diff --git a/apps/app/gallery-app/content/web-view.xml b/apps/app/gallery-app/content/web-view.xml
index f3f8a88d5..58f8f7090 100644
--- a/apps/app/gallery-app/content/web-view.xml
+++ b/apps/app/gallery-app/content/web-view.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
 <Page>
-  <WebView margin="10" url="http://www.telerik.com/nativescript"/>
+  <WebView margin="10" src="http://www.telerik.com/nativescript"/>
 </Page>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view-common.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view-common.ts
index 78f6f5e2e..a610597be 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view-common.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view-common.ts
@@ -21,15 +21,9 @@ export abstract class WebViewBase extends View implements WebViewDefinition {
         "other"
     ];
 
-    public _suspendLoading: boolean;
-
     public src: string;
 
     public _onLoadFinished(url: string, error?: string) {
-
-        this._suspendLoading = true;
-        this._suspendLoading = false;
-
         let args = <LoadEventData>{
             eventName: WebViewBase.loadFinishedEvent,
             object: this,
@@ -53,8 +47,6 @@ export abstract class WebViewBase extends View implements WebViewDefinition {
         this.notify(args);
     }
 
-    abstract _loadUrl(url: string): void;
-
     abstract _loadFileOrResource(path: string, content: string): void;
 
     abstract _loadHttp(src: string): void;
@@ -81,10 +73,6 @@ export abstract class WebViewBase extends View implements WebViewDefinition {
         return "";
     }
     set [srcProperty.native](src: string) {
-        if (this._suspendLoading) {
-            return;
-        }
-
         this.stopLoading();
 
         if (isFileOrResourcePath(src)) {
@@ -103,6 +91,13 @@ export abstract class WebViewBase extends View implements WebViewDefinition {
             this._loadData(src);
         }
     }
+
+    get url() : string {
+        throw new Error("Property url of WebView is deprecated. Use src istead");
+    }
+    set url(value:string){
+        throw new Error("Property url of WebView is deprecated. Use src istead")
+    }
 }
 
 srcProperty.register(WebViewBase);
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.android.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.android.ts
index 670d9289f..e320d6472 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.android.ts
@@ -112,18 +112,6 @@ export class WebView extends WebViewBase {
         super._resetNativeView();
     }
 
-    public _loadUrl(url: string) {
-        if (!this._android) {
-            return;
-        }
-
-        if (traceEnabled()) {
-            traceWrite("WebView._loadUrl(" + url + ")", traceCategories.Debug);
-        }
-        this._android.stopLoading();
-        this._android.loadUrl(url);
-    }
-
     public _loadFileOrResource(path: string, content: string) {
         if (!this._android) {
             return;
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts
index e7a2ed4d8..7472a210c 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts
@@ -109,17 +109,6 @@ export class WebView extends WebViewBase {
         this._ios.stopLoading();
     }
 
-    public _loadUrl(url: string) {
-        if (traceEnabled()) {
-            traceWrite("WebView._loadUrl(" + url + ")", traceCategories.Debug);
-        }
-
-        if (this._ios.loading) {
-            this._ios.stopLoading();
-        }
-        this._ios.loadRequest(NSURLRequest.requestWithURL(NSURL.URLWithString(url)));
-    }
-
     public _loadFileOrResource(path: string, content: string) {
         var baseURL = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(NSString.stringWithString(path).stringByDeletingLastPathComponent);
         this._ios.loadHTMLStringBaseURL(content, baseURL);