations in twelve countries and life and pensions companies in the UK and
France. Before joining GE in 1998, he co-founded Scottish Amicable International
/J.Rothschild International, a European cross-border insurance business based in
Dublin and formed in 1992.


Mr John Travers

John Travers until recently was Chief Executive Officer, EMEA of Cushman &
Wakefield, a member of the Board of Cushman & Wakefield and a member of that
company's Global Executive Committee. He was also Chairman of their Dutch,
Belgium and German operations.

Mr Travers has over 30 years of experience across Europe in all aspects of
commercial property, particularly retail and investment. He has a BSc (Estate
Management) from London University and is a fellow of RICS.




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