How long before the Trustees, or whoever the controllers of the purse-strings of Charleston Farmhouse are, do something about the appalling approach roads and dreadful Parking facilities?

Surely enough income is generated during the year from visiting devotees of the Bloomsbury Set, and especially during May when huge numbers of visitors flock there for events run in connection with Brighton Festival.

The condition of the exterior areas is a disgrace. On Sunday, May 21, we attended a wonderful talk by the authoress Jung Chang, on a wild, wet and stormy afternoon.

The A27 turn-off road has been vastly improved but, thereafter, one meets a single-track, cracked and broken road with few passing places.

There is mud everywhere plus grave danger of sliding into a ditch which, indeed, one car did on Sunday, holding up the start of the talk by a quarter of an hour.

Parking spaces are limited and the bewildered attendants (smiling and cheerful) do their best to make order out of chaos.

There is mud everywhere; one learns not to wear decent shoes.

We queued for 20 minutes to get in, despite arriving early, and picked our way through mud and shingle to the marquee.

Afterwards, there was further sliding and another 25-minute crawl to get out again, shoes thick with mud.

The packed, stuffy marquee would be very difficult to leave were there a fire or any other disaster because of the density of badly-parked cars.

Does the marquee conform to the relevant Health and Safety requirements?

The whole situation needs investigationand action before next year's festival.

-Mrs BL Fleming, Findon Valley, Worthing