diff --git a/src/controls/templates/private/ScrollView.qml b/src/controls/templates/private/ScrollView.qml
--- a/src/controls/templates/private/ScrollView.qml
+++ b/src/controls/templates/private/ScrollView.qml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
 import org.kde.kirigami 2.9 as Kirigami
 
-MouseArea {
+Item {
     id: root
     default property Item contentItem
     property Flickable flickableItem
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@
         id: wheelHandler
         target: root.flickableItem
     }
+    Kirigami.WheelHandler {
+        target: flickableParent
+        blockTargetWheel: false
+        scrollFlickableTarget: false
+        onWheel: {
+            wheelHandler.includeWheelEvent(wheel)
+            wheel.accepted = true
+        }
+    }
     Item {
         id: flickableParent
         clip: true
diff --git a/src/wheelhandler.h b/src/wheelhandler.h
--- a/src/wheelhandler.h
+++ b/src/wheelhandler.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
      * inverted: bool
      *
      * Whether the delta values are inverted
-     * On some platformsthe returned delta are inverted, so positive values would mean bottom/left
+     * On some platforms the returned delta are inverted, so positive values would mean bottom/left
      */
     Q_PROPERTY(bool inverted READ inverted CONSTANT)
 
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@
 private:
     void manageWheel(QQuickItem *target, QWheelEvent *wheel);
 
+    friend class WheelHandler;
     QMultiHash<QQuickItem *, WheelHandler *> m_handlersForItem;
     KirigamiWheelEvent m_wheelEvent;
 };
@@ -195,6 +196,8 @@
     QQuickItem *target() const;
     void setTarget(QQuickItem *target);
 
+    Q_SCRIPTABLE void includeWheelEvent(KirigamiWheelEvent *wheel);
+
 Q_SIGNALS:
     void targetChanged();
     void blockTargetWheelChanged();
diff --git a/src/wheelhandler.cpp b/src/wheelhandler.cpp
--- a/src/wheelhandler.cpp
+++ b/src/wheelhandler.cpp
@@ -286,5 +286,14 @@
     emit targetChanged();
 }
 
+void WheelHandler::includeWheelEvent(KirigamiWheelEvent *wheel)
+{
+    const QPointF pos = {wheel->x(), wheel->y()};
+    QWheelEvent qwheel(pos, pos, wheel->pixelDelta().toPoint(), wheel->angleDelta().toPoint(),
+                       Qt::MouseButtons(wheel->buttons()),
+                       Qt::KeyboardModifiers (wheel->modifiers()),
+                       Qt::NoScrollPhase, wheel->inverted());
+    GlobalWheelFilter::self()->manageWheel(target(), &qwheel);
+}
 
 #include "moc_wheelhandler.cpp"
diff --git a/tests/ScrollPaddingScrollable.qml b/tests/ScrollPaddingScrollable.qml
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ScrollPaddingScrollable.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ *  SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Aleix Pol Gonzalez <aleixpol@kde.org>
+ *
+ *  SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later
+ */
+
+import QtQuick 2.7
+import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
+import QtQuick.Layouts 1.0
+import org.kde.kirigami 2.4 as Kirigami
+
+Kirigami.ApplicationWindow
+{
+    id: main
+    Component {
+        id: keyPage
+        Kirigami.ScrollablePage {
+            leftPadding: 200
+            ColumnLayout {
+                Repeater {
+                    model: 200
+                    delegate: Label {
+                        text: "Potato"
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    header: Text {
+        text: "focus:" + activeFocusItem + " current: " + main.pageStack.currentIndex
+    }
+
+    Component.onCompleted: {
+        main.pageStack.push(keyPage)
+    }
+}