TWO girls from the Czech Republic who work on Cotswold farms are to be evicted from their mobile home.

Cotswold councillors threw out their application for planning permission to remain in the caravan when they met to consider the matter yesterday.

Now seasonal workers Eva Klabanova and Klara Horynova have been given six months to quit the caravan at Lowerfield Farm in Willersey.

Cotswold district council planners want them out because the temporary home does not have planning permission.

The girls and the farm owner have appealed to let them stay as there is nowhere else they can afford to rent.

But when the matter went before councillors yesterday it came with a recommendation that the girls' application be refused.

Klara helps out with bed and breakfast on site and Eva cycles to a bed and breakfast at nearby Bowers Hill Farm.

In a letter to the council, the girls said: "There's nothing to rent in Willersey. It's all holiday cottages. Without the caravan we wouldn't be able to work here."

District council planning officer Martin Perks said only one girl worked on site.

He said: "The occupancy of the mobile home by another resident could set an undesirable precedent."

However, he said the girls had given assurances that they would be leaving the area in October.

"Since there would normally be a six-month period before enforcement, if the girls stick to what they have told us there will be no need to evict them."