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A housing estate dubbed "Scotland's Chernobyl" is set to be demolished next year.
The Clune Park estate, in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, is now home to about 20 people living in only some of the 430 flats.
Property on the estate was once the cheapest in the UK, with one flat selling for just £7,000 at auction, the Daily Record reports.
The area however has been plagued with arsonists, causing shops, a primary school and a church to be abandoned.
Plans to demolish the blocks created tensions between the council and private landlords who were refusing to sell up.
The leader of Inverclyde Council, Stephen McCabe, previously said: "It is a decimated, isolated community. It is a blight on the landscape.
"It is one of first things you see coming into Port Glasgow on the train. It would remind you of somewhere like Chernobyl."
It is hoped next year bulldozers could move in to demolish the estate.
"It has been a long haul to get here.
"We are continuing to engage with people who have properties in the area and we are trying to reach agreements with them in terms of acquiring the properties.
"Officers are hopeful that some time next year, we may well have sufficient properties that we can start to demolish in terms of at least one of the blocks
"Things are moving forward.
"I can see the end game."
Some of the flats on the estate, which in the early part of the 20th century was home to shipyard workers, are in such poor condition that they pose a health risk.
Councillor Michael McCormick, Convener of Inverclyde Council's Environment and Regeneration Committee, said: "In the council's opinion all of the flats on the estate are Below the Tolerable Standard (BTS) - they don't meet the basic requirements to be classed as fit for people to live in.
"And the results of several, recent, independent surveys have done nothing to change this view.
"The poor physical and social conditions in the area, combined with the level of input required from Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue and Inverclyde Council, clearly shows that the private housing market has failed and that large-scale, planned intervention is urgently needed.
"Six buildings now have active Demolition Orders against them.
"The council is working towards demolishing all the buildings and clearing the site to allow this neglected part of Port Glasgow to be regenerated.
"A decade ago it was estimated that it would cost £36.5million to refurbish these buildings.
"They have deteriorated even more since then. We are making steady progress in terms of acquiring these undesirable properties.
"But the remaining owners need to recognise that the only future for these homes is demolition and, frankly, the sooner the better."
Mr McCabe added: "We will continue to work and engage with the Scottish Government and call for them to support us with our strategy in terms of acquiring properties and potentially provide some funding for new a new build development on the site.
"I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
"If we get to say spring or summer next year and we have actively started the demolition, that's a clear sign that the end game is in sight, albeit it will still take a protracted period of time until we acquire them all
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