Barratt Developments PLC

AGM Information • Nov 17, 2016

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Barratt Developments PLC

17 November 2016

BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC

RESULTS OF THE 2016 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Barratt Developments PLC (the "Company") held its fifty-eighth Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") on Wednesday 16 November 2016, 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 2016.	667,217,362	99.92%	521,102	0.08%	116,017	667,738,464	66.34%
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 30 June 2016.	649,042,955	98.25%	11,585,912	1.75%	7,223,314	660,628,867	65.63%
3.	To declare a final dividend of 12.3 pence per ordinary share in respect of the financial year ended 30 June 2016.	667,701,702	99.99%	92,264	0.01%	60,515	667,793,966	66.34%
4.	To approve a special dividend of 12.4 pence per share.	667,695,778	99.99%	97,052	0.01%	61,651	667,792,830	66.34%
5.	To elect Mr N Cooper as a director.	661,750,681	99.11%	5,971,732	0.89%	132,068	667,722,413	66.33%
6.	To elect Mr J F Lennox as a director.	658,399,615	99.57%	2,840,841	0.43%	6,614,025	661,240,456	65.69%
7.	To re-elect Mr J M Allan as a director.	659,251,926	98.80%	8,037,275	1.20%	565,280	667,289,201	66.29%
8.	To re-elect Mr D F Thomas as a director.	632,789,760	94.77%	34,931,447	5.23%	133,274	667,721,207	66.33%
9.	To re-elect Mr S J Boyes as a director.	662,748,450	99.25%	4,979,696	0.75%	126,335	667,728,146	66.33%
10.	To re-elect Mr R J Akers as a director.	664,582,193	99.53%	3,147,678	0.47%	124,610	667,729,871	66.33%
11.	To re-elect Miss T E Bamford as a director.	664,662,320	99.54%	3,080,549	0.46%	111,612	667,742,869	66.34%
12.	To re-elect Mrs N S Bibby as a director.	664,658,575	99.54%	3,089,221	0.46%	106,685	667,747,796	66.34%
13.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditor of the Company.	659,468,358	98.80%	8,002,943	1.20%	383,180	667,471,301	66.31%
14.	To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the auditor's remuneration.	662,544,347	99.22%	5,204,725	0.78%	105,109	667,749,072	66.34%
15.	To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure.	659,797,951	99.67%	2,163,947	0.33%	5,892,583	661,961,898	65.76%
16.	To approve the sale of a property to Mr D F Thomas, Director.	654,979,232	99.97%	227,932	0.03%	12,645,017	655,207,164	65.09%
17.	To approve the sale of a property to a connected person of Mr D F Thomas, Director.	654,909,763	99.96%	273,203	0.04%	12,669,215	655,182,966	65.09%
18.	To authorise the Board to allot shares and grant subscription/conversion rights over shares.	657,779,306	98.66%	8,966,186	1.34%	1,108,989	666,745,492	66.24%
19.	To authorise the Board to allot or sell Ordinary Shares without complying with pre-emption rights.*	666,097,565	99.90%	638,163	0.10%	1,118,753	666,735,728	66.24%
20.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares.*	660,156,815	99.57%	2,825,843	0.43%	4,871,823	662,982,658	65.86%
21.	To allow the Company to hold general meetings, other than an annual general meeting, on not less than 14 clear days' notice.*	602,479,629	90.88%	60,489,521	9.12%	4,885,330	662,969,150	65.86%

1 A vote withheld is not a vote in law.

* Indicates a special resolution requiring a 75% majority.

Issued share capital as at voting record date: 1,006,614,885

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 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21) have today been submitted to the NSM in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2.

These resolutions will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

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

Tina Bains, Company Secretary                                                        01530 278 278

For media enquiries, please contact:

Barratt Developments PLC

Tim Collins, Head of Corporate Communications                               020 7299 4874

Brunswick

Jonathan Glass                                                                                  020 7396 7486

Wendel Verbeek                                                                                020 7396 5372

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