Cholsey Sustainability Dashboard

Cholsey Parish Sustainability Dashboard

How is Cholsey doing?

Trees, green space and the energy we use at home, compared with nearby parishes, South Oxfordshire and England.

Draft wording: awaiting review by the parish council.

Cholsey and its neighbours

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Where Cholsey stands

The latest figure for each measure, with the year it comes from.

In words

How it compares

Each figure beside South Oxfordshire and England. Better can mean higher or lower, depending on the measure.

Tree canopy cover

  • Worse than South Oxfordshire (-45%)
  • Worse than England (-28%) — England figure is for 2020
  • Cholsey:10.4% (2021)
  • South Oxfordshire:19.0% (2021)
  • England:14.4% (2020)

Accessible green space

  • Worse than South Oxfordshire (-55%)
  • Worse than England (-41%)
  • Cholsey:19.6 m² per resident (2021)
  • South Oxfordshire:43.5 m² per resident (2021)
  • England:32.9 m² per resident (2021)

Domestic electricity consumption

  • Better than South Oxfordshire (-12%)
  • Similar to England (+10%)
  • Cholsey:3,682 kWh per meter per year (2024)
  • South Oxfordshire:4,184 kWh per meter per year (2024)
  • England:3,353 kWh per meter per year (2024)

Domestic gas consumption

  • Better than South Oxfordshire (-12%)
  • Similar to England (-3%)
  • Cholsey:11,001 kWh per meter per year (2024)
  • South Oxfordshire:12,440 kWh per meter per year (2024)
  • England:11,391 kWh per meter per year (2024)

Solar PV uptake

  • Similar to South Oxfordshire (<1% difference)
  • No comparison with England
  • Cholsey:10.1 % of dwellings (2026)
  • South Oxfordshire:10.1 % of dwellings (2026)

Heat pump uptake

  • Similar to South Oxfordshire (<1% difference)
  • No comparison with England
  • Cholsey:2.73 % of dwellings (2026)
  • South Oxfordshire:2.73 % of dwellings (2026)

How it is changing

Where a source publishes several years, you can see which way things are heading.

What you can do

Local schemes, groups and grants linked to each measure.