Re Awards

Gleeson(M J)Group PLC
3 November 2000


                                                        Friday 3 November 2000



                     GLEESON HOMES WINS FURTHER TOP AWARD

                      FOR BROWNFIELD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT


Gleeson Homes, a part of M J Gleeson Group plc, the construction services
housebuilding and property group, has won yet another top award for a housing
development on a brownfield site. In the past year, it has won more major
awards for brownfield development than any other developer.


The latest is a gold in the Sunday Times What House? Awards for Bramwell
Gardens, Sheffield, which is a partnership between Gleeson Homes, North
British Housing Association and the South Yorkshire Housing Association, with
support from English Partnerships. The development replaces low-rise tower
blocks near the city centre and provides 122 homes as two bedroom apartments
and 2/3 bedroom houses.


In 1999, Gleeson Homes won two golds in The Sunday Times What House? Awards
for a brownfield development at Cornish Place, Sheffield. This year to date,
it has won a total of seven awards, all for brownfield developments.


'This remarkable series of awards is confirmation that Gleeson has achieved
its goal of establishing the gold standard against which brownfield
development throughout the country is measured', says the Managing Director of
Gleeson Homes, Clive Wilding.


Notes for Editors:


 1. Awards won by Gleeson Homes between January and October 2000 are:


      + The Guardian National Homebuilder Design Awards 2000. Best
        Restoration and Conversion award winner for Cornish Place, Sheffield.


      + The Guardian National Homebuilder Design Awards 2000. Best Use of a
        Brownfield Site. Riverside Crescent, Bakewell received a commendation.


      + The Evening Standard Awards 2000. Best Conversion, The Depository,
        Royal Tunbridge Wells.


      + Civic Society Conservation Awards. The Depository won a Civic
        Society Conservation Commendation awarded by Royal Tunbridge Wells
        Civic Society.


      + City of Lancaster Design Awards 2000. An award for the conversion of
        existing buildings and creation of a piazza at Standen Park,
        Lancaster.


      + Sunday Times What House? Awards. Gold for Bramwell Gardens,
        Sheffield. Best Partnership Development category.


 1. Gleeson Homes has a land bank of over 2,000 plots with planning permission,
    87 per cent of which are on brownfield land fairly evenly located in the
    South East, the South, the North West and the North East.


 2. M J Gleeson Group plc is a nationwide group operating in three interlinked
    sectors - construction services, housebuilding and property - which for
    the year ended 30 June 2000 announced a turnover of £350 million and a
    pre-tax profit of £16.1 million - a fifth successive annual increase. It
    is a general building, process and civil engineering contractor, a
    housebuilder and a commercial property investor and developer, and also
    has subsidiary companies involved in such specialist fields as concrete
    repairs, mechanical and electrical services, and effluent and sludge
    treatment. Gleeson is the UK's leading contractor in the water industry;
    it also has more experience of PFI work than any other contractor of
    similar size. Gleeson was founded in Sheffield in 1903. The Group's
    headquarters are in North Cheam, Surrey, and it has a network of 16
    offices in the South, the Midlands, the North and Scotland.


Enquiries:


M J Gleeson Group plc               020-8644 4321

Dermot Gleeson (Executive Chairman)

Clive Wilding (Managing Director, Gleeson Homes)

Bankside Consultants Limited        020-7220 7477

Charles Ponsonby