Starting a Career in Planning from the Start

Hi there,

I will try to cut this short as possible:

Based in the UK. I am looking for a career change: I have a masters in Urban Planning and a humanities related BA degree. I then worked in marketing, account management, and then set up my own business. As you can tell, I didn't follow a pre-determined career route, and work experience to-date has been completely unrelated to my education (being self critical, I see this as making my CV as 'unfocused').

I'm now ready to take control of this (late 20's) and have researched into construction planning. I won't try to give you a sales-pitch here, but I believe that it suits my core personality set (marketing & account management didn't!), and I think I would enjoy & do well in this field. I've always enjoyed project management (albeit I know planning is not simply 'project management').

I obviously have no relevant qualifications for this, so can you please advise the best route to even get a foot in the door to relevant companies? And what type of companies should I be targetting? And what job roles? (Even junior planners need a certain level of site experience, so what positions can give me some site experience whilst also being relevant to a future in planning?)

I am literally willing to work from the bottom up (I have no real financial committments etc. so I'm in a position to do this), and realise this will take years of hard work to where I want to get to - but I need to know where to start first of all.

I appreciate all your input...

Thanks