Director/PDMR Shareholding

5 April 2011

LTIP AWARDS

Persimmon Plc ("the Company") announces that on 4 April 2011 the following awards of ordinary shares of 10p each were made to executive directors under the Persimmon Long Term Incentive Plan 2007 (the "Plan").

Name Number of shares

M P Farley 291,722

M H Killoran 142,297

J Fairburn 99,601

Under the Plan, the vesting of shares awarded is subject to performance criteria and will not normally take place until 4 April 2014, i.e. three years after the date of award.

As a result of the above, the directors hold options/awards over the following number of ordinary shares granted under the Company's various share schemes:-

Name Number of shares

M P Farley 811,892

M H Killoran 386,018

J Fairburn 266,821

The issued share capital of the Company on 5 April 2011 is 301,176,023 ordinary shares (excluding treasury shares).

G N Francis

Group Company Secretary