The project, Beach of Dreams, has been organised by art and design company Kinetika. It involves a 500-mile walk from Lowestoft, along the Essex coast to Tilbury, where residents can book one mile to walk themselves and submit a picture taken on the walk to show off the beauty of the area. The firm’s artistic director, Ali Pretty, will be walking the entire journey herself. She has encouraged residents to sign up for a mile to leave their own stamp on the project. She said: “The UK has been very fragmented, so I took the metaphor of a fragmented coast line as a basis for the project.