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British Land Co PLC
21 July 2015 
 
Result of Annual General Meeting 
 
The British Land Company PLC (the 'Company') announces that all resolutions
were passed by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held earlier
today. The results of the polls are outlined in the table below and will also
be available on the Company's website:
www.britishland.com/investors/shareholder-information/agm/2015 
 
Votes were cast by poll for a total of 751,858,072 ordinary shares of the
Company, representing 73.66 per cent of the total number of votes capable of
being cast at the AGM. 
 
Copies of the resolutions passed have been submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at
www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. 
 
 RESOLUTION                                                                                                                               VOTES               Withheld1  
 For                                                                                                                                      As % of votes cast  Against    As % of votes cast  
 1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015                                                            703,865,831         99.18      5,800,108           0.82   42,192,133  
 2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                                                                                         680,540,864         97.53      17,257,841          2.47   54,059,367  
 3. To elect Lynn Gladden as a Director                                                                                                   709,953,604         99.99      98,522              0.01   41,805,946  
 4. To elect Laura Wade-Gery as a Director                                                                                                709,982,286         99.99      76,981              0.01   41,798,805  
 5. To re-elect Aubrey Adams as a Director                                                                                                707,649,483         99.68      2,278,094           0.32   41,930,495  
 6. To re-elect Lucinda Bell as a Director                                                                                                707,557,446         99.65      2,511,028           0.35   41,789,598  
 7. To re-elect Simon Borrows as a Director                                                                                               708,731,173         99.81      1,338,936           0.19   41,787,963  
 8. To re-elect John Gildersleeve as a Director                                                                                           691,630,215         97.40      18,436,383          2.60   41,791,474  
 9. To re-elect Chris Grigg as a Director                                                                                                 708,519,015         99.78      1,551,760           0.22   41,787,297  
 10. To re-elect William Jackson as a Director                                                                                            706,247,159         99.46      3,821,207           0.54   41,789,706  
 11. To re-elect Charles Maudsley as a Director                                                                                           707,588,862         99.65      2,478,794           0.35   41,790,416  
 12. To re-elect Tim Roberts as a Director                                                                                                707,561,152         99.65      2,507,104           0.35   41,789,816  
 13. To re-elect Tim Score as a Director                                                                                                  707,237,215         99.60      2,827,926           0.40   41,792,931  
 14. To re-elect Lord Turnbull as a Director                                                                                              702,802,513         98.98      7,257,792           1.02   41,797,767  
 15. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditor of the Company                                                               704,986,764         99.78      1,536,085           0.22   45,335,223  
 16. To authorise the Directors to agree the auditor's remuneration                                                                       709,399,824         99.90      701,643             0.10   41,756,605  
 17. To authorise the Company to make limited political donations and political expenditure of not more than £20,000 in total             703,507,743         99.11      6,307,197           0.89   42,043,132  
 18. To affirm two leasehold transactions                                                                                                 709,308,410         99.97      210,472             0.03   42,364,189  
 19. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to a limited amount                                                                    632,943,038         89.92      70,940,669          10.08  47,974,365  
 20. To authorise the Directors to allot shares and sell treasury shares, for cash, without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders.2  704,433,053         99.81      1,334,515           0.19   46,090,504  
 21. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares2                                                                                 707,912,608         99.69      2,193,979           0.31   41,751,485  
 22. To authorise the calling of general meetings (not being an AGM) by notice of not less than 14 clear days2                            574,951,495         80.98      135,007,756         19.02  41,898,820  
 
 
 Notes:1: A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each resolution.2: These resolutions were proposed as Special Resolutions. Enquiries:                 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 Company Secretariat                                                                                                                                                                                                       020 7467 3387  
 Silvana Glibota-Vigo, British Land                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
 
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