"promising plan" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a plan that holds potential for success or is likely to bring about positive results. Example: "After months of careful research and consideration, we have come up with a promising plan to increase our company's profits by 20% in the next quarter."
An apparently promising plan to lure Saddam Hussein into exile and thereby avoid war was carelessly shot down by Bush at a crucial moment.
I called the insurance carrier with the promising plan.
Luckily, Alfredo has a more promising plan in the works: a dogfight to be held in Tariq's honor.
The most promising plan it has is to start developing a handful of small ports, especially on the southern coast.
One promising plan calls for wealthy countries to pay those in the tropics to halt the destruction of their immense forests for agriculture and logging.
And the most promising plan would have built a track in the Bronx as part of the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
Still, the site's future plans are promising: FairShare plans to eventually introduce a revenue-sharing system that would allow sites that have distributed their content under appropriate licenses to get a cut whenever their material is published elsewhere.
In a year of mounting troubles, the governor dropped what used to be promising plans to run next year for the United States Senate.
There are other promising plans in the works, such as allowing Transparency International to monitor the comptroller's office, and getting outsiders to scrutinise big contracts.
While these promising plans for Redcliffe Way look set to evolve incrementally, through a community-driven campaign, there is another project that Ferguson is keen to see built within his first term – of only three and a half years.
In The Natomas Buzz, a Web site about a neighborhood in Sacramento, Brandy Tuzon Boyd, a reporter, recently described the promising plans and frustrations of trying to improve walking and biking access and safety in Natomas, a bedroom community that now covers 22 square miles.
