The phrase "a new plank" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as discussing a new policy, idea, or component of a plan, often in political or organizational discussions.
Example: "The committee has proposed a new plank in their platform that focuses on environmental sustainability."
Alternatives: "a new component" or "a new element".
This is a new plank in its platform.
SUNDAYBUSINESS, PART 2 A New Plank for Democrats A draft of the Democratic platform calls for a wholesale rewriting of President Bush's national security strategy.
The credit for taxpayers to buy health insurance was scrapped as well, but Ryan added a new plank: to repeal Obama's health-care law and to effectively cut Medicaid by a third.
The Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge across the Colorado River was open in 1915, and a new plank road was opened that year which became state-maintained in 1917, and used a foundation of wooden rails, with the planks bound together by steel, as opposed to simple planks that were fastened to rails.
With Warren riding a populist surge of anger over income inequality, Brown has recently been touting his bipartisan and moderate votes, and the payroll outcome hands him a new plank to stand on, especially with his early advocacy for the deficit-spending solution.
It may work by forcing it with hard hits but you may find out something is damaged once it's locked into place and you have to do it again with a new plank.
In 1848, the Pennsylvania State Legislature approved and chartered construction of a brand new plank road in the valley, to be called the Tioga and Elmira Plank Road, following the alignments of current-day Route 287, Pennsylvania Route 328 and New York State Route 328 to Elmira, New York.
If Obama went "line-by-line through the budget" it was only so as to add thousands of new lines and hundreds of billions of extra dollars to it, thus widening the deficit, most notably by adding (without the aid of a single GOP vote) yet another new plank to the already-gargantuan welfare state, through "ObamaCare" (socialized medicine).
He stopped by on Monday for some weather stripping"." Mrs. Odlum, who runs the dry-goods store was in for a new shad plank".
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who is the GOP's nominee and a former intern of Wilder's, said early Wednesday he would use his visit to Wilder's public policy class at Virginia Commonwealth University to unveil a new campaign plank.
After years of leaks, the co-op's board, working with the engineer John J. Flynn, is removing both the layers of tarpaper and Nast's wire glass, replacing them with a new concrete plank roof.
