Holding(s) in Company

Bovis Homes Group PLC
28 July 2004


Bovis Homes Group Plc ('the Company')


NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDING

The Company was informed on 28 July 2004 that Schroder Investment Management
Limited ('Schroders'), have an interest in 13,299,920 shares which are held by
Schroders on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management
agreements.

Included in this figure are :-

i) 1,706,008 shares registered or to be registered in the name of Schroders'
wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited ('Schroder
Nominees'),

ii) 4,120,296 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) 7,473,616 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 860,000 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 14,159,920 shares,
representing some 11.986% of the total number of shares in issue, namely
118,138,969 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                                             869,276
Chase Manhattan Bank                                               908,340
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                                    145,814
MSS Nominees Limited a/c 809797                                    218,554
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                                        1,655,073
State Street Nominees Ltd                                          200,800
State Street Nominees Ltd a/c 5H57                                 259,700

                                                                 7,473,616



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