Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Land Co PLC
17 October 2005


Notification of monthly investment in the British Land Share Incentive Plan
('SIP')

Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustees'), Trustees of the British Land
SIP, have notified the Company that they purchased on 14th October 2005 a total
of 6,867 ordinary 25p shares at a price of £9.07 per share under the
'Partnership' and 'Matching' element of the Company's SIP. Under the terms of
the SIP each eligible participating employee can contribute from monthly salary
to purchase 'Partnership Shares', and the Company matches this by awarding two
'Matching Shares' for every one 'Partnership Share' purchased by participating
employees. The SIP has been approved by the Inland Revenue as a share incentive
plan under Schedule 8 of the Finance Act 2000.

As participants in the SIP the executive directors and the persons discharging
managerial responsibilities named below are deemed to have an interest in the
shares held by the Trustees.

The Company also received notification from the Trustees, that of the above
shares acquired by the Trustees, the shares purchased on behalf of the Company's
executive directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities were as
follows:

                 Number of Partnership Shares         Number of Matching Shares
                  acquired under the SIP               acquired under the SIP
Directors

J H Ritblat                14                                28
J H Weston Smith           14                                28 
R E Bowden                 14                                28
G C Roberts                14                                28
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
T A Roberts                14                                28
A Braine                   14                                28
P Clarke                   14                                28


17th October 2005.





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