About
Planning, grounded in place.
A Toronto consultancy bringing careful analysis, practical judgment and design thinking to the way places grow.
Scorgie Planning
Independent practice.
Established in 2024.
Good planning starts with understanding a place: what is there, who it serves and what it could become.
Scorgie Planning works across development planning, land use policy, urban design, applied research, and engagement and expert evidence. We help clients assess opportunities, work through constraints and develop a clear, defensible path forward.
Our assignments range from individual properties and housing proposals to corridors, neighbourhoods and municipal planning studies. We work closely with clients and bring in architectural, engineering, landscape, transportation and economic expertise as the work requires.
Managing Principal
Blair Scorgie
M.Arch., B.U.R.Pl., MCIP, RPP
Blair is a Registered Professional Planner and Urban Designer with more than fifteen years of consulting experience. He holds a Master of Architecture, specializing in urban design, from McGill University and a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Toronto Metropolitan University.
His work connects development approvals with broader questions about housing, land use, urban form and climate action. He has worked with private, public and not-for-profit clients across Ontario and Canada.
Teaching
Practice informs the classroom.
The classroom informs practice.
Blair has taught at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning since 2014. His teaching connects research, design, housing and development feasibility with real sites and the people involved in shaping them.
Applied studios and seminars create room to test ideas, examine evidence and work through the practical conditions for change.
Community
Connected to the city.
Blair’s community work includes involvement with the Leslieville Residents Association, WoodGreen’s Housing Development Committee, the Leslieville BIA and the South Riverdale Community Health Centre.
He is also a mentor and sponsor of aspiring planners and a past chair of the City of London Urban Design Peer Review Panel.
Leslieville Residents AssociationLet’s talk
Let’s work through
what’s possible.
A property, a planning question or an idea for a place.
Tell us what you have in mind.