Barratt Developments PLC

AGM Information • Nov 12, 2015

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Barratt Developments PLC

12 November 2015

BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC

RESULTS OF THE 2015 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Barratt Developments PLC (the "Company") held its fifty-seventh Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") on Wednesday 11 November 2015, at The Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE.

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 (including Chairman's discretionary votes)		Votes Against		Votes Withheld1	Total Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld)
		No. of Shares	% of shares voted	No. of Shares	% of shares voted	No. of Shares	No. of Shares	% of issued share capital
1.	To receive and consider the auditor's report, strategic report, the directors' report and the accounts for the financial year ended 30 June 2015.	674,495,764	99.96%	262,374	0.04%	3,769,284	674,758,138	67.34%
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report as set out on pages 75 to 78 and pages 84 to 95 of the annual report for the financial year ended 30 June 2015.	620,551,709	94.94%	33,096,748	5.06%	24,878,965	653,648,457	65.23%
3.	To declare a final dividend of 10.3 pence per ordinary share in respect of the financial year ended 30 June 2015.	674,759,566	99.99%	43,586	0.01%	3,724,270	674,803,152	67.35%
4.	To approve a special cash payment of 10.0 pence per share.2	674,628,591	99.97%	169,686	0.03%	3,729,145	674,798,277	67.35%
5.	To re-elect Mr J M Allan as a director.	666,602,916	98.86%	7,672,516	1.14%	4,251,990	674,275,432	67.29%
6.	To re-elect Mr D F Thomas as a director.	639,414,142	94.76%	35,349,222	5.24%	3,764,058	674,763,364	67.34%
7.	To re-elect Mr S J Boyes as a director.	670,631,263	99.39%	4,129,101	0.61%	3,767,058	674,760,364	67.34%
8.	To re-elect Mr M E Rolfe as a director.	671,981,825	99.59%	2,781,762	0.41%	3,763,835	674,763,587	67.34%
9.	To re-elect Mr R J Akers as a director.	671,969,544	99.59%	2,798,859	0.41%	3,759,019	674,768,403	67.34%
10.	To re-elect Miss T E Bamford as a director.	671,987,126	99.59%	2,789,850	0.41%	3,750,446	674,776,976	67.34%
11.	To re-elect Mrs N S Bibby as a director.	671,991,388	99.59%	2,793,730	0.41%	3,742,304	674,785,118	67.34%
12.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditor of the Company.	667,853,295	99.31%	4,644,162	0.69%	6,029,965	672,497,457	67.12%
13.	To authorise the directors to fix the auditor's remuneration.	670,552,238	99.38%	4,208,760	0.62%	3,766,424	674,760,998	67.34%
14.	To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure.	669,896,779	99.30%	4,753,326	0.70%	3,877,317	674,650,105	67.33%
15.	To approve the renewal and amendment of the Barratt Developments PLC Co-Investment Plan (to be renamed the Deferred Bonus Plan).	641,699,129	95.43%	30,722,472	4.57%	6,105,821	672,421,601	67.11%
16.	To authorise the Board to allot shares and grant subscription/conversion rights over shares.	658,675,809	97.62%	16,089,352	2.38%	3,762,261	674,765,161	67.34%
17.	To authorise the Board to allot or sell Ordinary Shares without complying with pre-emption rights.*	673,285,657	99.79%	1,444,999	0.21%	3,796,766	674,730,656	67.34%
18.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares.*	674,132,339	99.90%	651,409	0.10%	3,743,674	674,783,748	67.34%
19.	To allow the Company to hold general meetings, other than an annual general meeting, on not less than 14 clear days' notice.*	611,880,101	90.68%	62,890,626	9.32%	3,756,695	674,770,727	67.34%

1 A vote withheld is not a vote in law.

2 Special cash payment will be distributed by way of a special dividend which will be taxable in the same way as the ordinary dividend.

* Indicates a special resolution requiring a 75% majority.

Issued share capital as at voting record date: 1,001,995,857

Number of votes per share: one

Resolutions submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (the 'NSM')

Copies of all resolutions, other than those relating to ordinary business, passed at the meeting, (being Resolutions 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19) have today been submitted to the NSM in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2.

These resolutions will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

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

For further information please contact:

Barratt Developments PLC

David Thomas, Chief Executive                                                         020 7299 4896

Tom Keevil, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary          01530 278 278

For media enquiries, please contact:

Barratt Developments PLC

Patrick Law, Group Corporate Affairs Director                                   020 7299 4892

Maitland

James Devas                                                                                     020 7379 5151

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