The West London studios will be fitted out with two new studios, offices for Stiff, ZTT and other music businesses, a set of luxury townhouses and "a small selection" of flats.

The studio has also said it intends concentrate on long-term bookings, a move that takes Sarm back to a policy it used to operate in the Seventies, when Bob Marley lived and worked at Sarm.

However, this will mean redundancies. Horn said the studios would move from in-house staff ...