The 2025 World Happiness Report highlights the importance of family connections when it comes to feeling contented. The report finds that those who eat frequently with others are a lot happier than those who dine alone. Likewise, happiness rises with household size, with homes of four people being significantly happier than those where people live alone.[1] As the report points out, most family interactions take place within the home. This means that the layout and quality of a house can do much to support family happiness – as the new show home at Rectory Meadows in East Sussex is most ably demonstrating.

Rectory Meadows is a luxurious collection of award-winning, family-focused houses from Elivia Homes. The gracious residences offer two to five bedrooms, interspersed with green open space, encouraging a strong sense of community for residents. This is another key element of family happiness; as the proverb says, it takes a village to raise a child.

The new show home – the beautiful, spacious 'Upperberry' house type (plot 11) – officially opens to the public this weekend (31st May & 1st June 2025). The home showcases considerate design, with plentiful space for family members to interact, from the shaker-style kitchen with sociable breakfast bar to the large living room. Bifold doors from the kitchen and French doors from the living room open out onto the generous garden, ensuring family members can flow from indoors to out as the weather permits. There's a separate dining room as well, ensuring everything from family meals to entertaining can be accommodated perfectly.

The extensive, family-friendly spaces are not at the expense of privacy. With a study downstairs and a fifth bedroom upstairs that could easily serve as a second office, there is plenty of room for those who need to work or study at home. Impressively, three of the four double bedrooms upstairs come with en-suite bathrooms, while two also boast large built-in wardrobes.

Space, style and superb attention to detail speak to the quality of The Upperberry at every turn. The home feels luxurious but also welcoming – the ideal setting for family life.

Rectory Meadows' location adds to the outstanding family appeal. The traditionally designed exteriors fit beautifully with the existing architecture of the quaint Sussex village of Plumpton Green, just a stone's throw from the rolling hills of the South Downs National Park. The park provides over 1,600 square kilometres of hills, heathland, river valleys and ancient woodland, stretching all the way to the white cliffs of the Heritage Coast and dotted with market towns and thriving villages.

Plumpton Green is one such village, with traditional country pubs, a church, a post office and a bustling village store stocking a wealth of daily essentials. The Plough Inn, a gastro pub with a beer garden, heated terrace and children's play area, is a particular local favourite. The village is also home to a Good Ofsted-rated primary school, while further Good primaries, secondaries are further education establishments lie within a few minutes' drive.

For many families, an easy commute is the final essential element contributing to overall happiness. Rectory Meadows delivers on this front too, with direct trains from Plumpton Station reaching London Victoria in an hour.[2]

Philip Brown, Sales and Marketing Director at Elivia Homes Eastern, comments: “From outstanding homes to a verdant, community-centric setting, Rectory Meadows has all the ingredients for an idyllic family life. We are delighted to be opening the doors of the gorgeous Upperberry show home, to provide homebuyers with a glimpse of the superb lifestyle on offer in the captivating part of East Sussex.”

Families keen to know more about life at Rectory Meadows and tour the new show home can book a viewing online or by calling 01273 803303. Prices at Rectory Meadows start from £435,000. For further information, visit https://www.eliviahomes.co.uk/developments/rectory-meadows.

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https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2025/executive-summary/

https://www.thetrainline.com/train-times/plumpton-to-london-victoria 

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Elivia Homes:

Elivia Homes is an award-winning homebuilder focused on design-led and sustainable developments in aspirational locations across the South-East. Elivia builds approximately 250 homes per year across its Central, Southern and Eastern regions, the latter which was rebranded from Millwood Designer Homes which it acquired in January 2023. The business now has ambitious plans to triple its size to £350m revenue over the next five years. Elivia Homes' mission is to create developments that help people and places thrive and everything it does is underpinned by its core values of quality, expertise, integrity, passion, progress and sustainability. Elivia Homes was awarded 'House Builder of the Year', 'Residential Development of the Year' and 'Sustainable Development of the Year' at the 2023 South Coast Property Awards.

www.eliviahomes.co.uk