What to do with bathroom floor /concrete/floating

[ScottishGasMan]

House is approx 100 years old.

Has a solid concrete floor in the bathroom, there was a floating floor fitted which has now been removed while renovation takes place. I didnt mind it but renewing everything, and it meant a step up into the bathroom from the hall.

Now I suspect there is no DPM under the concrete looking at the holes where the drains/pipes are drilled through, although the wood from the old floor 10+years old was fine, no sign of damp/rot or anything.

So my question is, do I need a floating floor? or could I use those green laminate floor underlay slabs straight onto the concrete to stop floor being so cold, and some form of suitable laminate/engineered wood flooring on that?

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Its hard to make out the actual slab floor surface with all that clutter & debris - there seem to be wood plates embedded in the concrete?
I presume that this is a ground floor?

The question is - how deep is the step up? You should be looking for a solution that means a level floor flowing into the next rooms.

It might be possible to lay a membrane on top of the concrete , with underlayment laid on the membrane & a floating floor on the underlayment.

FWIW: the plaster is touching the concrete, it should be cut back above what will become the finished floor.