Barratt Developments PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Oct 17, 2019

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RNS Number : 1512Q

Barratt Developments PLC

17 October 2019

BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC

RESULTS OF THE 2019 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Barratt Developments PLC (the "Company") held its sixty-first Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") on Wednesday 16th October 2019, at The Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, 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 the Auditor's and Directors' reports, the Strategic Report and the accounts for the year ended 30 June 2019.	696,049,634	100.00%	34,677	0.00%	600,063	696,084,311	68.36%
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 June 2019 (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy).	685,316,685	98.39%	11,234,681	1.61%	133,008	696,551,366	68.41%
3.	To declare a final dividend of 19.5 pence per ordinary share in respect of the financial year ended 30 June 2019.	704,108,987	99.90%	690,965	0.10%	35,746	704,799,952	69.22%
4.	To approve a special dividend of 17.3 pence per ordinary share.	704,647,682	99.98%	152,270	0.02%	35,746	704,799,952	69.22%
5.	To re-elect John Allan as a director of the Company.	696,012,412	98.76%	8,736,660	1.24%	86,626	704,749,072	69.22%
6.	To re-elect David Thomas as a director of the Company.	699,230,979	99.22%	5,519,249	0.78%	85,470	704,750,228	69.22%
7.	To re-elect Mr Steven Boyes as a director of the Company	698,227,841	99.08%	6,513,332	0.92%	94,525	704,741,173	69.21%
8.	To re-elect Jessica White as a director of the Company.	696,649,728	98.85%	8,100,761	1.15%	85,209	704,750,489	69.22%
9.	To re-elect Richard Akers as a director of the Company.	694,852,114	98.75%	8,795,011	1.25%	1,188,573	703,647,125	69.11%
10.	To re-elect Nina Bibby as a director of the Company.	692,098,759	99.35%	4,500,919	0.65%	84,696	696,599,678	68.42%
11.	To re-elect Jock Lennox as a director of the Company.	691,523,814	99.27%	5,061,488	0.73%	99,072	696,585,302	68.41%
12.	To re-elect Sharon White as a director of the Company.	692,057,729	99.35%	4,545,132	0.65%	81,513	696,602,861	68.42%
13.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditor of the Company.	689,959,989	99.05%	6,636,322	0.95%	88,063	696,596,311	68.41%
14.	To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the auditor's remuneration.	692,136,428	99.36%	4,455,122	0.64%	92,824	696,591,550	68.41%
15.	To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure.	580,261,312	83.78%	112,305,314	16.22%	4,117,748	692,566,626	68.02%
16.	To authorise the Board to allot shares and grant subscription/conversion rights over shares.	692,570,291	99.42%	4,037,213	0.58%	76,870	696,607,504	68.42%
17.	To authorise the Board to allot or sell ordinary shares without complying with pre-emption rights.*	695,663,200	99.87%	895,539	0.13%	125,635	696,558,739	68.41%
18.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its ordinary shares.*	693,991,263	99.72%	1,929,365	0.28%	763,746	695,920,628	68.35%
19.	To allow the Company to hold general meetings, other than an Annual General Meeting, on not less than 14 clear days' notice.*	646,868,573	93.28%	46,577,521	6.72%	3,238,280	693,446,094	68.11%

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: 1,018,193,740

Number of votes per share: one

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

We will shortly submit copies of all resolutions, other than those relating to ordinary business, passed at the meeting, (being Resolutions 16, 17, 18, and 19) to the NSM in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2.

These resolutions will therefore 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 7404 5959

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