diff --git a/addon/ng2/tasks/serve-webpack.ts b/addon/ng2/tasks/serve-webpack.ts
index 8fe322e1a319..cffbc24578f3 100644
--- a/addon/ng2/tasks/serve-webpack.ts
+++ b/addon/ng2/tasks/serve-webpack.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ module.exports = Task.extend({
       historyApiFallback: true,
       stats: webpackDevServerOutputOptions,
       inline: true,
-      proxy: proxyConfig
+      proxy: proxyConfig,
+      watchOptions: {
+        poll: CliConfig.fromProject().config.defaults.poll
+      }
     };
 
     const serveMessage:string = chalk.green(`\n*\n*\n NG Live Development Server is running on http://${commandOptions.host}:${commandOptions.port}.\n*\n*`);
@@ -70,7 +73,3 @@ module.exports = Task.extend({
     })
   }
 });
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/lib/config/schema.d.ts b/lib/config/schema.d.ts
index 68849bc3c920..aefbd6f31c05 100644
--- a/lib/config/schema.d.ts
+++ b/lib/config/schema.d.ts
@@ -60,5 +60,6 @@ export interface CliConfig {
         styleExt?: string;
         prefixInterfaces?: boolean;
         lazyRoutePrefix?: string;
+        poll?: boolean | number;
     };
 }
diff --git a/lib/config/schema.json b/lib/config/schema.json
index 412f8eb0ed60..031b13471342 100644
--- a/lib/config/schema.json
+++ b/lib/config/schema.json
@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@
         },
         "lazyRoutePrefix": {
           "type": "string"
+        },
+        "poll": {
+          "type": [ "boolean", "number" ]
         }
       },
       "additionalProperties": false