The 164-year-old school hamstrung by rent brawl between a charity and the government

A critical $10 million upgrade to Victoria’s oldest school for deaf children has been stalled for four years amid a financial stoush between the state government and the charity that controls the historic St Kilda Road site.

The college, the only P-12 school in Victoria that teaches in Auslan and English, is currently operating under a temporary lease until December 24 while Deaf Children Australia and the building authority negotiate.Children at other specialist schools across the state that won grant funding through the $380 million upgrade program announced four years ago are preparing to move into their completed new facilities.

The Victorian College of the Deaf site was once earmarked for a new state high school. That plan ended in 2015 when Deaf Children Australia sold a parcel of land to the neighbouring Wesley College for $19 million.

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