ITV drama Grace to film in empty Burgess Hill supermarket

Lights, cameras, action will soon bring an empty supermarket to life when a new series of ITV drama Grace starts filming in Burgess Hill.

By Karen Dunn, Local Democracy Reporter

Published 14th Oct 2022, 10:42 BST

Peter James on the set of ITV's adaptation of his Roy Grace books. (Photo by Gareth Fuller - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Starring John Simm as DS Roy Grace, the drama has been given permission to film in the Heights building and Lidl – which was used as a morgue during the last series.

Permission to use the sites in The Martlets was given during a meeting of Mid Sussex District Council’s planning committee on Thursday (October 13).

Robert Eggleston (Lib Dem, Burgess Hill – Meeds) said: “It’s a weird way of using these buildings but I think a little bit of glamour in The Martlets shopping centre is not to be ignored.”