Conservation Awards

Gleeson(M J)Group PLC
16 October 2000


         MORE CONSERVATION AWARDS FOR GLEESON HOMES

One of the country's leading developers of brownfield sites,
Gleeson  Homes, a principal subsidiary of MJ  Gleeson  Group
plc, the construction, housebuilding and property group, has
won  further  awards for conversions and  restorations.  The
latest are Civic Society Conservation Awards for two of  its
projects  in  Royal Tunbridge Wells. The first  is  for  The
Depository, a restoration and conversion scheme in a  former
department  store  furniture depository, which  additionally
won  an  Evening Standard Best Conversion Award.  The second
is  for  Cumberland Park, a development of apartments  in  a
converted stately home.

Earlier  this year, Gleeson Homes received a Best Use  of  a
Brownfield  Site  Commendation for a  project  in  Bakewell,
Derbyshire  in the National Homebuilder Design Awards  2000.
Cornish Place, a former cutlery works in Sheffield, won  the
Best Restoration and Conversion Award  in the same awards.

Last  year,  Cornish Place won two What House?  Gold  Awards
prompting  the Rt Hon Richard Caborn, Minister of Trade,  to
say:  'Gleeson  Homes  has  been involved  in  a  number  of
successful and innovative urban regeneration schemes  around
the  country.  It is to be congratulated for taking  up  the
challenge  to  develop  on  brownfield  sites  and  for  the
recycling  of  old  buildings -  it  is  good  to  see  life
generated back into the City Centre.'

Gleeson Homes has won numerous other Awards in recent years,
including  a What House? Silver Award, a City of  Chichester
Heritage Award and a Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Award.

Gleeson  Homes'  most extensive current development  is  the
£100m  village  of  430  town houses, apartments  and  large
detached   family   houses   at  Netherne-on-the-Hill   near
Coulsdon, Surrey. This is the first village to be  built  in
Surrey  since  the  war  and  is  made  up  of  conversions,
refurbishments and new build properties on  the  site  of  a
former isolation hospital within the Surrey greenbelt.


Enquiries:
M J Gleeson Group plc                                    020-8335 5600
 Clive Wilding (Managing Director, Gleeson Homes) Mobile: [phone]
                                                            
Bankside Consultants Limited                             020-7220 7477
 Charles Ponsonby