Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6922C

Barratt Developments PLC

18 November 2009

 



BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC

RESULTS OF THE 2009 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Barratt Developments PLC (the "Company") held its fifty-first Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 17 November 2009, at the offices of UBS Limited, 1 Finsbury Avenue, London EC2M 2PP.

All resolutions put to the meeting were voted on by way of a poll and were passed by the shareholders. The results of the poll for each such resolution are shown below:

Poll Results

Resolution		Votes For		Votes Against		Votes Withheld	Total Votes Cast
		No. of Shares	% of shares voted	No. of Shares	% of shares voted	No. of Shares	No. of Shares
1.	To receive and adopt the reports of the auditors and directors and the accounts for the year ended 30 June 2009.	424,307,761	99.82	782,712	0.18	26,928	425,090,473
2.	To elect Mr D F Thomas as a director.	422,567,094	99.42	2,472,843	0.58	76,984	425,039,937
3.	To elect Miss T E Bamford as a director.	422,344,929	99.37	2,696,403	0.63	75,589	425,041,332
4.	To re-elect Mr M S Clare as a director.	421,518,720	99.17	3,533,575	0.83	64,626	425,052,295
5.	To re-elect Mr S J Boyes as a director.	422,570,335	99.42	2,485,796	0.58	60,790	425,056,131
6.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company and authorise the directors to fix their remuneration.	422,537,017	99.44	2,386,948	0.56	192,956	424,923,965
7.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 June 2009.	391,875,835	97.82	8,740,213	2.18	24,500,873	400,616,048
8.	To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure.	387,045,954	92.28	32,370,873	7.72	5,700,094	419,416,827
9.	To authorise the Board to allot shares (withdrawn)*	x	x	x	x	x	x
10.	To authorise the Board to dis-apply pre-emption rights (withdrawn)*	x	x	x	x	x	x
11.	To authorise the Board to make purchases of its Ordinary Shares.	424,840,628	99.95	226,698	0.05	49,325	425,067,596
12.	To allow the Company to hold general meetings, other than an annual general meeting, on not less than 14 clear days' notice.	413,765,724	97.33	11,329,825	2.67	21,372	425,095,549
13.	To adopt the amended form of the Articles of Association.	418,805,815	99.82	770,078	0.18	5,541,028	419,575,893

* As set out in the Company's Circular dated 23 September 2009 relating to the Placing and Rights Issue and Notice of  General Meeting and as explained at the Annual General Meeting, Resolutions 9 (allotment authority) and 10 (dis-application of pre-emption rights) were withdrawn prior to the meeting as they had been superseded by equivalent resolutions, passed at the General Meeting held on 19 October 2009, based on the Company's enlarged issued share capital after shareholders' approval of the Placing and Rights Issue.

Resolutions submitted to UK Listing Authority

Two copies of the Special Resolutions put to the meeting (being Resolutions 11, 12 and 13) have today been submitted to the UK Listing Authority in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.18.

These documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS.

The poll results will be available shortly on the Company's website www.barrattdevelopments.co.uk.

For further information please contact:

Barratt Developments PLC

Mark Clare, Group Chief Executive    

David Thomas, Group Finance Director         020 7299 4898

For media enquiries, please contact:

Barratt Developments PLC                        

Dan Bridgett, Head of External Affairs          020 7299 4873

Maitland    

Liz Morley                                                 020 7379 5151

Neil Bennett    

 

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