Directorate Change

British Land Co PLC
28 March 2006



                                                                   28 March 2006



                TWO NEW NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS FOR BRITISH LAND

                  Lord Turnbull and Kate Swann join the Board


The Board of The British Land Company PLC is pleased to announce the appointment
of two new Non-Executive Directors with effect from 1 April 2006.


They are Lord Turnbull, until recently Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the
Home Civil Service: and Kate Swann, Chief Executive Officer of W. H. Smith Group
Plc.


Sir John Ritblat, Chairman, said. "We are delighted to welcome two such
distinguished individuals to the Board. These appointments ensure British Land
continues its strong Board membership and excellent governance with a diverse
mix of experience to represent shareholders and aid the success of our Executive
Team".







Contact:


The British Land Company PLC:
Stephen Hester                                            020 7467 3503
John Weston Smith                                         020 7467 2899



Finsbury:
Edward Orlebar                                            020 7251 3801



Notes to Editors


The other Non-Executive Directors are:


Sir Derek Higgs, Deputy Chairman. He will be retiring at the 2006 Annual General
Meeting. He was recently appointed Chairman of Alliance & Leicester plc.


Dr. Chris Gibson-Smith, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, who is
Chairman of the London Stock Exchange.


Michael Cassidy, a practising solicitor who is President of the London Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.


Robert Swannell, Vice-Chairman of Citigroup Europe.


David Michels, until recently Group Chief Executive of Hilton Group plc.


Further details on the New Non-Executive Directors:


Lord Turnbull, KCB, CVO


Andrew Turnbull (61) studied economics at Cambridge. From 1968-70 he was an
Overseas Institute Fellow working as an economist for the Zambian Government. In
1970 he joined HM Treasury. From 1983-85 he was Private Secretary (Economics) to
the Prime Minister and he returned to No. 10 as Principal Private Secretary to
Margaret Thatcher and then John Major. From 1994-98 he was Permanent Secretary
at the Department of the Environment (later Environment, Transport and the
Regions). He returned to HM Treasury in 1998 as Permanent Secretary. In 2002 he
became Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service until he
retired in the summer of 2005. He entered the House of Lords as a Life Peer in
2005. This appointment has been approved by the Prime Minister on the advice of
the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.


Lord Turnbull is a non-executive director of Frontier Economics. He also works
part-time as a Senior Adviser to the London partners of Booz Allen Hamilton
(UK).


Kate Swann


Kate Swann (41) is Chief Executive Officer of W. H. Smith Group Plc and a
Non-Executive Director of Lambert Howarth Group. Before joining W. H. Smith she
was Managing Director of Argos Ltd. within GUS PLC, and before that Managing
Director of Homebase, within Sainsbury PLC. She began her career with Tesco in
commercial and marketing roles before moving to Homepride Foods as a Brand
Manager in 1988. After four years with the company she joined Coca-Cola, rising
to General Manager Marketing for the UK before transferring to electronics
retailer Dixons in 1993, where she was latterly Marketing Director for Curry's.



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