My apologies for making the rookie mistake of not supplying crucial information of version number and enabled mods.
For whatever reason it's worth, I'm running the latest experimental build and have some +20 mods installed. Obviously I've uninstalled the parent mods of the Lab.
But don't mind all that. Thanks to your most recent update / patch everything seems to be running fine now. Again, thanks for your time and thanks for the support. Take care!