Pensioners could have free bus travel and free entry to swimming pools run by the city council within three years.

An 11th-hour Liberal Democrat amendment to the Oxford Plan -- the city council's three year corporate vision -- says the council should find the money to fund totally free bus travel for OAPs and let the youngest and oldest members of the community have free swims.

The Liberal Democrat group also wants the council to pledge a greater commitment towards energy efficiency at municipal buildings, believing that about £100,000 could be saved within two years.

Earlier this year the council agreed to plough an extra £400,000 each year for three years into its concessionary fare scheme. How exactly this will be spent has not yet been agreed.

A report by an independent consultant estimated that making the scheme totally free would cost the authority upwards of £2.2m.

But the Lib Dems want these aspirations addressed "as soon as budgets allow". Group leader John Goddard said: "This is what the people of the city want and deserve. It's what they should get as soon as it can be afforded.

"The corporate plan is a good idea and sets out where the council should be going -- but it should be owed by the whole council, not just the minority administration."

The concessionary fares issue was one of the battlegrounds of the recent crunch budget meeting that saw an alliance between Greens and Labour defeat the Lib Dem's alternative spending plans.

In 2003/04 more than 2,340,000 concessionary trips were made, which cost the council £1m. But the council decided not to opt for a completely free service because of the potential cost.

City council leader Alex Hollingsworth has until today (Monday) to decide whether to object to the amendments.

He said: The Oxford Plan is a very useful document for maintaining our focus.

"My objective is to put things in that can be funded rather than drift off and do things that may not be possible."

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