Emileen Smith, of Reservoir Road, has letters of support from at least six other residents of the village for TAGGOS (The Allotment and Gardening Group Of Surfleet).

She believes families in the parish would benefit from fresh, home-grown vegetables in the way her two children Evie (2) and Jake (5) do from her allotment on Horseshoe Road, Spalding.

In a letter read at a Surfleet Parish Council meeting she said: "Allotments and community gardens are valuable green spaces and community assets that can help improve people's quality of life by promoting healthy food, exercise and community interaction.

"There has not been such a high interest in allotment gardening since World War Two.

"With ever decreasing garden sizes, pesticide residue concerns and the increasing cost of food it is our view that well-managed and easily accessible allotments will prove to be popular, just as they are in other local towns and villages."

She believes the council had a statutory duty to provide a sufficient quantity of allotments if the support was there.

Surfleet United Charities formerly provided the people of the village with allotments but these were handed over to commercial use due to insufficient interest ten years ago.

Surfleet Parish Council chairman Glynn Waltham said the council would support the scheme in any way it could but the council does not own any allotments.

Coun Allen Dobney, who is also chairman of Surfleet United Charities, said: "When we did this before we had an awful job to find the numbers of people. It seems to be a fad that comes and goes.

"The decision would have to go through the proper channels before I could comment.

"Surfleet United Charities would want some form of commitment as to how much land these people would want."

A notice will be placed in Surfleet parish magazine in September requesting feedback on the level of interest in the idea.