Making sports meanwhile uses viable: the project manager taking on the planning system to get the nation moving

By Tom Lowe2025-10-02T06:00:00

Building talks to former Aecom director Andrew Link about his initiative to make it easier and more affordable for sports clubs to access vacant development sites

Andrew Link had been working at Bovis Lend Lease for nine years when he decided to roll the dice. He had built a promising career at the firm, then one of the UK’s best known contractors, rising quickly through the ranks to become senior project manager.

But Link had another commitment as a volunteer for British Taekwondo, the national governing body for the Korean martial art which is responsible for selecting teams for the Olympics.

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