What the.........!!

Funny how things come in clusters - like buses. Another for the "You Couldn't Make It Up" collection: a bloke here in the Midlands lives next door to a piece of council land which had become a local rubbish dump. Fed up with the eyesore, he decided to do something about it, and spent some £1500 on clearing the site up. So what happened? The Council wrote to him ordering him to "re-instate the land to its original condition, or face criminal or civil proceedings". I'm just lost for words.