One of a handful of residents still calling an estate known as the British Chernobyl home has insisted he will never leave.
Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, once housed hundreds of shipyard workers during the area's golden age of shipbuilding in the 1920s.
However, it is now home to just four people living in a handful of the 430 flats.
Property on the estate was once the cheapest in Britain, with one flat selling for just £7,000 at auction - but it has been plagued by arsonists and vandals with shops, a primary school and church all boarded up and abandoned.
Marshall Craig is one of the four people refusing to leave the area after spending 20 years in the area - and says it should never be demolished.
He told the Sun: “I have no plans to leave this area, it’s got everything that I need.
“There’s only four of us left now. I see one man down the end of the estate who walks his dog but that’s about it.
“They’re good houses that shouldn’t be demolished…I’ve got a great view. It’s like a castle, big thick strong walls - you don’t get any sound.”
We previously reported on resident Julie Kane who moved to the area from the idyllic Isle of Skye where she lived for more than 20 years.
In 2017 she paid £250 per month for her one bedroom flat and despite thinking the area was like a 'mini Beirut' when she moved in, she loved her home.
Julie, originally from Yorkshire, said in 2019: "I've got connections in Glasgow through family and was going to move into Glasgow city centre but the rents were outrageous.
“Somebody said try over here and at first when I saw the place I thought 'Oh my god, a mini Beirut'.
"At that point there was a lot of complaints from tenants about drug addicts and things but the flat was brilliant for the price so I thought I'd give it six months and I've been here ever since.
"I was like 'my goodness, I can actually stay here and work', and have gone down to part-time because of my cheap rent."
In 2011, a regeneration plan was agreed by the council, and three years later a compulsory demolition order was issued after the renovation of the flats was ruled out due to costs.
But it was fought viciously by landlords owning 96 properties, around a quarter of the total - and in 2016 a sheriff revoked the order.
Leader of Inverclyde Council, Stephen McCabe, previously said: "It is a decimated, isolated community, it is a blight on the landscape.
"It would remind you of somewhere like Chernobyl."
