"firmly planned" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe an action or event that has been carefully and intentionally organized in advance. Example: The conference was a success thanks to the firmly planned agenda and the hard work of the organizers.
"However, responding entrepreneurs have not only laid solid foundations to support sustainable growth in the future, but are firmly planning to lead the way when it comes to increasing turnover and creating jobs".
He adds that the firm plans to stay firmly rooted (ahem) to its mission of supporting seed-stage founders whose companies may ultimately require a lot of resources, yet which Root can help because of its collective engineering and investing muscle.
The new Manchester City intend, firmly plan, as the captain Vincent Kompany has said, to win more Premier League titles and be a true force in Europe.
And a stockmarket unnerved by Northern Rock's near failure last year and house-price falls this year is disinclined to give the mortgage lender the benefit of the doubt.B&B's credibility was already somewhat the worse for wear: in May it had revealed plans for a £300m ($586m) rights issue after firmly denying that it planned to do any such thing.
Ms. Gannon said she planned to hold firmly against the tax cut.
A Sunday Telegraph poll last night showed the public firmly behind plans for 42-day detention.
Martín Palermo firmly remains Plan B. Maradona wants to play on the memory of Argentina's last World Cup win, which he captained the side to.
In the spring of 2011, Shelley Spector came into her artist residency at Philadelphia's NextFab Studio with an open mind and no firmly set plan for what work she would produce.
So, while the fiscal leg of Mr Osborne's plan is firmly planted, the other may yet be used to give the economy a kick.
Both have firmly resisted World Monuments' plans for Angkor Wat's bas-reliefs.
The students' willingness to take on a new task is thereby reduced, if the teachers do not firmly take control of planning the learning experiences.
