Holding(s) in Company

Bovis Homes Group PLC
29 April 2004

Bovis Homes Group Plc ('the Company')

NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDING

The Company was informed on 28 April 2004 that Schroder Investment Management
Limited ('Schroders'), have an interest in 14,302,231 shares which are held in
portfolios managed by Schroders on a discretionary basis for clients under
investment management agreements.

Included in this figure are :-

i) 1,890,108 shares registered or to be registered in the name of Schroders'
wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited ('Schroder
Nominees'),

ii) 4,004,596 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an
affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited ('SUTL'), and registered or to
be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited, and

iii) 8,407,527 shares held in portfolios where the shares are not registered or
to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees. The registration details are
shown on the enclosed schedule.

A subsidiary, Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd ('SIMNA Ltd'), is
managing a portfolio(s) on a similar basis holding a further 910,000 shares.
These shares are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees
Limited.

Therefore, Schroder Investment Management Limited, its subsidiary and affiliated
companies are interested in an overall aggregate of 15,212,231 shares,
representing some 12.878% of the total number of shares in issue, namely
118,124,665 shares.

This notification is made:-

a) in respect of Schroders' interest as investment managers,

b) on behalf of SIMNA Ltd and SUTL in relation to the interests they are treated
as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and


c) on behalf of Schroders plc, the holding company, which is treated as having
an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its ownership
of SIMNA Ltd, SUTL and Schroder Investment Management Limited.

The shares are registered as follows:-

Registration                                                                                 Amount

British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c P                                                      606,362

Chase Nominees Limited                                                                       1,736,051

Chase Manhattan Bank                                                                         736,410

Chase Nominees Limited a/c 03886                                                             266,800

Mellon Trust                                                                                 194,000

Mineworkers' Pension Scheme                                                                  689,677

Nutraco Nominees Limited                                                                     200,000

MSS Nominees Limited a/c 809803                                                              153,200

MSS Nominees Limited a/c 809797                                                              251,600

MSS Nominees Limited a/c 823666                                                              351,000

MSS Nominees Limited a/c 823654                                                              774,440

MSS Nominees Limited a/c 823812                                                              133,780

Nortrust Nominees Limited                                                                    1,716,673

RBSTB Nominees Limited a/c LAUR                                                              22,000

State Street Nominees Ltd                                                                    315,834

State Street Nominees Ltd a/c 5H57                                                           259,700

                                                                                             8,407,527


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