RNS Number:5386S
Fidelity Management
26 November 2003


                                                      FORM SAR 5


                                       Date of disclosure  November 26, 2003

             DISCLOSURE UNDER NOTE 3 OF RULE 5 OF THE RULES GOVERNING
                   SUBSTANTIAL ACQUISITIONS OF SHARES ("SARs")

                 
Date of sale    November 24, 2003

Sale of         Barratt Developments PLC                (name of company)


(1) Class of voting shares    Number of shares/rights   If rights over shares
    (eg ordinary shares)      over shares sold          sold, as opposed
                                                        to the shares
                                                        themselves, specify
                                                        nature of rights

    Ordinary Shares           348,978 shares            N/A
                                      rights

(2) Resultant total holding   Resultant total holding   Total percentage
    of voting shares (and %   of rights over shares
    of total voting shares    (and % of total voting
    in issue)                 shares in issue)

    35,223,116    (14.85%)    N/A     (    %)           35,223,116  (14.85%)


(3) Party making disclosure    Fidelity Management & Research Company, Fidelity
    Management Trust Company, & Fidelity International Limited  

(4)  (a)  Name of person selling shares or rights over shares: Fidelity
          International Limited and/or one or more of their direct and
          indirect subsidiaries, on behalf of client

          and, if different, beneficial owner............................... 

     (b)  Names of any other persons acting by
          agreement or understanding (see SAR 5)............................


Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above: By:

          Eric D. Roiter
          Sr. V.P. & General Counsel - FMR Co.
          Duly authorized under Powers of Attorney dated December
          30, 1997, by and on behalf of FMR Corp. and its direct and
          indirect subsidiaries, and Fidelity International Limited and
          its direct and indirect subsidiaries


Telephone and extension number:   Eleanor Chemlen, Sr. Compliance Specialist
                                  (617) 563 1416


Note: Under Sar 5, the holdings of and acquisitions by persons acting by
agreement of understanding must be aggregated and treated as a holding of or
acquisition by one person. Note 3 on SAR 5 requires persons who must aggregate
holdings to disclose certain disposals.


                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END
SADQQLFLXFBBFBK