Melbourne Racing Club has vowed to press on with a debt-clearing deal to sell a $195 million slice of Caulfield Racecourse to a private school despite telling a tribunal that a council levy had put the plan at risk.

The MRC has taken Glen Eira City Council to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal challenging conditions on a subdivision permit required to sell land along Kambrook Road to Mount Scopus Memorial College.

MRC land on Booran Road previously used by horse trainers at Caulfield Racecourse. Credit: Eddie Jim

It has asked the tribunal to scrap the estimated $3 million public open space contribution normally imposed on subdivisions , arguing it went against the levy’s purpose of promoting greenery alongside residential, industrial or commercial development.

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