Spikes are being used to stop homeless people from sitting down or sleeping in sheltered places. The use of anti-Homeles spikes in the UK does not reflect our values, dehumanises vulnerable people and does not address the real issue of why the UK has a Homeless crisis. Please sign this petition to call for a more humane and respectful approach to people living on the streets, and call for anti-homeless spikes to be banned.
"Hostile architecture" is a controversial urban design trend in which public spaces are constructed or altered to discourage people from using them in a way not intended by the owner. Also known as "defensive architecture", it is most typically associated with discrimination against the homeless in the form of anti-homeless spikes - studs embedded in flat surfaces to make sleeping rough impractical.
Please sign this petition to call on Greg Clarke to end the use of anti-homeless spikes, which have no place in a civilised and compassionate society.
We, the people demand a full ban on anti-Homeless spikes in the whole of the UK.
The use of anti-Homeles spikes in the UK does not reflect our values, dehumanises vulnerable people and does not address the real issue of why the UK has a Homeless crisis.
