HOMEBUYERS might still lose out despite proposals by the Law Reform Commission to control developers' sales leaflets, some Sai Kung district board members said yesterday.
Members were briefed by commission secretary Stuart Stoker on the proposals.
They criticised the commission for failing to require a developer to disclose in detail the land use adjacent to its development.
They believed that was especially important for buyers of New Territories flats.
Member Francis Chau Yin-ming said: ''In the urban area, you can more or less tell by the surroundings what the environment will be like after you move in. But land zoning can sometimes be very vague in the New Territories.
''A piece of existing grassland next to the development may have been zoned as residential housing use. You will easily be misled if you only follow the pictures or descriptions in the sales brochure.'' The commission's proposals, released last month, follow a long-running campaign by the Consumer Council against misleading sales descriptions of uncompleted flats.