Buying a flat or house question:

Hi, We are a group of five rural cottages who share a sewage management system (which we all shared the cost to install and maintain). Up until now it has all been done on a handshake and good will and we feel it would be prudent to establish a legal agreement between us. When cottage number one was sold recently an expensive legal document was drawn up between this cottage and number three in whose garden the sewage system resides. We cannot afford the hundreds that a solicitor wanted to draw these up. It seems to me that the legal work has been done - would we be stupid to just use the existing Deed of Easement and change the names and house numbers? Help! Our question is this: if we were to use this same document altering it for each cottage and signed it with witnesses would this constitute a legal agreement? (document attached) We know we also need to register the change with the land registry. We would then include this document alongside our deeds. Is there anything else we would need to do? Many thanks, Kim McCabe

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