Cllr Michael White
“Delivering on the environment is important if people are
to recognise London Thames Gateway as a quality place to live and
work. Bringing restricted open space into productive public use and
upgrading the existing natural assets of our area will take their
rightful places in our planning considerations”.
Concillor Michael White has been Leader of Havering Council
since May 2004. He was educated in Dagenham, went to college in
Havering and later attended the University of North London. He has
worked in information technology for the past 20 years and
presently works for the Police IT Organisation, which designs and
provides its IT systems.
Michael White joined the Conservative Party in 1982 and has been
a member of Havering Council for ten years. In 1998 he became
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group and Deputy Leader of the
Council in 2004. His responsibilities were e-government and
communications but he later took on responsibility for the
Council`s drive to improve its CPA score. As Leader, he has a focus
on improving community leadership, and he has recently become a
Board member of the Groundwork Trust.