SCOTLAND’S next national park should include coastal and marine areas, according to a new poll.

Scotland’s first national park was created in 2002 in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, followed a year later by the Cairngorms, but a new Survation study shows 63 per cent of respondents believe it is time to include the coast in the next.

Bids for a new park, due to be created by 2026, were invited by the Scottish government last year, but the survey comes less than three weeks before that process ends on February 29.