The problem with Brize is that having taken the base back from the Americans in order to make it the RAF strategic transport base a vast amount of building was needed. Not only Base Hangar and all the rest of the infrastructure but also housing.
In the late 60s pre-fabricated concrete "tilt-up" slabs were the architectural flavour of the month. Couple that with contractors always anxious to make a quid and do the cheapest job possible in the ridiculously short time allowed by MOD and you have a recipe for decades of disaster.
When I went into MQ in the mid 70s the housing had been up for almost 10 years and it was really ready to be bulldozed and something more substantial and appropriate put up in its place. However.....
So, 40 years since they were put up the accommodation has problems...so no surprises there then.
And the VC10s are still there, and Gateway, and Base Hangar...