Glossary
Draft wording: awaiting review by the parish council.
- Tree canopy cover
- The share of land shaded by tree leaves and branches when seen from above.
- Accessible green space
- Mapped parks, playing fields, play areas and similar sites that the public can use.
- kWh (kilowatt hour)
- A unit of energy. One kWh runs a one-bar electric heater for an hour.
- Meter
- A household electricity or gas supply point. Consumption figures are given per meter.
- Solar PV
- Panels that turn sunlight into electricity.
- Heat pump
- A device that heats a home by moving heat from the air or ground outside.
- MCS
- The Microgeneration Certification Scheme, a national standard for small renewable energy installers. Its records are the source for solar and heat pump counts.
- Parish estimate
- A figure for Cholsey worked out from data published for a different area, such as a ward, a group of small neighbourhoods or the whole district. It is flagged wherever it appears.
- Comparator
- A nearby parish shown beside Cholsey so you can see how it compares.
- District
- South Oxfordshire, the local council area that Cholsey belongs to.
- Latest available
- The most recent year the source has published. It is often older than the current year, and the year is always shown.
- Better, similar, worse
- Whether Cholsey is clearly better, within a small margin of, or clearly worse than another area, taking into account whether a higher or lower figure is good for that measure.
- Open Government Licence
- The licence that lets anyone reuse most UK public sector data, as long as the source is credited.