Retired Nick Wisniewski has done up his two-bedroom home on the Wishaw estate, despite it being one of 400 earmarked for demolition by North Lanarkshire Council.
The last resident in a Lanarkshire 'ghost street' has spent thousands doing up his flat and insists he is going nowhere.
Nick had bought his home under the now defunct Right to Buy scheme and to buy a similar-sized property in the local authority area would now cost tens of thousands of pounds more than he has been offered. Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day."I had to get a new cooker too, so all in I think it costs me between £1,500 and £2,000.
He continued: "At the other side of the car park area a huge pile of rubble has appeared and people have just started dumping their rubbish there now. I have no idea where it came from but it's an eyesore.
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