ITV drama Grace to film in empty Burgess Hill supermarket

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

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

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.”