Council leader Matt Boughton, who apologised, added: “We are urgently reviewing the circumstances to ensure this does not happen again and will continue to work with the residents.”
On Wednesday, Wheeler said: “I had one of the councillors turn up, they’d had a meeting this morning and said it’s all been thrown out and you should never have been fined in the first place.”
She confirmed Margaret’s fine had also been cancelled.
Wheeler said a council enforcement officer had come to Margaret’s house after the clothes were put outside on 29 January and accused her of obstructing the pavement.
Wheeler said the officer frightened her neighbour by saying he had a camera and that everything she said could be used as evidence in court.