Resident living on 'Scots Chernobyl' site 'won't leave' despite plans to bulldoze scheme

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One of the last remaining residents on 'Scotland's Chernobyl' says he won't leave the derelict site - despite it being earmarked for demolition.Marshal Craig, 70, still lives in Clune Park, which has been virtually empty for years and looks like something from a post-apocalyptic film.

Built in 1905 it is made up of 430 flats in rotting tenement buildings as well as a rundown church - all covered in graffiti and litter.It was abandoned in 1997 and is now a ghost town and the target of arson attacks with some of the cheapest properties in Britain - in 2020 one flat sold for 6K.

The estate in Port Glasgow in Inverclyde was privately owned but Inverclyde Council has bought more than half the properties and wants to demolish the lot.Marshal says he is one of just five people left there but has no plans to leave - claiming it is "idyllic".The retired forestry worker said: "I've lived here for 20 years all in all and four years in this particular house.

Quite frankly, I don't want to move and I'm quite happy here."I know it's rough sometimes and people come in and smash stuff but I'm perfectly happy here and I don't want to leave.