Bathroom layout advice

last year

Hi,
We're having a new bathroom fitted, but I can't quite work out if I can fit all my 'wants' in the space - all advice and ideas gratefully received!
Ultimately, I'd love to have a full bath and separate walk-in shower (not wet room style, ideally 1700mm tray length), plus sink and toilet.
The square to the bottom left is the airing cupboard (door currently swings open on the right hand side, i.e. you can't open the airing cupboard unless the bathroom door is closed). The red dot is the existing soil stack, but in theory could be moved. The window at the top is bigger than shown, it's approx. 1.2m wide and the sill is 90cm from the floor. The smaller window on the right is 1.2m from the floor.
Currently, the toilet is immediately on the right as you walk into the bathroom (under the window). The sink is positioned next to it (where the current soil stack is) and there is a shower over bath along the wall with the larger window. The section of the bathroom to the left (in line with the airing cupboard) is currently blocked off - this will be opened up to make the new larger space.
My initial thoughts are to have the bath immediately on the right as you walk in the door (1700mm length) with the sink and toilet along the same wall further up. In theory the three should fit (assuming 60cm sink), but I don't know if it would feel like a bit of a squeeze? As the back window is so low I'm not sure if it would feel weird having the toilet against that wall? We want a mirror over the sink so can't really have the sink in front of the window. Then we'd have the walk in shower along the left hand space, which would hopefully allow for the airing cupboard door to be repositioned away from the main door.
Does this sound feasible? Or does anyone have any experience with the particular issues I'm worrying about? Or am I pushing it by trying to get all these things into the space? Does anyone have any alternative layout ideas?
Thanks in advance

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Sophie
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last year
If it helps, this is the existing layout - we're knocking through to turn the cupboards into bathroom space and halving the size of the existing airing cupboard. Depth of the cupboards is 700mm.
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CWD
last year
Have you thought about leaving toilet and sink where they are and having the bath turned the other way at the top right corner, with the shower opposite in the new space that is being created? Get a shorter bath if necessary to fit the space - big baths are a waste of space and water and shorter baths are more comfortable unless someone in the house is really tall. Then the narrowest section of walkway is between shower and bath which I think is fine rather than it being narrow to come into. I'd also rather hang my towel on the side of the bath ready for coming out of the shower than anywhere near the toilet - I like toilets to be kept at a distance! Not having to move soil stack will save money and the 'long view' into the room will be bath rather than toilet.
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