Has anyone successfully challenged the council tax band of their property?

[MontyVeda]

Looking at buying a house and one thing i'm noticing is the council tax bands don't make a lot of a sense. A decent house in one area can be in band A whilst a less expensive/smaller house elsewhere is in band B.

I had a quick look on the .gov website and it appears that council tax bands are based on property valuations in 1991... which seems a bit out of date. There is an appeal process but has anyone gone down that route and were they successful?

 

[Venod]

We got ours reduced, we were a cul de sac of mostly 4 bed detached with one 5 bed detached, they extended the cul de sac with more 4 bed detached and one 3 bed bungalow, all the new houses were band C while ours was band D, I wrote to the council pointing out the discrepancy, and we got the reduction to C, I pointed this out to neighbours and they all succeeded in getting a reduction.