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Michael Pringle

Resident vows to 'stay put' and says he'll 'need to be dragged' from Lanarkshire 'ghost town' home

The last remaining resident in a condemned Wishaw housing estate says “they will need to drag” him from his home after councillors agreed the go-ahead for a compulsory purchase order

Lanarkshire Live revealed back in August that Nick Wisniewski was the only resident still living in flats earmarked for demolition in the Gowkthrapple estate.

He could now be forcibly removed from his ground-floor home in Stanhope Place as North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) has begins the process of appointing a contractor to demolish the properties.

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