It expresses fondness for Open University supporting redesign of Yeovil (1,4,3)
I believe the answer is:
i love you
'it expresses fondness' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'open university supporting redesign of yeovil' is the wordplay.
'open university' becomes 'OU'.
'supporting' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'redesign of' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'redesigns' mean this).
'yeovil' with letters rearranged gives 'ilovey'.
'ou' after 'ilovey' is 'I LOVE YOU'.
'for' is the link.
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