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The move has received a positive reaction online.
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The term ‘defensive architecture’ is often used to describe buildings that have spikes outside them to discourage rough sleeping or loitering.
Leah Borromeo, one of the activists, told the UK Independent this phrase is a “misnomer” and should be replaced with “hostile architecture”.
“What are [businesses] defending against? If you are doing something in defence there has to be an attack and I don’t see people encumbered with large shopping bags, or homeless people, or people without any money on the attack for anything,” Borromeo said.
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