Holding in Company

Slough Estates PLC
7 September 2001

By letter dated 5 September 2001 received today the Company has been notified
by Barclays PLC that Barclays have a notifiable interest of 12,701,288
ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company, representing a current
interest of 3.06% in the issued share capital of the Company.

The aggregate holding of 3.06% is as follows:

Barclays Capital Nominees Limited - 24,313
Dematerialised - 27,000
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16331 - 122,963
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16338 - 24,184
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16341 - 535,503
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16342 - 27,782
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16344 - 54,380
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16345 - 94,622
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16376 - 73,623
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16400 - 3,805,768
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16530 - 946,678
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 18409 - 131,052
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 20947 - 2,746,629
DEM69 - 84,576
Barclays Bank Trust Co. Ltd & third party nominee - 2,021
Chase Manhattan Bank London - 3,085,279
Twenty Nine Gracechurch Street Nominees Limited a/c 5782A - 600,285
Unknown - 232,437
Unknown - 6,189
Unknown - 15,587
Unknown - 1,500
Unknown - 12,438
Unknown - 7,429
Unknown - 4,100
Barclays Bank Trust Co Limited and another - 34,950
Total - 12,701,288