diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs b/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs
index bb572b7d5cec..c4a652a96500 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs
@@ -800,12 +800,12 @@ mod tests {
     use super::*;
     use crate::execution::options::CsvReadOptions;
     use crate::physical_plan::ColumnarValue;
+    use crate::test_util;
     use crate::{assert_batches_sorted_eq, execution::context::SessionContext};
-    use crate::{logical_plan::*, test_util};
     use arrow::datatypes::DataType;
-    use datafusion_expr::{cast, Volatility};
     use datafusion_expr::{
-        BuiltInWindowFunction, ScalarFunctionImplementation, WindowFunction,
+        avg, cast, count, count_distinct, create_udf, lit, max, min, sum,
+        BuiltInWindowFunction, ScalarFunctionImplementation, Volatility, WindowFunction,
     };
 
     #[tokio::test]
diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/datasource/listing/helpers.rs b/datafusion/core/src/datasource/listing/helpers.rs
index 023d319d78d7..8232f2b5f534 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/datasource/listing/helpers.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/datasource/listing/helpers.rs
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ use futures::{stream::BoxStream, TryStreamExt};
 use log::debug;
 
 use crate::{
-    datasource::MemTable,
-    error::Result,
-    execution::context::SessionContext,
-    logical_plan::{self, Expr, ExprVisitable, ExpressionVisitor, Recursion},
+    datasource::MemTable, error::Result, execution::context::SessionContext,
     scalar::ScalarValue,
 };
 
 use super::PartitionedFile;
 use crate::datasource::listing::ListingTableUrl;
-use datafusion_common::DataFusionError;
-use datafusion_expr::Volatility;
+use datafusion_common::{Column, DataFusionError};
+use datafusion_expr::{
+    expr_visitor::{ExprVisitable, ExpressionVisitor, Recursion},
+    Expr, Volatility,
+};
 use object_store::path::Path;
 use object_store::{ObjectMeta, ObjectStore};
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ impl ApplicabilityVisitor<'_> {
 impl ExpressionVisitor for ApplicabilityVisitor<'_> {
     fn pre_visit(self, expr: &Expr) -> Result<Recursion<Self>> {
         let rec = match expr {
-            Expr::Column(logical_plan::Column { ref name, .. }) => {
+            Expr::Column(Column { ref name, .. }) => {
                 *self.is_applicable &= self.col_names.contains(name);
                 Recursion::Stop(self) // leaf node anyway
             }
diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/lib.rs b/datafusion/core/src/lib.rs
index 0dd665628399..f5b8cf431759 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/lib.rs
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ pub mod dataframe;
 pub mod datasource;
 pub mod error;
 pub mod execution;
+#[deprecated]
+// logical_plan module just contains re-exports and will be removed in a future release
+// https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/2683
 pub mod logical_plan;
 pub mod physical_optimizer;
 pub mod physical_plan;
diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/pruning.rs b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/pruning.rs
index d41a1137d8c8..bad67b0cf2d2 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/pruning.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/pruning.rs
@@ -662,12 +662,10 @@ fn build_predicate_expression(
     schema: &Schema,
     required_columns: &mut RequiredStatColumns,
 ) -> Result<Expr> {
-    use crate::logical_plan;
-
     // Returned for unsupported expressions. Such expressions are
     // converted to TRUE. This can still be useful when multiple
     // conditions are joined using AND such as: column > 10 AND TRUE
-    let unhandled = logical_plan::lit(true);
+    let unhandled = lit(true);
 
     // predicate expression can only be a binary expression
     let (left, op, right) = match expr {