The parish had been awarded £20,000 by English Heritage for enhancement to the village centre, following an application from East Lindsey District Council’s conservation officer Rob Walker.

Mr Walker, along with the Lincolnshire County Council’s area highways manager Andy Ratcliffe, met with parish councillors and villagers to discuss the revamp, which would also be financed by the county, district and parish councils.

But villagers asked the parish council to reject scheme, in part, because it was too large.

“It was a very big scheme,” said Coun Gill Shaw, of Tattershall and Thorpe parish council. “We felt it would be more than what was needed.”

The scheme included the realignment of the A153 and a new grass area, but villagers said it would come at the cost of roadside parking and visibility for motorists pulling into the road.

“It would have taken away a lot of roadside parking, which is quite vital to the village,” Coun Shaw said.

The parish council instead drafted its own proposal, appealing for the traffic island to be enlarged, and repositioned outside the Fortescue Arms, where double lines should also be painted to ensure access.

A Lincolnshire County Council spokesman said that the original proposal would now not go ahead, that they were considering this new proposal, and some minor works including alterations to the central reservation may be carried out this financial year.