Director Shareholding

Bovis Homes Group PLC
15 March 2001

Bovis Homes Group plc ('the Company')

The Company has been notified that 91,230 Ordinary Shares of 50p each in the
Company were purchased on 14 March 2001 by the Bovis Homes Group Employee
Trust ('the Trust') at a price of £3.83p per Share for the purpose of
satisfying awards in due course under the Bovis Homes Group Long Term
Incentive Plan ('the Plan').

The Trust is a discretionary trust under which all employees of the Bovis
Homes Group are potential beneficiaries. Each of the Executive Directors of
the Company is, for Companies Act purposes, regarded as interested in all
Shares held by the Trust. Despite the technical interest in all the Shares
each Executive Director will only be entitled to receive from the Trust the
number of Shares to which he is entitled on realisation of an award granted to
him under the Plan.

The Executive Directors being potential beneficiaries under the Trust are P.D.
Baker, J.E. Ditheridge, J.M. Emery, M.R. Harris, B.M. Johnson, M.Sharpe, R.N.
Walford.