A DAD-of-three fears his family will be bankrupt and homeless after Glasgow City Council sent them a £95,000 repair bill.

Bilal Yousaf was gobsmacked when he received the letter asking him to cough up the enormous sum last week.

The 35-year-old who owns a newsagent shop at 43 Rose Street, has been billed for work from four years ago.

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According to the council the deeds for Bilal’s shop states he is liable to pay 26 per cent of any repairs which are carried out to flats at 43 - 47.

In 2012, some owners decided essential work had to be done on the block and asked for council grants.

Three owners who did not agree with the work, including Bilal, were served a compliance notice by the local authority and so missed out on the grant funding.

Bilal said he was not told how much the work would cost, or how much he would have to pay for it be to be done.

He said: “If I have to pay this I’ll lose probably my home and my shop by going bankrupt. I lose everything. All that hard work will be a waste.

“The first I have ever heard about this was last Saturday. Had I known about paying this much at the time I could have sold the property, as I would never have been able to afford this amount.

“I was never told this is how much it would be. In my shop they plastered my walls and ceiling, I could have done it myself.”

Bilal added that he was not compensated for the loss of earnings he had when he was forced to close his shop for three months while the work was carried out.

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He said: “I was originally told it would be six weeks but they just delayed the work and it took much longer.

“I lost 3 months worth of earnings, I was struggling to pay for my mortgage.

“As a good will gesture they said they would paint the shop, but it would take another two weeks. I said no, I couldn’t wait for that long to open again.

“They gave me nothing - no rates relief or compensation for loss of earnings.”

Bilal is now planning to challenge the bill through his solicitor.

A Glasgow City Council spokesman said the local authority had reduced Mr Yousaf’s bill by 50 per cent, with his actual bill coming to almost £200,000.

Despite Bilal’s bill stating the total amount of the work was around £200,000, the local authority say it was in fact £664,024.08.

A spokesman said: “It is clear that Mr Yousaf has an unreasonable share of common responsibility for the repairs at 26.02%, we have therefore made a discretionary decision to limit the amount that we are seeking to recover from him by 50%.

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"Therefore he has received a bill from us of £95,177.92.

"Mr Yousaf did not agree to participate with these repairs and as such GCC were asked to support the majority of owners who were desperate for the work to be able to be progressed.”

“The majority of owners at this block were very keen to undertake these repairs and our financial assistance and statutory notices allowed them to deal with the serious disrepair at the property, which if left unchecked could have resulted in the eventual loss of the property, the shop included.

“This was not a council-led repair, but was taken forward by the other owners at the property."