Updated (I know): Why are my capacitors getting so hot?
The output was oscillating at 330Hz at 9Vp-p – so quite hard on the poor output capacitor. The load was a motor (270μH + 1Ω) and the output capacitor is 470μF – which I calculate might resonate at ~3kHz – so not resonating then. Tried different compensation capacitors on the dc-dc chip – no change.