New US Embassy in London is object of debate

London

ONE neighbour, a countess named Anca Vidaeff, staged a hunger strike to protest it. Another neighbour, the chairwoman of a local residents' group, said it made people "very, very nervous" about bomb threats and suggested it find a new home.

They are about to get their wish.

The US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, a modernist concrete building in the heart of Mayfair, London's most exclusive neighbourhood, has been a potential terrorist target for years, creating anxiety for both employees and neighbours.

"It didn't matter whether they lived in an 18th-century house or on a 20th-century street corner," said Lois Peltz, the head of the neighbourhood group - actually, the Residen…