This paper on local language planning in three Swedish universities, centers on how they handle their policies shaped according to Nordic “parallel language use”, which arose over the past 20 years to equipoise English and Scandinavian languages, whilst elaborating (on) local students and staff's linguistic needs inclusion. The concept indexes a range of issues related to the relative position of Swedish and English, including linguistic tensions surrounding international aspirations and national responsibilities for universities and the mitigation of purported domain loss by Swedish to English. Drawing upon a discourse analysis of policy approach, we analyze the policies of these three universities as examples of local language planning, focusing on how they engage with ideas related to parallel language use while also expanding upon the concept to include the linguistic needs of local students and staff.