ITV film crews are set to descend on Llandudno and Craig-y-Don next week to shoot part of a new TV drama.

Filming for the new drama series Mr Bates vs the Post Office will take place in a number of places around Llandudno with St David's Hospice on Queens Road, Craig-y-Don, being used as the main location, according to ITV. 

Residents in the Queens Road area received letters from ITV informing them of the upcoming filming which is due to take place next week.

North Wales Pioneer: Filming for Mr Bates vs The Post Office will take place in various locations in Llandudno and Craig-y-Don including on Queens Road.Filming for Mr Bates vs The Post Office will take place in various locations in Llandudno and Craig-y-Don including on Queens Road. (Image: Patrick Glover)

Mr Bates vs The Post Office is about "the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history", according to ITV. 

Summarising the new TV drama, ITV said: "For over a decade, the Post Office wrongly accused, harassed, and prosecuted hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters for theft, fraud, and false accounting due to Horizon, a defective IT system. 

"This is the real life story of their ten-year battle to prove their innocence culminating in a High Court trial, and paving the way for more than eighty wrongful convictions to be overturned."

According to IMDb Toby Jones (Captain America and The Hunger Games) is set to play the lead role of Alan Bates in the show.

When and where will ITV film crews be in Llandudno?

According to the letter received by residents, ITV crews will be filming in Llandudno and Craig-y-Don on Tuesday and Wednesday next week (July 18 and 19).

The letter reads: "We have a number of locations for this drama around Llaudnduno including our main location which is the St David's Hospice on Queens Road.

"This used to be the actual Post Office of Alan Bates and St David's have kindly allowed us to recreate a post office in their shop.

"On Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th July 23, we aim to film the interior and exterior scenes on Queens Road."

North Wales Pioneer: Llandudno and Craig-y-Don residents have received letters from ITV about filming next week.Llandudno and Craig-y-Don residents have received letters from ITV about filming next week. (Image: PA)

Will there be road closures in place for the filming of ITV's new TV drama?

ITV said it has been liaising with Conwy Streetworks in regards to traffic management and road closures. 

In the letter, ITV says: "On both these dates (July 18 and 19) we will require the road to be clear of cars, this is for continuity and in this part of the story its 2002 so we can't see any modern cars."

New ITV drama not the only filming in North Wales

Llandudno and North Wales has been a hot spot for film crews recently. 

Last month saw Apple TV film crews in town for the shooting of a new film called The Gorge.

Residents saw crews set up base on Llandudno's West Shore in June with filming reportedly taking place in a church yard and around the Great Orme.

The movie features some big-name Hollywood actors including Sigourney Weaver (Alien), Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Queen's Gambit).

HBO series and Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon has also been filming in Anglesey and Gwynedd. 

Cross Plains Productions sent out letters to residents to notify them of plans to film the parts of the second series of the popular show in several locations between June 12 and July 12.

According to the proposals, filming was to take place in Anglesey, Trefor Quarry, Dinorwig Quarry and in other various locations in Snowdonia.

Producers had earlier been looking for extras to take part in the filming of House of the Dragon.