British Land Co PLC Result of AGM (6232E)

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RNS Number : 6232E

British Land Co PLC

19 July 2016

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 poll are

set out in the table below and will also be available on the Company's website:

www.britishland.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/2016 .

Votes were cast for a total of 756,267,780 ordinary shares of the Company, representing 73.47 per cent of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions relating to special business (resolutions 18 to 25) will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

 
                                                VOTES 
                           ------------------------------------------------  ---------- 
                                    For       As %       Against       As % 
                                          of votes                 of votes 
 RESOLUTION                                   cast                     cast   Withheld1 
                           ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 1. To receive 
  the Annual Report 
  and Accounts 
  for the year 
  ended 31 March 
  2016                      748,720,369      99.26     5,550,463       0.74   2,237,462 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 2. To approve 
  the Directors' 
  Remuneration 
  Report                    715,113,263      96.01    29,690,657       3.99  11,704,372 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 3. To approve 
  the Directors' 
  Remuneration 
  Policy                    727,144,638      97.13    21,494,166       2.87   7,869,489 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 4. To re-elect 
  Aubrey Adams 
  as a Director             756,116,267      99.98       116,620       0.02     275,407 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 5. To re-elect 
  Lucinda Bell 
  as a Director             753,233,314      99.62     2,902,224       0.38     372,756 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 6. To re-elect 
  Simon Borrows 
  as a Director             756,073,880      99.98       162,048       0.02     272,366 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 7. To re-elect 
  John Gildersleeve 
  as a Director             754,665,435      99.79     1,565,850       0.21     277,009 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 8. To re-elect 
  Lynn Gladden 
  as a Director             755,930,854      99.96       302,035       0.04     275,405 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 9. To re-elect 
  Chris Grigg 
  as a Director             754,668,127      99.79     1,564,804       0.21     275,363 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 10. To re-elect 
  William Jackson 
  as a Director             755,893,317      99.96       339,320       0.04     275,657 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 11. To re-elect 
  Charles Maudsley 
  as a Director             753,336,244      99.62     2,896,956       0.38     275,094 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 12. To re-elect 
  Tim Roberts 
  as a Director             753,338,506      99.62     2,894,677       0.38     275,111 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 13. To re-elect 
  Tim Score as 
  a Director                756,179,859      99.99        50,773       0.01     277,662 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 14. To re-elect 
  Lord Turnbull 
  as a Director             727,020,756      96.97    22,685,865       3.03   6,801,672 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 15. Tore- elect 
  Laura Wade- 
  Gery as a Director        755,912,182      99.97       216,243       0.03     379,869 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 16. To re-appoint 
  PricewaterhouseCoopers 
  LLP as the auditor 
  of the Company            754,249,702      99.73     2,018,078       0.27     240,514 
-------------------------                                                    ---------- 
 17. To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to agree the 
  auditor's remuneration    753,897,842      99.69     2,343,483       0.31     266,969 
                           ------------  ---------  ------------  --------- 
 18. To authorise 
  the payment 
  of scrip dividends        755,596,945     100.00        35,306       0.00     876,043 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 19. To authorise 
  the Company 
  to make limited 
  political donations 
  and political 
  expenditure 
  of 
  not more than 
  GBP20,000 in 
  total                     746,960,749      99.37     4,725,748       0.63   4,821,796 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 20. To authorise 
  amendments to 
  the Long-Term 
  Incentive Plan            744,210,248      98.58    10,682,672       1.42   1,615,373 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 21. To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to allot shares 
  up to a limited 
  amount                    684,840,176      90.56    71,399,884       9.44     268,234 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 22. To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to allot shares 
  and sell treasury 
  shares for cash, 
  without making 
  a pre-emptive 
  offer to shareholders2    744,123,246      99.20     6,032,147       0.80   6,352,901 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 23. To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to allot additional 
  shares and sell 
  treasury shares 
  for cash, without 
  making a pre-emptive 
  offer to shareholders 
  in line with 
  recommendations 
  of the Pre-Emption 
  Group 2                   731,266,314      97.47    18,948,265       2.53   6,293,714 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 24. To authorise 
  the Company 
  to purchase 
  its own shares2           746,384,523      99.29     5,339,030       0.71   4,784,741 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 25. To authorise 
  the calling 
  of general meetings 
  (not being an 
  AGM) by notice 
  of not less 
  than 14 clear 
  days2                     622,705,812      82.85   128,890,697      17.15   4,911,785 
-------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
 

(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

   Heledd Hanscomb, British Land                                                020 7467 2852 

York House, 45 Seymour Street, London W1H 7LX

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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