Is light necessary for the reduction of DCPIP?

Council tax reduction - through blocked light?

• Recently i have been subjected to the most horrendous new buidling erected directly behind my house. It is about forty feet away and is three storeys high.It blocks all the sunlight entirely after three o'clock in the afternoon, leaving our once sunbathed garden in the shade. It is an annoying turn of events as we usually spend most of the summer outside - after work. Where do i complain to if i am to seek a reduction in an incidentally "a high" rate of council tax. Or is there nothing that I can do at all?

• Answer:

  Nothing at all you can do unless it has genuinely reduced the value of your property so much that it would fall into a lower 'band' for council tax purposes. Sorry - under the old system of rates you could have claimed, but council tax works completely differently.