ELAN is a declarative language based on rewriting logic. The ELAN language is based on labelled conditional rewrite rules and on strategies for controlling their application. ELAN provides a strategy language to control labelled rules. In this paper we show how to use the ELAN strategy language for planning. We describe how to encode situations and actions and take advantage of ELAN strategies to build plans. We give an example of our approach by describing an elevator controller.