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00:00So I'm talking to Caroline Dewar, who's the Friends of Graves Park in Sheffield.

00:06There's just been a discussion about the future of Norton Nurseries,

00:10which has been an issue that you've been campaigning around for a long time.

00:14Tell me a little bit about what happened today

00:16and what you're upset and frustrated about as a result of the meeting.

00:22I'm upset and frustrated because I feel that this whole process today was very undemocratic.

00:28We did not have the appendices to go with the decision report beforehand

00:36because they were considered to be a legal privilege, whatever that means.

00:41But the decision that was taken, I think it was fine.

00:46But the members of the public had no chance to scrutinise what was in those appendices.

00:52So we have no idea what this decision means, what people have agreed to,

00:57whether we would have been given, whether we would have agreed.

01:02We've been given no opportunity to scrutinise those things

01:06and then make a comment or ask questions on what's actually happened.

01:10And that, we think, is very undemocratic.

01:14So what are you going to do now?

01:16Are you going to sit tight and wait to see what's happening?

01:18Well, I think I've already done what needs doing.

01:22So I've already sent what I think back to the Charity Commission so they know.

01:27I think they're the key here.

01:28I've already said to the councillors what our opinion is.

01:33So they already know.

01:35So it's all really over.

01:37But I just think it should have been done in a much better way.

01:40And really, this shouldn't happen again because it is so undemocratic.

01:45I can't imagine MPs sitting in Westminster

01:48and being told that everything's secret

01:52and being asked to vote on something.

01:54I think that's appalling.

01:56I know what would be said by our MP if that happened.